Apparently my busy day this week was Thursday instead of Friday. No matter, I had boring dreams that night anyway. Last night... wait... come to think of it, my dream last night was pretty dull as well. Ah me.
I don't understand why Google bothers with Google groups. To me, it would seem like if you have a Google account, you would make a (more attractive and functional) forum by jury-rigging Blogger, like so:
- Start a new blog, with a fairly memorable url. This will be your main page.
- Start several more (these can have funky urls). Link to them on the main page (and include links back to the main page on them) and underneath each link, include an RSS from each of them underneath the links. This corresponds to a forum's chart of subforums.
- Let anyone comment on the main page, but turn comment moderation on. This is where people can ask to be invited as authors.
- Include an archive on top of the posting section in each subforum, so people can jump right to the correct topic. Restrict commenting in the subforums to people participating in the blog, so only "members" (authors) may "reply" (comment) to "topics" (blog posts).
- The author limit for a Blogger account is 100. Since most forums never make it to that number, you should be ok, but if you do exceed the author limit, appoint "supermembers"/mods that can post in multiple subforums. People may only be members (authors) in one subforum, but they can ask the supermembers to post elsewhere for them.
- Stick Google Gadgets and pictures everywhere. Remember that a Google group does not have this capability.
- Need to pin a topic (blog post)? Simple. Just stick its permalink in a linklist (with a title like "Pinned Topics" or "Read This First").
- You may want to restrict the number of blog posts shown to only 1 or 2. You want people to view these primarily through the permalinks in the archive anyway since the replies (comments) then show.
- Oh, and incidentally, you can go to Settings>Formatting>Post Template to make a signature.
- Enjoy your free, ad-less Blorum!
Reality check. I may be induced to someday post the link of an example of this technique (once I polish it up better).
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For a start "q q q" just happens to be the most perfect topic header - bar "7 7 7". I am speaking purely of aesthetics here. Unfortunately I am not even passable in my own language - at least not literarily or phonetially. Hopefully I am getting somewhere visually. I have looked at your links and used google, but unfortunately my grades tell me I'm just not cut out for language - probably becouse I use too many "ally" words.
ReplyDeleteI'm not particularly good with languages either, but this one happened to originate in my high school, so I had a lot of practice and reinforcement.
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