G'day y'all
On IRC we have been discussing the probs of trying to announce important messages (like for example 'vote in the arbcom elections' or 'consider dual licensing your contributions' etc.). Now one road is spam which is great fun (*cough*) Now i came up with two other possible solutions which i have already floated on IRC.
One) A template that could be put on any user/user talk page (since most users -i think- visit one or the other reasonably frequently) which would have a list of important votes, polls, requests, etc. perhaps three at a time, with no more than two line discriptions, and no more than one new one added per day? or whatever....
Two) a spam catogry (again on a user talk page), that says that you will accept spam (obviuosly not commercial spam, just relevant spam).
These two could even be combined by having two different identicle announcement templates one of which adds the spam catogary and one which doesnt.
Now the reason that i think this is necessary is that there are A LOT of people who never go on IRC, or read this list, and only very rarely visit the VP.
So what do people think, yay or nay... (oh, and another thing, i have no friggin' idea how to make a template... so if the answer is yay could someone umm.... lend me a hand or two, thanks.)
paz y amor, [[User:The bellman]]
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:43:35 +1100, Rebecca misfitgirl@gmail.com wrote:
Ram-Man's proposal wasn't unreasonable, and due to the number of people it needed to reach (i.e. far more than the usual 100 people that vote on most polls), it wasn't necessarily a bad idea to choose talk pages over a post on the Village Pump or equivalent.