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Title: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Sunflower on February 17, 2015, 04:41:48 PM
Hey, Forum members! 
Do you enjoy the content you read here?  Have you ever seen a post quoting something clever from the Disqus pages and thought, "Wow, I missed that when I read that comic page"? 
Or, conversely, have you ever thought, "What hapless, ham-handed editing!  I could provide better Forum updates with one hand tied behind my back!"?

Either way, you're invited to join in the proud Skaldic task of retrieving good stuff from the daily Disqus discussions to the Forum.  After a marathon day of archiving yesterday, I realized there's no way I can keep up with the flood of Disqus comments, as they reach peaks of 1,000+ a day.

"But Sunflower," you say, "I thought you needed training and permission to become a skald."
Nope!  You just need to have an eye for good stuff (your definition of "good" may vary) and some patience. 

HOW TO DO A SKALD'S JOB
1. Topic-Oriented:

2. Spontaneous preservation:

Poems (original or song parodies) are archived pretty reliably by the most prolific authors -- slim kittens, LOOney_DAC, corncobman, and so forth.

Be respectful of original posters' intent, but be selective.  In a long, rambling discussion, I sometimes omit irrelevant parts within a post.  But I'll always show the deletion with "...". 
I silently fix obvious typos (when I think of it).

If you want to reply in-Forum to the Disqus comments you're posting, that's fine.  But I advise you to do so in a different post, quoting the part you want to expand on or disagree with.  Don't give the impression you were part of the original discussion. 

Forum content standards are a bit tighter than the Disqus pages.  Swear words are ****'d out, and the Admin doesn't approve of non-family-friendly content.  It's OK to say something like "[CHARACTER] is totally hottt!"  But it's not OK to refer to body parts covered by a swimsuit. 

If you have questions, feel free to reply to this post or PM me.  Or confer with fellow Forumites.  This is a spontaneously self-organizing operation in large part, so if you come up with better ways to do things, we may end up following your lead.


Go forth and may your searches be fruitful!

Sunflower
A (not "The") Forum-Skald
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Richard Weir on February 17, 2015, 08:40:34 PM
I must make an effort to join in and help - you've been sadly left to carry most of the burden of doing this!
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Sunflower on February 18, 2015, 01:08:13 AM
I must make an effort to join in and help - you've been sadly left to carry most of the burden of doing this!

To paraphrase Sigrun:

"Left to carry the burden"?  Hah, honey, I elbowed everyone else out of the way! (I just realized that there's such a thing as obsessive archiving, and I'd never be able to stay on top of the -- happily proliferating -- Disqus comments.)
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Eris on February 22, 2015, 09:39:10 AM
This excites me. Like, the idea of having threads with lots of information about around Weapon-smithing or Weaving or something. Oh, I feel all flustery. I'm getting all into this.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Sunflower on February 22, 2015, 06:13:55 PM
This excites me. Like, the idea of having threads with lots of information about around Weapon-smithing or Weaving or something. Oh, I feel all flustery. I'm getting all into this.

Eris!  I'm so thrilled you're taking to it.  I've already seen your post amalgamating a lot of the "prior art" on Sigrun's sweater.  Yaaaay!  Keep up the good work!  (The rest of you, go and do likewise -- if the spirit moves you.)

The delighted,

Sunflower
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Eris on February 22, 2015, 08:56:12 PM
Eris!  I'm so thrilled you're taking to it.  I've already seen your post amalgamating a lot of the "prior art" on Sigrun's sweater.  Yaaaay!  Keep up the good work!
Hehehe, acknowledgement gives me the happys. :3
Title: Quotation Styles
Post by: Sunflower on February 23, 2015, 03:45:55 AM
Pro-tips for information compilers:

Try not to nest quotes inside quotes here.  Our all-wise Tech Admin says that's bad for the Forum, in ways I don't quite understand.

If you're quoting multiple people from within the Forum, you should use multiple sets of [ quote ] and [ / quote ] -- juxtaposed, not nested.

If you're quoting people from Disqus, there aren't set "rules."  My practice has been to render Disqus usernames in Courier and Bold, and further make Our Dear Creator's name maroon.  (Any resemblance to the New Testaments that put the words of Jesus in red is... uh... purely coincidental.)
Title: New Skaldic Mission
Post by: Sunflower on February 23, 2015, 02:00:52 PM
Here's a suggestion for some bold skald(s) with free time:
Collect some of the good comments about the nature of trolls, vaettur, "wights", and traditional Scandinavian beliefs in "the little people" on today's page (#274). 

I think this is a discrete enough subject to warrant its own new topic on the SSSS Board.  If and when we develop some sort of tagging/indexing system, we can then cross-reference and/or group it with the other threads about Troll origins and behavior. 

I can't offer much reward except warm praise, virtual fika (https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/fika/), and the observation that this helps build your post count (if that matters to you).
Title: Re: New Skaldic Mission
Post by: Eris on February 23, 2015, 07:54:36 PM
Here's a suggestion for some bold skald(s) with free time:
Collect some of the good comments about the nature of trolls, vaettur, "wights", and traditional Scandinavian beliefs in "the little people" on today's page (#274). 

I think this is a discrete enough subject to warrant its own new topic on the SSSS Board.  If and when we develop some sort of tagging/indexing system, we can then cross-reference and/or group it with the other threads about Troll origins and behavior. 

I can't offer much reward except warm praise, virtual fika (https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/fika/), and the observation that this helps build your post count (if that matters to you).
I accept your challenge!
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...
...
This is going to be huge and take forever, isn't it?

Regardless, I'll do my best!
Title: Re: New Skaldic Mission
Post by: Sunflower on February 23, 2015, 08:07:17 PM
I accept your challenge!
...
...
This is going to be huge and take forever, isn't it?

Regardless, I'll do my best!

Pff, do what you can in 20 minutes.  You can always come back later -- or better, maybe you'll inspire someone else to pick up where you left off!  I don't want to wear out an eager young recruit in the first mission (as compared to the Sigrun school of rookie training). 
Title: Another Skaldic Mission
Post by: Sunflower on March 04, 2015, 02:28:36 AM
Greetings to anyone interested in being a skald (forum librarian, historian, reporter, clerk).

The Disqus pages are exploding with comments, despite (or maybe because of) the comic being on chapter break.

Would anyone like to try preserving some of its content for posterity?
In particular, I'd like to find the clever scenarios that popped up a few days ago, of what Our Heroes would be doing in our modern world.  (I was tickled by the thought of Emil as a male model turned right-wing politician -- shades of Scott Brown! -- and Sigrun becoming a motorcycle-riding, marathon-running serial entrepreneur with a painfully short attention span.)  I think those would fit best in Scenes We'd Like to See, although some of the longer ones might be good fodder for the Scriptorium.

I also recall interesting discussions about materials science in the Known World and how to synthesize plastic... although after 2,050-plus messages just on the most recent page, I may be hallucinating...

My practice in transferring content is to leave a Disqus reply to the poster (or the first in a discussion thread) requesting their OK to move the content -- or, hopefully, motivate them to do it themselves.  If you don't see any protests after 24 hours, you can assume it's OK to move. 

I have my own typographical style of reproducing Disqus conversations -- example (http://ssssforum.pcriot.com/index.php?topic=130.msg20390#msg20390).

But you don't have to do it that way.  Eris's method is great too (http://ssssforum.pcriot.com/index.php?topic=312.msg21099#msg21099) (although I suggest slightly shorter posts, just for easy reading).  As long as you're giving credit to the original posters for their humor, insight, and/or creativity. 

Thanks for helping out, and good hunting!


Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: DancingRanger on March 26, 2015, 06:03:49 PM
I'll help out! I have lots of free time and end up reading a lot of the comments ^_^
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Sunflower on March 26, 2015, 06:38:19 PM
I'll help out! I have lots of free time and end up reading a lot of the comments ^_^

My hero! 
Here's a mission, if you choose to accept it:   8)

This past week, as Braidy Reynir has slowly been revealed to us, people have had a lot of entertaining speculations about where he came from and how Our Crew will react to him.  Of course, most of those scenarios have turned out to be invalidated by later events.  (Isn't that what you young folks call "Jossed"?)  But they're still fun reading! 

Would you (or anyone else reading this) like to gather those scenarios?  They could go into "How the team meets Braidy" or "Scenes We'd Like to See."  Criteria:  Not so much accurate predictions (most of those got captured already) as entertainment value.   :D


As a second choice, discussions about Sigrun's leadership style and whether she's nuts or sensible to freak out react the way she does when she discovers "garbage food" and a skinny stowaway instead of the crates of supplies she was expecting.  (You might want to check if some of those were archived already by their authors.)

Those could go into either the Sigrun Character Analysis thread, the newish "Crew Dynamics" thread that LooNEY_DAC started, "Crime and Punishment," or... start a new thread if you see fit!


Third... anything else that catches your eye.  I'm not the final arbiter of worthiness.  If something seems worth keeping to you, then it is.


Go get 'em!
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: DancingRanger on March 26, 2015, 06:59:02 PM
My hero! 
Here's a mission, if you choose to accept it:   8)

This past week, as Braidy Reynir has slowly been revealed to us, people have had a lot of entertaining speculations about where he came from and how Our Crew will react to him.  Of course, most of those scenarios have turned out to be invalidated by later events.  (Isn't that what you young folks call "Jossed"?)  But they're still fun reading! 

Would you (or anyone else reading this) like to gather those scenarios?  They could go into "How the team meets Braidy" or "Scenes We'd Like to See."  Criteria:  Not so much accurate predictions (most of those got captured already) as entertainment value.   :D


As a second choice, discussions about Sigrun's leadership style and whether she's nuts or sensible to freak out react the way she does when she discovers "garbage food" and a skinny stowaway instead of the crates of supplies she was expecting.  (You might want to check if some of those were archived already by their authors.)

Those could go into either the Sigrun Character Analysis thread, the newish "Crew Dynamics" thread that LooNEY_DAC started, "Crime and Punishment," or... start a new thread if you see fit!


Third... anything else that catches your eye.  I'm not the final arbiter of worthiness.  If something seems worth keeping to you, then it is.


Go get 'em!

Aye, Aye, Captian!
Title: Skaldic Mission: Information Preservation
Post by: Sunflower on May 07, 2015, 01:07:43 PM
Greetings, would-be skalds.  Want the chance to venture forth into a strange and ever-changing world full of odd creatures and the occasional troll, to retrieve marvelous treasures for the betterment of the community?

In other words, can I interest you in retrieving comments from recent Disqus pages for the Forum?

Specifically, would anyone like to start compiling the comments from p. 314 about information retrieval and the presumed lifespan of CDs and DVDs?  Very meta, to be sure...

I think this would fit into a new topic all its own, within the SSSS board.  (Though let me search for any "prior art" on this topic.)

Your reward:  My eternal gratitude; higher post counts, helping you towards yet another glittering promotional reception in the Forum Lounge (only virtual cake and coffee at this point, unfortunately); and the possibility that printing out these pages could save civilization in the case of apocalypse.   8)
Title: Google Tips?
Post by: Sunflower on May 11, 2015, 03:44:50 PM
Question for Google experts:

If I want to search for a specific term in the comments on a Disqus page -- say, "kantele" -- is there a way to do that easily? The "Find" function on my browser (Google Chrome) only works down to the point where the page says "Load more comments."  That can get tiresome after the 9th or 10th press of the button...

I ask because it *belatedly* occurs to me that there must be an easier way to retrieve Disqus discussions after they've been buried under literally hundreds of other posts.  I generally remember the key words of the discussion but don't want to have to manually scroll to find it.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: hushpiper on May 11, 2015, 07:58:22 PM
Hmm, well I think disqus uses javascript to load the new comments, so it's probably possible to use a greasemonkey script (or tampermonkey, since you use chrome) to load all the comments at once. Then you could just use the browser's built in search function like you were doing before. Something like this (http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/174606), maybe?

It's certainly possible through the disqus API, but the coding in [insert language here] for such a thing would be beyond me, I fear.

ETA: After testing that script, it looks like it still only loads when you get to the bottom of the page--it just takes away the need to expand comment threads or click the button to load more. So helpful, but not quite as helpful as we'd like. It also needs some patching (https://greasyfork.org/en/forum/discussion/4129/disqus-click-automate-update-request) to work right. I can help you with that if you want to do it.

OTOH, I may be making this too complicated: you can also type "site:sssscomic.com kantele" in google and it'll bring up everything on the entire site containing the word kantele (one result). Google does index disqus comments--but I don't know which pages of the site (and their associated comments) google has indexed or how fast they index it. This also works rather better as a whole-site search rather than searching specific pages. Nevertheless it probably would speed things up considerably.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: kjeks on August 12, 2015, 02:35:06 PM
For those wishing to apply as skalds/ already started on skalding there is some link ressources which might help you.
 (yes, I am aware that our dearest Sunflower does NOT need these links but our new skald appreciated them ;) ).


Note: these are for Simple Machines boards in general, there might be tiny differences in here.
Also please keep track of post made by Sunflower earlier in this topic.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: ParanormalAndroid on August 12, 2015, 02:47:13 PM
Considering as I don't contribute all that much in any of the threads due to having no talent in art or writing (besides cynicism and semi-useful advice, that is), I'd be happy to help out with skalding if you'd have me; I might actually be able to do something instead of just commenting on how great everyone else's work is (please note that in no way will I stop doing that).
If I am needed, what're the most intensive tasks right now?
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Sunflower on August 12, 2015, 06:16:36 PM
Considering as I don't contribute all that much in any of the threads due to having no talent in art or writing (besides cynicism and semi-useful advice, that is), I'd be happy to help out with skalding if you'd have me; I might actually be able to do something instead of just commenting on how great everyone else's work is (please note that in no way will I stop doing that).
If I am needed, what're the most intensive tasks right now?

Hi, Para.  Thanks so much for the offer!  Sorry for the delay in replying -- I was away from my computer the last several hours.

Let me put in some thought re: specific projects (and not being redundant on what Viola is doing) and get back to you.  In the meantime, you can always ferry comments from Disqus if any discussions from the last couple of weeks were on subjects that interest you. 

Thanks again for offering!  I hope it'll inspire others to follow suit. 
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: ParanormalAndroid on August 12, 2015, 06:19:35 PM
Hi, Para.  Thanks so much for the offer!  Sorry for the delay in replying -- I was away from my computer the last several hours.

Let me put in some thought re: specific projects (and not being redundant on what Viola is doing) and get back to you.  In the meantime, you can always ferry comments from Disqus if any discussions from the last couple of weeks were on subjects that interest you. 

Thanks again for offering!  I hope it'll inspire others to follow suit.
No worries about the delay- about projects, I was talking to Vi as her power cut out, so I've not got anything useful yet.
I'll be sure to keep an eye on Disqus if that's what's needed.
And don't thank me for volunteering, I should be thanking you for all the hard work you do for this community!
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on August 12, 2015, 07:11:11 PM
No worries about the delay- about projects, I was talking to Vi as her power cut out, so I've not got anything useful yet.
I'll be sure to keep an eye on Disqus if that's what's needed.
And don't thank me for volunteering, I should be thanking you for all the hard work you do for this community!

I do have an idea or two for you, and as soon as I have power again and can use my computer I will let you know what that is.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: ParanormalAndroid on August 12, 2015, 07:17:11 PM
I do have an idea or two for you, and as soon as I have power again and can use my computer I will let you know what that is.
Good, glad I can be of help!
(and, uh, I wasn't being passive-aggressive in my last comment although in retrospect it sounded it- just saying that it was a case of Sod's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod%27s_law))
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Eriaror on September 29, 2015, 03:24:28 PM
I'm glad to announce that Para is officially a Skald now! Welcome to the team! (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=487.msg69453#msg69453) :)
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on July 02, 2021, 11:50:28 AM
Hello! It has come time for us to recruit some temporary skalds to help out for the site restructuring. You will be given teaching on how to skald, don't worry.

Responsibilities include:
- splitting and merging threads
- sorting through the archive to determine where threads should be moved
- sorting through current threads and moving them
- general organization and clean up of the forum

Once the restructuring is complete, your account will return back to normal, and you will recieve a small badge on your profile that indicates that you helped restructure the site.

If you want to participate, just reply here with your interest. We will contact you when we're ready to begin.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: JoB on July 04, 2021, 03:52:39 AM
Responsibilities include:
- sorting through the archive to determine where threads should be moved
I note a certain difference between your description (which stresses that applicants should be well able to grasp the semantics of thread topics and existing posts so as to be able to properly (re)align them) and Jitters announcement (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=1176.msg183243#msg183243) (which has a more technical slant) ... since I'm rather often not seeing eye to eye with other forum members WRT text interpretation, how much need for the illegitimate child of Scotty and Spock off the latter end of the spectrum would you actually have?
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Jitter on July 04, 2021, 09:10:55 AM
Well, you are right that it will only be helpful if the people helping move the threads into correct locations. Most of that is however likely to be very clear cut, or we can agree on a clear mission such as “go and find all poetry threads in the archive and move them to creative archive”.

And in cases when a judgment needs to be made, no one needs to make it alone - none of this is in a huge hurry, so any thread can be risen for discussion as to where it should go. Instructions as to how or where such discussions should be had will be provided to all participants.

There will also be a General area for stuff that does not go under any of the new boards.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on July 05, 2021, 12:55:11 AM
Pretty much what Jitter said.

Some stuff will be harder to sort, but a lot of it is fairly obvious. The more nitty gritty and technicalities can be left to the end and it's totally fine to ask questions as we go. Worst case something gets moved somewhere and then later we decide to move it somewhere else. No one is going to be deleting things so we shouldn't have any permenant problems.

Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: catbirds on July 09, 2021, 11:48:31 PM
Hi, I'm interested in helping with reorganizing/restructuring the forum! I have a lot of free time the next two months, though if you know approximately how much time it'd take per day or per week, that'd be helpful too.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Keep Looking on July 10, 2021, 01:39:04 AM
Hi, I'm interested in helping with reorganizing/restructuring the forum! I have a lot of free time the next two months, though if you know approximately how much time it'd take per day or per week, that'd be helpful too.

We're not working under a strict time limit, so there's no strict quota of commitment. I'd say once you've learned the necessary skills, taking just a half hour or more every few days to sort things and move threads would be a big help in progressing towards the new site layout, especially if there are several people working on it. Of course if you have more time, then feel free to help out more!
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: JoB on July 11, 2021, 09:30:31 AM
I'd say once you've learned the necessary skills, taking just a half hour or more every few days to sort things and move threads would be a big help
[translates that to "2+h on the weekend, should work eat your time during the week"]
Sounds doable, so consider my hand raised as well.

[fully expects a Big Fi Scenario (http://missmab.com/Comics/FMFA.png) any second now]
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on July 11, 2021, 10:51:17 AM
Lovely!

@JoB and @catbirds do either of you have experience with splitting and merging threads? We can do a quick training and overview on tuesday or wednesday evening (north america afternoon, europe evening). Right now we're thinking to move the boards around on wednesday (around europe afternoon time, north america morning). We can also do the training thursday or friday as well. If you're both comfortable with splitting and merging threads already then it's not mandatory, it's mostly just to make sure everyone is comfortable.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: JoB on July 11, 2021, 12:24:00 PM
@JoB and @catbirds do either of you have experience with splitting and merging threads?
None whatsoever on my side ...

We can do a quick training and overview on tuesday or wednesday evening (north america afternoon, europe evening). [...] We can also do the training thursday or friday as well.
Not much of a preference there, "maybe better not Tuesday" at most, but how exactly is that training's going to be held? This upcoming week, I'll be at our offices (rather than in the home office), staying at a hotel (no reliable Internet) for the nights and having only the work equipment at hand (Linux laptop, strict Zoom interdiction, etc.) ...

(Is this a bad time to mention that I'm Linux-only medium-bandwidth DSL at home as well, though Teams works OK unless 5+ participants send video ... ?)

Right now we're thinking to move the boards around on wednesday (around europe afternoon time, north america morning).
(So the new topics hierarchy is already pinpointed? Must've missed that ...)
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: JoB on July 11, 2021, 01:02:58 PM
P.S.: Should I join the remaining group(s) in preparation for it all?
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: catbirds on July 11, 2021, 11:57:42 PM
Violas, any of the times you listed works except Friday, so whenever JoB is available. I have a pretty crummy laptop too but I can use discord or zoom or IRC or whatever else reliably.

...can't say I'm familiar with Teams, though, but if it's user-friendly then I can just sign up and all that.

I usually learn these sorts of things pretty quickly, so I'm not worried about it taking 2+ hours or anything!
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on July 12, 2021, 09:06:22 AM
Ok, so potentially wednesday. I've been thinking though and talking to thegreyarea about the document they're creating. We might give you the document and see how that goes, and then if you have any questions we can maybe set up a meeting to clarify or if you're worried and want something demonstrated. Simply because of scheduling and tech. But we can still meet if there are issues or if the document isn't enough.

For those of you who might have discord, if you'd like to message me my user ID is feartheviolas#6094.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: catbirds on July 13, 2021, 01:58:57 AM
Yeah, that makes sense. The general task seems simple and I'm hoping it'll be intuitive which sections everything goes into when the new boards are made :> (though that might end up being the most confusing part)
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on July 14, 2021, 11:00:54 AM
Now that the boards have been created, let the skalding begin!

Here (https://we.tl/t-AIUAx9gap2) is an amazing document that @thegreyarea made to help explain skalding. The most important section is about moving topics. The other potentially relevant threads are around merging and splitting topics (although splitting shouldn't be too much of an issue, just merge anything that shows up more than once). If you have any questions, just ask here and someone will get to you asap.

KeepLooking and I have sorted a few posts so that you have some examples of things that would go in each of the boards. The main board that will need to be sorted is the general board. A lot of the content there will go into the new creative boards or the new story discussion boards.

The other big thing that needs to be sorted is the archive section. There are several different new subarchives to sort it into, every single thread in the main archive should be in a child board. The main archive (forum memories) section should only be for the explanation about the archive and requests to find or unarchive things. Otherwise it should all be in the child boards. The troubleshooting archive is underneath website discussion because it is visible to guests while the rest of the archives are not. For now, put archived SSSS related roleplay in the SSSS archive.

Aside from archive and general, the other boards don't need to be sorted at this point.

Important: do not unarchive threads without admin permission, some of these threads need to be invisible to guests for privacy reasons. The same goes for moving anything in the politics, personal, or mature content board. Nothing here should have to be moved, but if you do feel something there should be moved, ask an admin first because those boards are protected from being seen by guests.

Thank you so much for volunteering to help. Your skald status should be active. If you have any problems or any questions about where something should go just feel free to ask!
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Jitter on July 14, 2021, 06:08:10 PM
I have a suggestion: don’t make the “thread has been moved” notifications on threads that were already archived, when moving them to the sub-archives. There are so many, it will clog everything. Just uncheck the box about the notification post.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: thegreyarea on July 14, 2021, 07:30:22 PM
I fully agree. Archived topics don't need the warning post.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: catbirds on July 15, 2021, 12:39:34 AM
Oh yeah that's definitely better. I was starting to wonder what we'd do with all the leftover threads because of that, thanks Jitter!

Thanks for the document too, Grey. It's very helpful :)

EDIT: I tried my hand at sorting some of them, most are in general/roleplay/SSSS & ARTD, but let me know if there are any major issues with the way I sorted them! The moving doesn't take too long, but the decision-making is a liiiittle tricky.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: Jitter on July 15, 2021, 04:43:21 AM
Sorting the archive is a liiitle time consuming also because when I take a peek to see what a topic is actually all about, I get sucked in to read it :tuuri:

(https://40.media.tumblr.com/be0e1d04ef09ea6d13dbff70e7d0744c/tumblr_inline_nlhgjuuVpW1r2g2kx_500.png)

Catbirds, we’ll delete the “has been moved” notifications after a period, now they are useful to alert currently active users to paying attention to the new boards, but after a while returning users should expect that some changes may have taken place anyways so the alerts won’t be needed. Furthermore the new structure hopefully makes it easy to find what one is looking for.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: thegreyarea on July 15, 2021, 05:05:14 AM
Sorting the archive is a liiitle time consuming also because when I take a peek to see what a topic is actually all about, I get sucked in to read it :tuuri:
I know, I know... I see exactly what you mean!

Anyway I'm quite happy with the way this is going! (I'm aware that I already said that, but I can't help it!) :)
Right now we're more on "reorganizing the archive" than "reorganizing the Forum", and the archive really needed some dusting, which, without surprise, makes one rediscover interesting things. :) We should consider if some topics should be unarchived, not now but after the reorganizing is complete, because at least a few that I've checked contain excellent ideas.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: JoB on July 15, 2021, 07:37:08 AM
I have a suggestion: don’t make the “thread has been moved” notifications on threads that were already archived, when moving them to the sub-archives.
I was about to suggest that, if the objective is to get the top archiving board empty (except subboards and a couple meta threads), leaving "been moved" stubs in it is counterproductive. :3

Do I understand correctly, however, that we are planning to leave a noteworthy number of "doesn't fit into the subs" threads in the "General" board? If so, it would be nice to have some way of marking a thread as "already inspected and earmarked to stay here". Thread(starter) icon and the "pinned" or "locked" flags are IMHO unsuitable for that (because already in use), and putting threads into a temp subboard and shoving them back later would be a 2nd-rate choice, due to the extra work. Is there a technical possibility to do that? (And would leaving "moved" stubs there be desirable?)

Due warning: I'm currently at work(place) for the week and force majeure (https://warnung.bund.de/meldung/mow.DE-NW-BM-SE042-20210715-42-002/Hochwasser_%2F_%C3%9Cberflutung_in_%5BOrtsangabe%5D/) has come to my 'hood, so I might not be able to get my skald hat seriously on this upcoming weekend yet. :-\
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on July 15, 2021, 10:13:12 PM
For the archives, we can just delete the "moved" notices. I've been mass moving some things there without creating the "moved" notice.

There are some topics I've been unarchiving esp for the new more general boards to hopefully generate some convo. That is 100% a possibility. If there are any just make a list to let me or @Keep Looking double check to make sure that sensitive threads stay for members only.
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: catbirds on July 17, 2021, 08:12:59 PM
I didn't realize there was an option to remove the notice the first time, but I think I've unchecked it every time since. Oops...

Some things in the archives are now either covered in the general discussion thread or otherwise discussed in broader threads, so the archive seems like it's enough for now. Most are just fun one-off discussions :)

It also kind of feels like I'm going through a bit of History despite this forum not really being That old, but y'know, seeing what people were chatting about back in, say, 2014 is pretty fun. Also seeing old predictions for SSSS ;D
Title: Re: Recruiting Skalds
Post by: viola on July 22, 2021, 09:13:55 AM
It also kind of feels like I'm going through a bit of History despite this forum not really being That old, but y'know, seeing what people were chatting about back in, say, 2014 is pretty fun. Also seeing old predictions for SSSS ;D

This was a lot of fun, I've been going through some of my old posts as well and it was so much fun to go back and see some of the things that happened and what people were talking about. Also laughing at me from 6 years ago. I can't believe it's been that long :o

It looks like most things have been moved now, so we are going to return you to your original accounts, but I'm going to give each of you a little title as a thank you for helping. I really appreciate your work, thank you both for volunteering.  <3