Site Ideas

By nighthawk • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: Site Stuff

Do you have any ideas that might improve the quality of this site?

Are you having any issues with the site not functioning properly?

Here is an article for everybody to discuss site specific issues.

For example:
I believe that we could use a few more authors –and– that we already have a few members who have great writing skills, but lack the tools to actually create new content (posts).

I had suggested that everyone be made an author by default, and that new posts be held in a moderation cue for an editor or administrator to review and make the final decision of whether or not to publish the post.

Mind you, the reasoning behind reviewing the posts prior to publication wouldn’t be about censorship, but more about preventing spam and abuse.

But in any event, I don’t think the software can be modified to hold posts in moderation cue, and with making anyone an editor (myself included) comes the risk of certain posts being moderated or edited unfairly, and the risk of irrational censorship, the type of censorship that is done without good reason or judgment, based solely upon opinion, disagreement or belief, and generally causes online havoc.

So if anyone is interested in becoming an author here, please contact Dave and let him know.
He’s an easy going guy who isn’t going to bite your head off for letting him know that you’d
like to become an author here at RowanReview.com or anything.

So if you’d like to become an author here, please contact Dave.
His contact information can be found here about 1/2 way down the post in bold lettering along with an invitation to new authors.

We have actually needed some new authors for several months now (in my opinion) and I’d say that some fresh content would certainly be welcomed by everyone.

But in any event, whether you are interested in becoming an author or just have some ideas for site improvements, please take this opportunity to add your ideas to this thread.

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6 Responses to “Site Ideas”

  1. [pseudonomen] Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    the site does not end with the recent comment box, but that is apparently about as far as most people read. if you look around on the front page, there is a lot more things to read and write about. of course this has been observed by TechKnomen and Required Voluntary Compliance too, so this isn’t so much my observation or idea. maybe bumping this up into the recent comments will bring a few new ideas from others.

  2. Techknomen Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    Thanks for that, it is what I have been suggesting that
    most folks tend to just look at the most recent comments
    without scanning the front page.
    Should the Recent comments be put at the bottom
    or under some of the other index boxes to cut
    down on the over emphasis of just what is
    in that box? It could also be made longer to
    allow for more- more recent comments so
    that someone like me that might go days without
    visiting and has something to say about recent topics
    or rebut previous rebuttals, in doing that I can
    along with another poster banter back and forth
    in a few minutes and fill up the recent comments box
    knocking out without malace posts made just a few
    hours prior.

  3. TechKnomen Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    The “Browse Categories” box could go up
    as well as the “Contributors” and
    the “Site Stuff” it will be a xtml coding task,
    might be hard to do but it can be done,
    then the recent comments box could be
    longer maybe? At least if Browse categories
    and Site Stuff was up top it would be more
    noticeable by 1st timere or occasional visitors.
    IMHO

  4. Techknomen Says:
    November 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Still trying to rub everybody’s faces in their sh*t:
    Rothschild group staff have received record bonuses, it has emerged after the bank reported a 31 per cent improvement in profits before tax to €459 million.
    Record results from both its advisory and private banking operations enabled the bank to pay the bonuses to its 2,700 people in June.
    http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-2335-0-13-13–.html

  5. GetReal Says:
    December 14th, 2008 at 6:18 am

    restore our ability to embed images.
    fix the password mailer to mail passwords that can be typed.
    allow more people to write new content.
    quit closing comments on hot topics like scanner scoops.
    stop deleting non-spam comments.

  6. TechKnomen Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    “GET REAL” I know who you are, you posted way back when
    using a special cartoon font and you have been just a reader
    ever since, one of several I suspect, that just shows up to
    read and run. Chime in more to add some life to this rundown
    page eh?

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