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Mihaela wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "More people need to see this!"

Hi, Elizabeth! It is one of the biggest threads, so I am sure more people will see this soon. Have a good day :)"

Just giving it a bump in case

Yasss!!!
Now this thread will be automatically bumping every minute or so. It does involves magic of course. I only hope I won't be banned on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ for this.

great, eternal notification :D (I know I can unfollow this discussion, I know...)

Ash wrote: "First of all - it's great to see you!

We seem to be working for some very little time, and it's already a bit messy here, since we don't have a well structured discussion board with folders and na..."

I would like to suggest the book "You're never weird on the internet. Almost." by Felicia Day. It's an inspiring book that I loved reading I will almost definitely read again.

Kaitlin wrote: "Ash wrote: "First of all - it's great to see you!

We seem to be working for some very little time, and it's already a bit messy here, since we don't have a well structured discussion board with fo..."

Kaitlin! You got the right idea, but the thread for posting book suggestions is not here, it is: /topic/show/...

Yay! The Thread of the first book Emma started is pinned! Progress! :D

Bumping this up :)

Hey Ho Ash!

I don't know if this helps and I don't even know if this is an urgent task for you - but I found the following guidelines on how to organize the forum with folders and adding threads to folders. I'm not sure but wouldn't this help to organize and give the forum more overview?

How do I add a discussion thread to a folder in a group?

1) Navigate to your group's page.

2) Click on "Discussion Board".

3) Click on "edit folders" on the top right (see image -- click to enlarge).

4) Click on "add a folder" on the top right to start adding folders. As soon as you have your folders, you can start adding discussion threads to them.

5) Click on the discussion thread you'd like to add.

6) At the top of the page, click "edit" next to the thread's title.

7) Next to "folder", select a folder and save.

/help#groups...

Sascha, this is a great guideline, thank you! Unfortunately, only a moderator can do this. Anyone else like you and me just have no access to this functionality. So we have to wait when our administration will pay some attention :-) I wrote a few messages to Luke but he seems to be inactive. I think he and Emma just overwhelmed by all messages people sent them, so our prayers are very unlikely to be heard

oceanid wrote: "@ Ash - are you a moderator? If you are, I'd like to suggest maybe the addition of some more subforums since there are so many people here, to simplify things."

He is not :) (wait, you're a he, right, Ash? )

Jonathan wrote: "wait, you're a he, right, Ash?"
Yep :-) This is not my real name because the real one is too much work to write.

oceanid wrote: "@ Ash - are you a moderator? If you are, I'd like to suggest maybe the addition of some more subforums since there are so many people here, to simplify things."
I'm a regular member without any special privileges. We just tried to elaborate some basic rules for all to prevent this board from being as chaotic as it could be. We even figured out a possible structure for this board, with folders and naming conventions, and sent our suggestions to real moderators, but they are basically out of reach. Still waiting for their reaction

i think about everything in this world and life

Some topics are just plain useless- maybe one of the Moderators should delete some topics, or create folders. (Welcome, Current BOTM Discussion, Books We've Discussed, etc.)

For men feminism should be treating a woman like a Queen and a girl like a princess? What do you think bout that?

Gualberto wrote: "For men feminism should be treating a woman like a Queen and a girl like a princess? What do you think bout that?"

I'm not quite sure you're in the right topic for that discussion XD this is a thread to list out some guidelines for people to follow

Oh no! It seems to be necessary to BUMP it up again!

Anyone know when we'll learn what next month's book is? I'd love to know toward the end of January because it can take a few days to get hold of books and that eats into February's reading time.

Sascha wrote: "Oh no! It seems to be necessary to BUMP it up again!"
My apologies, I had to switch off my laptop for a few hours

Ash, no apologies, I didn't even think that it all depends on your laptop to be online... I guess it would really help if there was more moderation, right?

Sascha wrote: "Ash, no apologies, I didn't even think that it all depends on your laptop to be online... I guess it would really help if there was more moderation, right?"
Definitely. Actually, without real moderation there is a possibility for this group not be able to stand for long. I don't want to explain the mechanics in public, but there are a multiple threats that only a real moderator can prevent. The question is - who will appear first, moderator or villain.

Ash, then for me the question is: Is there something we can do to reach the goal of moderation? By "we" I mean we the people who are using this platform and wish this platform to live a long and prosper life.

Sascha wrote: "Ash, then for me the question is: Is there something we can do to reach the goal of moderation? By "we" I mean we the people who are using this platform and wish this platform to live a long and pr..."
I see two options:
1. Reach for our real moderators, make the situation clear for them, and wait for their whatever actions. We've tried many times, no luck. Emma's twitter may be a good place to reach for her though.
2. Create an another place to be able to move people on it in case of emergency. A new platform could be safer and easier to administrate. But it is a very difficult task in itself and it may take a lot of time.

Well, as I don't use Twitter that's not an option for me. But I have written a short message to Luke (again). And I hope he will consider our concern for moderation. *Keeping fingers crossed*

Sascha wrote: "Well, as I don't use Twitter that's not an option for me. But I have written a short message to Luke (again). And I hope he will consider our concern for moderation. *Keeping fingers crossed*"
I suppose they've received a thousands of messages since this board was announced. So there is a scarce chance (while it exists) that they actually open their mailbox at all.

*Jumping on the seesaw*
And...
*BUMP*
Yeah, this is fun :)

bump

The whole "too many topics" issue is why I prefer SMF (forum) boards. Its easier to organize topics. However, here is easier to help people find you and also maybe helps keep spam down. lol

I had started my own forum with a friend of mine so that we could be excruciatingly detailed with organizing our various projects. What was so brilliant about it is that it on my own website where "necroposting" and "Foreign languages" can be allowed, and we can do it our way and theme it our way to the Nth degree - right down to every single emoticon allowed. The alternative would have been to get a "special forum" on a rpg ace game maker forum (not enough control), or use one of the gazillion racist forums out there that allows you to have a free forum as long as its in English. FYI: None of our games are finished or suitable for public consumption as we are rubbish yet. And the stories we write are just first drafts and often NanoWrimo (National Novel Writing Month) productions.

@Kytriya -- It is not so much that goodreads is hard to keep organized, because, to me, it is the easiest site to organize that I have ever been on. It is just a matter of having active moderators to ensure everything does stay neat and tidy. ^^ An example of how neat a group can be when organized can be found here.

On a side note, did you finish NaNoWriMo last year? If so, congratulations! Me and some of my friends have done it. One has been published from a few years ago, and one of them finished with me in 2015.

there is hope?

Jonathan wrote: "there is hope?

"

I at least tried! ;-)

~ Teri

@Savannah I wasn't aware that Goodread had those options. On the SMF board, you can collapse major topic headings, and underneath each major topic heading, you can have many levels of sub-topics. You can get ridiculous in this regard.

As an example, you could have: (dumb example! Sorry!)
Level 1: Each heading is a different story title.
Level 2: Various cities that is in the story.
Level 3: Places within the specific city.
Level 4: Items within those places.

My forum is private and requires a user account in order to access it, so I can't give you a working example.

For this group, I'd use something along the lines of...

Terms and definitions --> ABC order of boards by term --> Various topics of discussion on term.

Minority Issues
--> ABC order by Country (Country is the name of the board).
--> ABC order by Religion
--> ABC order by Race
--> LGBTQ (name to be whatever is the most inclusive according to what members of this group wants with the most inclusive name winning)
--> Pro-abled (often referred to as disabled)
etc.

Something like that. I'd seriously would have to think about it more as I think I'm on the right track but leaves much to be desired. rofl

I would like to suggest Jenny Lawson's book, "Furiously Happy". It isn't about equality or feminism, but is a book about one woman's journey with learning to be who she really is, and learning to not be afraid to show it and sharing yourself with world.

Ash wrote: "*yeah! this is an automated bumper message!*"

Is there no way to pin messages on here?

Rhiannon wrote: "Ash wrote: "*yeah! this is an automated bumper message!*"

Is there no way to pin messages on here?"

There is, but only by moderators. So far the moderation is very low, and only Emma's own topic on this month's book is pinned.

Yay we have a Meghan! :D *cheers*

You don't need bumper messages anymore, Ash. ^^

Yay! Another mod!!

AND FOLDERS!!!

Savannah wrote: "You don't need bumper messages anymore, Ash. ^^"

Its an automatic message thing they're prolly not online rn haha

Woop woop! :D

Cool, everything is much more organised right now. Thx a lot !

Folks, looks like we withstood! Congratulations to all :-)

Savannah wrote: "You don't need bumper messages anymore, Ash. ^^"
Oh yes, I can now switch off my laptop whenever I want. That's so cool!

Teri wrote: "I at least tried! ;-) "
You really made a difference, thank you so much!

OMG, finally our prayers were heard and messages were read. Though I am not a religious person. But nevertheless, praise the moderators! :)

Well... the topic can be pinned, but no one will see a topic pinned to the top of the folder in the bottom.
This problem can be solved by moving this thread in "general" folder, for example.

This is AMAZING!!! Great topics, wonderful opinions. I am glad I joined!

Another topic I would like to suggest pinning in a higher up section, would be the (largest) Introduction one? It is in misc. now, and a lot less people seem to be finding it than before. Now ofcourse this might be because less new (active) people are joining now, but I doubt that. I was rather enjoying reading every single introduction :D

We can just move it to the "general" folder instead of pinning, since this folder is on top. It can be done by moderator or by creator of this topic

I just want to say that it's really-really-really cool idea to start something like that :) I'm so happy to see that there are more people like me, who consider being a feminist as something positive! LOVE Emma for this. Hope I won't miss any book! Warm hugs everybody!

Woop woop! Congratz and good luck, Kodak and Ash! :D "Volunteer Moderators"!

Task number one, delete this (now duplicate) thread? xD
I will be sad to see it go... It sort of felt like a little project of like-minded people within a project of like-minded people :P

Anyway, I am glad we can now really just focus on the goal of this Book Club: Reading and Discussing book on feminism! :D

Ash wrote: "We can just move it to the "general" folder instead of pinning, since this folder is on top. It can be done by moderator or by creator of this topic"

well there you go then mister moderator ;)