Re: AGA Forums (fwd) One forum for all and all for, um, one?

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> > > How about we make up a checklist and if we cover the
> list,
> > then let's talk to James about moving forward?
> > for the list, at least these:
> >
> > Initial subjects/focus
> 
> Beginners
> Plants and culture (I'd be willing to do this one)
> Aquascaping (Hey Erik, how about Arthur hee hee)
> High Tech   (GB?)
> Chemistry   (someone that does plants *and* math)
> AGA/members news
> Chit chat (knowing Scott, he could come up with a clever
> name<g>)

Well, I think what might work best, although it isn't
clever, is General Discussion (remember him?).  This would
end up a holding tank/clearing house for stuff that might
be redirected elsewhere among these forums and be a
location for stuff that doesn't fit in elsewhere. Or
comments posed to generate discussion. A catch -all, like a
Bucket. If I was going thematic, I'd call it the Chum
Bucket.


> Paludariums?  (Gadd?)
> Marine plants? (draw Tom Barr in?)  

I like how that works with both meanings -- his plantfest
ads on DFWAPC with those stick figures. Everybody asks Tom
to join their board and he promises to try to look in when
he can and intially the activity is high, but it fades off.
If we have this section and a poster or two that's zealous
about it, Tom will surely visit.

> Members' photo gallery?

 
> > comfort re liabilities
> 
> I wonder if David could run it by his lawyer friend who
> helped with the
> incorporation/non-profit stuff?  Another possibility
> would be Steve Dixon.

I think it makes a world of diff if we edit or control
content directly or do it like APD, using only moral
suassion. So we should pick one or the other and present
the question that way.

> 
> > Initial Moderators on board
> 
> Maybe we should ask him whether he's just offering to
> host the forum, or if
> he'd moderate it too?  He'd have a vested interest in
> keeping things civil
> and legal... Mark got sued right along with Cynthia with
> the Petswarehouse
> thing.
> 
> I'd be willing to take on a section, but not the whole
> thing.  And not the
> beginners section... I've done my share of that.<g>


Sounded to me like he expected there to be moderators but
he'd oversee.

James himself is a mod on AB, and Phil Edwards and Roger.
But Ghori might have retired from AB. I can see some
tension here with AB.

As for mod roles, I'd accept whichever is leftover (roles,
leftovers, how thematic). I'd do Equipment for the fun of
it but it's much better to try for GB on high tech, which
would make "Equip." redundant, which a lot of gardeners
think much of it is anyway :-)

 
sh

=====
S. Hieber

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