Forum Suggestion II

First of all, what was happening at 2:08 am on Monday July 16 2007 (vis. most ever ILP users on line)?

How about a Forum that attempts to 1) indicate a user-helpful history of ILP, and 2) provide a goal/template for excellence in posting?

It could start out as something on the order of an ILP greatest hits forum, where moderators would post links to past threads that they think are most worth making available to the general user, i.e. as examples of ILP’s storied past.

It could evolve through current users posting an annual nomination of a thread that they learned the most from … which is to say, not a thread where they themselves were necessarily at their oratorical best, but a thread where they could state something about what they learned from another’s or others’ edifications. The resulting nominations could be brought to vote in various categories on an annual basis, so to then lock and preserve the greatest hits of 2009, etc.

This would also provide non-member users a good spot to check out what ILP is capable of.

This ſounds ſimilar to the idea of an ILP wiki which has been kicked around in the paſt. My underſtanding is that it is, ultimately, too much of a pain in the aſs to actually implement. Juſt try to keep threads alive by linking them in your own poſts, I try and do that as beſt I can.

Hmm… couldn’t there just be a locked thread placed somewhere where some sort of listing of exemplary threads could be accessed… I ask as I have enjoyed your & others’ secondary links in the past, and think it would be useful especially for those many eternally returning questions that arise (not that reinventing the wheel isn’t in many respects a useful activity either though).

P.eTh. Love the long eth thing, though I think a thimple th could make thingth interethting too… although I ath a mere “Thinker” would perhapth drown in the thought…