Talk:MoFi FAQ
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This page is for the purposes of creating a MoFi FAQ and/or posting guidelines. It's a free-for-all for ideas, nice tidy phrasing of guidelines or rules, supporting links, whatever. Probably best to separate each contribution with a horizontal line to maintain some sort of organised discussion.
Right, I guess after some of the less-than-stellar posts lately, it's time to get organised and start this. I'm going to start a list of hard-and-fast things I'd like to see on the front page:
- No self-links, especially not as the main link in a post. Self-links in comments or as secondary links in a post should be stated as such.
- Curious, George posts actually need to be a question. None of this "You shouldn't watch TV!" rubbish. It doesn't matter as much whether it's a genuine call for help or one of the popular chatfilter-type questions, provided it's not an editorial disguised as a post.
Hey, that's all I can think of. That's not so bad, I don't feel as bossy.
Other things to think about:
- Motto is presumably "More bananas, less flinging". Do we have, like, a mission statement?
- Where do we differ from Mefi? We're still very derivative of Metafilter but do we still get to claim to be a Mefi clone? How does MoFi's present state differ from Mefi's? Does it even matter?
--tracicle 02:45, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)
In a fit of insomnia I decided to expand on a silly comment I posted to MoFi once. Instead of polluting this page, I'll just link to it. — fuyugare 05:48, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)
- I love this. If no one has any objections or anything to add/detract, I'd like to lift it wholesale to replace the current guidelines. --tracicle 16:19, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)
I think it's time to wean ourselves off the MetaFilter teat. Some of us don't even visit that site any more. Let's stand alone and build our own thing.
We're a community based around online discussion of interesting links, meeting and/ or helping each other, sharing CD mixes, swapping games, sending each other gifts, and group FAQ-ing. These things are the bananas.
How about that as a description of what MoFi is all about?
I like the idea of beginning the FAQ with the good things: "this is how to do it", and then hitting people with the bad things: "but you'd better not try this". It just seems more welcoming than "Hello. Don't you dare do this..." --Skrik 10:50, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)
fuyu's description of bad posts is spot on! It also might be funny to throw in quidnunc's FAQ somewhere too. And I agree with Skrik, lets drop the Mefi-clone thing and stand on our own. Genial 11:58, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)
- I'd like to use quid's FAQ somehow. Someone said it's very member-centric as in you really need to be a member to "get it", but we could borrow from it or add to it, or just link to it as an extension of the "real" FAQ. --tracicle 00:32, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)
this is a test comment about MoFi: Answers to see if i'm even capable of this. -- Muffpub 2 21 00:09, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)
ok, now that we have THAT out of the way, i have a small ideafilter...
with quid's permission, could we put his FAQ up here and expand on it? would anyone besides me actually go for that? just a thought. -- Muffpub 2 21 00:10, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)
Shouldn't the <hr>-separated discussion be here instead of in the article itself? — fuyugare 02:56, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)
- The FAQ page is intended to be for working out a FAQ. The finished article will be converted to HTML and will replace the existing FAQ. --tracicle 04:26, 11 Apr 2005 (EDT)
- I think it's better to talk here and edit on the article page. --Richer 00:52, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)
Um.
Under heading 6, the guideline text in the box doesn't wrap in my firefox. it just stretches across the right edge of the page wayyy out. Is it just me? </noob> --Muffpub 2 21 00:47, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)
- Should be fixed --Richer 00:50, 12 Apr 2005 (EDT)
I think it may be useful in the FAQ to discourage the use of tinyurl, for a couple reasons (in rapidly descending order):
- tinyurls expire and get re-used, and this decreases the integrity of the archive <li>The user can't see the destination. This is a minor quibble, and as the famous Corey Feldman Incident can show, even the URL doesn't always show good provenance, but I think it helps to see where we're going. <li>It's not much harder to cut and paste a URL right into the posting box than it is a tinyurl. And for a tinyurl, the poster has to go to extra trouble. </ul> Just my thoughts. chimaera (btw, how do I do that automatic attribution trick that shows userid, date and time?)
