New forums, new sweepers, moving threads, etc.

[Garner]

Er, maybe i've missed some stuff, but a few questions...

1) Why's rinso a sweeper on the roleplay group forum now?
2) Why ONLY rinso on the fools guild?
3) Why was a thread of mine moved without any notification or discussion, or did I miss that. Why not other threads of equally jokey natures?

not angry about any of that, just curious

[Garner]

been talking to doors about this...

a few more things:

Is the 'fools guild' forum going to be for ANYTHING 'silly' or 'funny'? If so, we've just shot ourselves in the foot.

I thought it was clearly going to be for Email chain letter jokes, pool party threads, and role playing as discworld characters?

Eg, the things that annoy us few tight asses but the great unwashed don't have a problem with.

Now, if my thread about gherkin shurikens is going to get moved there, why not ben's thread about email jokes? This seems to be the exact OPPOSITE of the point as I understood it to be.

I'm starting to think this is a bad idea and the boardanian forum will suffer as a result.

[Orrdos]

I'm not sure I see a need for a fools forum at all really.

We've already got a good few forums without adding one specifically for joke threads (or, some of them at least).

Joke threads are part of the everyday ongoings on the board, and I can't see a point in seperating them from the main forum.

I suppose what garner says is true, if anything should go in them at all, make it chain jokes.

[Garner]

that was the point, i thought.

the stuff that we've frowned on in the past would go to its own special forum, and us elitist bastards can drink tea with our pinky fingers sticking out in the main forum where we only engage in socially acceptible silliness.

[fairyliquid]

[quote:7801592ab9="Garner"]that was the point, i thought.

the stuff that we've frowned on in the past would go to its own special forum, and us elitist bastards can drink tea with our pinky fingers sticking out in the main forum where we only engage in socially acceptible silliness.[/quote:7801592ab9]

If thats the case you may want to move most of bordania to the fools guild... :o

It wasn't that big of a deal on the old boards, okay there were a few silly threads but if you didn't like them they were ignored. We dont want to spread everything out to much otherwise it gets frustrating hopping between forums all the time looking for a thread.

[Garner]

exactly.

we had a pretty narrow list of what we didn't want to see at all, or what should only be found in a clearly indicated thread.

Roleplay games/pool parties and jokes you got from your email... that was really about it.

random silliness is a vital part of what makes boardania fun. gherkin shurikens, glowing badgers and pissing monkeys are boardanian.

threads like "The Mended Drum" where everyone gets to pretend to be the librarian, or 'The Joke Thread' are specialist threads that shouldn't be hijacked because they're dedicated for a set purpose.

The point of a 'fools guild' forum was to give the non-boardanian silliness a place to go where it could live in peace and frolic in the care free halcyon days of it's youth.

It was NOT, so far as I understood it, to put EVERYTHING funny/silly in. God save us, if that's the case then we might as well do away with the boardanian forum and half the guidelines to boot.

[Electric_Man]

I've said it before, there's no point in a new forum which will be populated by about 2 or 3 active topics at any one time, and won't detract from other threads in the boardania forum.

At this point I'm starting to wonder if there might be worth in merging some of the book forums together. The traffic in them is very minimal, I expected them to be filled up a bit more by now. At the moment they just look empty and unwanted, and also make the page longer than it needs to be. I like things simple, having too many forums just makes you unsure of where to post.

Looking at it now, I'd suggest merging Wizards, Witches and Death together and merging the other three together too. That way we would have the more magically inclined books in one forum, and the less-magically inclined in the other, we could also put the Tiffany books in the 'Magic' forum too.

edit: also, I don't understand why there is only one mod in the fools guild, and two in the rp group, the point about moderators is that they shouldn't be restricted in the forums they work with, I thought we'd agreed that already? otherwise we'll edge closer towards havin mod 'rankings'

[Maljonic]

I think Rinsewind is a mod of the role playing forum by mistake, I'll change that now. I got distracted after making the fools' guild and forgot to add everyone else as moderators too. I didn't put your thread in there though, I thought you did it yourself, guess someone else must have? Just move it back if it's not meant to be there.

[Garner]

can we do subforums? if so, then a two tier structure would be best. it allows for a tidier front page and doesn't involve a labyrinth of clicking to get where you want to be.

say one overforum for 'Books' with a description like 'here you c an find individual forums for specific books and sub-serries!'

the fools guild, if needed, can be shoved under the boardanian forum, as can the roleplay group forum really.

[Garner]

heya Mal, thanks for clearing that up.

I'd very much like to know who moved my 'so' thread and why they felt the need to do this without notification or asking.

As for the sub forums, would that be possible?

[fairyliquid]

[quote:8a9126e6b0="Electric_Man"]I've said it before, there's no point in a new forum which will be populated by about 2 or 3 active topics at any one time, and won't detract from other threads in the boardania forum.

At this point I'm starting to wonder if there might be worth in merging some of the book forums together. The traffic in them is very minimal, I expected them to be filled up a bit more by now. At the moment they just empty and unwanted, and also make the page longer than it needs to be. I like things simple, having too many forums just makes you unsure of where to post.

Looking at it now, I'd suggest merging Wizards, Witches and Death together and merging the other three together too. That way we would have the more magically inclined books in one forum, and the less-magically inclined in the other, we could also put the Tiffany books in the 'Magic' forum too.

[/quote:8a9126e6b0]

Thats my problem with the fools guild...I think once it is moved there, people will forget about it.

I think EM has a point merging some of the book forums...no one is really sure what to post in them at the moment because it was discussed in the previous boards and people dont want to go back and have the same discussions again.

I like Garners idea of subforums...it might make things a little easier to understand and a little less tedious to sift through.

edit: name...oops :roll:

[Electric_Man]

[quote:d634f34eed="Garner"]can we do subforums? if so, then a two tier structure would be best. it allows for a tidier front page and doesn't involve a labyrinth of clicking to get where you want to be.

say one overforum for 'Books' with a description like 'here you c an find individual forums for specific books and sub-serries!'

the fools guild, if needed, can be shoved under the boardanian forum, as can the roleplay group forum really.[/quote:d634f34eed]

If it's possible, then that would be a good idea, and yes, the roleplay forum would be best under the boardanian one.

If we're keeping some vestige of the 'Fools Guild' we need to clarify what is supposed to be in there.

[Garner]

Rincewind is in wales. possibly being attacked by old bald men who spontaneously become his enemy.

Electricman suggested merging the book threads.

This is just a clarification.

[fairyliquid]

[quote:1429a601ee="Garner"]Rincewind is in wales. possibly being attacked by old bald men who spontaneously become his enemy.

Electricman suggested merging the book threads.

This is just a clarification.[/quote:1429a601ee]

Electric_Man/ Rincewind...same difference.

I fixed it now, thanks for pointing it out though.

[Electric_Man]

[quote:2703042e57="fairyliquid"]Electric_Man/ Rincewind...same difference.[/quote:2703042e57]

*takes extreme offence*

M'Lud, I present to the jury a catalogue of offense of disimilarity, including, avatars, names, spelling mistakes, smell and rat-onna-facédness.