The Role of the Site Monitor in Hosting an Effective Themed Web Ring

A Web Hosting Article Contributed by Emily Selden

The Way a Site Manager Hosts Key to a Web Ring

In the realm of an effective web rings, a site monitor's hosting ability is the crucial component. Many site monitors think it is their job to control the threads in the web rings that they are hosting, in many respects this is true. They should not be, however, micro-managing the web ring site they are hosting. The difference between site hosts varies, between the lackadaisical to the overbearing, in extremes. Either extreme is detrimental to engaging an insightful web audience- that will increase the potential value of the web ring- whatever the theme.

A web ring theme can only carry the ring so far. The position of the site monitor hosting a web ring is to ensure that the threads that are created in the ring, at least remotely, refer to the theme. This is why either extreme is a hazard in the formation of a web ring. If the monitor is too harsh web surfers will hesitate to stay in the ring. On the flip side, if the monitor is too relaxed the web ring turns into a chaotic mess.

A Web ring That Rules Requires Balanced Site Hosting

Two features of a successful web ring are the size (how many people are in it) and the topics. All topics should refer to the main theme of the ring. For instance, their is a web ring with a theme of hockey, threads of hockey players, ice skates, pucks, and more would be acceptable. What would not be acceptable in a Hockey themed web ring would be football, guys jeans, summer Olympics, and others that blatantly do not have anything to do with Hockey. This is where site monitors have to make judgment calls, when the threads are in the "grey area".

Web Decisions Host No Problems for Site Monitors

The "grey area" is the deciding factor on whether a site monitor is effective. The decisions made in these areas determine whether the web ring will survive or perish. The web audience knows the theme of the web ring and will choose the threads according to the theme; at least this is the theory, anyway. Unfortunately, there are those who can type who can't really relate topics to themes very well. Hence, why we have site monitors, so they can decide what belongs in a particular web ring and what doesn't.

The fate of the web ring is ultimately in the hands of the site monitor, whether this is the owner of the site, the creator of the ring, both, or neither. There are some web rings that have no monitor, but those usually have some other sort of filtering device. Filters are designed, whether it be a site monitor or program, to create a chaos net. A chaos net catches the non-relavent topics and allows valid information relating to the theme to come to the surface. Monitors of either kind save time and help to build a fantastically creative web ring.