xtc wrote:Thanks for raising the talking point, Chad, we certainly need to do something. Here's my twopennorth:
I don't approve of a "Sheep & Goats" type of categorisation of members. We need to encourage newcomers and "improvers". Let's face it: very few writers spring fully fledged onto the screen and, taking my own catalogue as an example, there are individual stories that might warrant special recognition but there are certainly some that do not!
I would like to have a proper "Masterworks" section to which stories could be nominated by anybody for inclusion. I don't quite know who should juror (YUK!) the submissions because those accepted would have to reflect all the story categories. Perhaps we could go by page-views but that is fraught with difficulties as popularity is not always a true reflection of quality as a quick perusal of the most popular threads will confirm. Also, multi-part stories would be over represented.
Is the "Masterworks" idea a good one? If it is, how should it work?
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Personal opinion: I would like to see an initial interface with two categories: 1) STORIES, 2) All the other crap (but probably with a less pejorative title!). That is a personal opinion and I don't want to get rid of all the non-story stuff because such sections are obviously what our current membership requires; it simply doesn't interest me in the same way as, I suspect, the stories do not interest other members.
xtc wrote:I don't approve of a "Sheep & Goats" type of categorisation of members.
bondagefreak wrote:On a sidenote, do any of you remember the discussion we had two years ago about having a category for these "masterwork/classic" stories?
The exact same points were brought up. I don't mean to sour the mood, but we're talking in circles here.
Jason Toddman wrote:bondagefreak wrote:On a sidenote, do any of you remember the discussion we had two years ago about having a category for these "masterwork/classic" stories?
The exact same points were brought up. I don't mean to sour the mood, but we're talking in circles here.
Not necessarily; a lot of members here now were not here then and may never have seen the discussion. Also, a lot of other members here then have since left. The dynamics of our current readership may have changed enough in that time to make a all-new discussion quite relevant.
Sniffmyfeet wrote:Although you guys are deserving of praise because of the stories you write, I don't think I personally would make use of a special Masterworks section to browse for stories. I usually head straight for the "new posts" option in the drop down menu or go to the M/M sections and then only read stories that are written by authors that I know I'll appreciate or the titles of which appeal to me. A special section would then (for me) serve no other use then just to honour the author. But that can also be done by just changing the colour of the username, or by granting a custom title.
chadmc90 wrote:So..........any other thoughts on this? I would like to see some more discussion on this.
Sniffmyfeet wrote:chadmc90 wrote:So..........any other thoughts on this? I would like to see some more discussion on this.
With writers recognition at an all-time low, I'm not sure whether you'll elicit much of a response from the crowd. Most of the members of this forum would much rather jump in a fire or exchange KIK and Skype addresses than write a story about TUGs. Similarly, it seems they want to slowly starve this site to death, so they can be the last one to post in a certain thread so they can "win". Apparently, that is much more enjoyable than reading a good bondage-related story and writing some nice comments to support the authors that wrote them.
xtc wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that if a story is considered (by whatever process we decide) to be a "Masterwork", colouring the title of that specific story would make it stand out as such without consigning it to what some people, with certain justification, would consider to be a ghetto?
I'm not very techie. Does anybody know whether that would be possible?
xtc wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that if a story is considered (by whatever process we decide) to be a "Masterwork", colouring the title of that specific story would make it stand out as such without consigning it to what some people, with certain justification, would consider to be a ghetto?
I'm not very techie. Does anybody know whether that would be possible?