I'm back... I saw a bunch of the messages come across for the fantasy list, but also saw that you dealt with them before I got a chance to :) > -----Original Message----- > From: raven@phoenyx.net [mailto:raven@phoenyx.net] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:26 PM > To: listowners@phoenyx.net > Subject: LO: [Ed] Web pages, stuff... > > > I've prettied up the editors web pages by merging them into > the template > system. (http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/editors.html) > > I'm still working on the "how to evaluate a game proposal" thing. An > incomplete draft is linked off the sidebar of the editors > page. Take a > look at what's there and see if it makes sense. > > Martin... are you back with us? The Fantasy category has been busy as > usual. I set up a new game and then had them back out on us > because our > site was "too hard to navigate". There was some real > paradigm clash on > what they expected from what we expected them to expect. I took some > notes and will want to evaluate that situation. (But despite all the > "trouble," all of his players managed to sign up to the list > in the first > two days.) > > I'm thinking that, considering the slowness of the other > categories, I'm > going to use the Fantasy category as a "training ground". If you guys > don't mind, I'd like to get all of you to evaluate the > Fantasy category > for awhile. I'm open for ideas of how to manage that. (I > don't think I > want everyone trying to do it at once.) But there's one > there right now > that needs looking at. > > The first live chat we had on improving the Phoenyx was about > creating a > "start here" web page... something newcomers would see right > away and be > able to visit to learn just what we do here. One of the > problems I see > with other sites like Rondack's Portal and others is, even > *knowing* all > about online roleplaying, it's not entirely obvious *what* > these sites are > providing. I don't want the Phoenyx to have that problem. > I'm supposed > to be writing the draft, but I haven't gotten to it yet. > > I encourage you to participate in these chats. I'm going to > be putting > together a web page to cover what we're doing and put the chat logs up > once I've cleaned them up a bit. If we can make it obvious > that members > are participating in improving the Phoenyx, I think we can > get even more > people involved. One of our future topics is going to be how > do we get > the non-gamemaster involved in helping? The GM's already > have jobs... we > shouldn't have to tap them for all of our volunteer work. > > Thanks! > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- > Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
