Poll: Forum or Email? August 24, 2009
Posted by Natania in : The Outer Alliance, membership, polls , trackbackA week ago, we started The Outer Alliance. At the time, we had about four members. By Wednesday we had forty. This morning we have 107.
In order to facilitate easier conversation and organization throughout, we’re considering having a forum.
The pros? It means we can order our thoughts a little better. Currently the GoogleGroups systems works on some levels, but doesn’t really allow for categorization. I like ordered little categories and responses. They make me happy.
Cons? A forum would require another login, and would make email notifications completely up to the user. It also would likely mean a little more in the way of moderation.
So, I thought I would leave the decision to you all. If a majority would like a forum, we’ll set one up that you can access directly off the site. If not, we’ll keep the current system as it is.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Can you add a Share button on the blog entries, so we can crosspost them to Facebook (and elsewhere) if we think they’re awesome enough?
@Julie Awesome idea! I’ll look into that.
I’d definitely support the forum idea. I’m a moderator on the Lesbian Fiction Forum, and while it can be time consuming it’s also very rewarding, and the phpBB forum software seems to work very well — easy to set up, easy to organise, and easy for writers and readers to communicate and discuss various issues.