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
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.
It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Yes. "Problem" might be too strong a word, but it does make reading the Press thread a bit tedious for non-participants.
But, whatever. I can scroll.
It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Deathmatch Xander is quite the machine.
So, and correct me if I'm wrong, the problem is that people find the announcements tedious?
No more tedious than all the "Hi, I live in a town where there are lots of Buffistas and we're getting together to do something cool that you can't get to because you live in a dull backwater" announcements.
Not that I'm bitter ;)
I haven't minded the announcements, but I'm not sure they're needed. The death matches are pretty much the only thing going on in Buffy Quotable right now. If there are new messages there, 9 times out of 10 it means that there's a match going on. I don't need to read a Press announcement to tell me that.
Maybe limit to no more than one announcement a day?
One post a day is easy to scroll by. And, in an inference from others' comments, it's unlikely that any post in Press will interest everyone.
I looked at Press back to mid-January, and there were a few days where Elena made 2 announcements.
My feeling is pretty much summed up by this:
It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Yes. "Problem" might be too strong a word, but it does make reading the Press thread a bit tedious for non-participants.
But, whatever. I can scroll.
...and also this:
I haven't minded the announcements, but I'm not sure they're needed. The death matches are pretty much the only thing going on in Buffy Quotable right now. If there are new messages there, 9 times out of 10 it means that there's a match going on. I don't need to read a Press announcement to tell me that.
I'm with Jon - I don't mind the announcements, I read Press before I go to the Quotable thread, but it's quite obvious when a deathmatch is going on based upon the rapid accumulation of posts in the Quotable thread.
