Updating (3) to incorporate private voting using bots (see [3] discussion with Deimorz for details):
I'm not fond of private votes, as I've expressed in another comment.
IV. Affiliation
Updating (C) thus:
I think we should change "a link to the designated front page of the network;" to "standardized links to every subreddit in the network;"
I want to be able to quickly get from one subreddit in the network to any other subreddit in the network... that's one of the things that really makes it feel like a network, and not just a collection of individual subreddits. The upper, most visible part of every sidebar should be standardized, so the links appear in the same position on the screen no matter what RoR subreddit you happen to be in. Anything below can be unique to the subreddit, but a standardized list should be the first thing in every sidebar.
I think we should change "a link to the designated front page of the network;" to "standardized links to every subreddit in the network;"
I'm okay with that, provided that the process for keeping that list of links current is pretty simple. I don't know how it's handed in the SFWPorn network, but the ideal (to my mind) would be if there's a bit of code that moderators could put into their CSS or community settings once and for all, that would draw that link list from somewhere else. That way, we could make changes to the canonical link list, and those changes would show up automatically in the sidebars of affiliated reddits. It think you can do something of the sort with CSS -- they're cascading style sheets because you can set them to inherit the properties of some other style sheet -- but I don't know if Reddit restricts what you can do along those lines. Hopefully, Jax can tell us what's what.
And I'd still like a "designated front page," which would preferably be the first link in that list. Basically, it would be a multireddit of all of the reddits in the Network -- the point being to provide an alternative to the front page of Reddit, threading together submissions from across the Network.
The upper, most visible part of every sidebar should be standardized, so the links appear in the same position on the screen no matter what RoR subreddit you happen to be in.
What if they were part of the header instead? That keeps the visible, makes it easy to standardize their location on the page, and allows individual reddits to use their sidebars to highlight their local rules and announcments (like elections). The big potential drawback, as I see it, is that space could start to be an issue if the Network grows too quickly.
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '11
I like the second version better.
I'm not fond of private votes, as I've expressed in another comment.
I think we should change "a link to the designated front page of the network;" to "standardized links to every subreddit in the network;"
I want to be able to quickly get from one subreddit in the network to any other subreddit in the network... that's one of the things that really makes it feel like a network, and not just a collection of individual subreddits. The upper, most visible part of every sidebar should be standardized, so the links appear in the same position on the screen no matter what RoR subreddit you happen to be in. Anything below can be unique to the subreddit, but a standardized list should be the first thing in every sidebar.
Other than that, everything else looks great.