Adding more subforums - UPDATE - NOT CHANGING

[mrp-admin]

FYI - Closing the poll, you have all spoken loud and clear. Nothing changing, thank you very much!

Hi All -

As it's becoming more and more obvious that our Tips & Deals forum is severely lacking in just that - Tips & Deals, perhaps we should break out the forums to a few more subforums.

We are thinking that 4 forums, or possibly more would better serve us;
• Tips & Deals
• Apple Discussion (could be Mac or iOS based, unless you all feel we should have subforums for each)
• The Lounge (for everything else that doesn't truly belong in the Tips & Deals forum)
• 'Friendly' Political Ranting (format stays the same)

Please chime in here with your comments, we'll let this run for a week or so and see what everyone thinks.

Thank you!
MRP-Admin

[blooz]

Ah, not again!

[freeradical]

The political side could use a sub-forum for gun topics.

[iaJim]

Haven't we heard this before? Didn't we just see how that ended? Leave a good thing alone.

[space-time]

dealmac 2005

macresource 2013

what's next?

[Sam3]

Please no. The single forum is what I enjoy about this site, I can get a tip or a deal when it appears, and otherwise I can get interesting discussions. I don't have to decide what I want to view, this is why I lost interest in DealMac's forums and rarely frequented that site after it got broken apart into subsections. I also dislike this in other forums that I've frequented. Also, what would a tip or a deal be considered? Only OSX or IOS or any topics tip or deal? What if I thought of a great way to cut grass, would that go in the Lounge or the tip and deal, as it would be a tip, but not computer-related.

This may not be enforceable, but we could strongly suggest that people use the OT: designation when not talking about a tip or a deal, or if the tips and deals really are in the minority, then a TD: designation for tips and deals.

[rgG]

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

[3d]

Just rename the forum to: Tips, Deals, Etc.

[freeradical]

iaJim wrote:
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.

[M A V I C]

My opinion on this:
1. We don't have the amount of traffic where splitting boards is needed
2. We don't have the features other forums have to allow multiple ways to surf a forum and ignore board/categories/subforums if they wish (Eg SMF's "view unread topics")
3. I clearly remember the backlash and number of users who really disliked the old place splitting up the forum