*coughs* Uh, I have a little request...

[littleluck.livejournal.com]

I have no authority here, I'm just trying to save my sanity...

For the people doing big plots with a very specific number of people? Could you guys maybe watch how many new posts you're spawning off? It gets hard for those of us who aren't able to check the board frequently to catch up, especially when a third of the posts are for one plot by the same six or seven people.

See the poker game for an example of how they're keeping a thread neat and tidy and saving our sanity...

So not trying to pick on or single anyone out. But my brain likes organization, and it's having trouble with the clutter.

Comments

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Second the motion. Please, dear god, cut the number of posts you're making. PLEASE. Don't make us start writing rules to control this.

[principalconnor.livejournal.com]

There's always only allowing teachers and staff to be able to post in the main comm to fall back on, if it keeps it up at this level.

[sharon-valerii.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, I'd originally thought that was true of the fh comm. Not the others, but, er, I was surprised in the beginning to see posts from students.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Dear Principal Connor:

Have you an AIM where I can reach you to ask a few questions about rules and regulations and perhaps I could make a general cross-post tomorrow to cover several things?

Spider

[principalconnor.livejournal.com]

I have Y!M at pigwidgeon_the_unholy that's up right now.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

My frickin' Y!M won't connect. *kicks it hard*

[principalconnor.livejournal.com]

*pokes it with a banana pointed stick*

[littleluck.livejournal.com]

It actually seems people were behaving on the main comm today. This was in the dorms this evening. I want everyone to have fun, obviously, and the plot was amusing enough, there were just too many new posts that could have probably gone as comments on pre-existing posts.

There seems to be a mix of people who are being advantageous and condensing threads (a few people spawned off my post in the Perkolator, for example, which seemed genius to me) and some threads that are devouring everything else.

[principalconnor.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I noticed the dorms today. (Well, in the last hour or so as I was catching up.) And I know exactly what you mean about new posts springing up when they should have simply been comments in another thread.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

As one of the ones involved in many of the messes tonight, I have to point out that, after a while, the threaded comments in a single post get entirely too much to follow.

I'm one who'd definitely vote for having (and skipping at will) *more* top level posts and less chasing down 36th-level comments in a single post.

[littleluck.livejournal.com]

Problem with that is, while it's easier for the people involved in the thread? The rest of us have to do a skip=60 in order to get through the other posts. We don't all have several hours a day to be doing that.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

I'm having to do that anyway, regardless. Besides, "skipping" takes, what? 10 seconds? *is confused*

[littleluck.livejournal.com]

Longer than that--IF LJ is behaving, which it usually isn't, and IF you have broadband, which isn't a fair assumption to make of anyone. Besides, I still don't see why 200 people should have to skim past 20 posts from the same half-dozen people on the same plot thread. If it's all different stuff, I don't care--people are talkative--and I can understand the need to do a new one after the thread gets REALLY full. But I saw several that could have easily been contained in an existing thread or left in a private journal. Those, I can filter. I can't filter the dorms any further than looking at the comm by itself.

[marieann-d.livejournal.com]

I was involved, peripherally, in the madness of tonight (well, I was involved earlier, not tonight, been gone since 3:30 CDT) and I would just like to agree with Vala's mun about top level posts. I skim everything anyway, and skipping doesn't take that long, even on dial-up. (You just gotta go with a quick-loading layout. ^_^) There've been days here where about 95% of the posts don't apply to me, so I skim, but I'd rather be able to see where Teh Funny is going on and be able to either read it or skip it, without having to dig through 80 comment pages and threaded madness.

Also, friends filters? An RP'ers bestest friend in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD. I have a "regulars" group, a group with just the comms, townies, etc. It really helps you skim. :)

Just my $.02.

[sharon-valerii.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Sheesh. It's enough to make me reconsider being in fh, considering how little time I have to do other things. I'm wading through stuff that takes me all night to read (I pity Barbossa).

[likeguidelines.livejournal.com]

*pities self, too*

[littleluck.livejournal.com]

You need assistants, man. You get points to the Nth degree just for TRYING to keep up with it all.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that me and some of mine are reponsible for brain-breaking. Sorry about that.

We'll work on it.

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*adds her apology also*

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

*Apologizes too*

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Thirded (or fourthed, or fifthed, or something), please. I only have a couple of hours on weeknights to spare, and f I have to follow a plot all over the place I'd almost rather not bother, which is a shame. I end up missing out on a lot of the fun.

[sharon-valerii.livejournal.com]

*runs off to hide in Anders' room from teh crazy*

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Sure, why not, there's always room for more gossip about the second floor.

[littleluck.livejournal.com]

You're cute, can I come too?

[sharon-valerii.livejournal.com]

It's not like she hasn't stayed over before.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And on a related note, could the crossposting be minimized also? Because I'm pretty sure everyone has pretty much everyone friended, so it's really only necessary to post it once.

At least, I've noticed a fair number of repeat posts on my flist.

[littleluck.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that I've noticed too. And the random 'this business is closed for the day' posts that I don't see the point of, exactly.

[swerval_zero]

The crossposting is what's driving me nuts. I really don't see the point of it.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

The crossposting is a pain, but since (in order to keep sanity) I'm reading pretty much *only* the community posts, I'd rather cut the private ones. (Then again, I've filtered 80% or more of all private journals out of my reading with already anyway.)

It's *so* much easier to try to track the comms than to try to follow people's individual journals.

[not-an-ex-demon.livejournal.com]

1. i concur with aka_vala. i never get a chance to read any of the private journals... i actually really appreciate the crossposting between private and community journals at the very least. a potential problem with that is players might comment in one post and not the other and it's sort of like the left hand not talking to the right... or so i would imagine.

2. as long as we're all on soapboxes here, i wanted to mention that i also really really *really* appreciate the hyperlinks in posts so that when someone mentions an event, i can easily click and read what it's referring to and not have to go mad searching for it through several community and private journals.

[prisoner-rover.livejournal.com]

*rover does wonder how much is missed by not reading the private journals.*

*while he would agree that it saves time to not read them, if people are going to move from the comm to their private journals to help clear out the clutter problem, it defeats the purpose of not reading private journals.*

*agrees with poster up somewhere earlier that filters are an RPer's best friend.*

*although filters also run the risk of missing some good RP opportunity in private journals*

*rover realizes there is no easy solution*

*rover also does try to post links back to other actions if he moves a post from one place to the next.*

*he also uses reallife email quite a bit to call attention to some things that need attention by another player*

*rover goes off in search of coffee as he's rambling*

*...even for a ball*

*...dashingly handsome though he is.*

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on the crossposting.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Apologies from me, too. Some stuff was planned, some stuff went awry. It won't happen again.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Please folks, don't be taking these nice people's requests as "ARR! No More Fun For You!"

I personally agree that we could tighten up some of the mass chaos of the bigger threads. While the slumber party was a bit anarchic, it atleast had the benefit of being all in one place (though I do understand that caused a few browser issues with some people).

So, yes. Just keep these ideas in mind for the future, please?

I love fandom high very dearly and want everyone to be able to enjoy it equally.

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

As the instigator in two of the posts (With over 600 comments and growing) I apologize, we tried to keep it in order but even with only six people we ended up sprawling quiet a bit. I apologize and from now on I'll find a way to organize them a bit more.

And trust me I know this isn't meant to be mean in anyway, I spend on average somewhere between five and six hours a night I can't afford wadeing through all the posts. So I understand where you're coming from.