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[Elijah Snow]

[vpisteve]

There was a time I was playing around with the idea of using these forums to actually maintain a Guide. A separate forum only where only moderators could post, and a linear guide of sorts could be maintained.

It's actually quite doable with a couple of tweaks, I think. You can see my stab at it at the mothballed ARGN Forums.

One thing that I think would be really helpful for the moderators to do that I haen't seen lately, would be to set up a moderated thread where they could copy just the posts they deem important, i.e. new sites, puzzles, solves, etc. This worked really well at Cloudmakers-Moderated and Jawbreakers-Moderated, as it was a great way to just browse to see the major developments, without having to wade through a bunch of discussion and spec.

[Elijah Snow]

Great idea Steve!

One of my pet peves about using the forums to posts Who's Who docs for S4E was that sometimes a newbie would come in and post to the thread. If it were locked, then you'd prevent the problem up front.

Any other ideas?

ES

[SpaceBass]

Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of an exam that I haven't prepared for, or the unwitting participant in a focus group or something?

[Elijah Snow]