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10-21-2009, 10:38 AM
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| Eclectic Randomness    
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Business: Eclectic Randomness  | Blog Bot I'd like to make a suggestion regarding Blog Bot. I like Blog Bot, and we've had him for quite some time now, and I've noticed two things:
It's just getting mighty annoying to follow two threads on the same subject every time LL opens it's yap and changes the game. We all want to react and comment, but this dual post phenomenon is getting tired. Shunting the SL Blog posts into General SL Discussion would help, I think, lessen the number of duplicated threads. LL Enacting 3rd Party Viewer Policy vs http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/new...ird-party.html Philip "Leaving" the LAB vs http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/new...t-chapter.html
__________________  Inworld Store: http://slurl.eclectic-randomness.com Website: http://www.eclectic-randomness.com Twitter: WinterVentura Last edited by Winter Ventura; 10-21-2009 at 10:56 AM. |
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10-21-2009, 10:45 AM
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| is a pussy.  
lickin' ur status
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Or maybe it could be a "redirection thread" in the Blog Bot forum to the thread in General Discussions... either would work.
__________________ "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." "I call it purring, not growling," said Alice. "Call it what you like," said the Cat. | |
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10-21-2009, 11:17 AM
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| Senior Member       SLU Supporter  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Florida
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: 1/2008 | I always manage to miss Blog Bot posts for a couple of reasons. First, I rarely scroll down that far on the page because I don't really view those threads towards the bottom very often. And secondly, for some quirky reason News Feed doesn't equate to Blog Bot in my mind. So I always have a hard time finding it -- especially if someone other than Blog Bot is the last post. |
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10-21-2009, 11:48 AM
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That's the link I use to find everything that's new. If you check that link once a day you won't miss anything. | |
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10-21-2009, 12:00 PM
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| Hive Mind Director  forum overlord  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Miami, FL
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Business: ANOmations Blog Entries: 16 XBOX Leaderboard: 22nd      | I am not sure I want to dump the posts directly into General SL Discussion, even though they are not that frequent - what do you think? I could make it a subforum of General SL discussion. I agree that they need to be made more visible.
__________________ "At least he died doing what he loved most - blogging on the Huffington Post" - 30 Rock
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10-21-2009, 10:31 PM
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| Eclectic Randomness
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Business: Eclectic Randomness | I don't think that the current positioning of the blog bot posts is going to work. It's another layer someone has to poke into to find posts. As has been said here already, the problem isn't people being unable to find the forum on the main page, the problem is that the posts are all "in an envelope" that you have to open to look and see if the post already exists. I think the simplest solution is either to just turn Blog Bot off altogether (which I think is a really BAD idea), make all of blog bot's posts read only (again, what's the point there?).. or just have it dump either ALL of it's messages into SL General Discussion, or at least the ones from the main SL blog. Another idea, which was suggested above, wout be to have Blog Bot post to his own folder, then "move" those threads to General SL discussion. (probably damned difficult to do through automation).. that way blog bot can have all his posts in one place, for easy finding, and they're also put out into the general discussion area. But nesting the folder into the SL GD folder.. I think is just totally the wrong way to go, and makes it harder to find blogbot posts, and more likely that we'll see duplicate threads. It sounds great on paper, but I don't think the current solution will actually work with the way people use the forums. Last edited by Winter Ventura; 10-21-2009 at 10:45 PM. |
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10-21-2009, 11:01 PM
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| Hive Mind Director forum overlord Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Miami, FL
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Business: ANOmations Blog Entries: 16 XBOX Leaderboard: 22nd | Alright, I am going to try an experiment - the official blog and status blog entries are separate feeds. I renamed the forum to SL Status Updates and stuck it in Technical Help. The official blog posts will go into General SL Discussion since there are not that many of them. If it doesn't work out, I'll rethink it, but that seems to be the easiest solution. |
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10-21-2009, 11:05 PM
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| she, not he! SLU Supporter 
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: 5/21/2006 | Well heck, I feel all guilty now as I have already ignored poor Blog Bot myself a couple of times now. I'll try to be good now, I promise!
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