Idea for the forum

[campsoup1988]

My idea is a section on the forum, where we could post question to ask Diane Duane. I know there is the scheduled chats, but some people, like me, would have a hard time attending them. (I usualy dont go online on saturday)

[Gryphon]

I don't know about everyone else, but I think that's a great idea. Especially for these chats where you can't spontaneously hop in and launch your question. To be on the safe side, I didn't apply for the first one because I thought there'd be people with more valuable things to say -- and all of my question ideas I forget about anyway.

So... what we could do is create a forum, and for every upcoming chat, someone can open up a topic where people post their question ideas -- maybe for reference so you'd remember, or, like you said, for the people who have questions but can't come into chat or didn't apply in time ('cuz the past few chats have been by pre-request only). The topic can be capped off after the chat when someone saves and links the chat transcript and/or a summary.

[Kathy Li]

I don't think we need a new forum or topic for chat questions. We can just tack question posts onto the end of the current chat's thread in the Chat Forum. I'll go add a post over there.

I'd say, however, that if you don't want to do the chat thing, another alternative might be to use the e-mail for submitting questions/suggestions for the WizCast (wizpodcast@googlemail.com)? (I mean, heck, PM got his question answered that way!) I mean, I know that the Wizcast hasn't been active since she started it, but maybe if a bunch of questions came in, she'd think about it.

DD doesn't visit the board very often, as busy as she is, and she's pleaded with us before not to private topic her for the same reason. So, the board might not be the best way to get a question to her directly.

[campsoup1988]

I was also looking forat if DD looks around here to see what is going on, like she probly does, then should anser them then, not just durring the chats, leave the chats for morek conversations then just asking a question

[Kathy Li]

You can use the Advanced Search feature (it's in the dark blue toolbar at the top, under "Find") to find all the posts that DD's made on this board (well, the ones that are still in the board's database, anyway), if you want. Just because it's an older post doesn't mean it won't have information you'd be interested in.