RE: FADT ground rules and FADTDT
06-26-2017, 01:44 AM
I'd be willing to change around the organisational structure of the forums if enough folks are reporting an issue, but I'm currently not personally seeing one.
The Cradle system was introduced on the old forums because old+established adventures (particularly those with slower update schedules or small-but-dedicated groups of suggestors) would spend barely any time on the "front page" of the subforum because of the sheer volume of threads getting updated and bumped. New adventures had a space people could go to check them out and help them start up, other than the underlying administrative issues that had resulted in this structural compromise things worked out ok.
(There was also bitterness iirc about "quality" content not being given enough exposure compared to formula-following (sburb)ventures which would use sprites to knock out updates quickly, but that's obviously not an issue in the current ETFA climate)
Anyway it's Monday morning over here for me, and on the front page of Forum Adventures we've got exactly 25 threads (a front page's worth) of threads that were posted in over the weekend. It's not quite yet the hectic environment you're worried about.
Games meanwhile is lmao, there's four threads that have had an update this month of June
And a Graveyard subforum would've made sense on MSPAF where we did have a subset of rude gits who would periodically bump stuff asking when the next update is, but I don't think that's been a persistent issue here?
Like if I'm wrong on any of this stuff and the more regular regulars of ETFA want to call me out on it by all means go ahead but other than a possible forum-wide archive subforum for completed/exemplary threads I'm not especially seeing much that needs changing
The Cradle system was introduced on the old forums because old+established adventures (particularly those with slower update schedules or small-but-dedicated groups of suggestors) would spend barely any time on the "front page" of the subforum because of the sheer volume of threads getting updated and bumped. New adventures had a space people could go to check them out and help them start up, other than the underlying administrative issues that had resulted in this structural compromise things worked out ok.
(There was also bitterness iirc about "quality" content not being given enough exposure compared to formula-following (sburb)ventures which would use sprites to knock out updates quickly, but that's obviously not an issue in the current ETFA climate)
Anyway it's Monday morning over here for me, and on the front page of Forum Adventures we've got exactly 25 threads (a front page's worth) of threads that were posted in over the weekend. It's not quite yet the hectic environment you're worried about.
Games meanwhile is lmao, there's four threads that have had an update this month of June
And a Graveyard subforum would've made sense on MSPAF where we did have a subset of rude gits who would periodically bump stuff asking when the next update is, but I don't think that's been a persistent issue here?
Like if I'm wrong on any of this stuff and the more regular regulars of ETFA want to call me out on it by all means go ahead but other than a possible forum-wide archive subforum for completed/exemplary threads I'm not especially seeing much that needs changing
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow