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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-06 at 13:45:29
I'll make another post when I have more time (My computer class teacher just noticed what I do during his class). But to what kellimus said, if it was named Technology then people would think Robots, Computers, etc. not games and stuff. So if that does happen call it Games and Technology or something.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)7-7 on 2006-04-06 at 13:53:19
Ya I agree, and same I am in study hall on my laptop!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Centreri on 2006-04-06 at 14:38:38
Splitting everything into many sub-forums will be too confusing for the newbies. And it will be harder for moderators to navigate and move everything around.

I like Captain Will's idea, but I like the idea about merging Serious and Lite Discussion and creating many subforums for that even more.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-04-06 at 14:50:12
I think Games should be changed into Computers and Consoles.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-06 at 16:02:06
QUOTE(Centreri @ Apr 6 2006, 01:38 PM)
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His idea is just like everyone elses idea. And it isn't EVEYTHING. What I think the Other Section should have is:
Null
Discussions
Creative
Technology and Games

Technology and games would be like games, but with added in things like "What kind of comptuer should I get" etc. and discussion would have basically what Will is saying. War and Politics, Religon, That other one, and general disucssion for things that might not fit in there. The general discussion might work out too, becase of your Religon/Science thread that you mentioned would be hard to catigorize, you could just put it in General since it goes in both.
And in case you missed it we now have a total of 4 new sub fourms, but we got rid of the confusing "What's the difference between Serious and Light discussion?" question.
We can't add "Games and Technology" in the discussion fourm you don't always discuss things in the game fourm. Like "RPG Survivior" (Though I think it's stupid) you don't really discuss anything, same with "This game is coming out" I GUESS you could discuss some things but when you think of discussions you think of two sides, it's not like that with games.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by (DI)Yulla on 2006-04-06 at 23:48:26
No.. I change my mind. The serious discussion never really gets much attention or as much of new topics as games or lite discussion does. I think it will be better if lite and serious discussion combined.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CaptainWill on 2006-04-08 at 20:57:52
So what's the final admin's verdict on this question?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-08 at 21:10:04
I'm guessing if IP agreed to it he'd add it in V5 since V4 "is dead to him". Unless moose feels like doing it.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2006-04-08 at 21:14:21
Not really, making a new forum in v4 only requires you to go into the Admin CP, click a few buttons, write a few titles and descriptions and you're done.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by IsolatedPurity on 2006-04-08 at 21:19:37
QUOTE(CaptainWill @ Apr 8 2006, 06:57 PM)
So what's the final admin's verdict on this question?
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I haven't decided yet... Moose, whatcha think?


(Politics, War, History) - Politics and History
(Religion, Race, Gender, Morality and Ethics) - Philosophy and Ethics
(Everything Else) - General Discussion

Has that been decided the best way to do things?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2006-04-08 at 21:29:24
I'm ok with those that have just been suggested and quoted by IP. Just don't make a whole bunch of sub-forums, only divide LD and SD into those 3. I'll volunteer to sort through all the current topics and place them in their respective forums.

Just dump it all in General Discussion and I'll go from there onward. If any other Global Mod wants to help, go right ahead.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by IsolatedPurity on 2006-04-08 at 21:42:42
So no subforms? Only more main forums?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-08 at 22:52:08
QUOTE(IP)
So no subforms? Only more main forums?

I believe we're suppose to get rid of the Lite and Serious Discussion fourm, make it into one big fourm called "Discussion" with those 3 subfourms posted. So it'd be like the Creativty fourm with no main fourm. Or you could have "General Discussion" the main fourm and have 2 subfourms.
But this was Will's idea so I'm not sure what he intended.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by DT_Battlekruser on 2006-04-09 at 01:44:56
Not having read much, let me say this: subforums kill activity like the plauge.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by A_of_s_t on 2006-04-09 at 02:07:33
QUOTE(DT_Battlekruser @ Apr 8 2006, 11:44 PM)
Not having read much, let me say this: subforums kill activity like the plauge.
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Here, here! The Null section, like so many have said, should be split up into different sections. There may be a lot of topics in the Seroius Discussions, but only three of them have people talking on them.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mini Moose 2707 on 2006-04-09 at 08:55:55
As for Null, I remember that used to have an Advertising subforum, which was good. I would also disable polls in Null and add a "Poll Mania" subforum to Null, there's just too many in there.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2006-04-09 at 11:10:51
Yes, I'd agree with Moose on what he just said. If you move all those numerous polls in the Null, activity would go down to a reasonable level.

As to the having no sub-forums, they just decrease activity. When scrolling down accross the forums, I rarely do ever manage to get interested in posting in one of the many sub-forums of the Creative Forum. One of the reasons could be because when I see if there's a new post, chances are that it's in a field which I don't like very much.

I just don't see much advantages in having sub-forums except that it saves space.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-09 at 11:17:29
QUOTE(BeeR_KeG @ Apr 9 2006, 10:10 AM)
As to the having no sub-forums, they just decrease activity. When scrolling down accross the forums, I rarely do ever manage to get interested in posting in one of the many sub-forums of the Creative Forum. One of the reasons could be because when I see if there's a new post, chances are that it's in a field which I don't like very much.[right][snapback]461821[/snapback][/right]

Well the creative fourm is different. It handles things from photoshop, to movies, to art, to programming and other stuff. Which are all really different, in the dicussion fourm or the Null fourm it's basically all the same thing just more organized.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by IsolatedPurity on 2006-04-09 at 11:50:00
Wouldn't a forum dedicated to polls only increase useless ones more?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2006-04-09 at 12:28:27
What could be done is to have that "Poll Sub-Forum" be for "Poll-Only threads", this way, you don't have people saying "I picked this" or responding "HAHA, I can't believe that you picked that". Yes, it will most possibly encourage more polls, but the Null forum won't be cluttered with them and you won't have a 4 page thread that's full of nothingness.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by DT_Battlekruser on 2006-04-09 at 14:08:45
QUOTE(Mini Moose 2707 @ Apr 9 2006, 05:55 AM)
As for Null, I remember that used to have an Advertising subforum, which was good. I would also disable polls in Null and add a "Poll Mania" subforum to Null, there's just too many in there.
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Agreed on both. You don't need to make the polls in a Null sub-forum poll only, they will be locked away safely in a Null subforum and therefore not need to be kept short of posts. In the meantime, Null's activity should fall to an acceptable level.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mini Moose 2707 on 2006-04-09 at 14:24:58
I don't see why anyone is thinking I said poll-only topics. Just a forum for polls, not no-reply poll only topics.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by IsolatedPurity on 2006-04-09 at 22:06:06
I dunno...

Whoever said Serious Discussion lacked the activity to be split up is probably right though... Only 7 topics got responses for the entire day. I'm thinking Light Discussion could combine with Null for idle chatter / light topics... and then null could split into 2 sub forums: the poll mania and forum games / other useless crap?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-04-09 at 22:12:08
The idea was to form Serious Discussion and Light Discussion. So that basically all the light discussion would be in the new "General Discussion" fourm. While the once known serious discussion would be under the War and POlitics and the other subfourm. You can do what you want with null but light discussion is a lot different from Null. That's why the fourms should be:

Null - Poll Subfourm?
Discussion - War and Politics, Philosophy and Ethics, General Discussion
Creative - (Crap)
Games and Technology

Null shouldn't be combined with anything it gets enough posts as it is. The poll subfourm would just move some activity away buy there's still a large amount of posts going in Null. Light and Serious combined would be a lot more active. And according to the board they have 78% and 83& so combining them would keep things organized. However Null has 100% and shouldn't have anything added on.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by IsolatedPurity on 2006-04-22 at 12:43:48
Discussion
- Current Events (politics, war, news, etc)
- Philosophy and Ethics (society: religion, racial, ethics, etc)
- General Discussion


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