User blog:Hazelcats/User Stories

Hi guys!

So, for a little while now, I've been thinking about something. You know that little orange bar at the top of your page? With "Top Content", "Recent Blogs", "Forum", all that? If you've ever looked under "Community" and noticed the tab that says 'User Stories', you'll see a list of categories for different users and their stories on this wiki.

However, this thing rarely gets updated, and I don't think that's fair. If a new user or even a user that has been here for a while is looking for other stories to read, and is only exposed to these every single time they look, they're not going to get very far, especially if the category isn't updated or the user's writing is not very active.

So I think that we should have a system in which this tab is updated at least once a month. Users would either sign up if they want their category page listed, or other users would nominate who gets to appear in the tab for that month.

I also thought that we could do it in a way that featured the Contest and User of the Month winners. The last three contest winners were Leaf, Albus, and DoA, and the last three UoM winners were Archie, Mione, and Ers [technically Leaf and Albus could be in there but they're already listed so nevermind them], so they could be listed as well as maybe one other person that was nominated? And then as the months go by, it rotates out and the spots have to be earned. If needed, we could also use those who won story awards in the different awards we have here on the wiki (the Wiki Awards are coming up soon, afterall).

That's the ideas I've got so far (unless I'm forgetting one), so if you have another idea on how this could work please say so! But especially since Reading Week is going on right now, and we're probably going to have similar things in the future, I think this is very important to keep updated!

Thank you,

Hazel

What happened to bulletproof weeks in your arms? The worst part is there's no one else to blame.  18:24, July 7, 2013 (UTC)