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Jay Dougherty

Jay Dougherty

Mangling Member
Editor
Floating a new idea on this site: artists and authors featured on the front page will receive special status on the forum. They'll be able to do the following:
  1. Feature work from others on the forum (featuring of own work excluded).
  2. Participate in a board (hidden to guests and members) in which they will be able to discuss and influence site direction, front page features, etc.
We'll see how this goes. Feel free to offer your thoughts.
 
I think this is a great improvement on the old 'Editor' user profile and a great way for people to feel that they can contribute not only through submissions but also through an active participation of how the site looks and the content that might be highlighted.

Great idea, Jay.
 
Jay Dougherty said:
Floating a new idea on this site: artists and authors featured on the front page will receive special status on the forum. They'll be able to do the following:
  1. Feature work from others on the forum (featuring of own work excluded).
  2. Participate in a board (hidden to guests and members) in which they will be able to discuss and influence site direction, front page features, etc.
We'll see how this goes. Feel free to offer your thoughts.
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A good idea - particularly discussion of the Front Page choices. I would like to know who chooses them, how they are chosen, why? and who, other than members, get to SEE them.
 
Barbara F. Schutz said:
A good idea - particularly discussion of the Front Page choices. I would like to know who chooses them, how they are chosen, why? and who, other than members, get to SEE them.
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Barbara,
-The Front Page selections are made by the Open Arts Forum Editors., who also build the FP posts in the "behind-the-scenes" software . The link below shows the page that lists who the current Editors are (except one new one, who is not yet listed on that page):
https://openartsforum.com/editors/

- The Editors are chosen by the OAF managing editor, @Jay Dougherty.
Editors have complete discretion as to which piece is selected for the Front Page. As to how or why they are chosen, you will have to ask each Editor why they selected a particular piece for the Front Page, and I am sure they will be happy to try to tell you why.

-Any member can nominate a piece to be considered for the Front page in this thread:
https://openartsforum.com/forum/threads/front-page-nominations.261/page-16#post-191746

- As far as I know, the Front Page is viewable by anyone on the Internet. The individual Forums are only accessible to members.

Hope this helps. :)
 
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Raymond Huffman said:
Barbara,
-The Front Page selections are made by the Open Arts Forum Editors., who also build the FP posts in the "behind-the-scenes" software . The link below shows the page that lists who the current Editors are (except one new one, who is not yet listed on that page):
https://openartsforum.com/editors/

- The Editors are chosen by the OAF managing editor, @Jay Dougherty.
Editors have complete discretion as to which piece is selected for the Front Page. As to how or why they are chosen, you will have to ask each Editor why they selected a particular piece for the Front Page, and I am sure they will be happy to try to tell you why.

-Any member can nominate a piece to be considered for the Front page in this thread:
https://openartsforum.com/forum/threads/front-page-nominations.261/page-16#post-191746

- As far as I know, the Front Page is viewable by anyone on the Internet. The individual Forums are only accessible to members.

Hope this helps. :)
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Thanks so much for this information, though I do wonder how "anyone" on the internet could find THE FRONT PAGE. Perhaps we need to advertise ourselves?????!!!!
 
Barbara F. Schutz said:
Thanks so much for this information, though I do wonder how "anyone" on the internet could find THE FRONT PAGE. Perhaps we need to advertise ourselves?????!!!!
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If someone searches for "Art Forums" (or maybe even something similar to that) on Google, Open Arts Forum will be listed. The link there will take them to the Front Page. Jay also maintains a Facebook Page for Open Arts Forum.
 
Raymond Huffman said:
If someone searches for "Art Forums" (or maybe even something similar to that) on Google, Open Arts Forum will be listed. The link there will take them to the Front Page. Jay also maintains a Facebook Page for Open Arts Forum.
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Thanks again, Ray! Here I am (at OAF) - though how I arrived is a mystery. It was truly by accident. That's why I have so many questions.
 
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