jimdahl

Oh, I see what you mean. The entire community section was gone, not just the forum community. Yep, the sections are collapsible.

Hmmm... it's possible that you inadvertently marked everything as read (there's a link near the top of the thread listing, or clicking the little arrowhead would do it), so that's now the only forum that doesn't think it has any new content for you.

The mobile version only shows if there are new posts or not if you're logged in, which can then keep in sync with what you've read from your desktop computer.

The "community" forum currently welcomes all of that except politics*. While there have been threads there on everything from music, to photos, to restaurants, to youtube videos, etc..., it's true that the description may not be the most inviting in that regard. I could certainly rename it and/or update its description to make it clear that almost anything "off-topic" is welcome. * - politics has always been a special case. In our past experience, political discussions in particular lead to posters genuinely disliking each other and that affecting their ability to interact with civility in the other forums. I'm open to changing that if people really want to, but in the past there's been a general agreement that avoiding it lends additional civility to this forum.

Thanks, both fixed. The 2nd problem is quite vexing -- as I mentioned previously when the same problem occurred with UND, the algorithm that generates the football standings keys off conference membership. It's never come up in any UND sport before this year in the Big Sky that teams played non-exhibition games against conference foes that were non-conference games. I'll try to do some work on that in that off-season.

My personal opinion is that's part of the pregame tied to each sport. E.g. part of the leadup to a road hockey game in Minnesota will always include where to go, where to gather in Minneapolis, where to watch in other cities. My instinct is that people want to see that as part of the pregame discussion. Of course, there is precedent to the contrary -- we broke "Tickets wanted / for sale" out, though it arguably has the same characteristics, because the threads were just so voluminous that they drowned out other conversation. I feel like "where to watch" isn't there yet, and the threads are easily skippable, but if I'm on the wrong side of public opinion I could be swayed.

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It was always a little quirky though seemed happy in its niche. InsideCollegeHockey goodbye letter

Good question. The current official rule is "No profanity or obscenity". Of course, that's pretty subjective. We've traditionally tried to prevent the big two, though have let things like sh$t go through unless an individual becomes excessive. Other words that you might be considering profanity are often also moderated for being offensive sexual innuendo. If something is getting out of hand, we're open to suggestion.

Get the picture somewhere on the net, if it isn't already, click the little icon in the second row that looks like a square painting of a tree, paste the URL into the box, and that's it! If you aren't using the "rich text editor" but just typing in straight text, the code is [ img]URL[ /img] (without the spaces after the left bracket) e.g.

No account with that name has attempted to register, though an SE174 was recently approved, perhaps that's him?

Agreed, this is getting a bit personal. Let's keep it on topic.

The ACC has really drunk the mega-conference kool-aid, haven't they? Nice for Notre Dame to keep its basketball rivalries with the old Big East schools, but the "half in" deal for football is just odd and is clearly the best the ACC could get out of ND. The Big 10 seems to be the snubbed loser, though (if it wasn't already obvious) I'm not completely convinced by these mega-conferences, so we'll see how it goes.

Argh, and now they have a completely new site so I'm not even parsing the (incorrect) scores anymore anyway. I'm having a tough time getting good football score date post-Big Sky transition. http://www.bigskycon...?path=football

Oh, that's clearly my fault. No one actually updates those, the page does so itself by scanning the scores. I'm clearly just keying off the presence of two conference teams, which has always worked in the past. I'll come up with some fix tonight.

I think that's what led us to crack down in the first place like 5 years ago

Yep, our standard for avatars is even a bit stricter than family friendly / safe for work. We want the place to be inviting to all fans, so even bikini photos and such are strongly discouraged.

In looking for new data sources to pull the Big Sky scores for this site, I'm a little surprised at the bad data on the Big Sky site: http://www.bigskycon...t=5&season=2012 Northern Arizona 63 Arizona State 6 Sacramento State 49 New Mexico State 19 Both of those are transposed from what ESPN and other sources say: http://scores.espn.g...=2&weekNumber=1 Interestingly, they have the correct winning team in each bolded, just the scores transposed.

One more thought. It's immediately obvious that the now "NCAA News" forum contained a lot of general UND discussion that we thought pertinent to the D-I move but not to a specific sport. I wonder if we also need a "UND News", or if that should get sucked into "Community".

I'm quite sympathetic to that point, that's what led me to start this thread to begin with. Would adding "subtitles" (e.g. the lighter grey text thats under all the forum names in the community section) to the sports saying "Discuss UND and NCHC hockey", etc... help?

Well, that's a whole different can of worms Renaming "Sioux name" to "UND nickname" isn't some attempt at political correctness, but just acknowledging that the discussion in that forum has shifted from discussing the name "Sioux" to discussing future nicknames. I'm still a little torn what to do about the site name. I don't want to change names just to change again in 4 years if/when UND chooses a new nickname. But, at some point new fans won't associate "Sioux" with the school anymore, and I want the site to be obviously associated with UND sports.

Ok, at a minimum we really need to do something with the Sioux Name and D-I reclassification forums, as neither quite apply anymore. Based on the feedback so far, and my own thinking about it, here's my current leaning: Sioux Name => UND Nickname (since it's increasingly more about future names than Sioux) UND's Reclassification to D-I => NCAA News (I could see this capturing both realignment and other interesting moves by the NCAA, will soak up some of the Non-UND Sports threads allowing us to refocus that forum) Non-UND Sports => Non-Collegiate Sports (collegiate sports go to either the relevant sport forum, e.g. NDSU football talk will undoubtedly be in the football forum, Penn St. sanctions would likely be in NCAA news, etc...) The question, then, is there still a need for conference forums as discussed above? My guess it that the sports results would be captured in the sports forums, while the structure conversations would be captured in NCAA News, so I don't yet see a need. But, that question is what launched this thread, so I don't want to ignore it. I know it's not quite what anyone proposed, so... thoughts?

I've never been to the place in question, but I doubt convection heat is so much a problem (convection probably does a better job of simulating the heat distribution of a brick oven than a regular oven would) as that the convection ovens in question just don't get hot enough. You generally run a brick oven at least 600F, up to 800F or so if you're making a Neapolitan. You can cook a pizza at a lower temperature, but you can't get the charred blistered crust most people (outside Chicago) think of as necessary for a good pie.

That's what the "Non-UND sports" was supposed to capture -- everything but UND and its peers (conferencemates and NDSU have generally been discussed in the sport appropriate forum).

I'm certainly open to reorganizing a bit. Let me try to stir up this conversation in the admin forum.