Thread Titles
We'd like to use the international date format at the beginning of both Brewer and non-Brewer in-game thread titles. Doing this will aid in finding a thread at a later time.If you're starting a Brewers IGT thread, use this format...
2008-09-18 Brewers (Bush) at Cubs (Harden): 1:20 PM CDTAnything additional can go after the game time.
If you're starting a non-Brewers IGT thread, use this format...
2008-09-18 Non-Brewers in-game threadAgain, anything additional can be appended to the end.
Useful Links
Links related to the day's games are definitely helpful, especially when looking back at the thread down the road. Feel free to add links to replies if they're not included in the lead. Useful links would include, but aren't limited to:- Pregame previews and in-game updates
- Recent background information on the players and teams.
- Opposing teams' fan sites.
- Game stories and box scores
Non-Brewers In-game Threads
In addition to any appropriate links, including the day's schedule would be a nice touch.wOOgiE22 Graphics
wOOgiE22 will has made graphical templates available for members to use when starting in-game threads. He'll start threads for the first series of the season. After that, a template for the current (and/or upcoming) series will be made available. The template and instructions for using it are included via replies in this thread.Tags
We'll be using tags to help catalog threads. Unfortunately, we do have a Yuku-imposed limit. These are the tags we plan on initially:- Brewer In-Game threads
- brewers
- year and month, e.g. 2009april
- the Brewers' starting pitcher, e.g. gallardo, parra, bush
- team tag for brewer opponent, e.g. astros, cardinals, whitesox, redsox
- division of Brewers' opponent, e.g. nlcentral, alwest
- league of Brewers' opponent, i.e. nationalleague, interleague
- springtraining, regularseason, or playoffs (as applicable)
- brewerwin, brewerloss, or brewertie
- tiebreaker (when applicable)
- Non-Brewer In-Game threads
- nonbrewers
- year and month, e.g. 2009april
- springtraining, regularseason, or playoffs (as applicable)
- team tags (use sparingly), e.g. astros, cubs, whitesox, redsox
- wbc (when applicable)
- tiebreaker (when applicable)
- All Star Game
- allstargame
- year and month, e.g. 2009july
- Playoffs
- brewers or nonbrewers (not both)
- year and month, e.g. 2009october
- the Brewers' starting pitcher (when applicable), e.g. gallardo, parra, bush
- team tags, e.g. astros, cardinals, whitesox, redsox
- brewerwin or brewerloss (when applicable)
- playoffs
- the series: nlds, alds, nlcs, alcs, or worldseries
Hints
- To sort threads by game date, click on the Topic Title heading to sort from least recent to most recent. Click on it again to sort from most recent to
least recent. Each subsequent click will toggle the sort order.
- Dropping a game's date into the forum search (using the format prescribed above) will bring up the Brewers and non-Brewers in-game threads for that date.
- When they're applicable, use tags to help find what you're looking for.
