Reply To: “Recommended Posts” (was: “Best of the Forums”) – NEWBIES PLEASE RESPOND
The way I structured it, which may not be the way we ought to structure it, the first post consists of posts recommended from the previous week, and the subsequent posts would be the nominations for the current week, to be published the following week. Thus, for, say, the month of Squiddle, the post for Monday, Squiddle 8, would have the recommendations from Squiddle 1-7, and nominations for the week of Squiddle 8-15 would follow. For a more tangible analogy, in each of his Lesson-a-Week threads, suuuupaadave puts a poll up for the following week’s lesson.
Mostly this was to avoid having to use two threads – one empty, locked thread containing the past week’s summary, and another for the incoming nominations for the current week. It does seem unnecessarily complicated, though.