Patroklus Murakami wrote:I've been going through the sub-forums to find stray RA transcripts which have been posted in various forums. I propose that, from now on, we post all RA transcripts in 'RA Announcements', move any strays to that sub-forum and change the description to read "Announcements by the Leader of the Representative Assembly and Transcripts of RA Meetings".
I think it would be helpful to have all of the RA transcripts in one place. This is helpful for finding when decisions were made, laws passed and Constitutional Amendments enacted. Currently, 'RA Announcements' has 102 RA transcripts, 'RA Discussion' has 36 and the other sub-forums have a handful. 'RA Announcements' seems like the best home for these and moving the stray ones to this forums would involve the least amount of hassle for the forum admins.
I'll post future RA transcripts in 'RA Announcements'.
I agree Pat - and that scattering across multiple forums has occurred over time with many topics. So, if you can find a volunteer, or are willing yourself, to come up with a list of the post titles and forum location of transcripts needing to be moved, I'll move them over or get someone to do so. In addition, if you contact Mizou ( I think it's Mizou, not sure who else might be able to give you perms) for access, you could update the RA Journal page with the transcripts from last term and start posting them this term. We are arranging an SC Journal page on the portal for the same reason - one location, easy to research.
I also think it would make sense to have a Chancellor's Announcements forum, so will arrange for one - while the Chancellor only has a few postings that are required of him or her, they are important ones- Citizens List and budget. Having those, and other announcements of the Executive, in one location will also make locating important information easier for citizens.
Finally, something I would suggest to all forum users who propose legislation - once the discussion has led you to the point of creating a proposed act or amendment, post it as a new topic. Some do this already, but at times the process goes like this - a topic starts as ' We should promote soccer in CDS!'. Two or three pages of debate follow over swimming, table tennis or croquet as better activities, and down on the bottom of page 4, Joe posts his proposal for CDS1*-1 -Banning of All Sports Act, which of course generates another 3 or 4 pages of debate. When trying to locate that proposal at a later date, one either has to scan through multiple pages of posts, or remember that the key word in the topic was soccer, or that Joe was the proponent, or some part of the title of the actual proposal. Much simpler if proposals have their own topic (which they deserve! 
) and an added benefit might be that more people actually see the proposal, since some may have stopped reading the thread since soccer etc are of no interest to them.
Calli
