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A New Forum Perhaps?
I have this crazy idea that perhaps TR may need a “Success Stories” forum or a specific feedback forum. For those who like to Blog can share how the entity TR has helped them in their journey.
It could be as easy as sharing your experiences attending an event, or perhaps going out for the first time or perhaps you can share something personal on how TR and its members/events has helped with self discovery and being gender diverse….
It could help others and new members come out of the closet and no longer feel afraid or weird. We need to tell the world we are awesome and lovable people
Just a positive thought
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Yes Amy I do agree. I have posted this stuff in my blogs but it would take a new member a lot to find it all.
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Kelly Jones
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An interesting idea… good publicity is always good publicity ?
The practicalities though…Currently much of the content for the proposed forum is in blogs.
We need to be clear why someone would post in this new “Success story” forum in preference to their blog – particularly as the current blog is member-only and also blogs encourage followup individual feedback/encouragement posts.I wonder if most members might be too modest to assume that their “success” was worthy of the spotlight. On the other hand a new forum full of “I bought my first pair of knickers” posts isn’t quite what I think Amy had in mind?
Personally I’m also not particularly attracted to the idea of a forum where each noteworthy success story is followed a large number of posts from members saying “Well Done”. That was what the blogs were created for.
So it seems as if the success stories need to be culled from the blogs and elsewhere, edited to make them suitable for public consumption, and posted in the new forum. But the editor or editors would be open to accusations of bias or selectivity without clear guidelines. Which brings me back to where I started…..
So who wants to “own” this new forum, establish its guidelines, and create the content???
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Would it be worth considering (and is it technically possible) to add a checkbox to a blog entry, such that if the box is ticked, the content of the blog entry is displayed on a “success stories” page?
Another check box could be used to indicate public/private sharing.
Or maybe 3 radio buttons;
– Blog only
– Private success stories
– Public success storiesI’m not sure if any of this makes any sense. I’ve been suffering insomnia and I haven’t been to bed yet.
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Quote:I don’t think that it was being implied to move current entries out of their spaces though Amanda, just new items was all (I think?).
True, that was the original proposal. But my suggestion on how to make it viable rested on making an editorial copy, not moving the original
Quote:Would it be worth considering (and is it technically
possible)Everything is worth considering, and almost everything is technically possible given unlimited development resources!
Quote:to add a checkbox to a blog entry, such that if the box is ticked, the content of the blog entry is displayed on a “success stories” page?Which is, as I read it a proposal to make a copy of selected articles.
Amanda’s Golden Rule No 5a is never to automate something by software that you haven’t tried out first the ‘old-fashioned’ manual way. With a manual process you can explore who can make the decision to select a success-blog article, where it is looked for (many suitable articles are currently in forums like Coming Out), what options are needed, how much editorial editing is needed…..etc..etc
So my advice is that if this thread identifies an idea worth trying then it is tried out manually with some type of editor involved. If the idea works then I’ll automate what works!
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Point taken with not wanting “I bought my first pair of panties” as the content. We could have invite only with editor approval before posting …. or may be the reputation of Unquestionable to be able to post.
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Kelly Jones
