Looking at alternative forums

No ... nor do I mean to imply that your article is by any means worthless. Rather, I mean to say that we're obviously using different criteria to judge the value of any given forum. Too, I admit to a negative bias where SC is concerned.

Thanks for the insight into your method, by the by.

Well, yes. It's easy to measure QUANTITY of posts. It's hard to measure QUALITY of posts LOL.

Maybe on the follow-up review I will penalize forums for the number of times "HITLER" shows up in a forum search!

The hypocrisy astounds.

Rise to the challenge or STFU.

Lewis

Can one post at any of the 3rd party sites via email?

you still smearing SC all over the innerwebs alex?

geez, i respected your posting abilities but your personal ax to grind is losing it by the second

<shrugs> That's not a hard thing to add, any way you look at it.

Let's see. Have the site recieve emails and process them. If they come from an e-mail address that matches an account that has a blog, then post the entry.

Otherwise, send an autoreplay that says: "Sorry. You're not a special enough to email in posts."

By allowing one to post via email, one could post to multiple sites with one email.

This would be great for testing the forums out - easily post your identical questions or comments to a bunch of forums and see what kinds of responses you get as a result.

It could be used to make advertising easier - a person could post an ad in the forums that offer ad forums with one email.

What would it take to allow posting via cellphone text messaging? I'm not hip enough to do that but some folks might like that.

What Foolish was referring to was adding new blog entries by email. Forum posts would be more complicated. I suppose you could create a new thread that way, but obviously responses and stuff would be trickier. It wouldn't be impossible, but it is more complex with forums than a blog.

I've never been shy about expressing my opinions, Mulch. I think by now everyone who's ever paid any attention to me understands that.

Your whining about it only makes it worse. But after your sicko display with Margaret, nothing much you can do is going to surprise me anyway.

Nope to the former, nope to the latter.

Awesome emissary to Stratics you're making, though.

Which of the third party sites have integrated spell checkers?

SLU's forums have an integrated spellchecker.

Hopefully coming soon to all forums most likely ROFL

But for the sake of shameless self promotion, soon to mine too

EAT AT JOES.. er... POST AT SECONDSOUL.NET!

- Sam

despite what a slave calls a "sicko display with margaret" (im sorry, i like strong women, and you are at the wrong end of the leash for my tastes), it is normal flirtations... she may certainly reject me, but asking for her phone number to me, is not "sick"

now if I were to buy her on a "great gorean auction", i myself think that would be sick, and not be proper courting in my book

but thats niether here nor there

see, margaret holds her own with me quite well, she doesnt go poor meees gettin picked on Ill leave quietly with no drama... and then say she regrets it, and then does it again and again

no, Margaret is a strong, intelligent, honest person... i just would like to know her better

i dont cyber or do poseballs, so any thoughts about that are out of the question for me

i'm sorry it didnt work out with us Alex, but you don't meet my criteria

Thanks Aimee, now I have something to read while I'm waiting for the lockout to end!

Do any of the third party sites have boolean search ability?

It's such a powerful yet simple way to do a search. I remember when internet search engines like Alta Vista and Hotbot had boolean search. It can decrease the amount of time it takes to find what you are looking for tremendously.

don't forget chat.

Well, now people will know which forums fit their personality. I think that's a positive, and I think it's darn cool that you took the time to write that up Aimee.

Really? I guess you're one of those people who is unable to separate the forum from the individual.

A lot of people are attacking Stratics for one reason only - because I'm involved. Frankly, that's entirely pathetic. I shouldn't have to waste my time defending something that needs no defence.

I'm entitled to my views on any subject at any time, just as you are. Why do you lack the ability to see Stratics as an entity entirely separate from me?

As I have already repeated several times, if people are avoiding Stratics because I post there - I also post on Second Citizen, so why are people still going there?

Lewis

To paraphrase a post from an entirely different forum:

..and Goldilocks sat down at papa bear's computer and said "oh my, this forum is too hard"...

...so she went over to mama bear's computer, sat down, and said "ohhhhh, this forum is too soft"...

... so she went over to baby bear's computer and sat down. She found a forum that was not too hard, and not too soft, and she said "Ohhhhh! This forum is just right!" But then, through her presence on the forum, and the unfortunate effects of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the forum changed and was now both too hard AND too soft. "God Damn it!" said Goldilocks.

<shrugs> Mine does and does not.

I have the spellchecker, but the background PHP system for it are not loaded on the server, and I've not had time to request it.

<grimaces> I'm having trouble getting the DNS just to propigate properly! <pokes it with a stick> Hurry up!

Just out of curiousity, what *is* the deal with you and stratics?

I always thought you had some kind of editorial input/position of control there...

My official title is "Content Manager". My role is twofold: Help Guides and News.

Help Guides. We have a constantly growing selection of "How To" help guides, which are designed to help players understand certain parts of how SL works, share tips, shortcuts and other useful information. Whilst I am currently helping to write them, as we grow my role will move more to overseeing who is working on what, co-ordinating and maintaining an overall list of what needs doing, and the technical side (formatting to the site, ftp access and suchlike).

News. Similar, although news reporters generally upload their own articles, having received tip-offs and suggestions from other players and other members of the team.

In both of those roles, I may be required to commission people to write things, find or take pictures, and anything else related to that side.

Whilst my title is 'manager', it doesn't mean I have overall control; the Site Manager does. Also, although my job is to ensure things get done, I do tend to prefer to work with the rest of the team in a Borg-like manner so that, collectively, we may end up with the best result, whatever the task may be.

I am also currently building and developing our "in-world" presence, through a Headquarters building. This is partly because I have donated land for it to be built upon. It is still under development, although you are more than welcome to drop by and have a look.


I have absolutely no input on forum moderation or overall policy at Stratics Second Life. In fact, most of the 'policies' are actually global to the whole of Stratics, and not just the SL pages.

Lewis

has anyone mentioned yaslf.com? an alternative forums choice.
check it out.