Okay. After a lot of thought, Karen and I have decided how we want to organize the management of the Phoenyx. It's mostly Karen's idea, but it helps me out a lot more than her, so I'm the one writing the announcement. We're borrowing an idea from the Open Directory project. (www.dmoz.org) It's a link database much like Yahoo!, except it's completely volunteer-supported, and each category has one or more editors that maintain the list of links for their category. This has some serious advantages over Yahoo!... individual editors that have an interest in the topics they edit make it far more likely that the listings will have useful links that are up to date. (Noting that the editor decides which links are worth putting in the list and which aren't.) We're planning to do this same thing with our games. While we don't have very many right now, part of the reason we don't have very many is that Karen and I can't manage more than about 15 games at a time. We don't have time to promote the Phoenyx and try to recruit gamemasters while maintaining the system, making improvements, etc. So we need help. While we're not quite ready to move to a fully categorized format with an editor for each category, we *are* ready to start taking in editors to help evaluate game applications, promote games, recruit GM's, and help us with the finer details of creating this editor-based system. What I'm looking for is a couple people who would qualify to edit the Fantasy/D&D and Space/Star Trek categories once we actually start to split things out. Preferably these will be long-time Phoenyx users and GM's, but I can be flexible. We're limiting each category to 15 games... when the Fantasy category gets too big, we'll split the D&D sub-category out and give it its own editor. Same with Star Trek, Vampire, etc. Our goal is to continue our same high level of quality while expanding our empir... I mean selection of games so that the Phoenyx is *the* number-one place to find great PBeM roleplaying games. Editors will be given as much freedom as we can manage to personalize their categories and create sub-communities in the Phoenyx. We'll have to maintain an overall critera for accepting games and a fairly standard look-and-feel to the entire web site, but the content of each category's main pages will be customizable. In the long run, we'll need a handful of editors... one for every major category. But for now I'm looking for a couple that can help with the current workload and start building up our selection of games while we refine our "edited category" ideas. Anyone game? -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
I'd be happy to help out! You two put so much work into keeping things running that it would be a pleasure to be able to give a bit back. For myself, Space/Star Trek would be the category I've got the most knowledge of and links for. I also do look around at the other Trek based games out there, occasionally play in various ones or help new GMs get them up and running. Please put my name on the list of potential editors. Lynn Cartan Seventh Order - Cardassian PBeM -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
I'm quite new at Phoenyx.net (if you don't take into account that 2 years ago I was playing at the now dead Albuquerque by Night, till it was kicked out of the group). So I offer myself as willing victim for Vampire, when it gets its own group. That way I will have the right amount of experience... Please put my name on the list of potential editors. (yes, it is a copy & paste of Lynn's phrase!!! That's how leechy I am...) Bruce Humphrey Forge of Legends pbem (Pendragon) > I'd be happy to help out! You two put so much work into keeping things > running that it would be a pleasure to be able to give a bit back. For > myself, Space/Star Trek would be the category I've got the most knowledge of > and links for. I also do look around at the other Trek based games out > there, occasionally play in various ones or help new GMs get them up and > running. > > Please put my name on the list of potential editors. > > Lynn Cartan > Seventh Order - Cardassian PBeM -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
I might also note that a category can have more than one editor... one person might evaluate games, help new GM's get started, and monitor games to be sure they're running smoothly, while another person might concentrate on promoting the games and recruiting new GM's. You don't have to be good at everything to help out... you just have to be able to share the workload. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
I'd be interested in helping out with either of the two current categories. I'm the GM for The Corner (SF using the Alternity rules). I play in one other Phoenyx game (the Hymn) and play in another Dark*Matter game. I've been gaming for...well... a lot of years. Martin Hanley > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl D Cravens [mailto:raven@phoenyx.net] > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:03 AM > To: listowners@phoenyx.net > Subject: LO: Management change, volunteers wanted. > > > Okay. After a lot of thought, Karen and I have decided how we want to > organize the management of the Phoenyx. It's mostly Karen's > idea, but it > helps me out a lot more than her, so I'm the one writing the > announcement. > > We're borrowing an idea from the Open Directory project. > (www.dmoz.org) > It's a link database much like Yahoo!, except it's completely > volunteer-supported, and each category has one or more editors that > maintain the list of links for their category. This has some serious > advantages over Yahoo!... individual editors that have an > interest in the > topics they edit make it far more likely that the listings will have > useful links that are up to date. (Noting that the editor > decides which > links are worth putting in the list and which aren't.) > > We're planning to do this same thing with our games. While > we don't have > very many right now, part of the reason we don't have very > many is that > Karen and I can't manage more than about 15 games at a time. We don't > have time to promote the Phoenyx and try to recruit gamemasters while > maintaining the system, making improvements, etc. So we need help. > > While we're not quite ready to move to a fully categorized > format with an > editor for each category, we *are* ready to start taking in editors to > help evaluate game applications, promote games, recruit GM's, and > help us with the finer details of creating this editor-based system. > > What I'm looking for is a couple people who would qualify to edit the > Fantasy/D&D and Space/Star Trek categories once we actually > start to split > things out. Preferably these will be long-time Phoenyx users > and GM's, > but I can be flexible. We're limiting each category to 15 > games... when > the Fantasy category gets too big, we'll split the D&D > sub-category out > and give it its own editor. Same with Star Trek, Vampire, > etc. Our goal > is to continue our same high level of quality while expanding > our empir... > I mean selection of games so that the Phoenyx is *the* > number-one place to > find great PBeM roleplaying games. > > Editors will be given as much freedom as we can manage to personalize > their categories and create sub-communities in the Phoenyx. > We'll have to > maintain an overall critera for accepting games and a fairly standard > look-and-feel to the entire web site, but the content of each > category's > main pages will be customizable. > > In the long run, we'll need a handful of editors... one for > every major > category. But for now I'm looking for a couple that can help with the > current workload and start building up our selection of games while we > refine our "edited category" ideas. > > Anyone game? > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- > Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
On 5 Jan 01, at 10:03, Carl D Cravens wrote: > In the long run, we'll need a handful of editors... one for every > major category. But for now I'm looking for a couple that can help > with the current workload and start building up our selection of games > while we refine our "edited category" ideas. > > Anyone game? I'll volunteer to edit the Games With Overambitiously Planning Gamemasters category when it comes available. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, M. Jason Knight wrote: > I'll volunteer to edit the Games With Overambitiously Planning > Gamemasters category when it comes available. Hum... I spend time counselling these guys. It's kind of tough trying to explain to a never-even-played-PBeM prospective GM that six teams of six players competing in a race across the face of the planet to find some lost artifact is just a little much. You could be our "been there, done that, lived to tell the tale" representative. :) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
On 15 Jan 01, at 9:29, Carl D Cravens wrote: > Hum... I spend time counselling these guys. It's kind of tough > trying to explain to a never-even-played-PBeM prospective GM that six > teams of six players competing in a race across the face of the planet > to find some lost artifact is just a little much. You could be our > "been there, done that, lived to tell the tale" representative. :) Six players is a little much. Competing was the problem, also. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
