Who wants what groups?

@Robert Gentel,

Robert Gentel wrote:

I am moving a nursing forum here

nice, i love a girl in uniform

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/nurse.jpg

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uh..I hate to pop your fantasy bubble deej.

These are what nurses really look like...

http://blog.oregonlive.com/news_impact/2009/08/nurses.jpg

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DeeJee's been hangin out with stevenya

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Hi Robert.
Long time no talk... I hope you are well.
I don't really understand what a group is, so bear with me please.

I'd love a group about photos. Pictures that a2ker's could put up, pictures of the people they'd met, fellow members or stuff they maybe don't want to share with the world, but would with their groups of friends or people they'd met or felt comfortable sharing with a select few. I used to love the photo gallery we had here, I was sad when we lost that function.
I'm not really sure if that is possible.
I think some of the pictures people do post here get lost in the shuffle. Many times the pictures become defunct and there can be pages of slow loading pics or blank slates.
Again, I know nothing about code, but I wonder if a picture did become not see-able, could a moderator could delete those posts. That is, of course, if a moderator could delete a post. I'm not sure what that would do to your inventory system though or if it even matters. I know photo storage can be a huge deal.
Also, if you could create such a group, does one person moderate the entire group, or within each group, can one person moderate their own thread?
I'm assuming a group is a private group, that only people who ask can will be admitted? Would individual threads have the same restrictions?
If these are stupid questions, could you please give me a link to a site that has a similar idea to what you are proposing and I'll do the homework myself. I don't spend a lot of time on many other sites.
Oh, and I have to say I enjoy spending time on this A2K. Thanks, you and your team are a stellar bunch. Very Happy

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@farmerman,

@George,

sounds too much like work
SignatureI THIMK, therefore I AN !

I had a similar thought, sounds like a J O B. But for me I'm in and out, don't post everywhere, and mainly check in from time to time and only post when something is appealing. But every so often, I remark on something I had previously ignored, always against my better judgement...usually entertaining for a nanosecond, and then log off and either play with the dogs or read a book.

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@djjd62,

Nurses find that hugely offensive by the way. In media and popular culture the image of a sexualized nurse (e.g. "naughty nurse") is more predominant than one of a serious healthcare worker. They are tired of the image of nurses being that of a porn star in a "naughty nurse" outfit and not a healthcare professional in a uniform.

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@Ceili,

Ceili wrote:

I don't really understand what a group is, so bear with me please.

The nomenclature can be a bit misleading because "group" means different things on different sites, but here it just means a self-contained forum. Here is an early example that works for the most part:

http://groups.able2know.org/philforum/

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I'd love a group about photos. Pictures that a2ker's could put up, pictures of the people they'd met, fellow members or stuff they maybe don't want to share with the world, but would with their groups of friends or people they'd met or felt comfortable sharing with a select few. I used to love the photo gallery we had here, I was sad when we lost that function.

Well I'm not sure if this changes your mind, but we intend to reintroduce such features one day. One day everyone will be able to have pretty typical social networking photo features (think facebook etc) where they can upload photos, have albums and comment on friends photos.

Of course that doesn't mean a photo forum doesn't have its place though. I actually own a graphics forum that is currently dead (not online even) and that I'll import as a group and I run into a lot of dying forums about graphics that may find homes here.

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Again, I know nothing about code, but I wonder if a picture did become not see-able, could a moderator could delete those posts. That is, of course, if a moderator could delete a post. I'm not sure what that would do to your inventory system though or if it even matters. I know photo storage can be a huge deal.

Well, they become dead on third party sites so it's their photo storage at issue in those cases. But to answer your question, running these forums will give you admin access to the forum. This means you can edit, move, and delete topics and posts. It also means you can ban users from the group and make moderators with all the tools except banning and moderator creation.

Those are the tools in a nutshell, so in short if you wanted to delete posts that have dead images you'd be able to.

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Also, if you could create such a group, does one person moderate the entire group, or within each group, can one person moderate their own thread?
I'm assuming a group is a private group, that only people who ask can will be admitted? Would individual threads have the same restrictions?

If you create a group you will be the group owner and have admin rights. This allows you to create other administrators and moderators of the group.

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If these are stupid questions, could you please give me a link to a site that has a similar idea to what you are proposing and I'll do the homework myself. I don't spend a lot of time on many other sites.
Oh, and I have to say I enjoy spending time on this A2K. Thanks, you and your team are a stellar bunch.

Have a look at the philforum link I just gave you, that is a pretty accurate example (though the look of it may change dramatically it works close to the way it will when finished).

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I think it sounds cool! Hope I'm not too late.

Sent you a message, Robert.

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@squinney,

Sorry Squinney. First come first served and I already called the leadership spot for the Cool Beagle Group!

And I already got the endorsement of a particular WWI ace pilot!

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@tsarstepan,

Not the first time Snoopy betrayed me... Damn, dog!

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@chai2,

there must be some bad data in the jpeg file, some of those nurses look like boys

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@Robert Gentel,

i'm sorry, perhaps i could get some sensitivity training for o' bore, uh, o'bill

t'was but a joke my friends, give me the girl next door in scrubs any day

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@djjd62,

Me too. The saving is enormous.

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@djjd62,

No worries, I only know because I promote nursing as a profession and came upon the knowledge in a similar way (I'd picked stock photography that was too costume and not enough uniform). It's incredibly prevalent to equate nurse with sexy (e.g. when I get sick even women will make comments like that) and the nurses have a point, the public image of nurses really is the "naughty nurse".

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@Robert Gentel,

Robert Gentel wrote:

No worries, I only know because I promote nursing as a profession and came upon the knowledge in a similar way (I'd picked stock photography that was too costume and not enough uniform). It's incredibly prevalent to equate nurse with sexy (e.g. when I get sick even women will make comments like that) and the nurses have a point, the public image of nurses really is the "naughty nurse".

You know, I never really got that whole "naughty nurse" thing.

Mebbe it's because I've worked with nurses for most of my 30ish working years.

Not only are they the ones that wear scrubs and come in and debreed your necrotic wounds, administer controlled substances and constantly access your condition every time they see you. They are also the leaders, administrators, clinical auditors, educators, etc etc. They hold the license as their most important possession, and few will do something to jeaportize it.

What is it that is supposed to be so sexy? The fact that they may see your pee pee while going about their work?
Believe me, they are not going out of their way to even glimpse it, unless it's part of their treatment. If is was, I'd imagine the patient really isn't getting aroused, since it would mean something was wrong down there.

This isn't addressed to you deej, I know you were just kidding. It actually reminded me of something I read in, of all places, Yahoo Finance. I was looking at the message board for my company, where you'd think they would be talking about the stock, and comments were being made about the female staff "bending over" and giving the guy posting it something to look at while he's there for 4 hours.

Yeah, I'm sure the clinical staff just love him. Rolling Eyes

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

What is it that is supposed to be so sexy? The fact that they may see your pee pee while going about their work?

I don't think it's connected to the nursing profession at all, it's just a fantasy costume like the sexy maid or school girl costume as sexual fantasies which are also largely discordant with reality. In the case of nurses the fantasy is just more prevalent in pop culture than the reality.

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Guys, it's an offshoot of the 'power reversal' thing that a lot of guys (and gals) secretly find sexy. With the nurses, you're laying there completely helpless, and for people who are used to being in control of situations, there is a real tendency to try and slot this confusing reversal of the norm into a situation that one's mind can easily understand.

Add that to the fact that people are many times laid up for weeks at a time, maybe even months, and it isn't as if they don't get horny during that time period. The mind (my experience is with male, but I hear it's similar) tends to move to the 'any port in a storm' mentality.

The abundance of WW2-era stories of friendly, young and hot European nurses doesn't help things either. My great-uncle actually married the nurse who took care of him in France after he was injured at the battle of the bulge!

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

I'm sure that is a factor, but it doesn't seem to take a whole lot of basis to reality to make a sex fantasy. Just about anything with a uniform other than garbage man and Hazmat is a sex fantasy. Humans find an awful lot of things to be sexy.

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

there must be some bad data in the jpeg file, some of those nurses look like boys

No DJ. That can't be true. I think they must be female nurses from the former country of Yugoslavia.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

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. if you can use me, do so.

Thanks for the invite Mamie. If I was "over there" I might take you up on that.

Big Fat Liar. I'm over on your side now and you're too chicken to meet up. I've already met Izzie and Clary... what about you? Nah, I know you won't.

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