Glad to see this finally up and running, will be tuned in to see how things go in the lead up to the ratification vote since I hope this will succeed and be extended to other D&D areas.
Anyways, a few suggestions/queries for starters:
- Suggestion: I would suggest that a second post be made in the FAQ thread or somewhere similar and provide links to all discussion pertaining to the operation of the board/forum (chronologically). I think moving completed discussions to the Cemetery is fine, but we should want a record of decisions for reference and in keeping with the transparency provision.Good idea -- I will see what I can do with this
- Query: Is the usergroup "[Temp] Board of Historians" required anymore? It was initially created (temporarily) to give permissions to this area while it was hidden. It doesn't affect the ability of Board members to moderate locally or their official standing, so I'd like to remove it if possible.If it does nothing --- yeah it can go(I trust you techies way too much)
- Suggestion: The header of the "Start Here" index should probably be modified to specify that it contains College of History threads rather than articles from around the forums, and the compilers list should be updated to something like "Updated and maintained by the Board of Historians; Initial compilation by Kscott, therussian, and Spiff". Main reason is we have a bunch of outdated indexes around the forums, so an OP from 2006 and the current header will give that impression. A "Last Updated" line couldn't hurt either for posterity, since not a lot of folks will be aware of the post edit text along the bottom.(Yep -- working on this)
- Suggestion: This forum should probably be moved to the top of the display order under the VV since it's the most general purpose and augmentative.(Is this something you can do? If so, make it so)