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Suave
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 25 Jan 2015 Location: Thailand Status: Online Points: 25027 |
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You don't know how much work in the background we do. People have a lot of trouble using the list we have, in the doc your talking about people could easily screw up other peoples posts - I really don't this could work here. I think the Format we have is the best for the situation. |
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stephenmatlock
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 10422 |
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+1 on Nixie's statements here. While we can ameliorate the issue of having our stories on the open web by posting only the link back to the forum where the link to our story is, the danger is that information will leak due to the kindness of people who don't think about the implications of publicizing a piece before it's been shopped around. That we keep our content behind a paywall means that we aren't in public view. And accidental edits are a huge problem. Most people struggle just to get their forum posts and links working, but they do so in their own sandbox of their own posts. I can't imagine the chaos of multiple people attempting to simultaneously editing a shared spreadsheet, many who might not understand all the nuances of dealing with shared documents. I'd prefer this not to happen, and I will state flatly that if this is done (a public spreadsheet) that I will unfortunately no longer share my private documents in the NYCM forums.
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Pithy sayings are for the apt. For a longer message, you need a condo.
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GallifreyGirl
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 30 Jan 2016 Location: Phoenix, AZ Status: Offline Points: 1653 |
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Okay, I have been properly chastised. I didn't consider the 'public' part. Sorry!
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nixie
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 01 Aug 2015 Location: Seattle, WA Status: Offline Points: 9048 |
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No chastising!! Just "learned a new thing" - which is important. Writers must have the New Things all the time - else our stories will be full of the Old Things. I have great empathy for the much-easier-to-use tool - I am very much the same way (which is why I dump info from here into spreadsheets and databases lol). When we do stuff like that all the time - it's easy to forget or not see how changing the environment may change the equation. It becomes so "second nature" that stuff like that just doesn't occur to us. When you get that additional info - don't be "chastised into silence" - be "challenged into figuring our an ingenious solution" :) As Suave points out, the MLs ARE a lot of work - and the forum-system features are the primary reason for that. (every tool has its features and its foibles - and this one wasn't really designed for collaborative editing...). If there is a way to make them less work - I haven't found it yet, so I'm not likely to. Our best opportunity for forward motion is in getting more people thinking of more things. :)
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