I vote yes!
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On Jun 13, 2014, at 9:42 PM, Shirley Cullum
<shirlcullum(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well said, Karen.
Shirley
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Karen De Groote <iagenieme(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Nancy,
> If we have rules and a site is not brought in to compliance with the
> rules within a certain time period, the CC can be fired through
> delinking. Meaning the state site no longer lists that site as the
> official county site. It is not necessary to pursue a password
> because our sites are our own and as a member of the organization we
> are given the right of identifying ourselves as USGenWeb and MTGenWeb
> counties. Once a site is delinked they must remove both of those
> designations. There is no nagging involved. In another GenWeb
> organization I am involved with, we have much more stringent rules of
> performance.
>
> I am sorry to hear that you feel one new item in six months is
> excessive. It could be a photo, or an obit or something not too
> taxing although we all would love to add full transcriptions of
> something. Every tidbit helps make our sites better. I realize that
> Teton has amazing data and might not need to add transcriptions of
> anything but there are always little things that freshen our sites.
>
> I agree that broken links should be attended to as a first but "also"
> order. Everyone can download Xenu, which is a free link checker. It
> will save your eyes as well as time and tell you what links may have
> gone bad over time. This enables you to quickly find and correct
> broken links. I usually print out my report and then mark it off when
> it has been changed and uploaded. Xenu makes it simple for me.
>
> I don't think anyone wants to upset a fellow CC and I hope everyone
> will be looking at the every 6 months rules as a positive and they
> will take pride in their site. I know this discussion and rule has
> definitely got me fired up again. I was getting lazy.
>
> Best Regards,
> Karen
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Nancy Thornton <nancetho(a)montana.com>
> wrote:
>> I vote no on the 6 months requirement.
>> Nancy
>> Teton County
>> Reason: While I believe that our polices should have an update
>> requirement, I believe 6 months is too high a goal, especially after
>> viewing a sample of our websites today. One county hasn't seen any work
> in
>> nine years, and even our state page has bad links and out of date info.
>>
>> So once a year is better, I think.
>>
>> Added to that, we don't have a penalty for not checking for bad links,
>> except maybe nagging. What good is that? The other option is to put that
>> site in a fishbowl, point out the problems. Do we want the trouble of
>> getting the password and taking over the site?
>>
>> I urge our discussion to focus on a formal way of pointing out the bad
>> links and urging the webmasters to fix them, the goal being "current"
>> rather than "new stuff". This is genealogy, after all.
>>
>>
>>
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