you know...

[shadoe]

you know... i really think you should make a dead threads board. I've heard several times that people don't like covering up other threads when they make a new one.

I think if the thread hasn't been posted in for over a month then it should be moved to a designated board. because most likely if they haven't posted in over a month then teh thread is dead. right?


just a thought. ^_^
~Ava~

[Kirien Melantha]

I've actually thought about this, but making a thread for dead/completed threads would make navigating through them very difficult. Many of our members enjoy re-reading past threads, and putting them all in the same place would make finding a particular thread a nightmare.

We could make a dead/completed threads board for every section of Mosh, or even make a dead/completed threads board with a subboard for every section of Mosh, to tackle the organization problem. However, that would be visually overwhelming and just plain gross.

Moving dead/completed threads to another part of Mosh would also make a lot of our posting areas look naked. If potential new members are browsing Mosh, seeing our posting areas with only a handful of threads in them is a big turn-off. Having only relatively new threads in the same areas makes it seem as if we have only been active recently; having old and new threads in the same areas shows that we have been active over a period of time.

[shadoe]

but all teh new members have to do i look at the total amout of posts and topics down where ittells you how many people are on the site at once. that number alone will tell them how active we are. not to mention they will see the dead threads section and how big it is. lol i know i've had sites with dead threads and they were amazed at how many dead threads we actually had. lol.

as far as the organization thing goes. you can make a sort of time line type thing. instead of making a section for each part of mosh. make suboards in teh dead threads board labled with dates. say.... Jan. thru March. April thru July. and so on. or if there are too many posts in that time period make it a shorter time period. get what i'm saying? that will make it MUCh easier to tell which threads came first.

[shadoe]

also you should add teh year onto the subboard time line thing lol forgot that part

[Locke F. Herald]

*Twitch*

I'm going to ask nicely, once and only once.

Spell check. There is no excuse for letting things like 'teh' slip and inserting 'lol' in the middle of every other sentence, not to mention the lack of punctuation or basic sentence structure.

I didn't even read what you wrote for the most part, because how you wrote it spoke louder.

[amber]

hey. not everyone is a perfect speller or typist ok? deal with it. my comp doesn't tell me when I spell things wrong, and I use the quick reply thing. When I'm actually posting in story I try harder to spell right. And I only used lol twice in that entire thing. so if you don't mind please sush it. I don't like it people get on me about my typing. I never took keyboarding in school, it wasn't offered where I was going. thank you very much.

[Kirien Melantha]

I think Rob is trying to help, he's just a little more...forceful than most people. I'd rather we not have a fight break out on here.

[amber]

i'm not fighting. i just told him to stop telling me how to make post. i really hate it when people go all perfectionist on me. as long as you can understand the meaning of the post i really don't see the point in pointing out the flaws.

[Dr. Chase Redwicke]

Replying to this as el doctor, as he would be the guy to declare someone dead... er... -insert laugh track here-...

I love the threads the way they are. I have the worst memory when it comes to timelines anyway, plus the majority of my rps jump the timeline. So trying to sift through the months and years of when i wrote something would be a nightmare. Plus I usually remember the setting of a rp more than the date I wrote it, which is also because some of the rps I take part in span over months. There's no definite time as to when these rps occur!

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm opposed to the idea. I can see the logic behind it, but from my own personal experience and methods, it would be hell. Completed threads should stay where they are, because they leave memories. Moving around memories is only going to create dementia (at least for me!), and I don't feel like succumbing to early Alzheimer's disease.

Also Amber, don't worry about Rob. He's a martyr for perfection, another reason why I love him, and he values quality. I'm usually pretty casual in my OOC posts (I hardly use capitals and I use 'haha' and 'lol' wayy too much, as with emoticons ). But it's good practice for the rps and real writing on the side to use proper punctuation and grammar. OOC posts are usually short, and it's easier for everyone to read if they make sense the first time you skim through them. Doesn't mean they have to be perfect, but it can be pretty distracting to have teh words not spellde properly.

<3

[Sebastian Thomas]

Where to start.. :/ though I have to hustle as I also need to update my blog, then get to work by 6

I didn't properly read your follow up suggestion for about 2 main reasons: the first being that I found the system (my initial understanding of it) to be too difficult, and also because I couldn't filter through the way you type.

Now let me say right here, right now, that it is everybody's prerogative to type as they will OOC.
On MSN, I don't capitalize my proper nouns, most of the time, and I don't punctuate when I'm lazy i.e. no apostrophe's (or commas - depending on how lazy I'm being, of if I'm feeling inclined toward writing run on sentences). MSN doesn't give spell check either, so there may also be spelling errors etc.
I sometimes tweet incorrect English. In OOC posts on this site, depending on how I want to write, I may incorporate all my bad MSN habits into my OOC posts.

No one has to choose to be perfect, so please don't think I'm criticizing the way you write.

As for your suggestion being too complex - the fault of that is that anything that intricate basically takes away whatever sentimental value each thread may hold for their respective RPers.

As Nicki has stated above, some people may be better off remembering the location of where their threads were. I am of that kind.
This will also add to the fact that moving threads takes away a particular aspect of the thread content - what is the point of reading something that is apparently located in Seattle, Washington, but not being able to tell so from the very beginning? Keeping threads in the location that they are set reaffirms the fact that they are set there.

That last point is the one and only reason why I would be against moving threads. To move threads, or essentially, to categorize them, would be clinical. Too vague.

[Kirien Melantha]

Thank you, Nicki (and Vron) for diplomating much better than I did. I was a little distracted at the time, so everything I said came out in this whirl of awkwardness. XD

Ava, you suggested ordering dead/completed threads in a dead/completed threads board, with a subboard for whatever time period? That would take care of the illusion that we haven't been active for a long time, but as Nicki and Vron said, we'd lose context by not having the locations specified. Additionally, we've been on Mosh for quite a while, so to achieve maximum organization would mean a lot of subboards, which is still visually gross.

[Locke F. Herald]

Since I seemed to forget myself on my first post.

I am against this idea, and Nicki outlined the why perfectly.

Lately I've been reading old Locke RPs, and being able to say "Oh, 'I hate boys' was in the dormitories, so it should still be there, I wonder what else is here..." really makes reading this stuff that much more enjoyable for me.

[Kellan Grace Callahan]

Suggestion. If you're not going to use a spell checker, at least read your replies before you post them. Just because you're not a good typer doesn't mean you don't know how to read. Read them, then fix what errors you see.

And by you, I mean everyone. It's a member-wide suggestion.

[katana]

May 29, 2010 15:55:55 GMT -5 Locke F. Herald said:

*Twitch*

I'm going to ask nicely, once and only once.

Spell check. There is no excuse for letting things like 'teh' slip and inserting 'lol' in the middle of every other sentence, not to mention the lack of punctuation or basic sentence structure.

I didn't even read what you wrote for the most part, because how you wrote it spoke louder.

How is that asking nicely? And if you didn't even bother to read it why the hell are you commenting?

[Peyton Howard.]

I understand the base reaction to something that evokes defensiveness or anger.
We should all take into consideration where each of us are coming from. While some may not have had the proper teaching and practice to type fluently and so on -- there are some of us who are in their last year of majoring in Journalism in University, some who major in English Literature and others who pride themselves on speaking concisely and eloquently.

These are each of our perspectives, and as free worlds go, no one is obliged to agree to them. However, if we can respect each other, that can go a long way.

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