OOC : Throwing an idea out to all

[Marcus Telcontar]

Okay, got an idea that you may like

How about requesting a sub froum under Avalon, purely for OOC stuff, rants, personal talk and RP planning / comms, open only to those whom have Avalon access? Then, leave Avalon solely for IC.

A secret Jedi Clubhouse? Mmmm, possibly could be looked on like that.

Or is it preferred to keep Avalon the mix of IC and OOC that it is now?

[Navaria Tarkin]

ooo that might be good ... that way important IC threads dont get pushed down all the time

[Sejah Haversh]

Good plan, Stan.

[Zeke]

Got my approval.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Me too! We can call it the 'Strategy room' or if you really wanna rip off the X-men, the 'War room' since we weill be planning, ranting, etc.

[Navaria Tarkin]

wouldnt it be more appropriate to call it the Danger Room then lol

[AmazonBabe]

:: Tries to catch the thrown plan, but instead gets bolwed over by it. ::

Ow. :x

But on another note, I likee the idea. :)

[Wei Wu Wei]

Oh yeah! I knew it was called something like that....Thanks Nav! We love you!

[Marcus Telcontar]

Secret Jedi Business.

[TheHolo.Net]

I just have a small word of warning as far as technical aspects go. There is no way to mimic an access mask from one forum to another, so people being allowed into a new private forum will have to be done on a one by one basis, just as they were for this forum.

EDIT: On second thought it may be possible via a database query to mimic forum access permissions. I will investigate and find out for sure.

[Marcus Telcontar]

That's okay, I can do the work to get the masks done.

But I was wondering, if it was a sub under this one, would not the permissions cascade anyway?

[Wei Wu Wei]

Go SW Man!

[TheHolo.Net]

Originally posted by Marcus Q'Dunn
That's okay, I can do the work to get the masks done.

But I was wondering, if it was a sub under this one, would not the permissions cascade anyway? I believe so, but am not entirely positive. The area where access masks are edited does say something about inheriting access rights from parent forums, but I typically find it helpful to be able to see the appropriate "Yes" or "Default" checked for each forum, since as an admin my access mask list is so frelling huge -_-. I've been meaning to try and develop a hack that will display private forum names in a different color in the access mask list so they are easier to spot.

[Marcus Telcontar]

well, if MySQL is anything like other DB's, the parent object does hand down permissions to it's children objects in the heirarchy. So making a sub foum should be a child.....

Hey! Dont you lot look at me so weird! Geek talk!

Anyway, I'd suspect that the initial permission would mimic Avalon's. Then again, I'm not hot on MySQL.

[Anbira Hicchoru]

:thumbup

[Helenias Evenstar]

Nice idea.

Then again, you expected me to object? :angel

[imported_Lance Stormrider]

Great idea Marcus there are too many OOCs :x

[Dasquian Belargic]

:thumbup :)

[Sene Unty]

I'm for it......

[TheHolo.Net]

How about a name lke:

Official Oratory Chamber?

The acronym is OOC. :)

[Marcus Telcontar]

Alllllll righty then, the request is in.

Edit : Hmm, not a bad idea Mr Swfans.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Ooh, clever name :D

[Marcus Telcontar]

And if you dont have access, say it and we shall fix it.