Hi,
I certainly do not want to tip boats or cause waves. I was thinking, and I don’t know how hard it would be. Does it make any sense to have a section devoted to the SBS’s so a knuckle head like me could surf those? Again, I don’t want to make work for the people who do this. Just a thought.
Mike
Melk,
We have had a FOTW here on FAOL for as long as I have been here. (over 14 yrs). Many of the recent posters must chose to not send them in to The Publisher and have them archived as Fly of the week flies. Personally if it were up to me, no SBS postings would be allowed, only those that were sent in to be published. I see the postings as “wasted” by not allowing we members to have them as permanent fly tying info to draw on. Just my personal opinion, not that of the Owner.
I would encourage all posters to send their work in and have them published.
I do really enjoy all of the recent posts of SBS but it does bother me when I know our Owner has asked many times for any of our tying members to please submit them for FOTW. I can not understand “Why Not”?
Denny
I would agree with Denny. It would be nice if the SBS were captured and not lost in the forum pages.
I kind of agree with your point, Denny, and would add that SBS’s on the Bulletin Board are only available to members of and visitors to the BB, not to the general readership of the FAOL website. I do think there is a place for SBS’s on the BB if the poster commits to ( and follows through on ) submitting the SBS as a FOTW article.
Seems to me that if we want to have an FAOL website to provide an FAOL Bulletin Board, BB members would be interested in contributing to and supporting the website, not just the BB.
John
… and, once you’ve done an SBS, it only takes a few minutes to “repackage” it as a FOTW article and submit it to Neil.
Plus 1. Fully agree Denny. Asked about this a month or so ago. FOTW seem to be more FOTMonth since I have been on FAOL.
When I do an SbS for here than it goes up as a FOTW. If you look at the list 3 of the last 6 are from me. However, it is when I do one for FAOL that I submit it. If I am publishing one elsewhere, I put it in the forum. I do this out of respect for what FAOL is. Is it right to do it this way?
One thing I have seen done on other sites is to have a a thread with links to all SbS threads pinned at the top of the forum.
Something I would find helpful are requests for FOTW. Either a pattern or a technique. Putting together a FOTW submission is not easy when you don’t know what people are looking for.
Cheers,
A.
[EDIT] May I just add, Being pblished is an honour. Being commissioned to produce a piece an even greater one. If anyone is asked to produce a FOTW of a specific pattern or technique I’m sure they would view it this way. It is the publishers saying “Your skills are up to this,” and would I’m sure produce many more submissions. Maybe the proliferance of SbS posts here, and the lack of FOTW submissions is a matter of confidence in ones own abilities. A.
I think Denny has a great idea. The FOTW would be enriched and knuckleheads like me could find SBS’s easily. I hope I’ve only engendered discussion and not stepped on anyone’s figurative toes.
Mike
Learn to use the search function more effectively, would be my answer. The current crop of SBS’s would be stymied by the FOTW format, because they have been coming out faster than that. I tend to dislike the SBS sub-forums, because it means yet-another-forum I’d have to scan. Considering traffic has been so slow here lately, I personally see no problem leaving them here, but that may be the minority opinion. And if you haven’t learned to use Evernote, do so, and you’ll never lose an SBS again…
Well put Alan. I know I would have never put together a FOTW without John Scotts encouragement and hand holding as to how to put it together. And, I was shocked when it got published, I doubted it was worthy. It certainly was not the work of art some of yours and others have posted.
Anyway, the hardest part, I thought, was getting quality pictures. The narrative was pretty easy. With John’s permission, I will try to locate his PM to me and post it here as a guide to anyone interested in submitting a FOTW. Parnelli has put together a CD with all the FOTW’s, it is quite handy. The ones posted only on the BB do seem to be lost unless you can remember the poster or fly name. A search of the BB just using “SBS” did not work…
My understanding is that the threads on the BB are eventually culled . Therefore the SBS’s will eventually disappear. That is a shame.
To whom can I send my last SBS? for the fly of the week section?
Please send his/hers E-mail adress and I’ ll send it in
Fly Tyers,
I need some patterns for the fly of the week column. So if you have something that you think is special and you would like to share with the readers of FAOL send it to me.
The Chronicl
Details are in the thread pinned to the top of the forum. FOTW Needed.
Cheers,
A.