Move back to Listserve?

[Art Goodtimes]

bill, jonesy and those few participating in the forum…as maddy williams of southwest greens has noted, she's not comfortable with this forum discussion. and the lack of involvement of most of the group, makes me think we're just not ready for this. i think we need to go back to the email listserve system, and leave the restructuring -- which so few have participated in discussing -- to after the convention. right now the convention issue supercedes all others. and the only chapter offer to host seems to be unacceptable to front range chapters. let's go back to emails and focus on that...artg

[Michael Haughey]

I'm curious to see if this post sends me a notification.  I just set all the topics I could find to notify per the instructions that R.Jones sent on Jan 19, 2012 (very helpful – thanks).  I think the problem with participation is we don't know when there is a discussion and most of us do not have the time to check in every day and browse all the topics.  The notify options should solve this, although I think it will take a little time to adjust.

[Art Goodtimes]

i agree with you michael. you might want to post that on the GP Council Forum discussion. this thread is about using the council temporarily to decide on a location for the convention. i want us to eventually move to this Forum and i would hope there is a switch that lets individual members decide whether they want an email notification or not. i certainly don't. that's the problem with the listserve — it clogs up my mailbox. i will check the forum regularly as a council rep, i just don't want emails coming into my mailbox. on the forum i can decide what to reply to. with new mail, i feel obliged to respond.

[Tanya Ishikawa]

Hi, As noted by me before, I am good with moving this state convention proposal to the listserve for the official vote this time.I did sign up for notifications about different boards and they are working great.I think the main issue is that we don't know about new topics/boards/messages on the forum when the first one is put up, unless we check the forum. To solve that, we either empower a forum moderator or the person who posts the first message in a new discussion to also send a notice to the council listserve that a new discussion is up. Better than that would be if a moderator or posting person had the ability through this forum to email/notify all forum members of the new discussion (so no use of old listserve), or even better yet is if there were a default on this forum that all new discussions would get sent out to forum members (but no additional messages from that discussion unless the person has actually visited it and clicked on notify). Tanya

[Art Goodtimes]

i appreciate those thoughts, tanya. i think we have to vote on the listserve for the convention, but bill and i talked last night and i think he's doing some videos to help folks get the hang of the forum.i think a moderator will be crucial to keep things moving, on point and civil.personally, i'd rather check the forum on my own, when i wanted, and i don't want notifications. my email is far too full already. i would hope that notifications would be an option, not a requirement of this forum. those that don't check it regularly may want a notification, and i think that's fine. also, we have to set up the council space so i really think only the moderator or co-chairs ought to set up the categories, and let anyone start new threads, but not new structures. this could get real messy real fast. already we have netiquette discussions in two different places.

[Bill Bartlett]

Hi everyone!  This is a really healthy discussion about the forum usage and drawbacks.  I have posted some tutorials / quick start stuff and rearranged the forum slightly to accommodate our usage.  You can find some tips under Usage Guidelines, and some netiquette information under the so-named board. To answer some of Tanya's questions: Boards (and Categories) can only be created by Moderators or the Admin.  It is possible to Announce new topics, but it would be wise to keep this to a minimum.  Every member can create a topic of conversation, and to broadcast every new topic would be unwieldy at best.  True, the forum can become so big that one person cannot read EVERYTHING on it, but that's not the point. Certain areas like council discussion are limited in scope, and will therefore be easier to keep track of a limited number of conversations. General discussion areas can contain any number of discussions, from the state of current global affairs to how a state legislative decisions may impact the party.  You can choose to be notified of all new Topics by clicking on the Notify button of any Board (or individual Topic too).  This way, if you are interested in this board and any topics pertaining to it, you would be sent an email any time someone either added a topic or responded to one on this thread. I have given the notification option detail in the new Usage Guidelines board of the forum.  I will also post something to the listserv as well.  Here's the link to that board: http://gpco.fullydefiant.com/forum/index.php?board=37.0

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