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Offline shockwaves
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« on: October 14, 2004, 11:54:56 AM »
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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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2004, 04:28:59 PM »
I agree on the sports thing.
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Re: 2 part suggestion
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2004, 04:29:08 PM »
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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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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2004, 04:36:35 PM »
Thus eliminating one forum before making a new one.
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2004, 05:01:01 PM »
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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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2004, 10:11:48 PM »
Vid is one funny guy. haha wow
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2004, 10:25:04 PM »
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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« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2004, 01:04:44 AM »
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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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2004, 05:26:17 AM »
Why not?  The more forums the more avenues for people to express their views and share information.
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« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2004, 06:28:09 AM »
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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« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2004, 07:19:47 AM »
Good idea!
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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2004, 07:50:58 AM »
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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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Look at his avatar after reading that...lmao.
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« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2004, 08:03:04 AM »
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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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2004, 10:40:11 AM »
Then shockwaves will be out of a job...
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« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2004, 03:10:45 PM »
Nah, I\'m still a mod of the political discussion board :-p (sorta)
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