This forum is now for plots & places, too!

[Piratecat]

It was nice while it lasted... a forum of creativity without all of the other discussion drowning it. General Discussion is so busy that it pushes interesting Plots and Places threads down very fast, as those sorts of threads tend not to get many - or continuous - posts. One could quickly scan many interesting content posts in the old forum, and you didn't have to drop in twice a day to catch them before they flew by.

As woeful and passive aggressive as that sounds, try clicking on one of the "Plots & Places" icons. Voila! You have a virtual forum of only plots and places, just like before, only now about 10x more people get to see your thread.

For an example, click here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/search.php?searchid=223863

 

[Maldin]

wow, some good thread necromancy here in raising this from the dead...

Thanks. The forum existed until very recently when Enworld underwent its latest reorganization, and I was a very frequent reader. Even had a few threads of my own in it, such as my Greyhawk's Underdark thread. When I tried finding some of those old threads, and couldn't any longer, I went looking for this thread specifically. As old as it is, it was the announcement thread stickied at the top of the old forum, and thought it was the most appropriate to comment on.

As woeful and passive aggressive as that sounds, try clicking on one of the "Plots & Places" icons. Voila! You have a virtual forum of only plots and places, just like before, only now about 10x more people get to see your thread.

Hey PC. I didn't think I was being passive-aggressive. Yes, I have used the icons, and do find them a useful new addition to Enworld (and was also expecting someone to point it out here in response). However labelling a thread as Plots and Places precludes other "prefixes". If there was still a separate forum, one could then use that label for something more specific (such as "Greyhawk", "AD&D 2E", "Cartography and Maps", or any of the other "prefixes"). It also doesn't help in finding the old threads from the old forum. Is there a way of adding a prefix to an old thread so that it now will appear when someone clicks "Plots and Places"? Or can that only be selected on new threads?

After all, you were the one who created the original Plots and Places forum, PC!

Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Loads of edition-independent Greyhawk goodness... maps, magic, mysteries, mechanics, and more! (including lots of plots and places)

 

[Umbran]

After all, you were the one who created the original Plots and Places forum, PC!

Yes. And he was also the one who recently realized that it was getting absolutely crap for traffic these days. Bemoan the lack of a home all you want - very few folks were visiting it.

 

[Piratecat]

Maldin, I've edited your status.

Umbran's touched on the problem. Sub-forums only should exist for topics that get so much traffic they choke General (the Industry forum), or topics that are virtually static and require occasional consulting (the Rogues Gallery forum.) Plots & Places is neither. It benefits from lots of eyes on it. It's certainly a tradeoff, and not a perfect one, but i'm happier having such threads in General where they benefit from having more people see them. The churn is the tradeoff for this. We don't worry too much about substantive bumps.

 

[Maldin]

Maldin, I've edited your status.

ROFL!!!

Denis, aka "Maldin"

 

[Umbran]

Is there a way of adding a prefix to an old thread so that it now will appear when someone clicks "Plots and Places"?

Yes. The OP in a thread can edit the first post to have a prefix, or a mod/admin can do so. But, we have to know about it to do that - if you see such a thread, you can ping the OP, or report the first post (note specifically that you just think it ought to have a prefix).

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Maldin, I've edited your status.

Yes, but because of Hiesenberg you can only know one OR the other....

The Auld Grump, who is both a wave and a particle....

 

[Maldin]

Thanks Umbran. I successfully edited my old Plots and Places thread and gave it a prefix. Eventually there will be substantive bumps as that project continues to progress.

I guess, being both a plot AND a place, I have something in common with Watergate, of all things. Who'da thunk it? I'll attempt to revel in my duality, as The Auld Grump does, while keeping the multiple personality problems to a minimum.

Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com