Home Page Changes
Submitted by jim on Thu, 05/27/2004 - 09:11
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I've turned off the "anybody can post to the home page" feature of Listology, and instead will only make that feature available to editors, of which there are three at the moment. Let me know if you want to be an editor. I'm going to try to make the home page more outward-looking, and hopefully I'll be able to post interesting stuff. The proof will be in the pudding (a gloppy, messy place to hide your proof if ever there was one, and talk about obvious!).
What would being an editor entail, Jim?
Nothing, really. Everybody can post to their own weblogs, but editors' posts are propagated to the home page. I'd basically be looking for more outward-looking entertainment news kind of stuff on the home page, rather than the inward-looking "check out my list" sort of posts that were dominating. Not that there was anything wrong with such posts - I just don't really think they really made the home page a valuable resource.
Hmm. I think it's fine if you want to streamline the home page, but I don't see much point in posting those "teasers" to the weblogs. It's much more likely that someone will see the list through the Recent Activity page than from checking an individual user's weblog. Perhaps you could include a simple encouragement to keep weblog posts of universal interest and not commercials for lists. Then, if you still want to restrict home page posting to editors, that's up to you.
Well, there is a point if you use your weblog and have told friends that's where you post updates and stuff, but since nobody really seems to do that (and why would you, with a host of other real weblog tools at your disposal?), perhaps it would be best if I just scrapped that feature entirely.