Registry Change

[*Ripley*]

I'm going to propose a registry change because both Kenny and I are completely swamped and there are just too many horses to keep up. I'm going to propose two options, one pitched by me and the other by Kenren. Obviously, nothing will go into effect without Snowflake/Sunfrost's approval, but I would like to get feedback from other members as well.

Kenren's Proposal:
1. Keep the registry as is.
2. Make all members moderators of the registry so that they can adjust their own stuff. This will make it easier when people decide to make two different websites for breeding and racing, among other things.
3. We'd still have to keep track of numbers and put them on horse's pages.
4. Someone will have to be in charge of new registrations in order to keep numbers on track.

Ripley's Proposal:
1. Eliminate the registry as is.
2. Use members stable threads as registries, such as what exists for stables currently.
3. Have members list out all the horses they own.
4. Members will be responsible for changes.
5. Because names will be in the threads in a specific board, searchability will be just as simple as it currently stands now.
6. Instead of registration numbers, we can use Registration Prefix and stables would create their own numbers. Mine would be WCS1= El Sol Del Mar. This way we can tell for sure that each horse has indeed been registered. ONLY HAS TO BE ON HORSE'S PAGE.

[Isabelle]

I don't think members should have access to the registry as who knows what some people might do to it by accident or on purpose, we don't know how much we can trust new people with that sort of thing and it seems to me the registry is our main tie to keeping a firm, permanent record of horses in case of mishap.

There is another option, hire someone else to work on the registry pages. I think the registry is fine as it is, it's a bare minimum form of a very few stats of a horse that shouldn't need to change often. It's the situation where members are transferring large numbers of horses to breeding stables that seems to be temporary problem right now, so hire someone to just help finish up these change or another full timer.

[LK]

It makes me a little nervous having everyone in charge of the registry board. Just the new members that are coming in, we would want to make sure they knew how to edit correctly. Everyone else would be fine. I like the idea of being able to edit my own horses registries, so I'd like to do that.

[Kenren]

We could put a time period where new members will still have to go through me or Ripley. This is mostly concerning major stable changes, mass reclaims, etc. I don't mind keeping up with new horses being registered either.

[Sammy]

well I mean what if only senior members have the option like for instance those who have been here long enough to understand? Don't give new members the option but for instance like me, Isabelle, Cc, Cruisey etc. those who have been here for awhile should have the option to do so or I think so. That or maybe what if adding a registry to the wire as well I know it will cause issues too but what if those horses who mainly run on the wire have a registry there I mean they have a wire Hall of Fame why not a registry there too? Honestly Ripley I think your way is a little confusing but I do agree their are way too many horses to add so why not add members who know what their doing to at least help.

[*Ripley*]

Personally, I'm just anti-registry anyway because it's messy and so many horses get deleted that the numbers just are not in order in the way they were created. The whole registry check is long and so many members don't keep track of their own stuff.

[Cruisey]

I like the idea of having ourselves in charge of our own registries and horses. I do think however instead of having registry numbers, we have something like what Ripley proposed and have some sort of acknowledgement that the horse has been looked at and registered. That being said, I think we should still have a registry. I don't mind having access to the registry board either, and when it comes to new members they should have a Senior staff (like Ripley, Kenren, Snowy, Sunfrost, Cavallo etc basically whoever has been here longer than myself or anyone else xD) register their horse for them and once they get the hang of using Code then they can do it themselves. 

Also I do like Ripley's idea of having our own registry in our stable board either here on GHF, or even creating a page on our website that has each horse and whatnot. That way its an easy search either way. Or we could have both, like have a record here and on our stable site (not mandatory at all!) but for those who want to do it :)

PS I totally clicked the wrong thing on the poll WOOPS 

[S u N f r O s t ~]

I like the idea of stable threads, but I would be in favor of just eliminating registration prefixes entirely. Maybe each stable should just post a thread of all horses in their barn along with the pedigree of their horses. That will simplify a lot of things, I think. Like this:

Ventura - Y10 - Impressario x Rising Fury - Active

[Snowflake]

I don't want to lose the registry. I like that we know how many horses are in the game just by looking at it and can use it for offspring searches and taken name searches and when its up to date we know who owns the horse and where it is. I agree that it would be easier if everyone handled the posting of their own registry pages so then they can edit them themselves. A staff member would need to ensure all the numbers are kept right though.

[S u N f r O s t ~]

It sounds like the best compromise would be having senior members manage their own registry stuff and only having staff to take care of the newer members registry stuff until they're able and trusted enough to do it by themselves.

[Isabelle]

If you trusted me and added me as a temporary moderator for the board I could get all the new registries in and do the updates as well. Then after that you could make me a normal member again and if you still wanted to you could make changes.

[creativecause]

If you guys wanted help with the registry check (because it sounds like a rather large, long and sucky project) I still have plenty of my summer left and I would be more than willing to help you guys out. 

[S u N f r O s t ~]

We could give members in the Active Member group the ability to modify the Registry board...what do you guys think of that?

[Isabelle]

Frosty hon just give me the power to do it, I'll sit down and do it all right now and get it finished. I'm a doer girl, I'll just get it taken care of here now. XD

[S u N f r O s t ~]

Isakins has taken care of it

[Kenren]

I think it'd still just be best if we just gave all of the active members the power. Because as it stands, there are like, what? Two more members that can't do it out of all of us? No reason not to just let people take care of their own things.

[Cruisey]

I agree with letting the really Active members have access to it (like myself, obviously all of the moderators and staff, Isa, CC, Sammy, Lacee, etc) that way we don't have to wait for others to do it if we want to get racing as soon as we can, ya know?

[S u N f r O s t ~]

I've switched around the permissions - are you guys able to modify and handle the registry stuff now?

[Sammy]

I can