A request, AN, from me to you
by Gallagher's Watermelons on Jul 5, 2009 6:44 PM PDT
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I also post on two other SB Nation sites: Fear The Fin and Sactown Royalty. On both of these sites, FanShots worthy of making the front page are added to the front page. However, on this site that doesn't seem to be the case. I can't remember ever seeing a FanShot on the front page. What this seems to cause is people who have very little to say in a post to make a full FanPost instead of confining their small amount of material to a FanShot. The A's just traded for Scott Hairston, and you'd never know it by the front page because it's buried in a FanShot. Anyway, I would like to recommend that AthleticsNation begin publishing worthy FanShots to the front page. What do you think?
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I must say
This is amusing how many posts popped up.
by Orodawg on Jul 5, 2009 6:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Maybe it's cause I'm so used to AN
but I really like fANposts over fANshots. If something is important enough to be in a fANshot that needs to be on the front page, it’s important enough to be a fANpost. I think fanposts are more conducive to conversation as well.
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by travdog6 on Jul 5, 2009 7:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
True,
But something could be important enough to be a front-pager, but still not quite fanpost material. Stuff like a link to a really important article, or something.
I’m mostly thinking of things that don’t meet the fanpost word count.
by danmerqury on Jul 5, 2009 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly
The first person to post about Hairston was…the person who did the FanShot. And yet their thread got 4 comments, but Orodawg’s thread, which is the exact same thing but with enough commentary to get it over the word count, currently has 413. All that is necessary is “Hairston to A’s” and a link, and the discussion will take over itself. More people would use FanShots if they were displayed on the front page when they were noteworthy.
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by Gallagher's Watermelons on Jul 5, 2009 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Then you need to offer some sort of insight
as to WHY it’s a really important article. That’s what generally gets a conversation started. And more importantly, that’s what makes it front page worthy. To me, a fan shot is basically like someone walking past and saying “X got traded” and walking away. It’s not a conversation.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
by DMOAS on Jul 5, 2009 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Posting a link that says "X got traded" is a discussion-starter
I’m sure there are plenty of people that enjoy reading the discussion more than posting in it. If they are the one sharing the link, they have no choice but to write up an opinion piece to fulfill the word requirement, even if they don’t really want to share their opinion.
WordUpThome: THE HEY-DAY OF RONALD REAGAN-O-NOMICS IS A FINE TIME FOR BIRTH, NUMA NUMA DANCE STAR JOBA CHAMBERLAIN WAS ALSO BORN IN 1985
by Gallagher's Watermelons on Jul 6, 2009 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If it's of interest someone will though.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
by DMOAS on Jul 6, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If I’m on my way out the door, but just found a cool article about an A’s player, I want to share the article, but don’t have time to post a paragraph about it. That’s what FanShots are for. The fact that they get no front-page play means no one reads them, and the cool article gets buried somewhere.
WordUpThome: THE HEY-DAY OF RONALD REAGAN-O-NOMICS IS A FINE TIME FOR BIRTH, NUMA NUMA DANCE STAR JOBA CHAMBERLAIN WAS ALSO BORN IN 1985
by Gallagher's Watermelons on Jul 6, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed
That is one thing I love about Sactown Royalty.
by chri5 on Jul 5, 2009 7:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Is AN actually configured not to put FanShots to the top,
or is it just that no one here ever recommends them?
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by iglew on Jul 5, 2009 10:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Probably no one reads them.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
by DMOAS on Jul 5, 2009 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's my problem
I’ve been on AN forever, but FanShots are still new to me. I look for what are now called FanPosts right away, and tend to forget about the stuff buried below.
by bear88 on Jul 6, 2009 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Same here
Some of the gadgets that SBN introduced with the current version of AN are great and are getting used a lot — ranging from avatars to the search function (which continues to amaze me in its speed and accuracy) — but AN functioned perfectly well with just front page posts and diaries, and folks here seem content to keep doing things that way.
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by Nick on Jul 6, 2009 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd always thought that FanPosts were pictures and such
the AN page lists FanPosts as:
Quick hits of video, photos, quotes, chats, links and lists that you find around the web.
So, if I have a question or observation that doesn’t lend itself to a FanPost, can I put it in a FanPost? Isn’t the whole point of AN a meaningful dialogue?
I don't always blog. But when I do, I prefer AN. Stay thirsty my friends.
by Kallus on Jul 6, 2009 1:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yes
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
by DMOAS on Jul 6, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good God no.
We discourage meaningful dialogue!
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by Nico on Jul 6, 2009 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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