Confusing Mess

[TITANESS]

Has anybody given thought to cleaning out this forum? Some of the threads haven't seen the light of day for months and years. And also there could be two different forums, one for a map idea that somebody is asking a cartographer to make and another for maps being started.

[wcaclimbing]

Yeah, its a mess.
but this thread should go in the Foundry Discussion forum.
I'm guessing it'll get cleaned out soon. I don't know by who, though...

[edbeard]

the trash keeps getting moved around and surprisingly, nobody wants it

locking them or an abandoned forum is a good idea

[AndyDufresne]

We know the Map Ideas is the least manuverable forum, and we are working on some ideas to make it a little less so. Any additional thoughts from the rest of you lurkers?


--Andy

[oaktown]

actually, gimil just cleaned the foundry out last month - there used to be 20+ pages of sewage, now we're down to a single page.

Of course, the filth has just been shunted into Map Ideas, and browsers routinely bump maps that have been dead for months. Ideas that have been floated in the past...
• creation of a Dead Letter Office for any thread that hasn't been worked on in X number of months (con: yet more subforums?)
• tagging maps as they go inactive (con: requires constant supervision and contacting mapmakers; people still bump them)
• locking dead threads down completely (con: what's a 'dead' thread?)

And also there could be two different forums, one for a map idea that somebody is asking a cartographer to make and another for maps being started.

This isn't a terrible idea... "Ideas" used to be just that, now it is where new maps are born. Within Ideas there could be an Ideas subforum, an Incubator for new maps, and a Dead Letter Office for dead threads looking for a new home.

[DiM]

• locking dead threads down completely (con: what's a 'dead' thread?)

make a rule. 1 month passes without the map maker making a post and the thread gets locked. when the map maker asks for unlocking the thread is unlocked.
simple effective and no more necrobumping.

[gimil]

1 step ahead of ever one of you guys

Me and oaktown are talking jsut now about a few new changes that we want. Hopfully the monkey will want them to.

[DiM]

1 step ahead of ever one of you guys

Me and oaktown are talking jsut now about a few new changes that we want. Hopfully the monkey will want them to.

if those changes include thread locking spam warning and banning people then i'm all for it.

[gimil]

1 step ahead of ever one of you guys

Me and oaktown are talking jsut now about a few new changes that we want. Hopfully the monkey will want them to.

if those changes include thread locking spam warning and banning people then i'm all for it.

Maybe not to the extreame that you what but you'll just have to wait and see.

[bryguy]

• locking dead threads down completely (con: what's a 'dead' thread?)

make a rule. 1 month passes without the map maker making a post and the thread gets locked. when the map maker asks for unlocking the thread is unlocked.
simple effective and no more necrobumping.

that sounds more like a vacation then being "dead"


for example, i have taken like 2-3 1 month long breaks for famine (when it was in its eb stage) and its still not dead


maybe if its been not used for 2 months instead? 1 month is usually a vacation, 2 months is dead. ONly exception to me is conqueropoly, thats starting up again hopefully this august

[MrBenn]

i have taken like 2-3 1 month long breaks for famine (when it was in its eb stage) and its still not dead

But it still isn't very good

[multiplayertim]

i remember suggesting this quite a while ago but Andy just pointed out that the foundry was the most organised part of the forum and that as map ideas sub forum is date ordered then the old ideas are automatically sent somewhere the 2nd page but i'm all for locking down some inactive threads that will never start again

[whitestazn88]

i think locking shit down that hasn't been touched for over a month is a good idea

unless of course the carto specifically asks for an extention, like if he's working really hard, or studying for finals and can't get to it for a while...

people just need to be more responsible with their ideas, and tell people when they're going on vacay and shit