It's time for some disobedience.

You've already got it.

Green Room for pussies that need Nanny-Anc to protect them from "derp."

Red Room for real Wordforgers.

/thread

 

Sewing the seeds for a cover up I see.

 

This thread is white people problems at its finest.

 

You blithering smegma breathed idiot! It's clearly not white people problems, but first world problems.

 

Psyops...

anyway

 

You've just answered your own question, although Zombie said it more succinctly: http://wordforge.net/index.php?posts/2596752/

 

Then all you have to do is sit back and let it happen.

There is a process somewhat analagous to natural selection that applies to discussion threads: When there really is something to discuss, they tend to stay very much on topic. When they get off topic, and degenerate into spam, trolling, and various other Wordforge pastimes, it is because the subject matter just isn't there.

When Packard, RickDeckard and I were going on for pages and pages about determinism, no one bothered the thread. A few people popped in for a post or two, but most people didn't bother, and no one made any serious attempts to drag it off topic. When current events are staying current, the same thing happens.

What happened to the Malaysian plane thread was that after a fairly short while there was nothing new to say. When there is, the discussion will resume all on its own, and it won't take any particular methods to keep it on topic. This is Wordforge, but it isn't TK. When we want to discuss things more or less seriously, we do so and it doesn't take any rule changes to make it possible. When we don't want to, we don't, and no rule change is going to make us do so. If we could be "managed," we would have all stayed in the Think Tank.

You really are looking for a problem to justify some solutions, when there is no real problem here.

 

Which reminds me, didn't you moderate on TNZ and/or the Enterprise forum? at some point. I forgot about that until you mentioned it.

 

^
This should be /thread, but it won't be.

 

Another thing I just remembered...Anc was blustering a ton of shit about how the board doesn't do enough to attratct members. But since he's taken over I doubt we've gotten even one new member that wasn't originally from Starscape. How 'bout that shit?

Also worth noting is with Tamar no longer on staff (or posting outside of Garamet's ACA thread, just to take the piss out of her) you can't blame any of this on her, either. This is all on Anc.

 

Actually, I can think of at least three new members not associated with Starscape. But it's true, we have not been all that successful at recruitment.

At any rate, you people disappoint me. This thread is calling for disobedience. When are you all gonna get to it?

 

They're in the Starscape Lounge

 

OK. I'll play:
-Have all the members agree to a code of conduct when they log on. We can form a committee or a working group of some kind later to hammer out exactly what will be in the code.
-Set a quota that each member must contribute X number of relevant threads per week. We can form a subcomittee of the committee to settle on the number and what constitutes "relevant."
-In addition to new threads, each comrade will have a set number of replies to existing and new threads that they will need to make each week. I think the subcommittee of posting content can handle that.
-All likes will be pooled and redistributed equally on a quarterly basis.
-Failure to comply with any of these policies will result in an initial warning for the infraction. A second failure would result in the member being limited to posting in a special "re-education" forum. We could appoint a special committee to judge whether posters have rehabilitated themselves sufficiently to return to full posting privileges.

These are just off the top of my head. I'm sure with some brainstorming we could build on this to really get WF going in the direction that is best for all of us.

 

I was a TNZ mod at the same time as Borgminister, Worf412 and Misfit Toy, starting right around the time that Asyncritus left, I think. Then I was in General Trek Discussion for a while.

 

All threads with insufficient traffic and population will be merged, to better simulate efficient, high-density urban living.

 

Exactly. Let me play for him the song of my people:

 

Stop making shit up in your head.

 

Many others disagree.

 

Time to double down!

 

@John, what can be done with New Posts? Could the front page be made more 'New Post' friendly? Is there any way to have say the top three most recently commented threads in their own little box at the top of each forum?

Anyone else have ideas for making New Posts more visible?

 

Name them. Show us a definitive list of the people clamouring for this.

 

I for one am shocked your consulting gig went nowhere.

 

I already named some. Others have liked my posts, if they wish to speak up they can, but if they prefer to avoid this shitstorm people are so desperate to stir up, I am not going to drag them into it.

 

We should have poll after poll until Anc wins.

 

Way back in the day when I first came here, Borgs had this front page thingamajig that showed the ten most recent and/or commented on threads in the whole board, but it got scrapped kinda quickly.

Honesly, I don't see the need to do that on a board this small though. It's pretty easy to navigate through threads; that was never a problem, even in WF's heyday.

 

Fine, I started a poll.

 

Oh! Got another one:

To ensure a diversity of discussions, we can assign responsibility for content areas to posters. Kind of like how actormike used to be the Hollywood Gossip Guy or Diacanu is the Comic Book Adaptation Guy. Tuckerfan could, for example have a weekly count of Technology threads he is expected to start. Gul could be responsible for finding controversial blogs for us to discuss. I could find stories from Fox to ensure we have both sides of the discussion represented. What else? Anc could do urban living content. 'Flow could handle farm news/rural.

For that matter, we could put each of the content experts in charge of their area (with appropriate oversight, of course). If someone derails a technology thread or posts an inappropriate science article, Tuckerfan could warn them and move the offending content (or edit it to ensure correctness).

 

I can futz around with something, say a sidebar that can show a quick list of new posts. I'll get back to you on that.
In the interim, you can try something I added a few minutes ago, which shows the number of new, unread posts in an alert format, making it highly visible. Just a test run.

(To get rid of the large number, just click "Mark All Forums Read" on the right hand side of the page)