Post by ®onnie ®ude on Apr 16, 2010 15:18:55 GMT -5
As of late I've put a lot of things to the side inorder to concentrate on re-organizing a lot of our Site. I went as far as to do an entire overhaul of our site's role-play history and modify the announcements so that the announcements being read on boards are up-to-date. So pretty much, re-organization and less clutter is what I have in mind for a lot of the other aspects of our site.
Take General Talk for example, a lot of threads inside this category have no genre or means of sorting through the threads. As it stands, you simply go into this board, post about whatever you want and in a week it gets buried by the next couple of people who do the same. The same can be said about a lot of other boards in this Category as well. This makes it very hard for users to post in topics that interest them because they have no means of distinguishing one thing from anouther amongst all the clutter. Simply put, the board is a mess and our history is no longer being kept track of. Instead, its just being forgotten because of the density of the clutter. Useful, reusuable threads are being ignored, and I'd like to prevent that from continuing to happen, because while being a big advocate for preserving site history, I still see the flaws in the method we've been using. This method has run its course and is now becoming unbeneficial to the overrall well-being of our site.
Here's what I've done to remedy that...
General Talk is now made up of a main board for misc. discussion and 6 other sub-boards. These are the sub-boards along with what they'll be used for...
Introduce Yourself
Post: Threads that describe yourself to the rest of the forum, including picture of me, picture of your shoes and random questions that'll help warm newbies up to the rest of the forum.
Note: I'm still deciding whether or not to put nickname threads in here along with gantz sig creation threads. And I'll prolli be creating some more new threads that'll encourage users to talk more about themselves.
Coming or Going?
Post: Threads letting the forum know your leaving and for how long if you plan to come back. And it also will allow you to post threads so you can inform users when you've returned.
Events
Post: Birthday threads and remind us of any special Holiday or Event.
Movie Discussion
Post: Threads about movies. Discuss movies and review them.
Note: Thinking about invoking the spoiler rule here.
Game Discussion
Post: Threads about games. Discuss games and review them.
Note: Thinking about invoking the spoiler rule here as well.
Advertising
Post: Threads advertising your site or someone elses.
Note: I'm also thinking about adding a sub-board for music discussion. And then anything that doesn't apply to those 6 or 7 sub-boards (if music is added) will be posted as a regular thread in general talk.
As for Gantz Manga and Anime, its name has been changed to Anime and Manga. And before anyone goes crazy, the Gantz Manga and Anime discussion itself has been turned into a sub-board inside Anime and Manga called Gantz Discussion.
Now people have a place to not only talk about Gantz Manga and Anime, but also any other kind of Anime and Manga.
Note: All these changes will later on be added to the site rules, and I'm planning on modifying the the registration PM from Gantz so that they reflect the changes and direct members to the new sub-boards.
Other than that, here's what's left to re-organize and revamp.
Let me know what you think guys!
Take General Talk for example, a lot of threads inside this category have no genre or means of sorting through the threads. As it stands, you simply go into this board, post about whatever you want and in a week it gets buried by the next couple of people who do the same. The same can be said about a lot of other boards in this Category as well. This makes it very hard for users to post in topics that interest them because they have no means of distinguishing one thing from anouther amongst all the clutter. Simply put, the board is a mess and our history is no longer being kept track of. Instead, its just being forgotten because of the density of the clutter. Useful, reusuable threads are being ignored, and I'd like to prevent that from continuing to happen, because while being a big advocate for preserving site history, I still see the flaws in the method we've been using. This method has run its course and is now becoming unbeneficial to the overrall well-being of our site.
Here's what I've done to remedy that...
General Talk is now made up of a main board for misc. discussion and 6 other sub-boards. These are the sub-boards along with what they'll be used for...
Introduce Yourself
Post: Threads that describe yourself to the rest of the forum, including picture of me, picture of your shoes and random questions that'll help warm newbies up to the rest of the forum.
Note: I'm still deciding whether or not to put nickname threads in here along with gantz sig creation threads. And I'll prolli be creating some more new threads that'll encourage users to talk more about themselves.
Coming or Going?
Post: Threads letting the forum know your leaving and for how long if you plan to come back. And it also will allow you to post threads so you can inform users when you've returned.
Events
Post: Birthday threads and remind us of any special Holiday or Event.
Movie Discussion
Post: Threads about movies. Discuss movies and review them.
Note: Thinking about invoking the spoiler rule here.
Game Discussion
Post: Threads about games. Discuss games and review them.
Note: Thinking about invoking the spoiler rule here as well.
Advertising
Post: Threads advertising your site or someone elses.
Note: I'm also thinking about adding a sub-board for music discussion. And then anything that doesn't apply to those 6 or 7 sub-boards (if music is added) will be posted as a regular thread in general talk.
As for Gantz Manga and Anime, its name has been changed to Anime and Manga. And before anyone goes crazy, the Gantz Manga and Anime discussion itself has been turned into a sub-board inside Anime and Manga called Gantz Discussion.
Now people have a place to not only talk about Gantz Manga and Anime, but also any other kind of Anime and Manga.
Note: All these changes will later on be added to the site rules, and I'm planning on modifying the the registration PM from Gantz so that they reflect the changes and direct members to the new sub-boards.
Other than that, here's what's left to re-organize and revamp.
- Announcements
- Site Related
- Gantz OOC
- Join the Staff
Let me know what you think guys!