What about namespace-specific icons? SP, IP, PA, AT....
Or have color-coded crowner icons. Say, yellow for AT, orange for SP, red for PA and green for IP?
edited 20th Aug '11 10:04:40 AM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Is limiting the number of active discussions still an option? We have very nearly two thousand right now. I imagine it wouldn't be that difficult to code, and when someone tries to start a new thread when there are too many, they get a message like "There are currently X number of open discussions. Once the number drops below Y, you can add a new one. Here
is a list of ongoing discussions, oldest at the top."
It could help a little, but even if its limited to one thread per person, there are still enough people making threads to make it too easy to get around.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I think that thread open limits will discourage regulars who tend to do most of the heavy lifting from participating in the forum and not at all discourage the random people posting idle pointless threads.
edited 9th Sep '11 7:06:33 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickAre you certain the 'heavy-lifting' folks start a lot of threads?
edit to add informational item: Here is a quick look at from whom repair shop threads come
. These are the still open threads.
edited 10th Sep '11 12:59:57 AM by FastEddie
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyUp until Discar, those are probably some of the people I'd name as the most active in actually fixing stuff i.e. actually making pages, cleaning wiks, cleaning examples, sandboxing new descriptions and pages.
I'm on that list and I know I do a lot of heavy lifting which is why I can't see my edit history from yesterday morning any more.
It's only in the elevenish and down that I start not recognizing the names as people doing a lot of the work any more.
edited 10th Sep '11 6:37:33 AM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickI added a thing to this thing
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It does look like more than half of the open TRS threads are started by people with a low number of starts.
It looks like if the thing we wish to control is the number of open threads, we should control it directly, by setting a limit on the number of threads that can be open at any one time.
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyI'll admit I haven't been doing nearly as much heavy lifting lately, but that's an RL issue.
Fight smart, not fair.Is it possible to put a freeze on making new TRS threads, but leave IP alone? Those have been going faster now that there's a dedicated mod, TRS just takes a lot more effort.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I'm high-ranking in terms of starting/opn threads? But I'm not really an active member of the TRS these days.
I need to find some of those.
It would be good if there's some sort of tool to find those types of threads. A lot of the TRS watches on my watched thread list are already locked.
edited 10th Sep '11 5:45:39 PM by chihuahua0
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Eh, Willbyr generally focuses on Image Picking and I focus on TRS. I'm working on the back log, but there's a lot more grunt work to be done in the TRS. There's a reason my history only goes back to yesterday. I'm doing a lot of heavy duty clean up work all by myself so that I can get things locked and done.
To that point - you won't find me working in TRS beyond replying to threads and voting in crowners, mainly because RL means that I can't even police IP to the full extent that it needs to be. I still wouldn't mind a freeze on new threads in IP...we've made a lot of progress in there in the last coupla months, but we've still got a huge backlog of open threads.
edited 11th Sep '11 7:47:07 PM by Willbyr
I still think you should lock any thread where the OP doesn't offer a suggestion for a blank page. Only keep a thread around if A) the image on the page might be bad B)a suggestion has been made. People seem to think that a trope fresh out of YKTTW, with no image, needs a thread. While I understand the desire to put a good image up so no one comes along and puts up a bad one, Image Pickin' isn't something that magically spits out images.
Fight smart, not fair.So...do we need a crowner for these things, or just wait for Eddie to implement the moratorium?
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Maybe a separate forum for tropes that merely need some minor cleanup, description fixups, wikilove, or redirect farming? It seems to be the tropes with name problems that really clutter up the list, as quick agreement on a new name is rare. If the tropes that don't have name problems had their own forum, it might slow down the rate at which posts get pushed off the front page, helping keep them all in people's minds. Mods could, of course, move threads between the forums when necessary.
I realize this wouldn't technically reduce the backlog, but it might help with throughput.
Either that or a forum for freshly-launched tropes that shouldn't have been launched, because it's really helpful to catch those quickly, and a hard-limit on the number of open threads in TRS might allow too many of those to fall off the radar.
Other options: mention the backlog more frequently when commenting on TRS threads, so people don't necessarily feel it's their duty to bring anything that seems even slightly questionable to TRS as quickly as possible. Request that they focus on significant problems, and try to let minor issues go for the moment. Slap down frivolous TRS threads as quickly as possible.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.

We should note in the thread title when a crowner is swapped out for another one. We'll try to remember to do that from her on out.