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IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Keres - October 13, 2020
HELLO I have a suggestion to help everyone keep up with IC happenings? On Lies, we had an IC news plugin that members could submit finished threads in to keep everyone up to date and it would list all the news on its own page? It allowed the creation of tags for different things, so things like "Death", "BWP", and then also each group/pack had a tag so that you coulf filter it. I'm not great at explaining things so let me show you pictures.
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![[Image: unknown.png]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/609022516324728839/765641933572931614/unknown.png)
Click to see a screenshot of the entire page
There were, of course rules:
There are a few things you need to know before submitting an item to the News:
We used "Important" as like. BWP stuff or things that were big, like the formation of a new pack, but it doesn't auto-clear important pins after a certain time frame so we'd go in and un pin them.- Threads must be finished and archived before being submitted.
- Only thread participants (or an Admin) may submit threads. Please do not submit threads that you were not a part of.
- Thread summaries must be kept concise, friendly, and unbiased.
- Thread summaries should be informative and not vague or "click-baity".
- An example of a click-baity summary: "A vampire and a were have an unexpected encounter. What happens next is a total shock."
- An example of a click-baity summary: "A vampire and a were have an unexpected encounter. What happens next is a total shock."
- Only Admin may mark a thread as Important.
Most importantly, we only allowed it for threads in the archive that were complete so no one could use it as like a "hey come join this".
I still have the plug in and all the stuff for it if you want? idk. Just a suggestion from someone who struggles to keep up with everything.
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - RIP Wintersbane - October 13, 2020
Oh man, I love this idea!
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Osiris’s Ghost - October 13, 2020
This is an excellent idea! *chef kiss*
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Haoniyao - October 13, 2020
Oh yes please!
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Klaus - October 13, 2020
A THOUSAND TIMES YES. (if it's possible!)
I will say I'd prefer to have ongoing threads linked in these instead of completed, aint' no one tryna wait. HUFF
![[Image: GraciousMediumEagle-size_restricted.gif]](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/GraciousMediumEagle-size_restricted.gif)
I will say I'd prefer to have ongoing threads linked in these instead of completed, aint' no one tryna wait. HUFF
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Keres - October 13, 2020
So the reason it was set to completed threads only was because people would use the IC news as a way to unfairly weight certain threads (war/fights/disagreements/etc). And since it's News, the summary would have been the explanation of the general gist of the threads vs what might happen in a thread.
That's the way we used it, but of course it can be configured to whatever way the CMs/community feels best.
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Klaus - October 13, 2020
(October 13, 2020, 02:14 PM)Keres Wrote: So the reason it was set to completed threads only was because people would use the IC news as a way to unfairly weight certain threads (war/fights/disagreements/etc). And since it's News, the summary would have been the explanation of the general gist of the threads vs what might happen in a thread.
That's the way we used it, but of course it can be configured to whatever way the CMs/community feels best.
Hmm, I see!
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Phox - October 13, 2020
We've had suggestions like this before, and I even used to run a monthly update newsletter with major happenings... but I couldn't get people to submit stuff. I wouldn't mind doing a month trial-run where we use our Twitter account to promote IC happenings, and if that really takes off, we could make it more prominent. :)
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - Bridget - October 14, 2020
I'm not sure when I'll have time in the foreseeable future to look into something like this, but it's a neat idea
RE: IC NEWS? - Plug in Suggestion/Offer - RIP Toad Amelia - November 08, 2020
I am a fan of anything that helps me keep track of....anything xD