I just read the Avivq story again, and got to thinking about a few other grand adventures that have been posted over the past couple years, only to disappear into obscurity on the General Chat discussion board. The Catch 22 is one that comes to mind, as well as a couple tales of Naknek's travels. There are probably a few more buried in the 18 pages of topics in the General forum.
So, here's what I was pondering. My thought was to create yet another forum in the Pub section for just these types of stories. Call it Grand Adventures or something. The reason I am asking for opinions is because it may seem to some that we are getting the place cluttered with too many separate forums. When you click on the Forums link at the top, the whole site is indexed in a listing that spans about three screens vertically. To me, it looks easy to navigate and simple to use, and another addition to the list to sort the topics makes sense to me. But it isn't my site, so I would like to hear from all of you - both your preference and reasons.
My preference is yes, and the reasons are: a) preserve the stories and keep them more visible; b) acknowledge the time and effort the authors gave to share the story; c) encourage more of the same.
If the yeas outweigh the nays, we'll set it up and move any threads to it that will fit. If the nays take it, we won't mess with success. If there is resounding silence, well, then we will...........naw, silence is not too likely.
Now that I have your attention, if I ever did, here's another grand scheme. Bill and I talked this past weekend about a way to make it easier for people to sort the Memberlist and the Our C-Dorys list to find folks in their general area. Sorting those lists now by the Location field gets you an alphabetical listing of whatever first letter the member entered. It might be a city or it might be a state. It would be easy (for Bill, anyway) to add a separate data field to the Profile so each member could enter the state in which they reside. It will probably be one of those annoying drop-down lists that force you to find the right answer from those provided, but that will ensure that the info used to sort the finished listing is all the same. A one time entry in the Profile will make that info available to both sortable lists we have for members. The existing field for location will be left in, and the title changed to City or Region. We will also provide an "Outside the USA" choice for our members who live in other parts of the world. Of course, there won't be a rule requiring the entry, so those who like to retain some anonymity will be able to continue to do so. If we go with this, we will ask each of you to update your Profile. Or, for those who have already entered there home state, Bill or I will edit Profiles as we come across them.
So - let me have it straight out.
1) Should we create the new forum to preserve the epic tales and make them easier to find in the future?
2) Shuld we add the new data field in the Profile info to make it easier to sort the Memberlist to find people in a particular state or region (and would you use it)?
So, here's what I was pondering. My thought was to create yet another forum in the Pub section for just these types of stories. Call it Grand Adventures or something. The reason I am asking for opinions is because it may seem to some that we are getting the place cluttered with too many separate forums. When you click on the Forums link at the top, the whole site is indexed in a listing that spans about three screens vertically. To me, it looks easy to navigate and simple to use, and another addition to the list to sort the topics makes sense to me. But it isn't my site, so I would like to hear from all of you - both your preference and reasons.
My preference is yes, and the reasons are: a) preserve the stories and keep them more visible; b) acknowledge the time and effort the authors gave to share the story; c) encourage more of the same.
If the yeas outweigh the nays, we'll set it up and move any threads to it that will fit. If the nays take it, we won't mess with success. If there is resounding silence, well, then we will...........naw, silence is not too likely.
Now that I have your attention, if I ever did, here's another grand scheme. Bill and I talked this past weekend about a way to make it easier for people to sort the Memberlist and the Our C-Dorys list to find folks in their general area. Sorting those lists now by the Location field gets you an alphabetical listing of whatever first letter the member entered. It might be a city or it might be a state. It would be easy (for Bill, anyway) to add a separate data field to the Profile so each member could enter the state in which they reside. It will probably be one of those annoying drop-down lists that force you to find the right answer from those provided, but that will ensure that the info used to sort the finished listing is all the same. A one time entry in the Profile will make that info available to both sortable lists we have for members. The existing field for location will be left in, and the title changed to City or Region. We will also provide an "Outside the USA" choice for our members who live in other parts of the world. Of course, there won't be a rule requiring the entry, so those who like to retain some anonymity will be able to continue to do so. If we go with this, we will ask each of you to update your Profile. Or, for those who have already entered there home state, Bill or I will edit Profiles as we come across them.
So - let me have it straight out.
1) Should we create the new forum to preserve the epic tales and make them easier to find in the future?
2) Shuld we add the new data field in the Profile info to make it easier to sort the Memberlist to find people in a particular state or region (and would you use it)?
