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  1. I see you guys are trying a single weekly post for weekday numbers. I guess that could work, if you guys make sure to put links to the posts w/ actuals in the thread's first post, like you said you would.On another note, I still think you guys should have gone with an actuals thread tagging system incorporating the date - I suggested something like that way back in the Help Desk board. Never happened, so as expected, it's harder to find the more poorly titled actuals threads.
  2. With a current ~6175 replies and ~119,000 views, this thread is 4th for most replies in the forum, and 3rd for most views.Astonishing. Each of the three threads with more replies (between 7300 and 14.4k) and views (160k, 193k) have been around since November. Too bad I can't remember what the major BOM weekend threads were like, but this has to rank fairly high among them.
  3. Always liked that first one, more for the way it's all laid out than for the artistic design of the characters. The Remus/Tonks is touching, but would've been better without Bella in the frame (the implication that Tonks dies a fairly stupid death). A couple more (click to expand): Oops, she lived. Fishnets is pissed. This one's a nifty compilation, if a bit more movie-centric than I'd like. Oh well: This one isn't amazing, but somewhat humorous. So I'll just link it. Click here And semi-awesome humor:
  4. I still contend that the biggest wasted opportunity was not showing more of what was going on away from Harry in DH2. Yeah, I know the book is 3rd person limited, focused on Harry, just like all the other books. That was the narration style that Rowling wrote all the previous books in, and so that was the style that she had to write the last one in (a couple of scenes excepted, of course).But there was no reason why the movie had to stick with that style. I would have loved to see a scene or two of the Order at work, or the assassination of Scrimgeour, or the struggle between Dumbledore's Army and the Carrows.It's symptomatic of the way that the Harry Potter movies operated, though. None of them are truly excellent movies, IMO, because they were too conservative. Decent movies, sure. Good movies, in some cases. Generally fun movies. But not exceptional. Virtually none of the changes they made showed any daring at all, instead being made for the sake of limited run time. Movies are different from books. Great movies based on great books reflect (and in some ways benefit from) this difference.The closest they ever came to being daring was PoA, and that's why it's still among my favorites in the movie series.Also, you and your love of Hermione-torture. I'm fine with that bit; the original was arguably softer than the movie version as it is...though to me it was somehow more chilling than the movie version.
  5. Exactly. It needs to be uniform, so someone who knows the system (it can be put in a sticky thread at the top of the board if need be) can just find the date without fuss.BOM was a minimalist site, and we got used to operating under that mode. There's a lot more we can do here - it's just taking a bit of time to realize it. That's a nice "problem" to have, though.
  6. I prefer the old way of doing things, but with something else that hasn't been done: Make sure they are all tagged. Every daily actuals, estimates, etc. thread should be tagged with its date (including the year), so that someone can simply drop that date into the search tags box and pull up all the relevant threads. Weekend threads should have tags for all three (or four, or whatever) days that make up a part of the weekend. Alternately, or in addition to this, we can put the dates in the titles of the threads. The point is, we now have an effective searching system, and with a little extra effort, we can use it to make all the typical daily threads easy to find. I think that's part of the reason Shawn suggested consolidating them into one thread: for organization purposes. They do tend to get lost if you're looking for stuff more than a few days back.
  7. Daphne Greengrass.How dare such an interesting-sounding name be mentioned, and then the character goes and gets no page time at all afterwards.
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