I'm back

[Quark]

It's only been a month or two since I left and everything has changed! We all have new profiles and weird options. Oh, and I love the polite suggestion on my screen:
Hello Quark it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?

[Niamh]

Hello Quark! welcome back! :)

[Weisinheimer]

Hi quark :wave:

[Quark]

Hello, again.

When did all these changes happen?

[Niamh]

they happened around july or august. Nice change huh?! :D

[Logos]

Welcome back Quark :) there's a link to the forum upgrade thread in my sigline.

[Quark]

they happened around july or august. Nice change huh?! :D

I think I remember the new user profiles, but did they do anything else? I wish I had been in the room when they were throwing out ideas--don't you? Spellchefck would be nice. Or, how about a way to make your own personal forum in your user. You wouldn't have to search around for your threads. Colorful user profiles are good--and I'll have to play around with mine--but I think there are some functional improvements they could make too.


Welcome back Quark :) there's a link to the forum upgrade thread in my sigline.

I see they did make some practical changes.

[Logos]

.... You wouldn't have to search around for your threads. .... Just click your "Statistics" link on your profile to find your posts or threads you have started.

[browneyedbailey]

Welcome back man, how's life treating you?

[Quark]

Just click your "Statistics" link on your profile to find your posts or threads you have started.

Yes, that works for the threads you, yourself, have started, but I was wondering about threads that perhaps you visit often--like those that one might subscribe to. The subscribed threads menu is buried in your user profile, though, and so I was suggesting something like that which would be more immediately available when you log on.

The forum has plenty already, though, so perhaps more options would just clog things up.

But, while I've got people's attention, I might as well pitch my idea for a forum with the non-official bookclubs in it. Those get hidden away under the author forums and no one can find them.

[Niamh]

subscribe to the threads Quark, you will get notification in your usercp or via email when they have been posted to. you dont have to go to the depths of the new profile.
go in to usercp, Scroll down to Subcribed threads, click list subscriptions. then you have a list of all the threads you subscribed to.
Or instead of looking up threads in stats, look over you last posts. some of them will be for those threads.
All the additions to the site are part of a new version of VBulletin and its plug ins. :)

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Any particular bookclubs you looking for? If you want, send me a list and i'll sticky some of them so that they are always at the top of the author forum pages and dont get lost in all the "Please help me with my homework" threads.
Niamh

[Quark]

Welcome back man, how's life treating you?

It's been alright, but I don't think I've seen you before on LitNet. Hi.


Any particular bookclubs you looking for? If you want, send me a list and i'll sticky some of them so that they are always at the top of the author forum pages and dont get lost in all the "Please help me with my homework" threads.

The two I'm most partial toward are the DH Lawrence Short Story thread and the Chekhov Short Story Thread, but there are others like the poetry threads that keep popping up. I just thought a separe forum would be great for these, so people could see the ongoing literary discussions without having to search by author.

[Niamh]

Hummm...I do see your point. Personally for the likes of the discussion threads in Author forums, i think it is almost ideal in some cases that they are there so people can look back on the texts which are close at hand if they are discussing texts available on the site.
I'll sticky some of those threads if the arent already stickied.
If you want to send me a list of any discussions you know off, i can set up a directory index thread in general literature section and sticky it, so everyone just has to go there and follow links to the pages. :) What you think.
The Photo Directory above is an example of what i'll set up... I''l catagorise them under Novel/prose, Drama, Poetry.

[Quark]

Personally for the likes of the discussion threads in Author forums, i think it is almost ideal in some cases that they are there so people can look back on the texts which are close at hand if they are discussing texts available on the site.

There are two author pages, and one of them does list the works--the other doesn't, though. The author page that has the bio and the works listed in the margin is good, but the threads it lists at the bottom are usually, as you said earlier, nervous students looking for homework help minutes before a due date. I don't think most people get to discussion through that author page. Usually, I think we go through the author's forum listed on the forums page which opens up a list of threads on the author's various works. This page is sort of hidden, and someone interested in a story or poem discussion probably wouldn't start their search there.


If you want to send me a list of any discussions you know off, i can set up a directory index thread in general literature section and sticky it, so everyone just has to go there and follow links to the pages. :) What you think.

That would be perfect. Thanks, I wasn't expecting anyone to take my weird ideas seriously. I know of three discussion already (Lawrence, Chekhov, and the poetry bookclub 2) which are could go there, but I'm sure there are others. I'll look over the forum, and get back to you soon.

[Niamh]

That would be perfect. Thanks, I wasn't expecting anyone to take my weird ideas seriously. I know of three discussion already (Lawrence, Chekhov, and the poetry bookclub 2) which are could go there, but I'm sure there are others. I'll look over the forum, and get back to you soon.

PM me when you get a list going. :)

[islandclimber]

Hey Quark! you disappeared off the face of the earth too! Welcome back!

[Virgil]

The two I'm most partial toward are the DH Lawrence Short Story thread and the Chekhov Short Story Thread, but there are others like the poetry threads that keep popping up. I just thought a separe forum would be great for these, so people could see the ongoing literary discussions without having to search by author.

Well, well, look what the cat dragged in. :D You're in luck. We're starting a new Lawrence short story tomorrow.

[Quark]

Hey Quark! you disappeared off the face of the earth too!

As did you, though it looks like you've posted a lot since I've been gone. What have you been up to?


You're in luck. We're starting a new Lawrence short story tomorrow.

I saw that. It's a long one if I'm not mistaken. I'll try to read it sometime this week.

One other thing: can either of you think of any non-official, ongoing literature discussion--like the Lawrence or Chekhov threads--that are in progress now. Niamh wants to set up a directory index in the general literature forum with those threads.

[Janine]

It's been alright, but I don't think I've seen you before on LitNet. Hi.



The two I'm most partial toward are the DH Lawrence Short Story thread and the Chekhov Short Story Thread, but there are others like the poetry threads that keep popping up. I just thought a separe forum would be great for these, so people could see the ongoing literary discussions without having to search by author.

Quark, I just found out not long ago you can easily do this. At the top of a forum you will see Thread Tools - just pull-down that menu and you will see the last option is 'Subscribe to this thread'....then everytime you go online you can just pull down the 'Quick Links' menu and find 'Subscribed Threads" - actually once you have done this and you come on your page that day it will show you the page you have made up with the links you visit. I have quite a number of links listed in there already...ones I normally daily check out. It is such a time-saver. Hope this helps.

Also one can rate the thread...you just vote on it at the top of that thread page. I voted for Chekhov and for Lawrence. That is the way they get the stars.


PM me when you get a list going. :)

Niamh, I don't know about the sticky thing. I was approached before by Logos and Scher about that with Lawrence short story thread and I did not want to make it a sticky thread, because I refer back to things in that thread all the time, while we are discussing the stories. Also more people see it where it is situated. I hope you don't do it with the Lawrence one; I really wish for us to keep it as it is.
I believe just following the instructions, that I wrote above, will give Quark the list he is looking for. I did it awhile back and go right to my listings everytime, I come back on the forum...it is quite easy to do, to set up your own file with a list of threads your visit daily.

[Niamh]

Niamh, I don't know about the sticky thing. I was approached before by Logos and Scher about that with Lawrence short story thread and I did not want to make it a sticky thread, because I refer back to things in that thread all the time, while we are discussing the stories. Also more people see it where it is situated. I hope you don't do it with the Lawrence one; I really wish for us to keep it as it is.
I believe just following the instructions, that I wrote above, will give Quark the list he is looking for. I did it awhile back and go right to my listings everytime, I come back on the forum...it is quite easy to do, to set up your own file with a list of threads your visit daily.

No i've scrapped the sticky idea. I'm going to create an index directory for all the bookclubs/ reading groups. If you go to the Photo directory or nighties recipe index page you will see what i'm suggesting.

[Quark]

So what is the verdict? Should we go ahead with the directory idea?

[Virgil]

No i've scrapped the sticky idea. I'm going to create an index directory for all the bookclubs/ reading groups. If you go to the Photo directory or nighties recipe index page you will see what i'm suggesting.

There is the poetry book read that quasimodo started. I forget the actual name of the thread. We are currently reading Eugenio Montale. And there is the Shakespeare Discussion thread. We are currently reading The Merry Wives of Windsor.

[islandclimber]

As did you, though it looks like you've posted a lot since I've been gone. What have you been up to?

Yeah I came back not too long after you left lol.. I was just needing a break from being online all the time, it is nice to get back into real life at times.. ;)

Also I got pretty busy with work for the better part of the summer, and then took a bit of time off to wander around, do some climbing, hiking, etc... and get some writing done.. the usual stuff for me lol..

how about you? where have you been?

[Quark]

it is nice to get back into real life at times.. ;)

If you say so


I got pretty busy with work for the better part of the summer, and then took a bit of time off to wander around, do some climbing, hiking, etc... and get some writing done.. the usual stuff for me lol..

Sounds like you've had some variety. What are you writing, by the way?


how about you? where have you been?

Grad School.

I took a break from LitNet because it took me a while to learn how to manage my time. In English programs you really have split duties, and figuring out how much time to give each is quite a balancing act.

[Niamh]

There is the poetry book read that quasimodo started. I forget the actual name of the thread. We are currently reading Eugenio Montale. And there is the Shakespeare Discussion thread. We are currently reading The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The Shakespeare one is in the official Bookclub forum, so there is no point adding that to the directory, which is just for unofficial reading groups and clubs started by forum members. :) i'll add the poerty one to the list.