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Ozone will destroy the odor and probably not hurt the paint or pad. If you know anyone with an ozone generator like the ones used to kill odors in hotel rooms or from fire damage that you could borrow it should do it. However, you don’t want to breath the ozone so you can’t do it in a room that you occupy and it will damage latex rubber so you need to be careful of that as well.
We will probably make more Rock Dragons out of straight gypsum for indoor use only but I can’t say as to when.
Pack them face up or face down? Do you really think it’s going to matter when the UPS people are playing football with these things? We drop them from about five feet onto a cement floor on all sides and a corner when we test the packaging.
That’s a seriously awesome crime report though! I’m assuming Ed was the one doing the screaming?
No, it was Cody the llama who was screaming. They can make a really awful noise when they want to, and he was really upset.
I wouldn’t try it, the horns are much too easy to break. I need to get to work on the horn situation.
What’s simple to me is this:
1) Check the forum. Read the topics that interest you.
2) Click the “Mark topics as Read” button when you’re done. It’s right there at the top of every forum page.
3) Come back in a few days, there are only a few threads that have ANY new activity. They are marked in big red letters. They are easy to see.
What if you want to look back and find something that you have already marked as “Read”? It is still a jumble of stuff to search through.
I am very glad you started this azurielle. This is an issue that needs to be thought through and have some changes made. There is no question that, to make it more useful, it needs to be simplified.
I’d just be happy with 2 things… being able to edit my post consistantly (meaning all the time and not when the forum FEELS like letting me edit or not edit a post) and also, (a little off topic, but) I am still irking to fix my PYO Gallery and organize it like we used to be able to.
The PYO gallery issues are still very much on the long list of “New Forum” stuff to change. We have been straightening out many other things related to order processing and behind-the-scenes problems. We have a new part-timer who will be getting around to the entire list as soon as he is able.
I am talking about a list of Title headings, maybe with a thumbnail, for each item that will open to pictures of a regular size. The sales and wanted areas should be as easy to use as any other classified, no?
If people are serious about selling things they can put their email or phone number in the listing, just like any other classified ad section. Or rely on the PMs, which, if they are not working right, we need to look at.
I am still not clear on what the problem with a Craig’s List type format for sales would be. There just are not that many new items offered for sale so I can’t see how it would be hard to find things. The clutter we have now is all the chatter, the posting of oversize and too many pictures, and old bumped threads. I would think you would want a format where none of that can exist. I use Craig’s List all the time to buy things as well as to post to and it is way more efficient than the forum postings.
As far as I can see this whole discussion points to making the sales thread into a post by seller only board and I think that the ability to add items to the sellers item listing should not be allowed. Each item or collection of items for sale should be listed with maybe four pictures max just like Craig’s List and any discussions can be started elsewhere. I see no need for a seller to have their own dedicated thread. You have more stuff for sale, you create a new listing.
Craig’s List works just fine for buying and selling things and the Flea Market listings would be a whole lot more useful without the inane comments and wandering discussions. Wasn’t the idea to have a place to buy and sell? Why not make it easy. If the seller wants to rely on PMs for response that’s fine, and if they want to make sure that the buyer will get through to them they can include their email in the listing, just like Craig’s List. Nobody needs to post “PM’d you”.
Because, as it was pointed out, there are really not that many new listings I would think that “Items For Sale” should be a single thread. You can create all the discussion threads you want but what is for sale, and what is “Wanted To Buy”, should be single threads with everything wanted or for sale in one spot. I would never take the time to wade through Craig’s List if it looked like a forum with discussion mixed with sales.
So, am I missing something here? Or is the awful tangle of threads and comments somehow attractive to users and we should leave it alone?
How about if we have listings with descriptions by the seller but no comments by viewers are allowed, and they are taken down at 60 days (or whatever number you want). The sellers can edit their post to add whatever they need to or to mark as sold, but let them field questions by email or PM. ??? People can always yak about stuff somewhere else on the forum. This would make the most sense to me.
Originally I just meant the old Flea Market threads but now I can see that there are multiple issues that need to be addressed, and the run-on threads that are still current being the biggest offenders. Of course, if we just locked them up somewhere where they could be viewed the poster would simply have to start a new thread and I’m not sure there would be any harm in that. ???
If anyone has specific complaints about the search feature please email me so I can discuss them with the guys who are working on the site. We are now working on parts of the site that are most critical to the store but we do want to fix the rest of the bugs as well, and we don’t intend to leave it alone until we have run out of options in getting it to behave.
Would anybody care if we just took the older threads and moved them into hiding? I don’t think that anyone really needs to dig back through most of the posts. Or do they?
Gah, I can’t tell you how much I just want to do this for the video’s sake, but you caught me at a bad time in life D: Is Windstone OK with self published/sort of artist interview PYO tutorial videos posted in the future?
Just saw this. We would be greatful for any exposure or publicity that we can get. If you have any questions at all about what is OK to post, or not, please send them straight to me. Thanks! john@windstoneeditions.com
Looks like an older copy. I will have it removed. Thanks a lot and please never hesitate to email me direct at john@windstoneeditions.com
