Fandomhigh_Classes?

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Hi. Would it be possible, considering the amount of traffic fandomhigh gets, to make a seperate community strictly for teachers to post classes and homework assignments in? It's extremely frustrating to try and keep up. Not all the teachers post their current assignment stuff in their personal journals or their info page.

Thanks.

Comments

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

That would be super!

[notashepherd.livejournal.com]

This is a fabulous idea.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

That would be a great idea

[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

I know the_ascended uses the LJ tags feature for all his classes, which helps me a lot. We've already got so many associated communities -- if all the teachers could tag all their classes, that might be enough, possibly. Especially if there's a way that we could link the tags in the sidebar of the main fandomhigh page.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, tags refuse to work for me. Ever. On any lj account I've ever HAD.

... which is why they're all in my memories and on my info page.

With all the traffic on fandomhigh, I wouldn't mind a separate community for classes. I also don't want to be in charge of creating it, thankyoueverso, although I'd be willing to keep up with it as maintainer.

I'm still having enough trouble trying to get the damn townies to cooperate without maintainer status.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

the tags don't work for me either on any of my seven characters

[actingltcrumpet.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn, I didn't realize that. In that case, hmm.

I just worry that the more communities we have, the more work it is for the maintainers.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Maintaining isn't a big deal, really. I'm more or less obsessive/compulsive and a pushy bastard by nature... but while adding one more community to keep an eye on and keep organized is no big deal... I don't think I have it in me to actually go out and create one.

*eyes swirl dramatically*

Someone nab Trollprincess this evening and run it past her?

[janet_fraiser]

God, yes, that's a brilliant idea. It means I could actually find the classes I'm taking!

[rushmore-yankee.livejournal.com]

Hm. I was thinking the tags thing, too. I think the maintainer of the comm has to enable it in the journal prefs. I submit accio_au as a fairly well used example of tags in a comm. Doing it by character, or class, etc. So far, I've been putting my classes into my memories and then just checking the teachers' journals.

There are a few things I think could help facilitate this comm's ease-of-use. For example, the OOC... when people aren't able to play, or have some general "I'm leaving for two hours" kind of thing, I think it would be smartest just to post that to their journal, rather than to the OOC. And when people have a dorms thread, not cross-posting it to their journal would help clear up the friends list/filters I check for Max.

To make things easier on myself, I usually just drop links into a comment in my own Max journal. It's a handy lil' storage bin that doesn't botch up everyone else's flists.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Second/third/whatevering the motion.

[chasingangela]

So... wait, we're moving the actual on-topic stuff to yet another community?

I'm not a fan of that just on principle. I'd rather people refrained frrom posting in fandomhigh unless it really is a)public and b)school-relevant to everyone.

Less crossposting would also help.

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

fandomhigh seems to work mostly like the drama/interaction that takes place outside class, in the halls, on the quad, etc. Even if the non-publics were whittled down, there'd still be a godsawful amount of posting going on, so the relevent class postings get buried. Having the classes and only the classes all in one place would be useful.

[sensethevisions]

I'd be happy to volunteer to create and maintain a fandom_classes community. It would make things a lot damn easier for keeping up with schooolwork.

I just don't want to step on any toes.

[sensethevisions]

Awesome idea

[chasingangela]

I see what you're saying. The thing is, though, the problem isn't the classes; it's the other stuff. If we used our personal journals and the dorms and townies communities properly and quit crossposting, the volume in this main community would drop considerably. And, frankly, I think it's ridiculous to bump the classes -- which are for everyone -- in place of posts geared for a small group of posters.

(I know I'm swimming upstream here, but this really is a very strong opinion.)

If the problem is that people can't find their classes, one solution that would not make me insane would be having one post per day that existed just to link all of the classes that were happening that day.

[rushmore-yankee.livejournal.com]

I am very much picking up what you're putting down. And agree. Like I've been saying: there should be a primer of some kind. Like, a ...(jesus, I can't believe I'm saying this) workflow chart or something.

Plus, I'd really just like to play out of my filters and friendslist, rather than abandon the classes-at-fandom-high thing.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

I completely see what you're saying.

The trouble is that some of the professors keep disappearing or are days behind... and it's just gotten screamingly messy. I have a student character who keeps looking for classes that just aren't there.

Someone would have to make and maintain the post, nag and chivvy the professors to remember to post there....

*shrugs* There's no solution that will make everyone happy, frankly.

Right now, I can't even get the townies in order and because there's no requirements to apply or anything some have come and gone without leaving more than a single post in their wake and it's irritating as all get out.

[chasingangela]

Exactly. And I'm not generally anti-proliferation, but this seems like a bandaid solution that creates its own set of problems (getting everyone to join the new community, moderating it) for a problem that seems like it needs a more cohesive solution.

I'm not sure I want a workflow chart, but I do think that the game is (gulp) big enough to need rules and moderation. "No townies in the school" is a good on; others could be, like: No posts in OOC just to say you're feeding your cat for the next 15 minutes, no crossposting, friend everyone so you don't miss personal journal stuff, announce what you're doing before you delete your journal, and so on.

(I am such the Virgo.)

[chasingangela]

Well, it was my bright idea, so I'm willing to make the posts. Nothing as fancy as chasing down missing teachers, just a straight list of links; here's history class, here's math, here's Vulcan philosophy. The teachers wouldn't need to post to it -- we could just go from the public posts in the community, and postdate the post so it was always the top item for the day.

What do you think?

[abe-no-seimei.livejournal.com]

I would work with either option as it's frustrating for me playing an instructor and the tags don't work for me either.

The only other concern I have is that in a lot of games I've been in, personal LJs were considered for personal use...and to 'host' a scene in a personal LJ it would need to be labeled clearly so all the readers know they are invited to play. Otherwise, they could very well think it's a 'private party' and interactions might drop.

Or my concerns could be totally unfounded. *grin*

Perhaps someone can try to keep up with all classes posted on a day (checks agenda and sees Seimei's got one coming up) and make one entry to list them all.

Another idea would be to have one entry started at the beginning of the day that all instructors drop by and comment with the links to their classes (with titles of course). Sort of collected automatically so someone isn't having to stroll through the pages and pages of entries every day to manually collect links?

[prisoner-rover.livejournal.com]

*rover thinks you rock*

[rushmore-yankee.livejournal.com]

(Yes. Yes, you are. But it's okay, as I've got Virgo all OVER my chart shit.)

Yeah. I don't really want to do a workflow, either. But, I'll talk about that in my response to the response under mine.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

That'd make me very happy indeed, frankly.

[chasingangela]

I think the problem is tags only work if they're one word. LJ is supposed to fix that, but ... they've been saying that for a while.

I've never played an RPG like this, so I didn't know that personal journals were generally considered invitation-only space. Could we just decide that one of the ground rules was that if a post IS invitation-only, you should mark it as such, and otherwise anyone is welcome to comment/visit?

And the one-post-a-day with a list of the classes was what I was trying to suggest. It's a little daunting, but should be far from impossible.