News Stories forum - location

[cnredd]

Obviously, tweakage was in order after I started getting feeds from a couple of news outlets...I've toned it down and the "irkness content" is seceding...

I'm wondering if the location of that forum is helping/hurting the forum, so I'd like some thoughts on where it should be...

[Gordon Shumway]

I voted at the bottom. You had indicated that the purpose was to have a similar function to a news ticker that runs across the bottom of your TV. I like the idea. I like the idea so long as it's not dominating the forum. The bottom keeps it tucked away but available at a scroll & click of the mouse.

Your attention to this has been fantastic redd. As for more tweeking...I like the slower working of The Wrinkler. Makes for keeping track of the stories much easier. However, It seems in the last two days the handful of stories being posted just haven't seemed all that interesting; at least not to me. I guess my point is that I don't if you can set what types of stories The Wrinkler looks for or what sources but in a forum titled "Political Wrinkles" I think most of us would be interested in political stories; domestic & foriegn. Even...get this...you're not going to believe it...speeding The Wrinker up again. Not at the former speed but you went from every 30 minutes to every 6 hours. That's a huge difference. Again, I don't know what parameters you have to choose from...Maybe once an hour --- every 3 hours...?...
When you open up The Wrnkler News section you don't want to see multiple pages of stories. Lately it's been about 5 or 6 stories while originally it was sometimes 3 or 4 pages worth. A single page (20 posts) is about the max I'm guessing most of us really want to see. Of course if we're not here for a while we understand that's on us. But, for those of us who are here regularly (likely multiple times a day) 10 to 15 post upon a given visit seems reasonable.

I also want to convey that yes indeed our ADMIN ROCKS!

[cnredd]

Originally Posted by Gordon Shumway

I voted at the bottom. You had indicated that the purpose was to have a similar function to a news ticker that runs across the bottom of your TV. I like the idea. I like the idea so long as it's not dominating the forum. The bottom keeps it tucked away but available at a scroll & click of the mouse.

Your attention to this has been fantastic redd. As for more tweeking...I like the slower working of The Wrinkler. Makes for keeping track of the stories much easier. However, It seems in the last two days the handful of stories being posted just haven't seemed all that interesting; at least not to me. I guess my point is that I don't if you can set what types of stories The Wrinkler looks for or what sources but in a forum titled "Political Wrinkles" I think most of us would be interested in political stories; domestic & foriegn. Even...get this...you're not going to believe it...speeding The Wrinker up again. Not at the former speed but you went from every 30 minutes to every 6 hours. That's a huge difference. Again, I don't know what parameters you have to choose from...Maybe once an hour --- every 3 hours...?...
When you open up The Wrnkler News section you don't want to see multiple pages of stories. Lately it's been about 5 or 6 stories while originally it was sometimes 3 or 4 pages worth. A single page (20 posts) is about the max I'm guessing most of us really want to see. Of course if we're not here for a while we understand that's on us. But, for those of us who are here regularly (likely multiple times a day) 10 to 15 post upon a given visit seems reasonable.

I THINK what you're saying is "Find a news outlet feed that specifically shows stories related directy to political topics...These stories will be more indepth and would probably increase participation."...Whether or not that what you were getting at, I think that's still a good idea..I'll do some sniffing around...

Originally Posted by Gordon Shumway

I also want to convey that yes indeed our ADMIN ROCKS!

I'll refrain from arguing...

[Gordon Shumway]

Originally Posted by cnredd

I THINK what you're saying is "Find a news outlet feed that specifically shows stories related directy to political topics...These stories will be more indepth and would probably increase participation."...Whether or not that what you were getting at, I think that's still a good idea..I'll do some sniffing around...

I'll refrain from arguing...

right on brother...

[Spencer Collins]

I voted..Bottom of the forum (Under "Rules") Most of us are here for politically related dialog. We can get the news anywhere,general news should be covered but it should not be prioritized unless it's politically related.