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Re: Adding more subforums - GuyGene - 05-03-2013
I had to think a minute - ah, no, just leave it. I don't think I've ever posted anything as OT here, but remember it from DealMac. I just figured that those who used it here thought it was kind of mandatory like there.
And, I think as OS C has matured and people aren't having as many issues, we don't need so many OS tips and help anymore. I kind of like coming here and learning what's the best brakes for my truck, etc., etc. Not to mention Hal's great photos!
Re: Adding more subforums - michaelb - 05-03-2013
I think the main forum is doing just fine, and adding organization would ruin that. So like everyone else, please don't change that.
I don't really have a problem with the political side. i do go there and I do read some of the posts and occasionally post there. I do think subjectively the quality of the trolling has gone down over the past 6 months, so maybe this is in response to that. I don't really think there is any solution, other than community policing.
Thanks for hosting the forum. I do think we would rip OWC for problems just like we would have and always ripped into anyone and everyone else, in pursuit of the best mac related deals. So having it here enhances your credibility as a seller, and does encourage folks to buy from you. So you are getting some value.
To me the collapse of DM was primarily about their desire to compete with Fat Wallet. DM may or may not have been first, or at least the first best computer deal related site. But I tend to think a lot of the changes that destroyed the forum was motivate by their desire to continue to make money off the deal related side (which used to be great). So the censorship related to posting links to other sites, including FW and appleswitch and probably others, led to the implosion.
Re: Adding more subforums - Speedy - 05-03-2013
I agree with others that the DMF collapse was almost entirely due to going to sub-forums.
Re: Adding more subforums - RoadToad - 05-03-2013
I'm surprised that there have been 627 viewers and only 107 have cared enough to vote. I'm in the "leave it as is" majority.
Re: Adding more subforums - graylocks - 05-03-2013
RoadToad wrote:
I'm surprised that there have been 627 viewers and only 107 have cared enough to vote. I'm in the "leave it as is" majority.
i think checking in counts as a 'view.' i've checked back a number of times.
Re: Adding more subforums - Lew Zealand - 05-03-2013
Keep it as-is, I get my current events here and pretty much nowhere else. Mrs Zealand gets her current events from me from here.
Are you gonna cut me off after being my pusher for 6 years, are ya??
And keep the nutty side. I don't go there often and am not sure I've ever posted there but always enjoy lurking when I do. I don't block a user's posts because even the crazy ones are good practice for counter arguments or at least some good nyah-nyah name calling.
As you were…
Re: Adding more subforums - max - 05-03-2013
hal wrote:
"Honestly - if people just learned to use that ignore button when they consistently don't like what another member's positions are, be a lot less issue."
This assumes a certain uniformity of people that just isn't a reality. There are ALL KINDS of folks. Some find it VERY hard to ignore posts.
I'd love it if the ignore function was a good deal stronger. You can't not see thread started by ignored posters - those are still visible even when place on 'ignore'.
But I strongly feel that you need the outlet of the FPR (Friendly' Political Ranting) to keep that angst from creeping into the main area. Larry, you see this as one good forum with a sponsor and one bad forum that only eats resources with no sponsor. I think it should be seen as one single entity.
BUT if you want to be rid of the FPR - it's your sandbox... do it and be done with it. The world will still spin. We'll get on with life.
PS - about there being lots of other outlets for that kind of activity... that's not at all how the FPR people look at it. We see it as absolutely unique - it's a forum populated by many 'friends' that have been hanging out together for well over 10 years. Every other political forum is much larger and populated with people we don't know.
There is that other place, remember, same 10 year old friends....
Re: Adding more subforums - deckeda - 05-03-2013
There's currently a second sticky asking a question, or seeking a vote yet both are disabled.
So ...
Yes I sometimes post to the Political Side but wouldn't miss it if it disappeared.
I gathered from the earlier thing posted here by Larry that it acted as a sink to keep political talk out of the rest. A necessary evil that drains resources.
OK, I get that and can't disagree. But one thing to consider might be implementing time limits, as has been mentioned. You only get to post once a day. Or once every few hours. Or whatever. Discourage posting there but not entirely. Just enough to be used as sink. Easier to moderate. Low traffic to need bandwidth/server space for. M A V I C's had some interesting suggestions above regarding all of this, too.
Re: Adding more subforums - MrNoBody - 05-03-2013
imho:
bad idea, very bad idea...
Re: Adding more subforums - cbelt3 - 05-03-2013
Hmm. I'm personally very active on the political side and this. And a regular OWC customer. I agree with the idea of keeping the politics over there. Is the resource issue one of mods, bandwidth , or hosting cost? Keep in mind that this side often ends up on google search top ranking , which drives traffic to OWC as well. I wonder what your stats are on clickthroughs from the Phorum ?