On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:14, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's because we run an RPG/group fiction project, and it would be > > nice, when someone has a brilliant idea for a backstory post, to > > actually be able to post it to the comm at the LW-date and time > > at which other things were posted that happened on that LW-date > > and time. > > Then people reading the community on their watch page would completely > miss it, wouldn't they? Since the entry wouldn't appear at the top (as > "just posted") but at ?skip=480 or whatever, along with the other > entries posted "at the same time". (Though I presume this may not be a > problem for this particular use-case.)
That's not a problem for us. That's the reason we want it :) They would miss it on their watch lists and it would not appear at the top. Therefore they would not be confused about the chronology by reading stuff that happened in June 1942 right after reading stuff that happened in September 1942. People who only read the community on their watch page also miss all the fictional journal posts that are posted in individual character journals and not to the comm. (Because nobody really wants to friend 200 fictional people.) This is why we have a watchers' community where we post links to things in the order people need to read them in, and a wiki which lists every post that was ever made in the game in game-chronological order. "Historical" posts would be linked to on the wiki in their proper place in the game chronology and would be linked to on the watchers' community *separately* from posts that are currently happening. I imagine other people who want this functionality (for instance, for posting a long fictional work by ONE person, or for ordering other kinds of posts entirely) also want people to read their stuff in the order they want them to read it in, and not as it pops up casually on a watch page. Kiri :) **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
