Suggestion for nfic TOCs. A g-rated post :) - 06/28/11 02:09 PM
Hi. Not sure if this goes here, but if not one of the admins can move it where it goes.
I was wondering if maybe on the nfic TOCs (and even the regular TOCs, if people wanted to) we could have a separate Message Icon for finished fics. You know how on the regular Message Boards, we use the blue arrow for a story? Well, when you go to the TOCs, all the stories there have the yellow pin-note for an icon. I was thinking it would be helpful if that icon could be changed (to the exclamation in a triange? the lightbulb?) to indicate a FINISHED work (either a vignette or a multi-part story that has been finished.)
I know it would be a LOT of work to go back and change all the icons on finished stories already posted, but at the very least if people like the idea we could just do it from now on. Or, better still if they wanted to, authors could updated the TOCs for their own finished stories?
Often the parts in the TOC are just posted as "Part 1" "Part 2" etc., rather than "1/3", "2/3". Then I start reading only to discover the fic was never finished. Worse, the chances of it ever BEING finished are slim to nil if it's been ages since the last part was posted, or it's from an author who no longer frequents the boards or whatever.
I specified nfic because I know I can go to lcfanfic to read finished g-rated stories, but many of the nfic stories here are not posted anywhere else. But really, I think it would be helpful for the g-fic TOCs too.
Any comments? Good idea? No?
I was wondering if maybe on the nfic TOCs (and even the regular TOCs, if people wanted to) we could have a separate Message Icon for finished fics. You know how on the regular Message Boards, we use the blue arrow for a story? Well, when you go to the TOCs, all the stories there have the yellow pin-note for an icon. I was thinking it would be helpful if that icon could be changed (to the exclamation in a triange? the lightbulb?) to indicate a FINISHED work (either a vignette or a multi-part story that has been finished.)
I know it would be a LOT of work to go back and change all the icons on finished stories already posted, but at the very least if people like the idea we could just do it from now on. Or, better still if they wanted to, authors could updated the TOCs for their own finished stories?
Often the parts in the TOC are just posted as "Part 1" "Part 2" etc., rather than "1/3", "2/3". Then I start reading only to discover the fic was never finished. Worse, the chances of it ever BEING finished are slim to nil if it's been ages since the last part was posted, or it's from an author who no longer frequents the boards or whatever.
I specified nfic because I know I can go to lcfanfic to read finished g-rated stories, but many of the nfic stories here are not posted anywhere else. But really, I think it would be helpful for the g-fic TOCs too.
Any comments? Good idea? No?