[HP4GU-FAQ] Can I make an edit?

[elfundeb]

Heidi wrote:
  I think we should also create a template, because we all know that 
  searching for a post from a particular day is difficult, whereas 
  searching when you have the post's number is dead easy, and with the way 
  the front page looks now, people might not give the url or post number, 
  but the author and date instead.

  If nobody objects or has edits, tomorrow evening, I'll add this:
  Url of Fantastic Post or Post's number:
  Author of Fantastic Post:
  Topic of Fantastic Post:
  Date of Fantastic Post:
If we have the post number and author, we probably don't need the date.  However, could we perhaps say "Description of Fantastic Post" instead of (or perhaps in addition to) "Topic" which might garner us a better explanation of what the post is about?  If we just say "topic" it might come back as "Umbridge" but "description" would be more likely to be "analysis of Umbridge's narrative function".

Also, I'd like to refocus on the suggestion Amanda made the other day:


<<Why don't we make a database on the main list, so the members can 
access it, and have them log likely candidates? The complexities of 
how to access it will filter a few of them. What do you think?>>

This would give members two methods of nominating posts.  I think some members might be more willing to add posts to the database than to send suggestions off into the ether.  Also, we could start the database with a couple of examples of our own, so they could see exactly what kind of information we're looking for.

I actually think the main list database is a much better and simpler solution than sending messages to the archive list, which are going to have to be sifted through message by message and put into a usable format.  This way, the messages would be in a single easy-to-read database which can (I think) be imported into this group intact.  The separate archives list always struck me as a very cumbersome way of doing this.  

I'm sorry I didn't make this comment earlier.  Unfortunately, my office's internet connection was offline on Monday, and by the time I was back online, it seemed to already be too late to object.  This is why I think a 24 hour comment period is really necessary if the group's opinions are asked for.

Does anyone else have thoughts on any of this?  

Debbie

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