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+--- Thread: Adding more subforums - UPDATE - NOT CHANGING (/showthread.php?tid=152077)
Re: Adding more subforums - GGD - 05-04-2013
graylocks wrote:
[quote=RoadToad]
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.
Any thread that has a lot of activity like this one will have a very large view count, has nothing to do with it having a poll. As people post new replies, others come back and view it again to read those replies and maybe make another post, rinse and repeat. Each active participant could have viewed the thread a dozen times to read the newest posts.
Re: Adding more subforums - deckeda - 05-04-2013
testcase wrote:
[quote=3d]
Just rename the forum to: Tips, Deals, Etc.
:agree:
Works for me, and will help new members not feel initially bewildered by what's going on. (Although, if they're easily confused, do we really want them? Heh.)
Re: Adding more subforums - davester - 05-04-2013
space-time wrote:
Maybe adding some "tags" like photos, Macs, PCs, iOS, deals, cars, home repairs, food, news, etc would help. .
That sounds like a solution in search of a problem. I've never had any problem finding what I needed to find with the search function. I would find the requirement to add tags to be a (minor) annoyance.
Re: Adding more subforums - Don C - 05-04-2013
"Although, if they're easily confused, do we really want them? Heh.'
Hey, NOW you're getting personal!
Re: Adding more subforums - pRICE cUBE - 05-04-2013
It is unfortunate that people are letting the the political side get crazy on the actions of a few. As I recall, at one time DM banned politics/religion talk and the issue that arose was posters who posted those topics anyway. The MR forum has function for the most part due to the "release valve". I don't post there since I don't require a release valve but I do see the need for it.
I do occasionally stroll over to read and i have to say that it seems to be more civilized than other political forums I see. It is a shame that some are taking it too seriously. I would hope that this serves as a wake up call to people to chill out a bit. Don't wreck the whole place just because someone doesn't see the world your way.
Re: Adding more subforums - DewGuy - 05-04-2013
Once again I can't vote in a poll as it tells me "You already sent in your vote for this poll." when I haven't.
So, my vote is: NO! Leave it alone! I love looking everything!
OWC, thanks for providing the Forums. :-)
Re: Adding more subforums - onthedownlow - 05-04-2013
If the political side is an issue or potential liability...for reasons not revealed...then put a wall up (not a pay-wall) so that you must log in to access it and is simply not public-facing so it can't be spider-crawled by the search engines.
A regular user is logged in anyhow, so this shouldn't be a hindrance.
Everything else can remain intact.
Re: Adding more subforums - GuyGene - 05-04-2013
Uh, OS X I meant, but y'all knew that... Eh, I still like typing on my iPad.
Re: Adding more subforums - The UnDoug - 05-04-2013
freeradical wrote:
[quote=iaJim]
Haven't we heard this before? Didn't we just see how that ended? Leave a good thing alone.
The DM forums died for far more reasons than the breaking of the forum apart into multiple parts. In fact, I think this had very little to do with the death of that forum. I go to forums that are far more segmented than the DM forums ever were, and they're just fine.
If you're referring to the actual shutting down of DealMac, the perhaps you're right, but if you mean the events that precipitated the mass exodus to this forum (in fact the events to which these forums owe heir very existence), then I respectfully, but completely disagree.
As someone who was at DealMac from the beginning, it's my recollection that the division of its forum (singular) into multiple "topic-specific" forums (plural) was the singular thing that led to the forum at MacResource, and the mass migration of DealMac users to it.
I've not yet read all the other replies to the original post here (I had to reply to this one right away), but I can't even believe that the post was serious. It seems so ludicrous!
Re: Adding more subforums - ScottG - 05-04-2013
I have nothing really to add, other than another vote of thanks to OWC for hosting this in the first place. I am more of a lurker than a poster, and only a very occasional lurker on the political side. I agree with numerous other posters that the political side is a useful pressure valve from this side; personally, although I have quite strong political views, I prefer to discuss them face to face. Especially with people who disagree with me. Then I get to apologize in person too.
I really like the forum exactly as it is. The Mac OS has moved on so much that I rarely need serious trouble shooting advice (gone are the days of rebuilding desktops and extension conflicts), but I like that I can ask for advice here, deals posted here are likely real deals and, importantly for me, reading the posts is sheer entertainment.
Many thanks to Larry!
cheers
scott