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Serack:
Some newish thoughts. If this idea were to come about, there are many popular theories and topics that have been discussed multiple times, and actually some of the best discussions have probably decayed and are gone.
I can forsee a flurry of new activity in the spoilers section where new topics are started dedicated to different posters trying to come up with their best version (both in supporting evidence, and in formatting) of various popular theories like "Simon is Cowl" and various versions of "X fixed LC"
Also, I know I am not the only person that archived some of their favorite posts before they got eaten by the autodelete monster (Although my hiatus for the back half of last year saw several of my favorites get consumed before I took the trouble :(), and those people might dredge up those old posts for revival too.
One other thing. This process might help shine a light on the members that show the most enthusiasm and proclavity for building well communicated, supported, and formatted theories. As such this might help determine who could be the best nominees for "Curators."
knnn:
--- Quote from: Serack on May 03, 2012, 08:05:53 PM ---Some newish thoughts. If this idea were to come about, there are many popular theories and topics that have been discussed multiple times, and actually some of the best discussions have probably decayed and are gone.
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Indeed! I personally lament not archiving some of the stuff I saw on forums years ago - being able to preserve future topics would be awesome.
A side thought -- does Fred perhaps have stale copies of the forum (say from 3 years ago) backuped to a hard-drive somewhere? If such a thing existed, I would be willing overjoyed to comb through it for old posts/Jim quotes, etc. and disseminate the information. I could probably also try to find a way to host it (with all the threads locked), or else a way to allow others to make their own local copies.
--- Quote from: Serack on May 03, 2012, 08:05:53 PM ---I can forsee a flurry of new activity in the spoilers section where new topics are started dedicated to different posters trying to come up with their best version (both in supporting evidence, and in formatting) of various popular theories like "Simon is Cowl" and various versions of "X fixed LC"
Also, I know I am not the only person that archived some of their favorite posts before they got eaten by the autodelete monster (Although my hiatus for the back half of last year saw several of my favorites get consumed before I took the trouble :(), and those people might dredge up those old posts for revival too.
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{raises hand} I resemble that remark. ;)
--- Quote from: Serack on May 03, 2012, 08:05:53 PM ---One other thing. This process might help shine a light on the members that show the most enthusiasm and proclavity for building well communicated, supported, and formatted theories. As such this might help determine who could be the best nominees for "Curators."
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Interesting idea. The only problem I foresee with this is kind of thing is that it looks like you need the child board (and the curators to run it) in order to run this type of competition in the first place. At the very least, you'd need someone to score the various submissions.
One possible way to organize would be as follows:
1) Open up a new child board to everyone on a trial basis for an entire month.
2) Let anyone submit a theory/list/resource. It must be well described, researched, readable, etc.
3) The only type of response allowed to such a thread would be a post with an alternative, complete re-write of the entire theory. Anything less would not be considered.
4) After the month trial period, someone (by vote, moderators, whatever) decides who gets to be a Curator.
- Obviously this is a lot of work so maybe one could make things simpler by just creating a thread for nominating existing posts/threads/users, or maybe by limiting the amount of posting in the new board to 3-5 submissions per person during the trial run.
Serack:
--- Quote from: knnn on May 04, 2012, 02:42:42 AM ---Interesting idea. The only problem I foresee with this is kind of thing is that it looks like you need the child board (and the curators to run it) in order to run this type of competition in the first place. At the very least, you'd need someone to score the various submissions.
One possible way to organize would be as follows:
1) Open up a new child board to everyone on a trial basis for an entire month.
2) Let anyone submit a theory/list/resource. It must be well described, researched, readable, etc.
3) The only type of response allowed to such a thread would be a post with an alternative, complete re-write of the entire theory. Anything less would not be considered.
4) After the month trial period, someone (by vote, moderators, whatever) decides who gets to be a Curator.
- Obviously this is a lot of work so maybe one could make things simpler by just creating a thread for nominating existing posts/threads/users, or maybe by limiting the amount of posting in the new board to 3-5 submissions per person during the trial run.
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The issue with this is that the administration seems to be genuinely and justifiably concerned that an open reference forum would overshadow/redundify the other discussion boards.
Most of those functions can be accomidated by the present spoilers section. Also, since the spoilers section is for discussion and because of how so many of these discussions go for reference like threads and good theories, several of the responses will inevitably be good suggestions for editing rather than complete reworks. Which makes complete sense, because if someone can think of a minor suggestion, why should they have to submit an entire new version to bring it up?
Priscellie:
Maybe we could have a rule where members can't do a write-up of a thread/theory/whatevs less than a month old, to force the actual discussion and development of those ideas to stay in the Spoliers/Books sections?
Serack:
--- Quote from: Priscellie on May 04, 2012, 02:41:54 PM ---Maybe we could have a rule where members can't do a write-up of a thread/theory/whatevs less than a month old, to force the actual discussion and development of those ideas to stay in the Spoliers/Books sections?
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However, a good theory is one that people will want to contribute to and discuss. I can see the case for board antiredundancy. And someone might write a theory addressing who fixed LC from an overarching perspective, while someone else wants to post a more narrow Doylist analysis of the timeline. Two threads on LC in one month... Who decides that they are diverse enough to be allowed to be posted in the same month? I agree the earlier suggestions of letting them undergo discussion and mature in the spoilers section, then if they are demed to have enough gravity, port them over to behind the glass.
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