I registered a domain...

[Dracon II]

And I'm not sure what I want to do with it.

I was thinking of starting a journal of essays, stories, poems, artwork etc... and using a forum as a way for people to submit. Basically people post stuff to a forum, and over a month people have a chance to get feedback/debate/discuss etc... and at the end of a the month... pieces are nominated and put to a vote. The winning entries make it into that month's journal (published online in pdf format).

That's the basic skeleton of the idea... wanted to put it to you guys because you're all a bunch of creative intelligent monkeys and I figured there'd be people among the ranks here who'd want to help/or make a contribution (non financial that is... no profiteering here).

[General Ludd]

Make a porn site.

[Immortal Wombat]

Why bother? The world is full of writing already.

Publishable writers won't submit things because they'll be trying to get published, and unpublishable writers are such for a reason.

[Solver]

Give me the domain.

Seriously, a good idea is to let people post their personal essays and such. Maybe not select some by voting and post, but I would like a site where people can post thoughts/essays/rants that do get discussed in a civil fashion. Maybe the best can then be published separately.

You'd basically need a forum there with sections (political essays, gaming essays, personal life, whatever), but also strict moderation. By that I mean, no spam at all or vanity threads, every thread is supposed to be a thought-out post. The subject might be less or more serious, but it should be a thought-out post made while using the brain.

[General Ludd]

That's what apolyton is for, Solver.

[Solver]

We don't have a dominance of serious threads in the OTF .

[St Leo]

Get a wiki. I did. All hail http://lpetr.org/.

[Rasbelin]

Or KISS.

http://www.rasbelin.com/

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
Or KISS.

Simplicity is expensive.

[Dracon II]

Originally posted by Solver
Give me the domain.

Seriously, a good idea is to let people post their personal essays and such. Maybe not select some by voting and post, but I would like a site where people can post thoughts/essays/rants that do get discussed in a civil fashion. Maybe the best can then be published separately.

You'd basically need a forum there with sections (political essays, gaming essays, personal life, whatever), but also strict moderation. By that I mean, no spam at all or vanity threads, every thread is supposed to be a thought-out post. The subject might be less or more serious, but it should be a thought-out post made while using the brain.

Good idea (apart from the giving you the domain idea )

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by St Leo
Get a wiki. I did. All hail http://lpetr.org/.

A wiki is probably a bad idea, because most people won't want others to modify their creative works without notice. I won't.

[Solver]

Originally posted by Dracon II


Good idea (apart from the giving you the domain idea )

Just beware that if you actually do it, I may post some rants there, too .

[Dracon II]

Originally posted by Solver


Just beware that if you actually do it, I may post some rants there, too .

I think there could be a section arranged for rants

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
A wiki is probably a bad idea, because most people won't want others to modify their creative works without notice. I won't.

There is an RSS feed with all the changes (though admittedly it does grow overwhelming very quickly).

At any rate, a wiki (or at least a MediaWiki) can be locked down by placing the following in LocalSettings.php:

# Specify who can edit: true means only logged in users may edit pages
$wgWhitelistEdit = true;

# Specify who may create new accounts: 0 means no, 1 means yes
$wgWhitelistAccount = array ( 'user' => 0, 'sysop' => 1, 'developer' => 1 );

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by St Leo
There is an RSS feed with all the changes (though admittedly it does grow overwhelming very quickly).

At any rate, a wiki (or at least a MediaWiki) can be locked down by placing the following in LocalSettings.php:

# Specify who can edit: true means only logged in users may edit pages
$wgWhitelistEdit = true;

# Specify who may create new accounts: 0 means no, 1 means yes
$wgWhitelistAccount = array ( 'user' => 0, 'sysop' => 1, 'developer' => 1 );

The thing is, for creative works, each person has his or her own style. Thus, having other people to rewrite sections of one is only going to make it read like a patchwork.

From a writer's point of view, I much rather have others give me comments and suggestions that I can either accept or reject as I see fit.

Wiki is good for some forms of writings, where style is less important than substance and/or accuracy.