I think we need a thread like this here, so I'm starting it!

My news is that I'm working a lot, avoiding Edinburgh city centre, and spending far too much time on my blog.

So pretty mundane then! :roll:

No, we don't need a thread here because we still have the original board for that. Post there.

I don't think it was meant as a whole new thing to detract from the original; I asked if we should have a members' news forum and people agreed that we did not and we should just put it in here. I think Silmaril is simply helping with the structure and layout of the place.

Never mind. I've been catching up as fast as I can on discussions, and just figured the Boardania forum was going to contain at least some of the stuff the Discworld Novels forum does. It seems to me there's bound to be some duplication . . . otherwise what will we have on this board-the original has everything, surely the point of this is mostly to do the same things differently, if that makes sense.

But hey, if we don't need this thread, it can be deleted or ignored or whatever.

I think it's fine, people that we don't know will wind up posting on here anyway eventually even if [i:fc4398797f]we[/i:fc4398797f] don't - it may as well be one of us that starts it.

I disagree here. As Ben said, we shouldn't start too many threads here. At this stage I feel we only need to focus on the structure of the board. The threads that are started now solely handle this. When we start adding content, we run the risk of operating two boards simultaniously. And I am dead against that.

If it was Silmarils intention to add the 'members news' thread to the structure, thats fine. But we should avoid posting it it for now.

Mal, I thought you practically sealed off this board from search engines so that no new people can find it? I don't see why there would be newbits wandering in and start posting then.

I agree with Cat, I also think that we should make these fora (forums?) read-only until (or if) the day comes that we have to move here.

To stretch the lifeboat analogy, currently we just need to make sure it can float in case we need it. We don't need to ride around in it, we have a perfectly good normal boat for that.

I agree with Cat and Ben.

I feel like a newbit again :oops:

Ok, lock this thread or whatever. I think I maybe misunderstood what stage we were at with this place.

What I meant was is the original post doesn't matter that much, I just thought EM's original response was a bit rude; I didn't expect other people to keep on posting after I told Silmaril that it was fine, I thought that would be it for now until I saw Cat's post this morning - then I thought we'd just leave it at that but discovered this afternoon that two more people have posted!

I wasn't going to answer this but I may as well now... I was talking about way in the future not in the next 5 minutes. Anyway, I can't actually seal stuff off from search engines, but I haven't been actively promoting the site in any way - there are only 8 links pointing to this site so far; if I were trying to get visitors I would have around 3000 links pointing to it by now, that isn't an exaggeration.

Thanks for clarifying, Mal.

Thanks for clarifying Mal.
I am an utter idiot when it comes to internet-techie things. I had now idea how one could seal off a link. I didn't intend to doubt your efforts, I was just wondering if and how it was done. You are doing a great job with this board Mal. If I question some things, it's because I want to make this a better place for everyone, it's not ment to put down your efforts. I hope I don't come across that way.

I responded to your comment to Silmaril because I was under the impression you said that's its allright for people to start posting here. Like I am doing now, how's that for a dillemma? :roll:

As far as I am concerned this thread can be locked.

I apologise to Silmaril for being rude, reading through it again my post was very abrupt. But I still think that we do not need to post topics in these forums. Just see my comments earlier in this thread and in the Sweepers section (and if you remove any rudeness when reading my posts I'd appreciate it )

Thanks for the apologies, though they weren't really needed: it was my mistake.

bollocks :cry: i knew i did something wrong