02-13-2008, 11:38 AM
Another solid vote of confidence here for Punaweb, the community norms of acceptable behavior which are functionally in place here, and in Punaweb's gracious moderator.
As far as suggestions, observations, or a wish-list it may be that software supporting this forum may limit those options, but --for whatever they may be worth-- here are three wishes:
1) Promoting much more visibly the "Friends of Puna's Future."
Friends of Puna's Future could be a genuinely significant contribution to the well-being of everyone in Puna if more folks would join in and participate there as they do in A Punaweb Forum. So, Rob, if it is possible to run a brief description and invitation to join Friends of Puna's Future in a colorful bar placed across the top center of all Punaweb pages then I would like to see this happen. This standing invitation could raise awareness and encourage people to join. There is a tremendous amount of life experience, perspective, and community wisdom among those participating in A Punaweb Forum; it would be wonderful if many more people from among this talent pool joined Friends of Puna's Future and actively contributed there as well.
2) Adding a non-business/govt resource links page.
A section where members can post potentially useful links to Puna-associated or Puna-relevant discussion forums (versus businesses, for which there are already spots via the links on the main Punaweb page) may be useful. For example, some links such as these-
http://hawaiicoconutwireless.tribe.net/
http://tribes.tribe.net/gardenersofhawaii
http://hawaiians.tribe.net/
http://808state.tribe.net/
http://PunaNation.tribe.net
http://tribes.tribe.net/fbi_drums
The potential usefulness of a place for such external links may be twofold in that those who want to engage in spirited non-holds-barred political discussions, ethnic opining, or erotic adventuring can more easily see the differences between Punaweb's community norms and the community norms of other forums and so steer themselves in that direction (or be steered elsewhere, if necessary) ...and also in that having such a place for members to post potentially useful links may assist with the free sharing of information. Digging back through many pages of old posts in a thread to find and check resource links scattered here and there throughout is rather time-consuming, and one must be able to successfully search up the topic in the first place. By contrast, a page of resource links on associated topics of interest would be more accessible if available. Examples of such non-Puna specific yet potentially Puna-useful topical links might include-
http://tribes.tribe.net/altenergy
http://tropicalplants.tribe.net
http://solararchitecture.tribe.net
http://chickenstribe.tribe.net
http://goat-herders.tribe.net
Since I am active on Tribe.net I am aware of these resources and would be glad to post potentially useful Tribe links in a Punaweb page if there was an appropriate place for such, yet I am sure there must be all sorts of other resource links apart from Tribe of which other Punaweb community members are aware. It would be wonderful to see the diverse resource links others could post.
3) Regarding the name-tags ("newbie" and so on) and post totals, I am entirely neutral. What would be useful though, IMHO, if indeed there is some way to winnow out this information and have it added to the display, is to be able to see a number indicating how many distinct different members have visited a specific thread. For example, with regard to the "Mosquito Control & Mosquito-borne Disease" thread I initiated, I have wondered how many members have ever viewed that topic. Is it 700+ different people each looking once, yawning, and then going elsewhere never to return again, is it 150 people checking back in several times each, or is it one very worried sufferer of obsessive-compulsive disorder hovering over that thread on a several-times-daily basis which accounts for the 700+ hits?
Thanks again to Rob and the Punaweb community for making this forum such a pleasant and useful resource.
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
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