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Non Gaming Discussions => Suggestions => Topic started by: shockwaves on October 14, 2004, 11:54:56 AM
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Ok, I want some feedback on this idea...tell me if it makes sense.
1. Get rid of rants and raves again. We brought it back, but it never got the same sorta attention it got in its last incarnation. I just don\'t think it needs to be there, and I doubt many of the topics there get much attention. Basically, it failed.
2. Make a new forum specifically for sports and related topics. They seem to be pretty much the same as political discussion was in OT before it got its own board. There are constantly several sports topics on the OT front page, and almost all the sticky topics are sports topics. Wouldn\'t it make more sense to just give sports its own board? That way different sports discussions could get their own topics more easily instead of just being lumped into a football topic, a baseball topic, etc. Hopefully it would also stimulate the discussion of these topics like it did with political topics. I think there is enough interest, as shown by the topics in OT for a board like this to do really well.
Any thoughts?
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I agree on the sports thing.
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Originally posted by shockwaves
2. Make a new forum specifically for sports and related topics. They seem to be pretty much the same as political discussion was in OT before it got its own board. There are constantly several sports topics on the OT front page, and almost all the sticky topics are sports topics. Wouldn\'t it make more sense to just give sports its own board? That way different sports discussions could get their own topics more easily instead of just being lumped into a football topic, a baseball topic, etc. Hopefully it would also stimulate the discussion of these topics like it did with political topics. I think there is enough interest, as shown by the topics in OT for a board like this to do really well.
Any thoughts?
I tried that once before and it got shot down. Basically your gonna be told that we don\'t have the amount of traffic to justify creating a new forum. There\'s like 25 members who use this site regularly, so basically we have too many forums as it is.
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Thus eliminating one forum before making a new one.
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We don\'t have the amount of traffic to justify creating a new forum. There\'s like 25 members who use this site regularly, so basically we have too many forums as it is.
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Vid is one funny guy. haha wow
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Having more forums doesn\'t hurt anything, even if you have a small number of posters. That was the same stupid argument used against the suggested automotive forum.
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Actually I think a new forum section will spark new threads that wouldn\'t otherwise be posted - just look at the PC and hardware forum. It would probably be the same with a sports and/or car forum.
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Why not? The more forums the more avenues for people to express their views and share information.
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damnit, whenever a I suggest making a new forum it gets ripped to shreads! Ahhh, go with it, it sounds good.
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Good idea!
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Originally posted by The Hurricane
damnit, whenever a I suggest making a new forum it gets ripped to shreads! Ahhh, go with it, it sounds good.
:laughing:
Look at his avatar after reading that...lmao.
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I vote FOR the removal of the Rants and Raves forum(which I forgot even existed until I read this thread) and FOR the addition of a sports forum.
Also let me add a rider to this proposal and suggest the removal of the suggestion forum.
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Then shockwaves will be out of a job...
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Nah, I\'m still a mod of the political discussion board :-p (sorta)
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I just don\'t get the point of it.
We get maybe 3-5 new threads a day tops in the OT forum. Quite a few of those are sports.
The reason we made the political forum was because we wanted it to be more serious.
I just don\'t see why I need to go to the trouble of creating a forum that won\'t do anything for the board as a whole.
So what, make car threads in OT.
Make sports threads in OT.
You make as many as you want. IF they blow up OT and threads start falling to page 2 on the same day they are created, then it\'s time to make another forum.
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I just thought it would stimulate more topics on sports, the same way the political forum stimulated more political topics. It seems also like an area where enough happens that new threads can constantly be made, and there is enough interest that it could take off.
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Technically Vid is right. The topic of this forum is PS2, anything not related is "Off-Topic"
However, there is big enough interest in both PC and other consoles that they merit their own forum, although we got one maybe two new post a week in each of those two. I honestly think PC and Console Discussion should be merged.
my $.02
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How about a San adreas forum, we had on for Vice City and it was pretty big if i remember - not permenant obv
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Yeah but didnt we make them after the games came out?
Id love to see an automotive forum but i dont know how many other people would be interested in having one. When we make threds in OT its just not the same. Perhaps it would be but nobody is going to make a car thread in OT unless its either post a car you like or something big.
Meh.
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I just get annoyed having to go back out to the main menu every time I want to go to current events. I can\'t imagine having to go out for sports and autos when you can just throw everything in OT.
IF we had a full page on OT every day I\'d be all over splitting it up, but damn, it takes days.
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Originally posted by Lord Nicon
Yeah but didnt we make them after the games came out?
Id love to see an automotive forum but i dont know how many other people would be interested in having one. When we make threds in OT its just not the same. Perhaps it would be but nobody is going to make a car thread in OT unless its either post a car you like or something big.
Meh.
Eaxactly. People would see a car story thats mildly interesting and not bother posting it on OT but if there was a forum exactly for it then they would b more inclined to post. Oh and yes get rid of rants and raves to make room for it.
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Originally posted by videoholic
I just get annoyed having to go back out to the main menu every time I want to go to current events.
I STILL say you guys should get rid of the Current Events forum and move the threads all back to OT.
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Originally posted by PS2_-\'_\'-_PS2
How about a San adreas forum, we had on for Vice City and it was pretty big if i remember - not permenant obv
But remember, when those sectons were put on, we had an actual site. Right now, its just the forum so there will be hardly any traffic. I say lets just put questions in Main Forum. It could use more traffic.
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Originally posted by Titan
But remember, when those sectons were put on, we had an actual site. Right now, its just the forum so there will be hardly any traffic. I say lets just put questions in Main Forum. It could use more traffic.
Yeh i suppose, if the mainsite is never going to go back up - which it doesnt look like it will - then why dont we "advertise" somewhere becasue the forums will just die eventually if we dont keep getting new members
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Originally posted by Black Samurai
I STILL say you guys should get rid of the Current Events forum and move the threads all back to OT.
CE gets pretty busy and heated. I dont see why theres much of a reason to axe that, vs something like rants and raves.