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H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Sat, Jul 12, 2003 11:41 PM On 2003-07-12 21:30, Doctor Z wrote: separating "Collecting Tiki" into two different forums: 'Collecting', which would showcase collections, finds, carvings/paintings, home bars, etc., and 'Selling', which would be basically things such as currently running eBay auctions, personal advertisements and "Hey, I found a cool site that sells____"-type posts. Yeah, I've looked into this, but I don't think wev'e got a problem in Collecting Tiki right now. The first page's LAST post is from 12 days ago, so even if you only frequent Tiki Central on the weekends,there will only be a half-page of new/updated topics to browse. And we have eBay posts flagged now with the eBay: prefix, so it's easy to spot those, and there's only 7 on the main page. So I don't think the Collecting forum is getting clogged right now (although I'm not a hardcore collector). I'm also worried that a ForSale section would kind of open the doors to more off-topic spam and plugs, although I'm not sure. I've never set a policy on non-eBay sale announcements, but in theroy, legit ads for stores and websites that sell Tiki Stuff would require payment (advertising, basically). I haven't decided on how to handle that though. But I don't want a forum for it. About the "Best Of Tiki Central" - how do you define a "great post"? That's why I haven't implemented this yet. The effecient way is to base it on votes. Allow members to vote on a topic and if it gets enough votes, it would go into the "best of" section. Voting would be done while reading topcics... there would be vote buttons on the page of everyt topic, so it wouldn't require much extra on member's parts. But this requires some programming. The other way is to just have someone in charge of it. There are lots of great posts that people remember on topics and they could be collected onto a page manually. But I don't have the bandwidth to do that. In that case, "Best of" would be determined by a moderator, but with suggestions (in the form of an email?) from everyone. Man, someday I'm just going to have to write my own web forum from scratch that does all this. :lol: ~Hanford

On 2003-07-12 21:30, Doctor Z wrote:
separating "Collecting Tiki" into two different forums: 'Collecting', which would showcase collections, finds, carvings/paintings, home bars, etc., and 'Selling', which would be basically things such as currently running eBay auctions, personal advertisements and "Hey, I found a cool site that sells____"-type posts.

Yeah, I've looked into this, but I don't think wev'e got a problem in Collecting Tiki right now. The first page's LAST post is from 12 days ago, so even if you only frequent Tiki Central on the weekends,there will only be a half-page of new/updated topics to browse.

And we have eBay posts flagged now with the eBay: prefix, so it's easy to spot those, and there's only 7 on the main page. So I don't think the Collecting forum is getting clogged right now (although I'm not a hardcore collector).

I'm also worried that a ForSale section would kind of open the doors to more off-topic spam and plugs, although I'm not sure. I've never set a policy on non-eBay sale announcements, but in theroy, legit ads for stores and websites that sell Tiki Stuff would require payment (advertising, basically). I haven't decided on how to handle that though. But I don't want a forum for it.

About the "Best Of Tiki Central" - how do you define a "great post"?

That's why I haven't implemented this yet. The effecient way is to base it on votes. Allow members to vote on a topic and if it gets enough votes, it would go into the "best of" section. Voting would be done while reading topcics... there would be vote buttons on the page of everyt topic, so it wouldn't require much extra on member's parts. But this requires some programming.

The other way is to just have someone in charge of it. There are lots of great posts that people remember on topics and they could be collected onto a page manually. But I don't have the bandwidth to do that. In that case, "Best of" would be determined by a moderator, but with suggestions (in the form of an email?) from everyone.

Man, someday I'm just going to have to write my own web forum from scratch that does all this. :lol:

~Hanford

Post #42780 by hanford_lemoore on Sat, Jul 12, 2003 11:41 PM