Jim Dandy: Let me clarify (since a certain player seems concerned via pms of my posts intentions)I've always enjoyed your contributions to varios forums.If interviews cause interesting posters to back off that's not a good thing,I can understand how it can be disarming,maybe I just don't notice your posts these days

Czuch Czuckers: I've wondered about this for awhile.You seemed to be much more active on the boards pre-interview.Coincidance,or does it cause one to retreat?

pauloaguia:

Well since I was the last person who was interviewed...... I will start off the new trend by nominating who i would like to know more about, and make the next interviewee


drum roll please........




VIKINGS!!!!!!



YEAH!!!!!!

Rose: she deserves it, it is obvious that she had practiced being pc instead of honest

Vikings: Perfectly.. From what I understand some people in the US don't have maps...



* That poor beauty contestant wont ever live that one down.

is asking why people can't find the USA on a map acceptable?

pauloaguia: LOL Oh ok sorry, its been a loooooooonnnng day! Yes I understand now

Ewe: But this is for later. For now start sending me your sugestions for the next vict... person to be interviewed
The part about the questions was a reply to coan's post. But that's for later, for now I'm accepting nominations. You can send more than one name if you wish, just try to send them all at once.

Ewe: which is why you must send me the names of the people you want to interview. So I can pick one.
I'll collect nominations until the end of this month. When I announce the "winner" in October you can send your questions then.

Tuesday: read back to pauloaguia last post, he asks for questions first then says he will announce who it is.....unless Ive read it wrong??? I think he must be choosing who it is, but I still think we should know who it is first then questions second.

Tuesday: LOL exactly why we would need to know who it is first....otherwise we may aswell have a standard interview questionaire

Just thought, otherwise we could just have a standard set of questions for all? Then each person picked to be interviewed just fills in those questions!

pauloaguia: I would need to know who the person is before I ask a question, or it might not be relevant.

pauloaguia: I've updated the information above - you might need to remind me to update it from "send suggestions for new person" to "send questions for XXX" when the time comes.

On the interview page, it still lists the last coordinator - but Fencer will have to change that once he has some time.

coan.net: I wouldn't have put it better myself. Change the above to link to this post of yours so that everyone knows of the rules

Just a little addon to your 3rd point: If you want your questions to be reused for future interviews or would like to keep it anonymous, let me know. I believe this is how it worked in the past and I can see some reasons for it being so, so I think I'm going to keep this rule. If nothing of the sort is requested the questions will be used only for the current interview and will be credited to their author.

But this is for later. For now start sending me your sugestions for the next vict... person to be interviewed
Send as many as you like (but try to send them all in one message, ok?).
You have until the end of the month. I'll announce the lucky winner in October.

OK - Well pauloaguia volunteered to be the Interview coordinator below - if he still wants it, I say it is his!

Once he confirms he wants it, I can update the information above.

So rather then continuing to put a lot of posts on this board, here is what needs to be done.

1. PRIVATE PM pauloaguia with who you would like to see interviewed next (or even if you would like to be interviewed next - I guess you could "vote" for yourself)

2. pauloaguia will pick someone. (FIRST Making sure that person wants to be interviewed) At that point, he will announce here who will be interviewed next.

3. At that point, people need to send pauloaguia interview questions for the next couple of weeks. Plus if he want to expand the interview a little more, he could always re-use basic questions from past interviews - like the common "Why did you choose that username" and "How did you find BrainKing" questions. Heck I can think of 10-15 questions which could be "Standard" questions on every quiz - and then after those "standard" questions, put the other user questions in.

4. After he has enough questions, he can organize the questions them to the interview person. They will now have some time to answer the questions - and send them back to pauloaguia.

5. pauloaguia can quickly look over them to make sure they are OK (no answers that are baiting, insults, foul language, or against any site rules) - then send them off to Fencer to post with the other interviews.

6. The last person interviewed can then suggest someone new to be interviews to pauloaguia. He will then start the process over. (If they can't think of anyone who they would like to see interviews, then pauloaguia should post that he needs some new ideas.)

side note: pauloaguia does not need to wait for 1 interview to be finished before starting the process of the next. If he wanted, as soon as he sends off 1 set of questions, he could start the next interview process - this is completely up to him.

Any other suggestions or ideas?

Tuesday: Yes I third that idea! Its great!

Oh & I pick you to be interviewed!

Tuesday: OH WOW what a really awesome idea! That my dear is a wonderful suggestion!

Tuesday: that's a great idea!!!

Anyway didnt someone already offer to do it? I need to read back lol

Rose: oops sorry I was writing my post as you posted yours lol

Rose: It was definately there last night, then it was gone today!?

Anyway yes an interviewer needs appointing...as Purple just said...how about you?
If I had more time I would volunteer too but I cant guarantee when I can get on here.

Purple: Thanks but no thanks.. I have enough responsibilties here.. Might be nice for someone who hasnt had much involvement here before to volunteer the job..

Rose: What about you? You could do a good job.

Ewe:  I dont think it was done on purpose.. I find lately the way the pges load things shift over as the page fully loads.. It was a perectly acceptable Question.

I too think anyone interested should put their name forward. We need to appoint an interviewer first though I think.

Is there anyone else other than Pauloaguia who is interested in conducting the interviews?

My post was deleted!
All I asked was if people who would like to be interviewed can put their names forward so we can takes votes.
Did I say something wrong?

pauloaguia: hmmmm, good point wonder if there is any way round it, i do not know enough about RSS Feeds

I would of thought there must be as RSS is used by many people in all walks of life these days.

Would be quite sad if someone should be that interested about what is said in a Fellowship, that would subscribe to an RSS Feed for it

I guess that applies to our Message Box as well

MadMonkey: I think RSS doesn't have authentication. If private boards had an RSS feed then anybody could read its posts just by subscribing to the feed.

Fencer: Would it be possible (well, i know it is, just if you have time lol) to have RSS Feeds for our Fellowship Discussion Boards please ?

I use Thunderbird to access all my email accounts and RSS Feeds (need Thunderbird icon lol)

For those who do not know, Thunderbird is Mozillas (who bring us Firefox) email client, that, like Firefox is awesome as well. What is more useful is having access to RSS Feeds from it is as well

Its nice to login in and be able check all my email accounts and RSS Feeds in one hit, one page all in plain simple Engilsh lol (especially if i am not staying and do not want to get caught up anywhere).

I have the Brainking Board and other Main boards on RSS, but it would be great if i could catch up on Fellowship posts as well

That, along with our Message Box on RSS would make it perfect

Tulip:

Tulip:LOL

coan.net:
and also would be nice if they were asked if they'd like a glass of water & a solicitor before they start?

coan.net: and optionaly put the last point somewhere in the middle of the others so that the whole process can go faster and more people get to be interviewed

coan.net: Dont forget to add: Take votes on who people would like to be interviewed.. To make it fair so that not just your favourite friends are interviewed first..

The task of interviews was always a user started and ran "job" which harley started as a way to find out more about some of the other users. After about 2-3 interviews, Fencer then made a place on the site for them.

The job tasks:

Choose who you think should be interviewed. (make sure they are OK with it.)

Accept questions from people for a set amount of time.

After you get the questions, try to "Orginize" the questions if possible. That is if there are 5 "why did you pick that name" questions - you can remove 4 of them so they are only asked 1. Plus any other type of "ordering" you would want to do - may put BrainKing related questions first, and "personal" questions towards end of interview. Also edit out "mean" questions and foul language.

Send questions to person being interviewed.

Once the questions are answered, they should send it back to you.

Do any last editing if needed - possible make sure no foul language or personal insults are hidden in the answers.

Send a copy to Fencer, and he will post them where they need to be.

Start over with new person

pauloaguia: I wasn't.
Which makes me a bad candidate for the job - I'll never get to be interviewed that way

Tuesday: I wasn't. I was talking about the questions I asked...

Tuesday: well, he never edited any of my questions
Don't worry, if some editing ever becomes necessary, it will be discussed with the author... assuming I get the job, that is

pauloaguia: I can just about say she wont want it back...her life is so full I dont think she spends all that much time on here anymore....but that is only from PM's I got that impression.

She did a top job at it and is missed..

Rose: It doesn't seem an hard task... if nobody else wants it, I can take the job
Of course, provided harley doesn't want her old job back again, now that she's returned...