05-03-2013, 04:22 PM
In case the above comments are insufficiently direct:
NO! It would not be a good idea to split of more subcategories.
The proposal to do such a thing at dealmac in 2005 was a major factor in the departure of many people from THAT forum and their migration to THIS forum.
The users here LIKE the varied and running conversation about all and anything. That is why we come here. We come with the general question of wassup? If it's a deal, then cool. If it is the misbehavior of cats or the expiration date of food, then cool.
It is very easy to browse down the list of posts and just read what I want. I boot up, check the post list for coolness, read what captures my attention, and leave. Later in the day I do the same. Splitting into subcategories would mean I would need to separately browse each subcategory to see wassup, and that would be a severe speed-bump in the pleasure of the experience.
Best to pay attention to how people ACTUALLY use this forum. Making changes based on some abstract notion of how it SHOULD be used will ruin it for us.
Really! Read the earliest posts that were made here following the migration from dealmac.
NO! It would not be a good idea to split of more subcategories.
The proposal to do such a thing at dealmac in 2005 was a major factor in the departure of many people from THAT forum and their migration to THIS forum.
The users here LIKE the varied and running conversation about all and anything. That is why we come here. We come with the general question of wassup? If it's a deal, then cool. If it is the misbehavior of cats or the expiration date of food, then cool.
It is very easy to browse down the list of posts and just read what I want. I boot up, check the post list for coolness, read what captures my attention, and leave. Later in the day I do the same. Splitting into subcategories would mean I would need to separately browse each subcategory to see wassup, and that would be a severe speed-bump in the pleasure of the experience.
Best to pay attention to how people ACTUALLY use this forum. Making changes based on some abstract notion of how it SHOULD be used will ruin it for us.
Really! Read the earliest posts that were made here following the migration from dealmac.