Greetings,
Time to continue our excurse into the Attic's history. With D'Jinni gone, we decided to alternate hosts, though not by means of holding elections Instead, we kept asking for volunteers, and (to my amazement! ) they never failed to come.
In time, the Attic became much more popular. D'Jinni already had problems keeping up with the traffic. Eventually, it became clear that no single host would be capable anymore of answering every story. Therefore, it was no longer expected. Instead, the host was to give some food for thought and inspiration (the quiz's subject being a large part of it), attend especially to those stories that received less attention, welcome new visitors, and in general act like host!
Note that the seriousness and scope of the stories increased as well (and, I hope, their quality!). It became rather hard to write them specifically to the subject given. Thus, even though we have alwayd been encouraging posting of-topic stories anyway, the length of the quiz was steadily increasing until it started running for two weeks instead of one.
We were still keeping the WebBBS message board software for a long while, though. Till the Quiz 88, when we switched to the phpBB software.
Leo
The Attic Democracy
Started by Leo, Sep 26 2002 09:01 PM
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