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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Apr 15, 2016 22:17:00 GMT -5
I don't know if ProBoards has the option (I think it does), but since the Netflix adaptation is bringing a lot of people thirsty of news I thought of something other forums I'm in do: hide or lock some boards (like Atrocious Adaptations) so people have to register in order to access to them to read and comment stuff.
Maybe it's a good way to get new members, or maybe it's a good way of drive them off, idk. Opinions?
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Post by B. on Apr 16, 2016 1:43:45 GMT -5
It does, but hiding the board all together would be a very bad way to attract people interested in the TV show. Additionally, guests already have to register if they want to post here, and I've been noticing slightly higher rates of new registered users these past weeks.
The only thing I can really think of would maybe be to move AAdaptations a bit higher on the home page, but for now I think it's okay.
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Post by Reba on Apr 16, 2016 10:54:45 GMT -5
i don't think people are finding stuff through the main page, they're finding individual threads on google. if the board is protected then our threads wouldn't be in google results, and we would go from little to no new members
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Post by gliquey on Apr 16, 2016 11:45:35 GMT -5
i don't think people are finding stuff through the main page, they're finding individual threads on google. if the board is protected then our threads wouldn't be in google results, and we would go from little to no new members That's definitely how I found 667. I don't think preventing boards from being readable by anons would help recruitment - I wouldn't have joined if I hadn't been able to look at the Great 667 Re-Read threads without having to register an account.
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Post by BSam on May 1, 2016 4:37:06 GMT -5
It does, but hiding the board all together would be a very bad way to attract people interested in the TV show. Additionally, guests already have to register if they want to post here, and I've been noticing slightly higher rates of new registered users these past weeks. The only thing I can really think of would maybe be to move AAdaptations a bit higher on the home page, but for now I think it's okay. i kinda agree with this, also, i don't usually scroll up so see those sections but is it worth reviewing how they are organised? maximise the visibility of the soon to be or relevant sections. that kind of thing
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Post by B. on May 1, 2016 7:36:44 GMT -5
Perhaps moving ravaged resources below MMerchandise and next to forsaken fan work (which would kind of fit as resources are a kind of fan work in themselves)? Or even switching the position of resources and merchandise?
Does anyone else have ideas?
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Post by Dante on May 1, 2016 8:28:00 GMT -5
I think that demoting Ravaged Resources is acceptable; they were originally placed higher as important reference material, but the importance of that reference material has definitely diminished. I do think it should continue to neighbour Burdensome Books, though, so I would probably favour switching the positions of RResources and MMerchandise.
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Post by gliquey on May 1, 2016 9:57:03 GMT -5
Within MMerchandise, maybe AAdaptations should be above PProducts.
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Post by Hermes on May 1, 2016 16:34:16 GMT -5
There's something a bit odd, honestly, about adaptations being classified under merchandise. Should the series really have a section of its own? (You may say that the movie never did, but then the movie appeared while the books were still in production, so it was never the main object of Snickety interest in the way that the series now is.)
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Post by Dante on May 2, 2016 2:59:04 GMT -5
I think that's a good argument. I assume MMovie (AAdaptations as was) was originally under MMerchandise in the sense that, like the merchandise and other websites, it was sort of a third-party spin-off, basically, not something of core interest. The whole section has a lot of problems these days, though, in the sense that there aren't really any products, or other Snicket-related websites out there (same applies to Lemony Links) - and when there were, we usually discussed them alongside the books, as that was where they were most relevant. There might be eventually, to do with the Netflix series, but right now I think it's pretty clear that Netflix is going to be the main attraction of the section. So I think a new section title for MMerchandise may be in order, as well as rejigging the board summaries for PProducts and WWeb to make clear what they're for, since the idea of there being outside Snicket merchandise and websites is kind of obsolete right now.
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Post by Dante on Jun 26, 2016 5:02:13 GMT -5
I caught sight of this thread and thought we should review its conclusions, since it's getting on for a couple of months since it was last posted in. AAdaptations got swapped to sit above PProducts, but I think that's the only thing that changed. Are there any further thoughts or opinions on moving MMerchandise up the forum - perhaps swapping with RResources, as I suggested - or on renaming the category? I came up with "The Perilous Periphery" off the top of my head, though it's perhaps unfair as the Netflix series is the least peripheral thing happening right now.
While we're at it, "The Objectionable Others" perhaps diminishes the significance of what are some fairly populous boards in a category which retains the name it bore before it once upon a time absorbed the entire Reckless Reading category. I suppose nobody looks at category titles anyway, and it's something of a legacy name, but since I was throwing ideas out anyway, I'm sure somebody can do better than The Contrary Community, the paradoxical The Snicketless Section, or the simply silly The Restless Rest.
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Post by gliquey on Jun 26, 2016 9:36:12 GMT -5
Your idea of swapping MMerchandise with RResources sounds better to me than the status quo, but I would suggest that RResources could be moved below MMerchandise so that the order is: [AAffairs,] BBooks, MMerchandise, RResources [FFan-Work etc]. Both the merchandise and resources sections (as well as fan-work) are based on the books - the Netflix hype will fade, and it doesn't make sense to me that a spin-off would be listed higher than the original canon; meanwhile, RResources has many useful links, lists and interesting essays, but it's not a source of active discussion.
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Post by Hermes on Jun 26, 2016 11:46:54 GMT -5
'Other' seems fine to me. It covers things other than Snicket. However populous and significant those boards are, they are still other. I also think it's quite logical to have resources where they are now; they are, as it were, front matter, and come before the various discussion sections.
I think the only real problem is the classification of the series as Merchandise. I suppose it is in a literal sense - stuff you get from a merchant - since you have to pay for it; but it's clearly not merchandise in the normal understanding of the term. Is it possible to have a section with just one board in it? Then Atrocious Adaptations could be a section of its own, and Malignant Merchandise could have the other two. (Perhaps, in retrospect, we should have had an Atrocious Adaptations section, with one board for the movie and another for the series; but I guess when we started discussing the series we didn't know if it was real enough to justify creating a whole board for it.)
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Post by B. on Jun 27, 2016 9:09:51 GMT -5
Why don't you guys make a referendum?
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Post by BSam on Jun 28, 2016 0:31:47 GMT -5
We're actually currently holding a vote on this in the premium member section. I'll let you guys know of the result.
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