Planning forum suggestion

Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5141 Location: Oklahoma

Pops, Skyemoor, and others who are interested:

I thought of a way we might resolve the planning archiving/organization issue without having all the threads continuously at the top. We could have one sticky Archive post, and link to all those other threads there. That way they wouldn't bump other new topics off the front page unless they were actively being posted to, but they would always be very easy to find.

What do you think?
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Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5141 Location: Oklahoma

I'll volunteer myself to make the Archive post with all those links, if people think it's a good idea.
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skyemoor · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject: Re: Planning forum suggestion

Interesting idea. We could even add others over time (such as the Composting thread and others to follow). We would need to name it something descriptive, such as "Shortcuts to important subject threads" or the like.

However, this doesn't address the compilation of information into a brief, such as Pops was interested in. Nonetheless, it seems that there is support from the readership to get away from having subject threads at the beginning of the PFTF subforum.
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Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5141 Location: Oklahoma

Yeah, it would need a good title. I figured it would serve the same purpose as the prioritized threads, but would keep the front page open and be easier to edit. We could just edit the post as needed, rather than re-prioritizing all the threads to keep them in alphabetical order.

Agree about the condensed archive Pops was interested in, but that's sort of a different subject. I could possibly make a text file of all those threads and link to it. That would take a while but I would be willing to do that as well. Editing out the chaff, though, is probably beyond my time and patience resources at the moment.
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Pops · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Planning forum suggestion

Jeez, my time lag in responding just goes to show you how much I read the stuck threads!

Anyway, I think your idea is great Shanny, disregard my lack of a response till now.

I appreciate you volunteering to build the “directory” thread. I guess you know how to stick it at the top and unstick the others. Perhaps when you are done a post to the New Forum Layout thread is in order or even deleting the entire thing to be replaced with the directory.

And Sky is right about the condensation, it seems a little beyond our means at this point. A few of us merging up abandoned threads a few months old to the appropriate directory linked threads might be the best we can hope.
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Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5141 Location: Oklahoma

Okey dokey, I'll do that over the next day or two. Smile

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pitbull · Tar Sands Joined: May 16, 2007 Posts: 20

Here's a random idea I just had while reading this.. How about posting the thread into some sort of wiki where everyone could edit and refine the information shared there? Or is there too many opposing views for that to be sucessful?

Shannymara · Master Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 5141 Location: Oklahoma

skyemoor · Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:38 am Post subject: Re: Planning forum suggestion

Overall, that would IMO provide the most concise way of capturing the vast multitude of information fragments throughout the threads (except perhaps for a easy to print .pdf).

Would you like to pick a topic and start us out?
http://www.peakoil.com/wiki/index.php/Mitigation_of_Peak_Oil
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pitbull · Tar Sands Joined: May 16, 2007 Posts: 20

I knew about the wiki, but what I meant was post the threads into it or something where everyone could moderate the (old) discussions and boil down the chatter into useful, more easy to follow stuff.. It would need to be "browseable" not just searchable, if you know what I mean.