New Forum Category Needed?

[Quixote]

My suggestion: take all the Mega-threads and put them into a separate category. For example, Caption this, Babes on bikes, what beer ya drinking, transfers, general politics, radioshack-Leopard, and others with over 100- 200 posts (there are plenty) could reside in a separate category called "Classic Threads" or "Member Favorites (Favourites)". This would free up first page space on other categories for newer threads to have a few more days in the spotlight before they either catch fire or wither on the vine. As it currently exists, a potentially interesting thread will descend down the line and disappear in two days...perhaps before some members have even seen it.
I can't see how this would hurt the site...it would only give newer/fresher threads a chance to thrive.
What do you think?

 

[Quixote]

Here's an example of the problem I stated above. The Cafe General category currently lists the following threads on the first page:
Free form/chaos
Cat thread
Outside of here
Face/person
Real football
Music...
Hockey
Babes...
Lame joke
National football...
Cricket...
Favorite users
US Elections

Here's the problem...a new thread idea gets bumped from this page pretty fast due to the common usage of these threads. I am aware that the "new thread" option exists, but that's not the same as appearing on the lead page.
In this category, feedback, Sticky has five threads. (Who is this guy, anyway?) Can't they all be consolidated into a single declaration?

 

[ElChingon]

How about instead a new forum section named:

Lame Toppics for all the topics only two people might be interested in but they still want it in a thread. It should be way at the bottom after the last purple bar.

Why you want the best threads moved is beyond me, moving the lame threads is a better solution.

 

[mewmewmew13]

fgs get a life

the popular threads by nature get recycled to the fore...
the lame threads tend to fade into the background.

natural selection

 

[Quixote]

Get a life...natural selection...lame threads....
Wow, it's easy to ruffle feathers sometimes.
To paraphrase, what you're saying is...bad idea Quixote.
I got it.
Consider the idea DOA and don't worry about me rearranging the furniture around here when nobody's looking.
Sorry.

 

[ElChingon]

An easy solution is set a bookmarks for each forum section that starts at page 2. Done!

 

[auscyclefan94]

I disagree. If newer thread aren't posted then that means that not many people care about them or the discussion has ultimately become dead. Having another section is plain silly because it is simply not needed. The software dictates what people are posting about and having a section of threads of topics which aren't posted about it totally redundant.

Basically, If people want to post about a topic they will and if they don't want to post a topic they won't. If you create another section ultimately that section will be entered very little and the section where the popular threads are will be entered a lot.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

if a new thread is good enough it will stay up, making forums to accommodate dud threads, pfft.

 

[BroDeal]

I suggest a new category for threads I don't like. We can start with this one.

 

[Quixote]

Pretty funny, BroDeal...I wish I would have thought of that before I half-baked this idea. Anyway, Auscyclingfan makes a good point, and this from a guy who has started about 200 threads.
So, i'm trying to figure out a way to sweep this one under the carpet so we all can continue on our merry way. What was I thinking?
Let's see...
I had a vegan moment.
I lost my moral compass.
A lapse in judgment.
That Cat Thread finally pushed me over the edge.

 

[usedtobefast]

 

[auscyclefan94]

if a new thread is good enough it will stay up, making forums to accommodate dud threads, pfft.

thank you for saying what I was trying to say in just one sentence.

 

[L'arriviste]

Interesting that this provoked such a reaction, but then I started to realise that most folks probably use the forum in a different way.

I only navigate by "New Posts" or "Today's Posts", which has the effect of cutting across specious categorisations. As a result, any recategorisation of the sort OP suggests won't change anything for me.

 

[oldborn]

My suggestion: take all the Mega-threads and put them into a separate category. For example, Caption this, Babes on bikes, what beer ya drinking, transfers, general politics, radioshack-Leopard, and others with over 100- 200 posts (there are plenty) could reside in a separate category called "Classic Threads" or "Member Favorites (Favourites)". This would free up first page space on other categories for newer threads to have a few more days in the spotlight before they either catch fire or wither on the vine. As it currently exists, a potentially interesting thread will descend down the line and disappear in two days...perhaps before some members have even seen it.
I can't see how this would hurt the site...it would only give newer/fresher threads a chance to thrive.
What do you think?

Brother it is way out of my organisation/cognitive skills, and dunno what are you talking about, but hell yeah It will be great idea. I am in

 

[pedaling squares]

Hockey should be a sticky in every section of the forum. I still want to see a WTF section with Quixxxote, oldporn, and bumcie installed as section heads/mods. Not that I would ever visit that section.

 

[Havetts]

Only subforum needed is one where you can spam your new threads where I dont have to see them..

 

[ElChingon]

Only subforum needed is one where you can spam your new threads where I dont have to see them..

I think you're on to something! Each user should have a customized forum listing and the threads they started get stickied no matter where they click! This would greatly reduce the number of WTF threads which exit out the bottom of each forum section in a day as those creating so many threads would see the forum as we see it and hopefully stop!

 

[daveinzambia]

Interesting that this provoked such a reaction, but then I started to realise that most folks probably use the forum in a different way.

I only navigate by "New Posts" or "Today's Posts", which has the effect of cutting across specious categorisations. As a result, any recategorisation of the sort OP suggests won't change anything for me.

me too. never get the front page stuff. I open up, jump straight to new posts, read those that look interesting, mark the rest as read, move on

 

[Anonymous]

i vote for a seperate section for polls.

 

[Martin318is]

Interesting that this provoked such a reaction, but then I started to realise that most folks probably use the forum in a different way.

I only navigate by "New Posts" or "Today's Posts", which has the effect of cutting across specious categorisations. As a result, any recategorisation of the sort OP suggests won't change anything for me.

I do exactly the same thing - partly because I have to to know what is going on.- but even prior to being a mod I never made a concious decision to "just" review the cafe, for instance.

 

[mewmewmew13]

I do exactly the same thing - partly because I have to to know what is going on.- but even prior to being a mod I never made a concious decision to "just" review the cafe, for instance.

Same.

next

 

[Cobblestoned]

Time to merch up