Assignments as Cultural Property

Everything is working perfectly, including the DM I sent to Jazz yesterday

One idea I have for other threads could potentially be applied to the taskmasters.

Specifically, forum tours. The trick is that threads can move. I tested this once. New audience, new contributions. The regulars will follow the taskmasters wherever they go. But a tour would bring in more readers because new people could discover them on their favorite subforum. My fear is that permanently moving to a smaller subforum, like MLK, would kill the readership first, and then the engagement. You'd end up with the same few authors until they eventually bore themselves.

If they could succeed on the Coronavirus subforum, they can succeed anywhere. 🙂 It’s all about the enthusiasm of the crew running that place. They’d do great on the PŽK too. 😉

It’s a win-win promotion for both the taskmasters and the individual subforums.

Not everyone knows about the taskmasters yet, or they haven't had them pushed right under their noses to join instantly. I’ve actually missed voting twice already because I happen to be outside the Coronavirus subforum. You're really just moving two threads; everything else stays accessible via click-away within those threads.

Then we realized Adam Doyle63 had a similar idea from before. Great minds think alike. 😁

To add to this, it would be smart to keep the archive stationed in one spot—maybe MLK (Little Literary Corner) or some other logical place—while only moving the two active threads (the texts and comments). One thing that is crucial, and often forgotten on this forum, is linking so that everything remains available via click-away in the first post. That way, it doesn't matter where the archive is located.

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I can't tell if I just care this much because there are way too many idiots on here. 😁 Honestly, ever since the USA days, I’ve felt like if I could just access them and my favorite chat, I’d be better off than having access to the whole damn forum.

I’m slammed right now, so I can't get to it immediately, but once things settle down, I might try putting together that index thread. Just opening it up to index the first round of papers would be a start. That way, we can all jump in and decide if it hits the mark, then just keep filling it out as we go. We won't even need mod powers for that. If we do end up needing some backup, though, we'll just pull our supporters among the mods, just like we've always done. 😁

Honestly, I care about MLK just as much as anyone else, though I suppose it’s pretty obvious; my wife has already turned in for the night while I’m sitting here spinning out another long-winded post. 🤣

If you look up, you'll see people practically weeping over how much more they want to write.

But you, specifically, seem to be the most worked up about all this 😁

regarding the Index topic over at MLK—the idea of letting us host a Bloomberg assignment thread and a general catch-all for chats, comments, and suggestions right there. We’ve actually reached a point where the comment sections are seeing almost as much activity as the main thread itself. 🤣

And down the road, we could potentially launch a dedicated thread for collaborative writing or deep-diving into the drama, but since MLK already handles that kind of thing, I don't imagine it would be an issue.

EDIT: Just a quick heads-up! If we really embark on this journey through the forum, it would be great if we could make our way over to the USA in January 2021 to mark the exact 10th anniversary of when the assignments first launched.

Thanks for the tandem approach. I’m going to sit down and really hammer out the specific parameters of that proposal so I can put it forward for review.

The traveling idea sounds like a blast to me—count me in.

I’ll bring my friends along—provided I can actually make it 🙂
The IRS certainly has a way of being creative 👍

Where can I find the assignments from rounds 1 through 4?
Can we add links to the previous rounds at the top of this current thread (round 5)?
I can't search right now, so figured it might be a huge help for everyone else too.

Rachel Jones8 said:Where can I find the assignments from rounds 1 through 4?
Can we add links to the previous rounds at the top of this current thread (round 5)?
I can't search right now, so figured it might be a huge help for everyone else too.

We actually already have that, here you go:

Every new round includes links to all the previous ones in the intro post. That’s why I suggested setting up an index thread (and Jack was ready to jump on it immediately 🙏 🙏) so we wouldn't just have links to the threads containing the assignments, but direct links to the individual assignments themselves. We've already piled up over 100 pieces of work across five rounds, and since each round has its own thread, things get messy fast. Without an index thread, everything is going to get lost—even if we keep everything in one PDF, let alone if we turn this forum into a total circus.

Rachel Jones8 said:Where can I find the assignments from rounds 1 through 4?
Can we add links to the previous rounds at the top of this current thread (round 5)?
I can't search right now, so figured it might be a huge help for everyone else too.

Everything you need is already posted. 😉

edit: the moderator beat me to it 😬

Hey there.
I totally thought they’d be way higher up, so I missed them entirely.

I was messing around with some links earlier, so if you think they'll help... go nuts.
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(post 11, 12, 13)