A couple of thoughts: * Pinning should never have been globally available. I appreciate the argument that no great harm was done, but it evidently created confusion as to who could see that a thread had been pinned * We should agree on general rules for what threads might qualify for being pinned. To me, pinning would start with urgent announcements (e.g. if discovered a serious bug in a release and wanted to warn people to upgrade), important on-going informational threads like “Newbies start here” * Generally I think it might be interesting to experiment with more use of pinned threads that are updated by an admin (e.g. we could have a thread “Announcements December 2019” that a volunteer like (say) Mohammad might undertake to update on a regular basis) * As to plugin announcements, maybe the route to the widest audience is to put them on tiddlywiki.com <http://tiddlywiki.com/>. For a year now we’ve had the ability to do near instantaneous updates to tiddlywiki.com <http://tiddlywiki.com/> just by merging a pull request. It’s a shame we haven’t seen more use made of this; for the first time, tiddlywiki.com <http://tiddlywiki.com/> is editable by anyone who can create a PR * We can appoint as more group managers if we need to
Best wishes Jeremy > On 6 Dec 2019, at 09:45, TonyM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bit of a storm in a tea cup > > I had never pinned anything before. Found I could and assumed it was private. > Two other pins occurred then I found out it was public and started a pin exit > plan. > > As far as I can see this has being the extent of pins in the last year or > more so, with respect, I suggest education before restricting or dictating. > > This is only my opinion but I have seen dozens of forums fail by the > overzelouse slippery slope arguements that gradually disable features, create > moderator roles where none were necessary, all due to perceived only > possibilities. > > As soon as you remove member responsibility you stop them taking > responsibility. > > By the way my two pins received substantial contributions as a result, to a > community wide need. > > Please solve problems by education first, not reducing things to an imaginary > lowest common denominator. > > Sincerly > Tony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c508d140-c1c8-4d3c-9e04-60f08190be15%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/A6ED1CAB-EFAF-418D-B853-2C5EDF657D89%40gmail.com.
