After some help from a few folks, and some suggestions, the forums are undergoing some restructuring.
Instead of the Wood Between the Worlds, the International Forum and Tea with Mr. Tumnus all being used for general threads, all of that will happen in the new "The Lamp-post" forum at Lantern Waste.
Tea with Mr. Tumnus is reserved for meeting the new members and introduction style threads alone.
Also, the Stone Table needs a big of restructuring, and we're thinking like this:
- CHRISTIANITY AND NARNIA – This forum should only contain threads that are about the Christian aspects of Narnia and C.S. Lewis only, and specifically Christian threads should not be in the Books section. Obviously there is bound to be Christian influence come into the book discussion but I have always thought that that was going off-topic, certainly that’s how it used to be.
- SOCRATIC CLUB – here’s where all the general Christian/religious/spiritual/philosophical/political threads go. AND NOWHERE ELSE!!!
- PRAYER REQUESTS – so as the above comment said – this should not be for discussions – just PRAYER REQUESTS!
- LAND OF DUFFERS - there needs to be change here. There seems to be an attitude that ‘to duffer’ means to spam random and pointless comments or just chat. If you wanna do that - there's an app for that! It's called FlashChat and it can be found under "quick links" at the top. If you go there, and find you're the only one there, keep it open in another window, and someone else is bound to show up. If you notice others are on at the same time that you are, and you find you're responding to each other in a thread, feel free to move the conversation to the chat!
Duffers is for forum games, and the typical Duffer threads that was randomness but was still on topic and not spamming. It was meant to have a good time. If you remember the duffers in the book, they were random, but they were always on topic and witty with regard to the topic.
There are many other forum changes to come but these are some of the first.
Instead of the Wood Between the Worlds, the International Forum and Tea with Mr. Tumnus all being used for general threads, all of that will happen in the new "The Lamp-post" forum at Lantern Waste.
Tea with Mr. Tumnus is reserved for meeting the new members and introduction style threads alone.
Also, the Stone Table needs a big of restructuring, and we're thinking like this:
- CHRISTIANITY AND NARNIA – This forum should only contain threads that are about the Christian aspects of Narnia and C.S. Lewis only, and specifically Christian threads should not be in the Books section. Obviously there is bound to be Christian influence come into the book discussion but I have always thought that that was going off-topic, certainly that’s how it used to be.
- SOCRATIC CLUB – here’s where all the general Christian/religious/spiritual/philosophical/political threads go. AND NOWHERE ELSE!!!
- PRAYER REQUESTS – so as the above comment said – this should not be for discussions – just PRAYER REQUESTS!
- LAND OF DUFFERS - there needs to be change here. There seems to be an attitude that ‘to duffer’ means to spam random and pointless comments or just chat. If you wanna do that - there's an app for that! It's called FlashChat and it can be found under "quick links" at the top. If you go there, and find you're the only one there, keep it open in another window, and someone else is bound to show up. If you notice others are on at the same time that you are, and you find you're responding to each other in a thread, feel free to move the conversation to the chat!
Duffers is for forum games, and the typical Duffer threads that was randomness but was still on topic and not spamming. It was meant to have a good time. If you remember the duffers in the book, they were random, but they were always on topic and witty with regard to the topic.
There are many other forum changes to come but these are some of the first.