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I don't think we will do that. What would work, would be if they were all posted to one topic, then you could just make that topic a sidebar. But the problem there is quantity. It is nice to have a few of them in news to keep things fun around here, but the sheer volume of them makes it so that we have to move many of them to chat to keep the forum's purpose from being too watered down with news of the weird.

Right now, I think we will go with the status quo. But what I think would be a better solution is this:

1) We make a thread saying that news of the weird should now be posted only to chat under the topic of "weird"

2) In this thread, we tell people how to set up that topic as a sidebar so that the many, who love those things, can have it readily accessible and highly visible.

3) Every so often, we repost that announcement thread.

I think this would work for everyone involved. For those who like the news of the weird, it would put them in one place and give it visibility for them. For those who think it clutters the place up, it would be out of the way and they wouldn't see it as much. And mhking wouldn't have to maintain the ping list any further.

Like I said, the status quo for now, but I would not mind hearing some feedback on my idea. If people are for it, let's do it.

Thanks, LM

Like I said, the status quo for now, but I would not mind hearing some feedback on my idea. If people are for it, let's do it.

On the surface, that doesn't sound half bad. I'd like to chew on it a bit though, if folks don't mind.

One thing that comes up is that some more pedestrian topics fall under the "JD" sort of omnibus arena that I've cobbled together, but there may be some other option that may work for that...