If you like you can post the mp3 here:Cardinal wrote:DVD, considering what was said indirectly about you last night I'd hold off on any compliments. A couple of eplayans seem to have the admin team's wrath and you are on the top of the list. If you don't believe that, wait for the mp3 of the meeting to come out.
I wonder how well we do serve the needs of the 7000. Obviously there is a "core group" here who serve as the basis of a community--centered perhaps on the "bar thread" but who will roam all over the eplaya. Does admin have any sence of how much those people who seldom or never post publically pm each other? because that's a whole level of communication that is important but is completely invisible to me. And how well do we manage that other function of answering questions of newbies (to the playa or the eplaya) and making them fell welcome?Cardinal wrote:I find it strange that this person wants to take a board serving 7000+ people and reshape it to better serve 25 users from an another board. It doesn't make much sense no matter how good their advice was.
A quick look at the stats shows 166 persons with 100 or more posts.Rian Jackson wrote:and all of those 7000 are contributing really actively here? i don't think so.
many of the 3playans made massive contributions here.
just sayin.'
a lot of that is because new people with questions make new threads without reading the old ones.Cardinal wrote:I don't know why I'm wading into this. All I want is to see the threads cleaned up. I came on here looking for information about the event and what it takes to attend but finding that information is difficult to sometimes impossible.
I think ideally the board would provide answers to questions posed often by firs time attendees. Ideally these would be consolidated into a FAQ of sorts for those queries that are just repeat questions. One of the other discussions noted at the meeting Tuesday is that no real mission statement has ever been put forth regarding the board. The simple questions of 'why is this here?', 'what is its purpose?', 'what do we (the project) intend to provide with this service?' have never been fully articulated. In a way it seems to want to be all things to all people and clearly that currently isn't the case. Other discussions included the point that this is a BBS that tries to function as a chat board. With one or two exceptions (The Bar for instance) it ain't all that great for serving that function. Also interesting input from one of Spanky's buds who had his own take on the 'plonk' feature and some of the disadvantages related to it.I'm not sure that eplaya is supposed to offer information about the event. Maybe that's what hte main site is for. That being said, it does offer a place to ask questions about what is posted on the main site and get answers of varying degrees (useful to wiseass to crap) of relavence.
Not really. To discuss you would have been inappropriate especially given that you weren't in attendance to defend yourself. What was discussed were your *actions upon your initial arrival to the eplaya and how they played into (but were not cause of) the large scale exodus of folks who went on to incorporate over on the 3playa. That discussion was germane to the background history that was discussed at the beginning of the meeting and I (and others) brought it up as necessary to the discussion. I'll also note that for the benefit of the new folks attending the meeting that I prefaced my remarks by stating that it was my opinion and that I was telling ithrough the lens of my personal bias.Mostly Badger disscussing me and Spanky apologizing too much
You are entitled to your opinion.Isotopia wrote: *appx 1500 posts to the e-playa in the course of a one month period (appx.) which wreaked havoc on the board to the point that people were leaving in droves. The cadence of regular discussions were so interrupted and tripped up with meaningless banter and self-indulgent, totally off-topic posts that people who'd been posting for years left never to return.
As is everyone.You are entitled to your opinion.
I'll take some of that action.I'll still bet, no matter what ever is done with eplaya you will still either not be happy or ETF will implement /follow your lead to make eplaya in the end, as popular as the idea of Trey's being mayor.
Was. key word is was.stuart wrote:wasn't trey the mayor of the largest village at burning man?
I'm not so sure he'd want the job.Rian Jackson wrote:I think i'd like it if trey was major, but i think any attempt for me to institute him would constitute voter fraud.
It would be nice to get a grip on the actual amout of users, use this board and what are the actual statistics.sparkletarte wrote:I really like the eplaya just the way it is- the colours, the fonts, the way messages are displayed and organized, the way the pm's work. This is the best functioning message board I have ever used- not that I am a message board fiend or anything, just sayin'.
I like it so much that I'm making a message board using phpbb for my business.
