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Estel
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It looks like eventually we're going to have to split The Round Table in two with how busy it is. One area for serious discussions, and one for more casual stuff.

I'll wait a bit before doing something drastic like that - maybe we can save it till we get to the new board :)


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A bit of waiting never hurts ;) but I don't think you should wait until we're ready with the other board (to do that well and test it will take time ;) )

I also think re-organizing the Round-table (also with a view how the Symposion supposedly works/will work) and come up with something different out of the synthesis for both of them is a good idea :D And of course we need some kind of m00t forum (you know how long it took for the meaning of m77t and g77k to sink in? :Q An entire 2 minutes :LMAO: sometimes I'm just so dense!)

I'll think about this some more when I've had more tea and will edit in my ideas here.

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kk - before I post this, I need to know a couple things from you guys.

#1 - should I post that admins have two hidden forums. I think it should be out in the open - that we have them, what they are, and the reasons for them being hidden.

#2 - I just took a bunch of peoples idea's and pretty much tried to do all of them and organized them like rooms in a house, for want of a better idea. Like I say in the post - no name changes are neccessary, it's just how I did the organization - like the "home" that b77 is :) I haven't done a split of the symposium, cause I'm not quite sure how to do this. That, and where should the symposium go? The Turf? or The Library?

#3 - organization of the forums *has* to be convenient for the admins - I would like some suggestions from you guys. *However* - please don't suggest any cuts made here - do that in the thread once it's posted please. I find it's easier to make something as big as possible - to give people the most amount of options - and cut it down afterwards ;) I'd like to post the most complex version in the discussion, and let it be cut down in the process of the discussion in the thread in the business forum.

Ok, this is the post I was writing up for the "Restructuring the Boards" thread in the business forum. I'll do a direct link if one of you guys tells me how to do it - I can't get it to show up as the word being the link :scratch is it [ url = "thread name" ] www.website.com [/ url] ? Cause that doesn't work for me :help:

anywho, here's the post I'll be making - please comment! :)





So we definitely want an "Admin Request" subforum, and a "m77t and geek" (m00t and tolkien events ;) ) subforum. There's also been talk of basically what amounts to a "homebase forum", so I'll throw that in my example as well as well.

We could also - based on the "Home Sweet Home" thread - have each master forum named after part of a home. Just an idea on that one ;) I'll add in examples of that in my example below. Not saying that if there is a restructuring of the board, there would have to be a re-naming as well! No, no, no - just an idea that's been bandied around.


Now what about Master forums?

Lemme kinda show you guys what I meant with my little thingy I talked about.... I'm gonna go all out here - as many different forums as I can think of - after all, it's easier to cut off what's not needed, than to keep adding ;) . Say the following is the index page:





Welcome/Info Forum - Master Forum (could be "The Front Porch")
  • Info Forum / Welcome - subforum

    Homebase Forum - subforum

    m77t and g77k forum - subforum
The Round Table - Master Forum (could be "The Family Room")
  • The Turf - subforum

    Hobbies and Games - subforum

    The Symposium - subforum

    Thinking of England - subforum
The Library - Master Forum
  • Critics Corner - subforum

    There and Back Again - subforum

    Literary Rambles - subforum
Dicisne hoc opus artem esse? - Master Forum (could be "Music & Media Room")
  • The Small Screen. Television - subforum

    Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? Movies - subforum

    La Camerata. Music - subforum
The Conference Room - Master Forum
  • The Business Room - subforum

    Invites - subforum

    Admin Requests - subforum
Outside - Master Forum
  • The BikeRacks - subforum

    The Jury Room - subforum

    The Archives - subforum
Hidden Porn Stash - Master Forum
  • Deleted Threads Storage - subforum (which y'all can't see, but we're trying to keep the postcounts from going all weird ;) )

    Forum Management - subforum

    Sensitive Admin Information - subforum (which y'all can't see, cause it's passwords and such ;) )


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I was kinda hoping for responses here first....

or at least, a response to this post in the business forum AFTER I had made the post there... not before.


Why do I even bother.


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ohh... but bothering about this is important. I know that Leoba has problems getting on here from work. Griff's time here is also 'catching up all over the place' and I'm just totally useless (pretty much over weekends) I promised myself to look in the business forum just as soon as I could.. and I caught the discussion in there earlier than seeing your post in here. Sorry :(

:hug: Estel - your suggestions are great. Just give people time to catch up ;) I've replied to your thread in the business forum and I'm sure many others will get there.... it just takes time *sigh* ;)

As to how to make clickeable links... you've almost got it right:
[ url = webaddress ] name of the thread [ /url] without the spaces ;)

Re: split the symposium ... it's not an actualy split as in splitting a thread. I don't think splitting a forum in the same sense as splitting a thread is actually possible. It just means create a main forum titeld symposium (the same way as The Round Table) and then creating subfora in there... and then moving threads. Hope that makes sense :) and also see my post in your Restructuring the boards I might have a slightly different 'vision' than you of course ;)

re: making it known there is a 'hidden' Admin forum. I'm all for it. Let people view the forum, just don't give them read access ;) Move any thread possible over to the visible admin forum. Keep as few threads in the hidden forum (I think with a bit of re-organization in the Admin forum as a whole this could be minimized tremendously).

And sorry Estel I responded too specifically. Really did not mean to be mean or anything. I just got that 'organizing' bug :roll: being Swiss definitely IS a handcap. You're suggestions and views were all great as I told you.. I only put my ideas forward, that's all.
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I'll take any further comments and suggestions I might have over to the Business forum like any normal, regular poster
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No - I know you weren't trying to be mean hon. I just posted it here to get input here first - I wanted to get more options and more idea's from people over there before I posted the example. After you posted regarding the example I had given, I felt kinda pressured to post it over there right away - otherwise, people wouldn't have known what you were referencing to, and would have been kinda confuddled.


As for the organizing bug - trust me, I've got that too. I can't tell you the admin clicking/moving reorganizing urges when I look at the index page.

I see business in the welcome forum, and invites in the turf and just get itchy fingers wanting to reorganize.

Thanks for telling me how to do links - I had it all backwards :P


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I posted back at you over in the Business Room. I like the way you're playing with ideas and narrowing it down and I'm not so bound to our hotch-potch organic current forum-plan that I have issues with changes. So long as we're not too fragmented.

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