Hey guys, picking up where we left off, the main objective of that recent meeting was that we're not doing enough on OP's #9 - generals. Given that it's a tangle defining them and what merits what, I a.) defined categories here >>6084 and b.) have some suggestions. First, to review that other post I made, it seems that people variably consider "general" to include:
- Scheduled threads - once every week or two: wednesday waifu, miuna monday, "it's time" etc
- Season-based generals - no recent content, in a few cases very periodic content
- Non-seasonal generals (evergreen) - functionally permanent due to a constant trickle of new content (weekly or biweekly etc). I nickname these "evergreen" since they just do their thing year-round ignoring the seasons.
I have some ideas that would cover all three above general types - some might sound a bit minimal, but it would still be more than what we're currently doing for quality control for many gens:
>Quality of posts (Global 6) for anything encouraging a thread migration: crosslinks, "previous thread"/"new thread" with any crosslinks, saying "bump"
>Quality of posts any of the above + saying "edition" or "general" in thread OPs. It doesn't matter if this kills a large thread because of a crap OP; if they are clearly an unambiguously warned that they'll get deleted for that, it's up to them whether or not they want to suicide their threads with bad OPs.
>Generals have a tendency to get chummy with local users. Referring to each other locally as a clique = warned as off-topic, ban as off-topic for inciting any drama/thread derail for whatever drama shit. Remind people to report anything off-topic for being intra-thread chatrooming rather than discussing OP's topic.
>Threads should be periodically audited for problem spots. Every major gen could have a profile of known repetitive-spammy posts, people forcing certain topics daily (all br for spam), evader tip-offs etc. Share relevant info here for everyone to track.