April Site Update
Tangst underwent a couple of changes this month.
First and foremost was the April Fool's joke that very few people got. Apparently no one checks the date - I personally thought that Tangsters would be slightly more observant than these people, but I guess not. Oddly enough, the sentiments of both sets are eerily similar until a certain point.
The sidebar was updated to better fit user preferences on several occasions over the course of the month. With the addition of the 1000th post, plus the admin and contributor responses, new sections were created and the order of items on the sidebar shifted around some.
Thanks to Enloe prom activities, there were two obviously backdated posts from Saturday, April 8th.
Thanks to Enloe StuCo elections, one post was removed, then put back on the site. This was due to a policy clarification regarding the actual intent of the policy on no "commercial" advertising.
Recently, there have been a number of people requesting to be added to the contributors list. The admins are in the middle of reconsidering the requirements to be both admins and contributors. Unfortunately, we were unable to come to a consensus on the issue before getting smacked in the head with APs and homework. This will be resolved in the following weeks, but for now, we're going to let things stay as they are and no additions will be made. The two contributors that were added this month are long time posters on the site, and are people that I (and the other admins/contributors) know fairly well. That's not at all fair, but it's hard to trust someone you've never met. After the backlash and chaos caused by the Ailill_Angra_Mainyu incident, I've learned to be a lot more... selective with who does and does not get added to the list. It can no longer just be a free-for-all. From what we've decided so far, it looks like we're going to have to get a known location (for time zone issues) in order to be a contributor. Admins, we still aren't at all sure about.
We're also in the middle of making an accessible list of the rules that admins have to follow. Contributors will also have their own list. It's just things regarding behavior - things we are and are *not* allowed to do. Such as delete personal posts that have comments on them, delete comments that have been commented on, etc.
As we look forward to the month of May, we don't expect too much to be going on - there's a two week period where nothing will happen except posting. No maintence, no list updates, etc. Just posts and comments. There will probably be two or three more contributors on the list after the two week break period and the admins figure out the rules and lists and such.
Really, we're all just looking forward to summer.
First and foremost was the April Fool's joke that very few people got. Apparently no one checks the date - I personally thought that Tangsters would be slightly more observant than these people, but I guess not. Oddly enough, the sentiments of both sets are eerily similar until a certain point.
The sidebar was updated to better fit user preferences on several occasions over the course of the month. With the addition of the 1000th post, plus the admin and contributor responses, new sections were created and the order of items on the sidebar shifted around some.
Thanks to Enloe prom activities, there were two obviously backdated posts from Saturday, April 8th.
Thanks to Enloe StuCo elections, one post was removed, then put back on the site. This was due to a policy clarification regarding the actual intent of the policy on no "commercial" advertising.
Recently, there have been a number of people requesting to be added to the contributors list. The admins are in the middle of reconsidering the requirements to be both admins and contributors. Unfortunately, we were unable to come to a consensus on the issue before getting smacked in the head with APs and homework. This will be resolved in the following weeks, but for now, we're going to let things stay as they are and no additions will be made. The two contributors that were added this month are long time posters on the site, and are people that I (and the other admins/contributors) know fairly well. That's not at all fair, but it's hard to trust someone you've never met. After the backlash and chaos caused by the Ailill_Angra_Mainyu incident, I've learned to be a lot more... selective with who does and does not get added to the list. It can no longer just be a free-for-all. From what we've decided so far, it looks like we're going to have to get a known location (for time zone issues) in order to be a contributor. Admins, we still aren't at all sure about.
We're also in the middle of making an accessible list of the rules that admins have to follow. Contributors will also have their own list. It's just things regarding behavior - things we are and are *not* allowed to do. Such as delete personal posts that have comments on them, delete comments that have been commented on, etc.
As we look forward to the month of May, we don't expect too much to be going on - there's a two week period where nothing will happen except posting. No maintence, no list updates, etc. Just posts and comments. There will probably be two or three more contributors on the list after the two week break period and the admins figure out the rules and lists and such.
Really, we're all just looking forward to summer.
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