@ArtOfCode sounds like fun! Want to find something suitable and plan for a post in a week or two? (Were you asking me for a blessing or for implementation?)
We have a lot of questions on Meta. The problem is that many are not useful anymore. For some, the usefulness is only ephemeral and many useful questions get drowned in a sea of questions that nobody is using as reference. Finding the good questions when we need them become harder because of tha...
Is Abby someone known here, or we attracted a fellow SE member, but not specific from WB as follower of the blog?
And @all participants of the blog, I was just thinking... right now we (you) publish quite some content. But wouldn't it make sense to actually keep a more moderate rythm? Otherwise in three days from now, we might run out of ideas... This is a typical error for a blog, I think. So maybe we should coordinate such that we only publish one post per day. That way, we will have some queue building up.
If the queue gets too large, we'll know it's time to increase the rythm. If it does not build up, we should slow down. Any opinion on that? @ArtOfCode, @MonicaCellio, @HDE226868 and @James
@bilbo_pingouin Aha. Yeah, that's abby_hairboat, community manager for SE. She's the one who suggested we use medium. Nice to know we've got someone on the team watching.
Affectionately known as CoGro, being community growth manager
@MonicaCellio sounds good, I've signed up - same username — Liath6 hours ago
I've added Liath as a writer.
@bilbo_pingouin @ArtOfCode Abby is the community manager who suggested Medium to us. She'd said she was looking forward to seeing what we did, so I left her a comment yesterday with a link.
Pacing: I agree that it's better to have a steady pace than feasts and famines. For getting some initial content up (to have something to announce) I think people should just submit/post when ready, but I think in about a week or so we should start trying to manage it more carefully. Sound good?
@MonicaCellio Do we have enough material for that? B'day is 16th. If we have one a day until then, that's 14 posts in total on the 16th, if we only consider working days. 18 including week ends. 4 have already been written.
I'd say 14 posts is already enough to make a reasonable anouncement
Otherwise right after anouncing it on the 16th, it'd get to a "famine" as you put it
well if you guys have plenty of ideas and time, then sure :)
@bilbo_pingouin yeah, that's why I was thinking that in about a week -- a week in advance of b'day -- we should start managing it more. We do want to have some stuff queued up for after September 16 -- but right now I want new writers just trying out this blog thing to have some immediate gratification. (Those of us who've already submitted posts might hold off... but keep working.)
honestly a post a day is already a lot - might be more reasonable to put them out every few days until we see how many articles are contributed and how often.
Two weeks, if you count this advance notice. :-) So I hope @ArtOfCode is working on some more posts that might not get published immediately, and ditto @HDE226868 (though those posts probably take days to write anyway so no flood risk there), and I don't have any current plans to post immediately again.
@MonicaCellio one week of queuing if we wait for one week before we get to plan.
@TimB I also think that's going to be much for longer time, but maybe our writers have a similar creativity on blog posts as they do on worldbuilding...
I was proposing earlier to start with one a day and see how the queue build... or doesn't. And adjust accordingly.
@bilbo_pingouin If we star with a little less, then if the queue empties, we can reduce a little more, and there's more scope to increase if we get loads.
anyway, the first question is whether we should regulate the rate at all, or not, and if we do, should we start now, or like @MonicaCellio suggested, live it "free-running" to build some mass in the blog and regulate later.
@bilbo_pingouin Okay. Sorry, I had to work on something else. Here are my thoughts:
1) We need to coordinate if we want to stick to a set number of posts per [time period].
2) Doing series of posts could help this, e.g. Monica publishes a new installment of "Sisters" every Friday or so.
3) At the same time, we have to get new folks into the loop, so it isn't just the same old topics, slowly changing (although we have a sizable number of contributors, so that probably won't be a problem).
4) We also need to coordinate between general worldbuilding posts and posts about Worldbuilding Stack Exchange, so the blog doesn't lean too heavily towards one or the other. For example, I would lump ArtOfCode's latest post in the latter category, while I would put Monica's analysis in the former.
right now, Monica, ArtOfCode and yourself have written some stories. knave, Samuel, Liath and James also volunteered. If you three could keep to (at least) one post per week, the four others could write one every two weeks and we get covered on week days...
(People should keep similar names on Medium... who's Rik de Graaf? :D)
In my world Magna Britain [which, has no protagonist, is more a collection of various countries, including an expanded United Kingdom], automobiles are important to the culture.
Onto my main question, what are the correct calculations for adjusting car prices for inflation?
These are my car pri...
I had an idea in coordination with the blog, and seeing the series of "creating a realistic world map" questions... since, AFAIK, most of us have some SW dev skills... developping a software to implement the answers... techtonic, fractals for coastline, etc...?
Pretty simple algorithm. Take each triangle, divide into four sub-triangles, introduce a small random amount to the vertical coordinate. Repeat till you have the desired resolution. (Small random amount will depend on the scale of the triangles. Big triangles will get moved more.)
I'm sure ArtOfCode can come up with something slicker.
@Green Hold on, I'll have to follow it back a few links.This paper uses a variant of your method, I think. It misspells "Mandelbrot" at one point, though. And horrible equation formatting.
Blog people (not going to try to ping everybody): let's try to identify what regular series we might have and realistic ideas about how frequently people will be able to write them. We can then use that info to figure out pacing. One-offs can drop in whenever and, after the initial burst, probably won't be too numerous. So: who's working on a series and what about?
@ArtOfCode has suggested (by the existence of his latest post) that he's planning to do a monthly "best of", maybe based on the topic challenges specifically.
I'm willing to write a monthly post around site content -- something I found interesting, either a specific question or a tag. I'll stay away from the then-current challenges to avoid overlap.
@MonicaCellio I'm working on the suitability of habitable planets in different arrangements, continuing from my first post (which was in the style of this).
@MonicaCellio @ArtOfCode I was going to suggest the same thing. Take the top few or just some of the interesting questions for the challenge and dive a little deeper.
@HDE226868 My experience with equations in Word is a painful one so I could see how they may have taken short cuts in order to get the paper published in time. Everyone doesn't stink as bad as I do in Word.
for the tag badges, I am a bit curious, in my profile, on the tracking I see, e.g. society: 29/100, 6/20 answers. But lower, on the tags, I see 6 non-wikis answers total score of 38
In my world Magna Britain [which, has no protagonist, is more a collection of various countries, including an expanded United Kingdom], automobiles are important to the culture.
Onto my main question, what are the correct calculations for adjusting car prices for inflation?
These are my car pri...
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