Summary suggestion

Postby Onodera » Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:48 am

Hello, Mr. Moderator! :D

Maybe this kind of thread would not work so well, but maybe it could worth to try it!

I was thinking of a summary for the stories in all the respective categories. It would be a topic like any other, where the people would make a little register of their own story like for example:

Name of the story:
Author:
Link:
Tags: (mostly put here the most common words that will be used during the story, so if a story have something like "breathplay" and someone does not like this thing, he would already be warned and could skip this story or read it anyway).
Description: (A little description that might interest the reader to read this story. Maybe even put a rule that the description had 3 or more lines for the one that is read knows really well what is about that story and the things that he could expect for it).

At the end of the week, the moderator would just add all those informations to the main thread of all those ones that registred the story. It would be much more easy to find a interesting story, or author, or tags if someone press "Ctrl+F" and search for it on the main thread. Since new stories are not submited so often and the on going with more than one chapter dosen't need to make a new register, I don't think that the moderator would have too much work to do. Of course, I am not saying to register ALL previous stories because that would be crazy, but those who want to add his story to the thread and the new stories that will come could be on this summary to help the people to search stories that they interest! At the end of the year or another time that you guys think better, all the old stories would go no a new archive and this summary would help a lot to figure out the content of all those stories :D!

This is just an idea that I wanted to propose. If the stories from now on had a register like this, it would be much more easy to look for past stories in the future. I say this because I know that there is SO MANY AMAZING STORIES hided on topics like on the archives, but I am sure that there is people like me that dosen't have pacient to look topic by topic, hoping that a story have a description before you read all of it and pass to the next one.

That's it! This is my idea :D! Hope I am not bothering so much.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby bondagefreak » Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:41 pm

I had to read this twice to fully grasp what you were saying, but now that I think about it, this is really not a bad idea.
As a writer and a reader, I can definitely see the value in what you're suggesting.

Even WITHOUT moderator interference, this idea would be worth a try.
It would be sorta like a story catalogue that you can quickly go through and find what you're looking for, based on the short story descriptions and keywords.
I really like this idea and might even consider pioneering it if enough users feel that this would help in their story search.
The thread in question would have the potential of reviving some hidden gems currently collecting dust in the archives, gems that wouldn't get much attention otherwise.

Name of the story:
Author:
Link:
Tags: (mostly put here the most common words that will be used during the story, so if a story have something like "breathplay" and someone does not like this thing, he would already be warned and could skip this story or read it anyway).
Description: (A little description that might interest the reader to read this story. Maybe even put a rule that the description had 3 or more lines for the one that is read knows really well what is about that story and the things that he could expect for it).


I'd like to add two things to the above suggestion.

Genders Involved: (M/F, FM/FF, M/M...etc).
Parental Guidance Rating: (suitable for young audiences, PG-17...etc).
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby Onodera » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:03 pm

bondagefreak wrote:I had to read this twice to fully grasp what you were saying, but now that I think about it, this is really not a bad idea.
As a writer and I reader, I can definitely see the value in what you're suggesting.

Even WITHOUT moderator interference, this idea would be worth a try.
It would be sorta like a story catalogue that you can quickly go through and find what you're looking for, based on the short story descriptions and keywords.
I really like this idea and might even consider pioneering it if enough users feel that this would help in their story search.
The thread in question would have the potential of reviving some hidden gems currently collecting dust in the archives, gems that wouldn't get much attention otherwise.

Name of the story:
Author:
Link:
Tags: (mostly put here the most common words that will be used during the story, so if a story have something like "breathplay" and someone does not like this thing, he would already be warned and could skip this story or read it anyway).
Description: (A little description that might interest the reader to read this story. Maybe even put a rule that the description had 3 or more lines for the one that is read knows really well what is about that story and the things that he could expect for it).


I'd like to add two things to the above suggestion.

Genders Involved: (M/F, FM/FF, M/M...etc).
Parental Guidance Rating: (suitable for young audiences, PG-17...etc).


Thank you so much for the lovelly comment, Mr. BondageFreak :3! It seems that you understood what I wanted to try to do at giving this suggestion :D! Yes, the summary would be a really useful tool in a long term period, especially when all those stories go to the archive. We could easily search the past stories and look for tags, descriptions and whatever you are looking for. It's much better than search topic by topic, reading the titles and hoping that you will read something that you like. But with this, you can look for exacly the types of stories that you want :D!

I did though that it would be better with a moderator or someone to copy and paste all the registers on the first post, so all of the stories would be listed there, it's better than jump for the next page over and over again after 20 posts and you can do a full search over the thread and all the stories registred there :D! It dosen't need to be a moderator to do this job, but since they have fully powers over the topics, they can easily organize and edit as much as they like :D!

Since the stories are already splited in several categories here on forum (true tug stories (and this one splited in M/M, M/F, F/F and F/M), fictional tug stories and so on) It woudn't need such categories since each topic would have his summary. Of course, we could make a global summary involving all the stories that will be from now on registred on this. In this case, it would be good to add those two subjects that you suggested too :D!
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby Jason Toddman » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:17 pm

It sounds good but I am not sure it is even possible for anyone to design and implement except perhaps for Zanev.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby bondagefreak » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:19 pm

Onodera wrote:Since the stories are already splited in several categories here on forum (true tug stories (and this one splited in M/M, M/F, F/F and F/M), fictional tug stories and so on) It woudn't need such categories since each topic would have his summary. Of course, we could make a global summary involving all the stories that will be from now on registred on this. In this case, it would be good to add those two subjects that you suggested too :D!


Yes, that's pretty much what I had in mind after reading your suggestion.
One thread for all stories (even those in the archives).
As you pointed out, we don't have that many new stories per week + not every author will wanna use this thread to advertise his/her story, so I think even if we create one big thread, it would remain efficient and manageable.

The idea is already something I've put into practice a few years ago.
At the very beginning of one of my stories, an author's note is featured where I list some of the things featured in the story, as well as warn readers about the mature content they're about to read.
Note from author: PG-17 - Although a portion of this story is dedicated to sleeping bag bondage, the title is not descriptive of the whole story. Here you will find everything from sleeping bag bondage, sock gags, breath control, gas masks, smelly sneakers, sweaty socks, jockstraps and sports equipment, to submission, humiliation, foot worship, tickle torture, edging, phsychological character development, friendships based on Master/slave relations, force feeding, discipline and much much more.

Please be advised, this story contains BDSM and other adult themes not suitable for minors.


Readers who are not into this type of stuff quickly click "Back" which saves them from reading stuff they don't wanna read about.
Those that ARE interesting in the keywords listed are excited and intrigued to find something that matches their kinks and interests.

The principle is very similar to what you are suggesting, but having a catalogue where you can "shop" for stories, would make story searching even quicker.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby bondagefreak » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:21 pm

Jason Toddman wrote:It sounds good but I am not sure it is even possible for anyone to design and implement except perhaps for Zanev.


Part of what Onodera suggests would probably require Admin intervention, but the story-search thread would be nothing more than a Sticky/Global Announcement type of thread.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby chadmc90 » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:37 pm

The story summary thread would be fine by me too.

I do have a suggestion. It probably wouldnt be too much of a deal, but we could make a sticky at the top of each subforum. This will reduce clutter even more and help readers find what theyre looking for easier. Cant do that with the PG17 section, unless we have several stickies at the top.

But anyways i do throw my support behind the idea.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby Onodera » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:38 pm

Jason Toddman wrote:It sounds good but I am not sure it is even possible for anyone to design and implement except perhaps for Zanev.


This dosen't need anything about a hight programmer or something to make it work. A new topic would be opened and the owner of it (as I suggest, a moderator) would explain how the thread would work to anyone that read it and put a "blank" story register topics where everyone can copy and paste it when is registring his story :D! The moderator would just need to copy and past again what the people registred during the week and put it on the first thread (just below the instructions where the real summary would be) for a better and easily search from anyone that uses "Ctrl+F" to search his favorite key words or even authors!

bondagefreak wrote:Yes, that's pretty much what I had in mind after reading your suggestion.
One thread for all stories (even those in the archives).
As you pointed out, we don't have that many new stories per week + not every author will wanna use this thread to advertise his/her story, so I think even if we create one big thread, it would remain efficient and manageable.

The idea is already something I've put into practice a few years ago.
At the very beginning of one of my stories, an author's note is featured where I list some of the things featured in the story, as well as warn readers about the mature content they're about to read.
Note from author: PG-17 - Although a portion of this story is dedicated to sleeping bag bondage, the title is not descriptive of the whole story. Here you will find everything from sleeping bag bondage, sock gags, breath control, gas masks, smelly sneakers, sweaty socks, jockstraps and sports equipment, to submission, humiliation, foot worship, tickle torture, edging, phsychological character development, friendships based on Master/slave relations, force feeding, discipline and much much more.

Please be advised, this story contains BDSM and other adult themes not suitable for minors.


The problem to add the stories from the archive is that there is several stories there and, unless the original author is still around here and make the registration os his/her story, anyone would like to read all of them and make a registration to each one. That's why I do think that would be better to register the stories that are currently going on like that yours of the "Bound and Gagged in the Sleeping Bag" and the future ones that will come. Of course, if you by the way read a story from the archives, you could surelly make a registration yourself since the original author is not present and add that story to the summary anyway, so it would already open the oportunity to someone else read that one!

Yes! I confess that I read several stories here, but in the middle of it I found a fetish that I didn't liked and I stoped to read it right away. If I did know that that story had this kind of fetish, I would not read it in the first place. Besides that, there is several problems with some titles, where you think that will happen something, but it's totally different from what you expected; the description would help you to not be foolished at anyway. Of course, the descriptions would be more acuraced if the original author (that knows the story better) do it himself.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby bondagefreak » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:43 pm

chadmc90 wrote:The story summary thread would be fine by me too.

I do have a suggestion. It probably wouldnt be too much of a deal, but we could make a sticky at the top of each subforum. This will reduce clutter even more and help readers find what theyre looking for easier. Cant do that with the PG17 section, unless we have several stickies at the top.

But anyways i do throw my support behind the idea.



Not necessarily.
Global Announcements are above all forums. Such a thread could easily be seen, even in the PG17 sections.

Glad you're on board though!
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby bondagefreak » Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:49 pm

Onodera wrote:Of course, if you by the way read a story from the archives, you could surelly make a registration yourself since the original author is not present and add that story to the summary anyway, so it would already open the oportunity to someone else read that one!


My thoughts exactly.
Some authors I used to enjoy no longer visit the site. I'd be more than pleased to share their works by filling out the registration form for those orphaned stories. It would allow the newer users to see some of the past works from Jason Toddman, xtc, barefootethan, tiedup101, squirrel...and a bunch of other authors who's works have been archived.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby chadmc90 » Wed Jul 06, 2016 3:25 pm

i like all this. I hope an admin can make the thread.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby Jason Toddman » Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:04 pm

I can make one if there is enough demand for it. Perhaps someone should design a poll.
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Re: Summary suggestion

Postby chadmc90 » Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:26 pm

Think itll be better on this thread or a seperate thread?
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