[Official] Upcoming changes to the library. Discuss.

[zagan]

One can find this forum by just looking for 'book x pdf' on google - and that can cause trouble
and even upset some great minds that give all their time and heart to create great works for all of us.

That being said, working out a way to find the truly rare works is still in the mists,
one can simply not incentivize ppl to scan expensive rare books etc, as this would create some weird piracy cult?

Its reasons like that why holdall runs into issues, vs having something restricted.
Ideally people should find WF for the discussions and topics.

The books can be found in various places if people go digging, archive, annas etc.

One thing i would suggest is separating the book discussions and reviews or at least moving
threads like SkullTraill's Recommended Occult Reading and Reference.

 

[Asteriskos]

I'm totally behind everything you have just proposed, and might suggest that you go so far as to hide the contents of the library from those who are not members, if that is at all possible, as well as restricting access under the new rules.

I never thought it was a good idea having the library visible to the general public, it might be better to have a 'hint" to lurkers that there is one though, but only for "members in good standing"! If the public can't See all the good stuff that's available (tutorials, articles, Q&A's. et al) to learn from by reading some posts, would they be of value to the forum or just dead weight?

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I never thought it was a good idea having the library visible to the general public, it might be better to have a 'hint" to lurkers that there is one though, but only for "members in good standing"! If the public can't See all the good stuff that's available (tutorials, articles, Q&A's. et al) to learn from by reading some posts, would they be of value to the forum or just dead weight?

Let me add that what made my mind up to join was some high quality reading on subjects like the PGM, and other "practical" kinds of stuff. I don't think I even looked at the library for the first several months at all.

 

[Yazata]

Good initiative. I'm also glad that you limited the required posts to the occult sections

 

[Morell]

On one side, I agree...

On other side, I myself found this place because I was looking for a book and this was only place with the pdf file that appeared on the search engine and seemed available for getting it.

 

[AlfrunGrima]

Although I found the library first, it were the discussions why I started to join WF. WF did meet my desire for quality, 99 percent of the forums don't.

And as for the beginners: in the tutorial section already exists so much information. That is already a gold mine. As a community we can actively link to that section in the beginners topics and/or encourage to start to search over there. I see some people doing this, but we all can do that... And it is a good thing to not have a separate beginner section. Otherwise there are a lot of members not reading and posting in those topics anymore because of the idea that it is for beginners. But it are often the beginners who post nice questions to think again.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

On one side, I agree...

On other side, I myself found this place because I was looking for a book and this was only place with the pdf file that appeared on the search engine and seemed available for getting it.

I'm glad that you didn't just take the book and run

This seems like a sensible set of rules. Not so much 'keeping people out' as 'allowing the wrong sort of people to keep themselves out'