Mal ,'The Message'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I like having the announcements in Press. I can't keep up with all the deathmatches, but it gives a quick way to go in and participate in one or two when I can.
I'm with Hil. I usually pop in for a vote or two when I see it in Press, but otherwise I've had to unsubscribe.
It does? I guess I didn't notice, I thought it was the order in which they appear in my subscription list. Oh, well, never mind, I still like having the announcements.
That's odd, ita. My message center works that way, but not Read New. When I hit "Read New," I usually get threads in roughly the order they were created.
Not that it causes a problem for me, but I don't know enough about the subject to know whether there may be a problem in the system.
I was wondering the same thing as Steph (since deathmatch announcements account for nearly a third of all Press posts). But I didn't realize people were still finding them useful.
(since deathmatch announcements account for nearly a third of all Press posts)
A third? Really? Huh.
Is this a problem? The announcemnts, generally, I mean?
32 of the last 100 press announcements, in what was a busy period for press (W&H event, a Buffista vote announcement and results, cancellation). Maybe, as a compromise, a press post when you start a new character, so that people who've been unsubbed can sub if they want, but not for every new round?
But it's not for every new round, just for reminders after a gap of several hours.
Is it a problem to have the posts there?
But it's not for every new round, just for reminders after a gap of several hours.
Sorry, I wasn't clear - that's what I meant by a round. "We're starting to deathmatch Xander" would be a new character, and people who hadn't been subscribed to the thread for Dawn (or whoever) would know to go back there. If you're subscribed to the thread, then when things start up after a pause, you get new messages, whether you're using Read New or the Message Center. It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
They don't bother me and are generally the only thing in Press that is relevant to me anyway since I can't go to group dinners in LA etc.