by pinback » Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:20 am
The time has come to restructure, reconfigure, and otherwise redesignate the bases on this bulletin board. The reasons for this are manifold, the most pressing being that this, the "main base" is being overloaded, other bases are rotting away, and the general feelings of ennui and entropy that have gripped the entire establishment.
Below are my suggestions for the restructuring. As I do not have the final say here, these suggestions may not all be put into effect. However, realize that any divergence from these suggestions will result in a sub-optimal configuration, for which I will not be held responsible.
(I have identified each base by its topic, and not by its name, because I don't care what the names are.)
Main Base: This is good, but I would remove "video games" from the description, as games will receive their own base. This will, as always, be used for anything that doesn't fit into the others.
Celebrity Monologues/Drunk Tank: Replace this with a Video Game base, suitable for discussion of video and computer games of all sorts. How there isn't already a base for this on here is beyond me.
Movies & Sex: I like this. Keep it.
Sports & Music: This is also good.
Comic Books: Not my style, but if everyone likes it, we can leave it that way.
Retro-gaming: I believe that the video game base mentioned above will provide enough space for both retro- and current-gaming topics, so this can be done away with and replaced by -- get this -- a cooking base. I believe there's enough culinary interest floating around among the regulars here to make this a viable base, complete with cooking tips, recipes, etc. If necessary, combine with another topic (as "Movies & Sex", "Sports & Music", "Cooking & [something else]"), but I think it would work. In fact, I, personally, would ensure that it worked.
Politics & Cars: I would do away with this one altogether. There's not enough politics/cars being discussed to warrant a separate base. Funnel this stuff back into the main base.
Hugo Programming: This base is perhaps the current administration's biggest gaffe -- an almost inexcusable blunder of titanic proportions. A HUGO base? A tiny subsection of a tiny subsection of the gaming community? Do what should have been done in the first place, and expand it to be an all-encompassing Interactive Fiction base. Duh!!
Troll Room: Keep this.
Best of JC: Fine.
SECRET BASE: Finish the goddamn game.
There ya go. Whaddya think? YAY? NAY??!
The time has come to restructure, reconfigure, and otherwise redesignate the bases on this bulletin board. The reasons for this are manifold, the most pressing being that this, the "main base" is being overloaded, other bases are rotting away, and the general feelings of ennui and entropy that have gripped the entire establishment.
Below are my suggestions for the restructuring. As I do not have the final say here, these suggestions may not all be put into effect. However, realize that any divergence from these suggestions will result in a [i]sub-optimal configuration[/i], for which I will not be held responsible.
(I have identified each base by its topic, and not by its name, because I don't care what the names are.)
[b]Main Base[/b]: This is good, but I would remove "video games" from the description, as games will receive their own base. This will, as always, be used for anything that doesn't fit into the others.
[b]Celebrity Monologues/Drunk Tank[/b]: Replace this with a [b]Video Game[/b] base, suitable for discussion of video and computer games of all sorts. How there isn't already a base for this on here is beyond me.
[b]Movies & Sex[/b]: I like this. Keep it.
[b]Sports & Music[/b]: This is also good.
[b]Comic Books[/b]: Not my style, but if everyone likes it, we can leave it that way.
[b]Retro-gaming[/b]: I believe that the video game base mentioned above will provide enough space for both retro- and current-gaming topics, so this can be done away with and replaced by -- get this -- a [b]cooking[/b] base. I believe there's enough culinary interest floating around among the regulars here to make this a viable base, complete with cooking tips, recipes, etc. If necessary, combine with another topic (as "Movies & Sex", "Sports & Music", "Cooking & [something else]"), but I think it would work. In fact, I, personally, would [i]ensure[/i] that it worked.
[b]Politics & Cars[/b]: I would do away with this one altogether. There's not enough politics/cars being discussed to warrant a separate base. Funnel this stuff back into the main base.
[b]Hugo Programming[/b]: This base is perhaps the current administration's biggest gaffe -- an almost inexcusable blunder of titanic proportions. A [i]HUGO[/i] base? A tiny subsection of a tiny subsection of the gaming community? Do what should have been done in the first place, and expand it to be an all-encompassing [b]Interactive Fiction[/b] base. Duh!!
[b]Troll Room[/b]: Keep this.
[b]Best of JC[/b]: Fine.
[b]SECRET BASE[/b]: Finish the goddamn game.
There ya go. Whaddya think? YAY? NAY??!