Topic: News - Spirit Lounge - New Board for Registered Users

[Jim]

On some of the other sites that Dianna frequents they have an area where folks that are on-line at the same time can kind-of chat back and forth. We thought it was a good idea and as a result the Spirit Lounge was born.

This is the new board name and inside you will see a topic titled "Spirit Lounge X" where X is a number starting with "1". The first topic would be "Spirit Lounge 1".  That topic is for you to post in when you have noticed that someone else is on the forum at the same time you are and you want to "chat".  When the topic reaches 100 post, a moderator or member should close that topic and open another using the same title but incrementing the number. So the new chit chat topic would be "Spirit Lounge 2" and so on.

There should only be one topic titled Spirit Lounge open at any given time.  Please don't start other topics in this board as they will be moved.

Let's see how this works and feel free to let myself or Dianna or Bonnie know if you have suggestions on how to make this simpler or more enjoyable.

[Jim]

Just a quick note here, while you are in the Spirit Lounge, you will need to refresh in order to see what the other person has posted. Of course if you post, then they do, while you are posting again, they would need to refresh to see your answer to what they posted. Does that make sense??

[Jim]

Update:  effective 4/11/07 the Spirit Lounge board is no longer a child board.  It will be on the main index.  All others remain the same.

[Jim]

Effective yesterday, post in the Spirit Lounge do not increase your post count.  I set things that way because in an effort to save on disk space periodically I delete the old SLs.  When I do that, you post count goes down.  By making the SL post not count, that also means that the post count will not go down when I delete the old SLs.  At least that's the theory.  We'll see the next time I do some housekeeping. 

[Triss]

That works for me.  I hope it helps in the housekeeping and disk space usage.

[MassMama]

Hope it works out for ya Jim.. I know it must be a pain to keep the disk space free!!

[Dianna]

The Ghoul Galley is for those who drop in only a few times a day and wish to keep up on other member's day to day life. Please use this topic like a daily journal, and continue to use the spirit lounge threads for general chatting.

Thank you guys in advance for helping us keep this thread on target.
 
Tell us about what is going on in your corner of the world.

Journal area is now open and operating!

SSH Team

[Triss]

This is a very exciting topic, kind of like a place to do a daily blog?  Do we want comments here or just a place for people to go to read so that we can keep up with each other?

[barleychown]

This is a very exciting topic, kind of like a place to do a daily blog?  Do we want comments here or just a place for people to go to read so that we can keep up with each other?

We are aiming for only one or two posts per day, per person in the galley. When you do your daily entry, feel free to quote and reply to other's posts at the same time.

[Triss]

Thanks for the quick reply Sarah!  And for moving my question to the right place Dianna!  This is going to be a lot of fun.

[christy]

wow thats a great idea! its hard keeping up with every one when we all pop in at diffrent times

[Tonya]

Great idea, you all!! Much easier than reading through a couple SLs to catch up!!

[Penny]

I agree, much easier then trying to go back and read all the other previous posts, great idea!

[Jim]

Effective tonight, your post count will increase when you post in the Spirit Lounge.  If you remember I set it so it wouldn't because when it doesn't count, then when I delete them you post count doesn't go down.  That worked great for the SL but when I deleted the old birthday topics, they went down again.  So tonight I installed a mod that allows me to delete any post or topic and it doesn't decrease your post count.

We don't hand out any awards for post so it really doesn't matter but I didn't like seeing the individual post count going down when I was doing the housekeeping! 

[Triss]

I do not even look at my post counts, so I never saw if they went up or down.

[Jim]

I don't think any of our members care about the post count.  I had even thought about making it so it couldn't be seen.  The main reason I didn't is just the normal nature of forums.  So it will stay but the only thing it does is change you post based group.  On some forums there may be added features that you can't see till you are a specific group.  Currently we don't have any thing like that except for the 20 post requirement to move to the Newbie group.

[sunsoaker]

How many posts to move from Jr. to Full Member? Not that it really matters, just curious.

[Jim]

I had to go look.  It's currently set at 500.