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Tricia Heighway replied on May 22, 2009 09:44 to the idea "Reader profile?" in Protagonize:

I'm not sure it would be a good thing to have two different types of membership. Wouldn't the 'readers' feel a little inferior to the 'writers'? I'm not saying they would 'be' inferior, just that they might feel like 2nd class citizens.

There are plenty of Protagonize members who've never written anything. I don't know, but I suspect they probably outnumber the active ones! I'm sure nobody thinks they're rude. Some people may even join with the sole purpose of reading, and, decide to have a crack at writing something later on down the line, but if they don't it doesn't matter. And, in the end, it's always free to read anything on Protag, whether they sign up or not, but that way, they can't comment on your work.

Maybe they could fill in their profile to say they're there to read, so that they don't get pestered to write something.

Tricia Heighway replied on May 17, 2009 20:05 to the question "Linear Story as default, to help new users?" in Protagonize:

I agree, Rachel. And either of those sound like a good solution :)

Tricia Heighway replied on May 08, 2009 07:22 to the problem "Notification of Replies to Comments I Didn't Make..." in Protagonize:

Sounds good to me. The Story title would help loads. In fact, I've had notifications where I DID read and comment on whatever branch or chapter it was, but ages ago, and hadn't a clue what it is because it was so long ago and who remembers chapter names?

Tricia Heighway replied on May 06, 2009 21:55 to the problem "Notification of Replies to Comments I Didn't Make..." in Protagonize:

It happens very rarely, and I don't think it started until a few months back. And it's never been on anything where I haven't commented on one of the chapters as far as I can remember.

Tricia Heighway replied on May 06, 2009 15:54 to the problem "Notification of Replies to Comments I Didn't Make..." in Protagonize:

That happens to me too, sometimes. Intriguing.

Tricia Heighway replied on April 21, 2009 07:26 to the question "Children's/YA categories" in Protagonize:

Cheers, Nick :)

Tricia Heighway asked a question in Protagonize on April 16, 2009 11:10:

Children's/YA categories

Hi Nick, I was just looking at Chris/Arystokrat's children's poem, and it reminded me that I've been meaning to ask for ages if we could have either a combined "Children's/Young Adult" category, or two separate ones.

Tricia Heighway started following the idea "Slightly more info on stories when they show up in the list views" in Protagonize.

Tricia Heighway asked a question in Protagonize on February 09, 2009 11:49:

Linear Story as default, to help new users?

I think this is another "default setting" which causes problems.

I have noticed a lot of newbies recently have started stories as "Addventures" and have ended the first branch with two titles chosen off the top of their head. Often, it's two tags, or categories, such as "humour", "poetry", Story", "fun" or whatever, or occasionally they call the two branches "Chapter One" and "Chapter Two", which is obviously not going to work for branches.
Sometimes it's obvious that they don't want anyone to add, anyway, but if they do, these rather odd titles don't exactly encourage people to do so and the story almost always ends up being "orphaned".

If you were to change the default setting for new stories to "Linear", I think this problem could be avoided. I'm sure people would still start Addventures, because they're fun, but I think the majority start off with a Linear Story anyway. If people were to read the "Getting Started" section before they started a story, I don't think the problem would arise, but we all know it's human nature not to "read the instruction booklet" first, so sometimes they need a little help!

Tricia Heighway replied on February 07, 2009 02:01 to the question "I Can't Figure Out Which Word Is Profane!!" in Protagonize:

Eric, I think sometimes it may catch words with a profanity included within the letters. It wasn't on Protagonize, but last year I wrote a comment on a similar site which included the English place name Scunthorpe. It wasn't allowed lol.
The other day, I signed a comment on Parky's profile, in "nonsense" stylee, because we're writing my nonsense poem "Love Story from a Strange Land" together (shameless plug - check it out) and he calls me things like Toshy and I call him Porko and so on... well I signed it Tashity and the filter didn't like that either. :D

Tricia x

Tricia Heighway shared an idea in Protagonize on January 11, 2009 13:49:

Commenting on specific branches/chapters

Hi Nick.

This is a minor thing really, but something which comes up from time to time. Occasionally, someone comments on the entire story when they meant the comment for a specific branch or chapter, then nobody knows which one they're talking about.

At the moment, the story comments are set for "entire story" as the default, so it's very easily done. I was just wondering if you could solve this one by setting "this branch" as the default? After all, I think most of us, if we comment, do so straight away. Sometimes it *is* more appropriate to assign the comment to the whole piece, but more often we're talking about a particular contribution.

Tricia x

Tricia Heighway replied on January 06, 2009 15:58 to the idea "Encouraging Constructive Critiques" in Protagonize:

I think these are all great ideas, HazyMew :)

especially the idea of changing the scary flame.

Tricia Heighway started following the idea "Encouraging Constructive Critiques" in Protagonize.

Tricia Heighway started following the idea "Notice board for promoting new stories/postings?" in Protagonize.

Tricia Heighway started following the idea "Author Rating System Accountability" in Protagonize.