Message Boards?

[BlackMagic0]

So. I always thought it was funny.

Why do message boards go form the oldest posts to the newest.

So would be:
1.
2.
3.
....
2010. boobs

And gotta go through ALL those old posts to get to the new shit.
I think it should be changed so it would be newest to oldest, opposite.

2010. boobs
...
3
2
1


What you all think?

[brytta.leofa]

Edit: I totally misunderstood.

I think it would be an excellent idea for in-game message boards to sort newest-to-oldest...possible with one or two staff-designated stickies at the top.

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Messages:
A. Laws of Allanak (sticky)
B. The Elementalists' Quarter (sticky)
1. Someone set us up the bard
2. A Falish Festival
3. tall muscular man looking for work
4. Darn gickers


[AmandaGreathouse]

I like it as it is now, simply because it's so rare to get a board empty enough that you don't have a screen break. And when you have two screens of messages, it's helpful to have the newer ones on the bottom half of the screen, because then they're the ones you're looking at, once you've hit enter to continue.

*shrug*

[brytta.leofa]

Limit boards to 20 posts (so you never have to scroll off-screen). When a new post is added, the oldest one disappears. Only allow one board posting per board per account per day.

[Thunkkin]

Limit boards to 20 posts (so you never have to scroll off-screen). When a new post is added, the oldest one disappears. Only allow one board posting per board per account per day.

With some added function for sticky posts containing the city rules, etc.?  The only advantage to the current system is that hopefully newbies will start reading at post #1 to learn what they'll get arrested for doing.

[Winterless]

I would so love the idea that oldest posts fall off when the limit was hit. I've seen boards with posts from 2k5 that don't have any rules or anything and are just mentioning some event or something.

[Lizzie]

I don't like either idea, here's why:

As someone posted already, the screen scrolls UP. The most recent thing, should be the most recent. The less I have to scroll back, the more likely I am to not miss something that's going on now. So if the last lines I see on the "look board" list are the most recent posts, then I will probably not need to scroll back to see their subject headings, and thus, not have to miss what's going on "now" just to see if they're posts I actually want to read.

As for older posts being dropped, a lot of posts I've seen dating back awhile, have been important, and worth keeping. But not rules. Events, such as: THERE IS A HUGE HOLE JUST OUTSIDE ALLANAK AND IT IS FILLED WITH MOLTEN LAVA. No, not rules of the city. Not even information about the city. But it is world-altering, and worth keeping. If older posts are automatically dropped when new posts are posted, there will be no way to prevent "important" things from being arbitrarily deleted. You can sticky posts 3 and 4, but what about post 27? What if post 27 is one of those types of posts, and an IMM just hasn't gotten around to stickying it yet, and it ends up being "next on the list to be auto-removed" during a busy week of posts?

Rather than simply say I don't like either and here's why, I'm also offering a suggestion:

What I would -much- prefer, is for the staff to respond more promptly to requests to have "unimportant" posts deleted. It would make their part of this easier, if maybe a couple more of them were authorized to delete "junk posts" (such as blank-text typos). Or maybe if any staffer would be authorized to delete any post that hadn't been saved, and it would automatically archive the post into a datafile so if it -should've- been saved, but was deleted in error and wasn't saved, it can be returned. And then maybe the data file would purge itself on a rolling 30-day basis.

[Sinna]

As a player, oocly, I like to see a post perhaps a year old and wonder about that character and that situation.  I guess I just mourn the days when IG clan boards were hot.  I miss that.

[Devilb0y]

I think this would blow by mind quite frankly.

Seems like a good idea, but in effect isn't it kind of like reading right to left? That's how I'm conceptualising it at least.