Board management suggestions

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Ocean_Islands

Saturday, October 07, 2000 - 05:15 am Click here to edit this post
There are too many posting areas, its getting a bit confusing. Because the way the game is designed, you have to click an extra time or two to get into discussion. So for that reason, having fewer discussion areas within the main area would be better.

There's not much reason to split everything off, is there (except for filing purposes)?

Ocean_Islands

Saturday, October 07, 2000 - 06:53 am Click here to edit this post
There are also some confusing titles. "Playroom" is unclear and confusing. You've got to make a clear distinction between the players and the spectators.

How about "The Gameroom -- Spectators: Eavesdrop on the Players here" [read-only area]

And then for the discussion area: "Spectators: Discuss, Analyze, Critique the Game here" [post comments here]

Nybob99

Saturday, October 07, 2000 - 07:07 pm Click here to edit this post
There is a timeline problem for me, with all the different rooms it is hard to sequence the conversations.
I think the threads should be grouped in periods of time and the rooms maybe should be stated by the poster.

Host

Saturday, October 07, 2000 - 08:29 pm Click here to edit this post
The rooms have been moved into The Virtual House, and the general discussion topics, including official topics, have been left in General Discussions.

Ocean_Islands

Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 04:59 am Click here to edit this post
That's a great solution -- it actually makes it easier to read and to 'get a hold' on it. Let's hope they stick to it.

I'm wondering if it might serve to post the thread "What is the Game? (rules)" to the main discussion board for the spectators.

Ocean_Islands

Wednesday, October 11, 2000 - 07:06 pm Click here to edit this post
Ten people have now posted more times than the thousands who are visiting the site to see what they are up to.

This demonstrates that posting for visitors is too difficult. Is there anything that can be done about this?

Host

Wednesday, October 11, 2000 - 07:11 pm Click here to edit this post
We are unsure what you mean?

Ocean_Islands

Wednesday, October 11, 2000 - 07:18 pm Click here to edit this post
The game players have posted more messages than the spectators have. But there are only ten players and thousands of spectators. I think this shows that there is a problem, don't you?

The board is too difficult to navigate for visiting spectators.

What about some icons? Or some links from the playroom to posting areas for spectators? I don't know. Sometimes I feel the players are chatting away in an empty auditorium. I know that's not true, but from the frequency of spectator postings, it sometimes seems as if it is.

Katie

Thursday, October 12, 2000 - 07:36 pm Click here to edit this post
I think there are a lot of people who just go to chat to discuss the game instead of posting.

Digilady

Thursday, October 12, 2000 - 09:57 pm Click here to edit this post
Katie: that would be moi! Guilty as charged. Host said sooner or later he would enable chat captures. That happens, I promise I will publish (the decent parts) of them.

(Sh1t, might wind up 2 words or less!) LOL