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I think it just looks strange because there only are releases out there. you guys will love how organized it is when we have trailers and such out.
I agree, I think the [Release] tags should go.
I think the [Preview] tags can stay, since their aren't to many of them, and still eliminates confusion.
I think the tags would be a lot more suitable if there were a roughly equal number of trailers/previews, releases, and works in progress. But as it is the vast majority of films posted are releases. I am also in favor of taking off the tags for releases but keeping them for trailers and WIPs.
Another idea would be to put the tags at the end instead of beginning of the title. That way, you can still see the titles as normal and only look if you want to in your natural line of sight to see if it is a release or not. I think that alone would make the tags a lot less obtrusive.
A third idea (if it is possible with PunBB) is to have a tag within the post itself, like a blog post would have. You can just type in "release" or whatever it happens to be and see that at the bottom of the film thread instead of in the actual title.
I was just thinking about with THAC coming up tomorrow, there's going to be a ton of films posted in the directory. Perhaps tags could be used to identify which BiM contest a film was entered in (there would be no tag in the case of no contest). Like [THAC6] or something. I think this would make it easier to find all the contest entries in a search or something since we have no directory yet.
I guess most people do this already, but the competition tag would make it a little more uniform.
I think that's a great idea, Badger.
-Steve
Last edited by Steve (January 3, 2009 (02:33am))
If Schlaeps would OK this, I would edit all the thread names of films posted thus far to make them consistent, with out the [Release] and with [THAC 6] for the THAC entries.
I agree the [Release] tags suck.
For now I've stopped correcting thread titles. It looks like there is almost universal disapproval of the [Release] tags, if this thread is any indication. Once we have input from Schlaeps I can edit the thread titles to remove the [Release] tags and make the thac entries look consistent.
I like this fix for now, but I am still for a subforum just for movie releases. It would be easier to perouse for me, and it would look neater. My opinion anyway.
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