March 04, 2009
Does anyone want to be my lifelong friend?
All you have to do in exchange is a load of menial labor that I won’t have time to do during midterms. In return, you would receive the resplendent friendship of a wonderful listener, comforter, and steadfast companion.
Comment if you are interested in the offer. :P
Tagged as Bff, Help, Impishidea, Slyshy, Volunteer.Comment
By LiquidNitrogen
on Mar 4, 01:12 AM
Oh, wow. This sounds like a classifieds. :P
I can’t do any programming. I can’t really do anything I see would help the site but low-edu jobs such as spamwatching.
But yeah. I’ll be glad to help if I can. :D
By SlyShy
on Mar 4, 01:36 AM
Okay, I will need you to do tagging.
A lot of articles haven’t been tagged at all. Some have, but the tags might be incomplete, or there may be too many tags. I’ll layout guidelines.
1) All articles should be tagged with the author, and any collaborator. So, a typical EWW should have Lord Snow, Kitty, and I tagged.
2) Articles should not be tagged with their section. Remove such tags if you see them. This means criticism, critique, humor, review, writing tags are superfluous and should be nuked.
3) Articles in a series should be tagged with the name of the series.
4) Apply any other content specific tag you think is appropriate. Try not to have too many, and try to reuse tags that have been used before.
Thanks for your help.
If anyone else is also interested, feel free to speak up. This might be a multi-person project, although LN might be incredibly industrious.
By Kitty
on Mar 4, 02:48 AM
BUT WE’RE ALREADY FRIENDS FOREVER
points to handcuffs
ANYWAY I’M DOING THE RATINGS BIT
JUST FYI
By LiquidNitrogen
on Mar 4, 03:29 AM
Ah, TextPattern is going nicely. I’ll definitely be active in tagging. Thanks.
By falconempress
on Mar 4, 07:07 AM
what do you mean by “menial labor”, exactly?
By SlyShy
on Mar 4, 07:11 AM
Tagging articles, as explained to LiquidNitrogen above.
By Nate Winchester
on Mar 4, 07:28 AM
Do you still need tagging? You’ll notice I went through and tagged some of my own articles before you even asked. ;-) I’ll hit everyone else if LN needs some assistance.
By SlyShy
on Mar 4, 07:37 AM
Yes, more tagging is always needed. Every little bit helps. :)
By SlyShy
on Mar 4, 07:47 AM
I should note, certain sections, such as Info, Links, and anything that is administrative, and not an article shouldn’t get tags.
By Ty
on Mar 4, 12:49 PM
Tech question (because I am an idiot):
I tried tagging something, but it seems that the tags disappeared after I left the article and came back. I have a sneaking suspicion that I should be “saving changes” or something of that sort, but I can’t seem to find a “save changes” sort of button. Help please? Feel free to berate me for my ignorance :P
By SlyShy
on Mar 4, 12:58 PM
The save button is titled “publish”. It’s red and it’s to the right.
By Ty
on Mar 4, 03:15 PM
Oh, ok, that’s why I was confused; I seem to be able to publish/save my own articles, but not other people’s. Is there some way that I can reset this so that I can help with the tagging? Or do I need some sort of authorization? Thanks!
By SlyShy
on Mar 4, 03:42 PM
I had your permissions set incorrectly. You are now an editor, so you should be able to do that stuff.
By Ari
on Mar 4, 05:29 PM
Don’t know what kind of help you need, but I’m good with html coding and such, as well as general coding/formatting…yeah.
Or just organizing stuff, adding tags like Ty is, etc. I’m bored, and I’m ready to help. Anything I can do?
By CometStorm
on Mar 4, 10:22 PM
I have some spare time, but as Ari, and most other people on the site, coding has never failed to elude me.
I’d be willing to do menial, unskilled grunt-work.
One question, though: do I get worker compensation, benefit, and insurance (in case I were to, say, get carpal tunnel or something)? (Obviously that last paragraph is a pathetic attempt at me being funny. My humor is fallible, and fails often :3)
By Ari
on Mar 5, 05:15 AM
I thought it was funny…I want insurance as well.
By SlyShy
on Mar 5, 04:42 PM
I can probably put you two ladies to work at A-S. ^^ Thanks for volunteering.
And thanks again, LN, for the tagging.
By CometStorm
on Mar 5, 05:25 PM
No problem. Just send me a message on the forums or something when you have anything for me to do.
By Ari
on Mar 6, 03:58 AM
Yep, same for me. Or email, whichever. I’m ready to help. :p
Haha, glad I boosted your ego, Comet. :3
By falconempress
on Mar 6, 04:29 AM
i can help, no problem. whatever you need me to tag, Ill tag it:)