Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

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Which fiction index is least useful?

Rating
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48%
Title
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21%
Date Added
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31%
 
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Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Elessar » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:11 am

There has been some discussion about the possibility of trimming down the fiction indexes here at Triaxian Silk and I would like everyone's input.

Out of all of the Index Pages, such as:

Rating, Title, Date Added

Which do you find least useful and the most disposable to your fan fiction convenience? You may select 2 if you wish but are not required to.

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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Distracted » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:52 am

If sequels are clearly linked, the "date added" list is least useful, IMO. Rating isn't of much use to me, either...but then, I'm not trying to avoid R and over stories. 8)
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby CX » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:09 am

I'd say rating is the least useful for me, because rating doesn't really matter to me, whereas the title index is useful because I might be looking something up someone recommended to me, and the date added is useful for trying to catch up after I've dropped off for a while.
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby justTripn » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:16 am

Date added is most useful to me as I can go back and see what I missed most recently.

I believe the ratings page has had a glitch for a while. Therefore it may have been wrong for a while, but no complaints. NC-17 stories I believe are marked as such on the dateadded page, maybe the archive page as well where the stories are listed alphabetically by author. I don't need the title page, personally. When I go looking for something to read, I go to the author page, which is called "archive" and skim that.

The background is that none of this indexinghappens automatically.
And some of it needs to be done twice for people with different kinds of computers. Putting a story up is fun. Indexing it every which way and backwards is not.
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Asso » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:31 am

CX wrote:I'd say rating is the least useful for me, because rating doesn't really matter to me, whereas the title index is useful because I might be looking something up someone recommended to me, and the date added is useful for trying to catch up after I've dropped off for a while.



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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Linda » Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:19 pm

Yeah, I don't look up anything by rating. Title and date are of mild usefulness.
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby JadziaKathryn » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:57 pm

I like the rating pages because I don't read R rated stories, but usually I browse by author. Date added I've never once used. Title I've used now and again but could live without.
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby evcake » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:16 pm

I use Title, Author and Rating most.
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:30 pm

CX wrote:I'd say rating is the least useful for me, because rating doesn't really matter to me, whereas the title index is useful because I might be looking something up someone recommended to me, and the date added is useful for trying to catch up after I've dropped off for a while.

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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Chris » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:48 am

Kevin Thomas Riley wrote:
CX wrote:I'd say rating is the least useful for me, because rating doesn't really matter to me, whereas the title index is useful because I might be looking something up someone recommended to me, and the date added is useful for trying to catch up after I've dropped off for a while.

Me too.


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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby TPoptarts » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:54 am

Chris wrote:
Kevin Thomas Riley wrote:
CX wrote:I'd say rating is the least useful for me, because rating doesn't really matter to me, whereas the title index is useful because I might be looking something up someone recommended to me, and the date added is useful for trying to catch up after I've dropped off for a while.

Me too.

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Me four (even though I was the first to vote :twisted: :mrgreen: ) I do avoid like NC-17 stuff but I never actually browse by rating.
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby blacknblue » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:23 pm

Looks like at least somebody uses all of them.
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Dusalis Drake » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:27 pm

CX wrote:I'd say rating is the least useful for me, because rating doesn't really matter to me, whereas the title index is useful because I might be looking something up someone recommended to me, and the date added is useful for trying to catch up after I've dropped off for a while.

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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby Alelou » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:10 am

Hey Elessar! How long are you in the neighborhood?

I didn't know we HAD a rating index. I've never updated a rating index when I've posted stuff. For that matter, I just now went looking and couldn't FIND a rating index. Where is it?

Having said that, I do sometimes hop over to Trip T'Polers and click on the NC-17 stories. And I sometimes prowl their genre index too.

Here, I think Date Added is least useful. Naturally that's the only one that's easy to update. I do think we ought to always eliminate multiple chapter listings of the same stories. I also don't know why these index page files are always getting squished into messy conglomerations you can barely pick your way through. If you always open and save them in Notepad, doesn't that preserve your breaks and extra spacing?
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Re: Which Fiction Index Do You Find Least Useful?

Postby justTripn » Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:36 pm

We eliminated the rating index a long time ago. Don't worry.

I don't think Elessar is in the neighborhood. That was a "sticky" post. It always stays at the top.

Also, there is a note at the top of the most recently added page saying we don't have to list later chapters of multi-chapter works.

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