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I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
Sox:
that has more to do with the people posting than anything else, I feel. a lot of folks post in those places for the sake of posting, while a lot of people who only post when they have something to say tend to skip over those subforums. whenever an interesting character from the other subforums ventures in there to say something, it's a worthwhile read. it just doesn't happen very often.
RallyMonkey:
The only reason I mention it really is for the fact that if it was conjoined with this or other forums, then there wouldn't be room for a topic for every individual movie, and thus, it would result in a few good discussions on film, instead of a lot of boring discussions about one film.
RedLion:
--- Quote from: Dazed on 18 Jan 2009, 21:25 ---Discuss seems to currently be about 25-35% discussion, 65-75% ad hominem attacks.
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Not really. Things get "heated" sometimes and once in awhile people just outright insult someone, but the vast majority of posts are reasoned, fairly well thought out and calm.
Also
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 19 Jan 2009, 08:53 ---I keep sort of thinking about starting a new forum but there are so many issues with this potentially not working and being a completely embarrassing nightmare that I haven't done it and most likely won't.
I'm not really online often enough to justify it as of late but it does cross my mind. I am on a lot of forums and it's hard to stay in touch with everyone.
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For what purpose, and for whom?
I will say, though, that things aren't quite as lively around here as were when I first started posting. My favorite thread that's been active since I started a little over a year ago was the Bitstrips thread. We don't really get things like that anymore, except occasionally something humorous in the Pointless thread.
Sox:
I skip over threads where the title doesn't summarise the topic for me. I also skip over stupid thread titles stating "This is a thread for..." in them. I also stop reading threads when people aren't allowed to stray off-topic, because it's suffocating. If the topic was really that great, it would stray back on-topic without intervention when somebody has something to say. Threads are far too heavily moderated in many cases, with friendly reminders to stay ontopic and unneccessary locks. If it's boring, it'll sink into the archive. All locking a boring or pointless thread does is stop it from ever becoming interesting, because you nuked it before it even started. A thread has never started until the first good post.
The forums are spread too thin.
--- Quote from: RedLion on 19 Jan 2009, 10:23 ---For what purpose, and for whom?
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To stroke his ego and keep track of his girls in port.
Alex C:
I think Computers and Video Games should be kept seperate but renamed NEEEEEERDS! or General Geekery. As it is now, we don't really have anything clearly designating where you're supposed to post if you feel like babbling about about D&D or your shiny new smartphone. And frankly, I feel that the fact that there are people on the forums who could not care any less about those topics only strengthens my case.
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