Reign - Reign Icons #5: Little Historical Boxes of Love - Please Credit Makers - Page 13

ScarletCourt · 12-18-2014, 05:38 AM

No need to repost all of them per thread, just link back to the post for fraries on whichever previous thread (people can still right-click to get the URL), or create a specific thread for it and update it only when you have new icons using the single post link like this or pointer post link (mods can close threads so no one else can post to that thread):

Single post link to my previous post or

Pointer post link to this post

It would be time consuming once to create them and then it's pretty easy to maintain there after.

Robin: I would suggest a tumblr post except that tumblr (when using a text post for title purposes) seems to like to post them in a single column.

firewall · 12-18-2014, 08:19 AM

I agree with Heather. In theory, the idea is amazing, I just worry about the upkeep in the future.

**ds44** · 12-19-2014, 03:29 PM

I think it would just be easier to group them by artist. Cut out the ship/character threads or we could simply go by the most recent icons. It just sounds cumbersome. Another possibility is to just go by characters and the shippy icons can go in two places.

De Medici Queen · 12-20-2014, 11:33 AM

2x10 ghostsex

heather8615 · 12-20-2014, 10:53 PM

Lovely icons Issi!!! I've updated the OP with them!

Question: Do people want me to keep or get rid of the episode directory in the OP?

I like the idea of putting the shippy icons in the appropriate thread, will this make those OP's messy and cluttered though?

kategrinstead · 12-20-2014, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by firewall (View Post)

I don't think any more categories should be added. If anything, we should take some out.

I was looking at other icon threads on other boards and none of them have categories. I guess because it quickly comes a logistical nightmare.

This might be an unpopular idea, but I think we should categorize the icons only by character and episode number, stripping away all the couples. Most people will post their ship-specific icons on the ship appreciation thread anyway and we can add individual icon sections to all those threads. It would be much neater and more relevant since this is a general thread anyway.

What do you think of that idea?

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but as someone who has worked to clean up a ship thread OP, we purposefully made the decision to strip out the icon listing (and most other things) because they weren't being kept up-to-date. It's just as much a logistical issue on ship-specific threads as it is here.

Anyway ... those be my two cents.

De Medici Queen · 12-21-2014, 05:20 AM

And while you keep discussing the OP I will keep posting new icons

Mary 2x10

heather8615 · 12-21-2014, 06:47 AM

Beautiful Issi! Thank you!! I've updated the OP.

I think that Kate makes a really great point too. That was why I was asking about the icons making the OP cluttered.
Is the main reason for wanting to do away with the shippy icon section because the mods have to save the icon in the shippy section and the character section?
Maybe a suggestion could be that the character section is for icons that have only that person?? For example, Frary icons would solely be saved in the Frarysection, and not in the Francis and Mary sections as well?
Or this what is being done already?

firewall · 12-21-2014, 06:11 PM

Great icons, Issi!

Ideally, we would find a way to remove some of the clutter from the OP and make it simple and user-friendly (as well as update-friendly for us mods).

Even if we don't have ship-centric icons on the ship thread OPs, I would still vote for character only classifications. As I said, most other boards don't bother organizing the OP with categories, probably because it gets to be such a beast after a while.

But, whatever Heather and Anna want to do, I leave it in your capable hands to re-organize the OP as you see fit, keeping in mind that the simpler the better.