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Thread: "TR" Specific Forum Category????
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01-23-2006, 06:37 PM #1
"TR" Specific Forum Category????
Give the number of posts these days, I sometimes see some great TR's get dropped to page 2,3 really quickly.
Have you considered splitting Ski/Snowboard to TRs and General? Or something like that.
For those of us look at TRs especially, it would be nice to just have them all together.Donjoy to the World!
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01-23-2006, 09:16 PM #2Originally Posted by Huckwheat
Imagine Ski/Snowboard forum with no stoke. Good lord it would be a friggin shitshow. More forums just breaks up the brahhood we got goin here. Too split.Drive slow, homie.
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01-23-2006, 09:42 PM #3
Don't break it up. Like Z said- it would quickly turn into a shitshow. Look at what happens to the board when the skiing is sucking and there's no TR's. Flamewars and crappy threads galore.
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01-24-2006, 12:18 PM #4Originally Posted by Z
Unfortunately given the forum software currently, splitting up more forums I think just won't work, for the reason Z mentioned... it's a pain in the ass to have to check more than one forum for several reasons.
UKClimbing.com does a neat thing allowing you to subscribe to the forums you want and then showing them as all the same forum, with different icons to let you tell them apart. http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/ . So we could create a whole mess of forums (TR, Padded Room, Gear Swap, etc.) and then you could design your own front page based on what you want to see, then cruise the individual forums when you have more time later.
Even better would be a "message categories" functionality - so we have one single "forum" but you can multiselect different categories (TR, Europe, Tahoe, NSR). So it's the same as UKClimbing except when posting a thread "TR: San Anton" you can put it in both the "Europe" and "TR" forums at the same time.
Will doing this segment the community? Yes, a little. But given the sheer number of posts unless you do this, what you'll continue to have is only a core group of people with enough time on their hands to actually read and sift through everything. I think it's in the forum's interest to attract new people who will post even more good stuff, even if they don't have time to check every single day...
Tough one though, deciding how to handle the growing pains...
Yeahyeah I know - you're new here you have no right to suggest a change. Fine, but this is like the fifth time in a couple months I've seen a suggestion like the above so obviously it isn't just me here...
PS - Lovely forum though, Ons, frozenwater, Webguy, and hats off to you for putting in the continual effort to keep it top-notch!Last edited by bbirtle; 01-24-2006 at 12:25 PM.
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01-24-2006, 12:23 PM #5Originally Posted by Z
You guys do what you want though, I'm new here, it's your forum, and I could be wrong as I haven't been here very long...
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01-24-2006, 01:31 PM #6
I think the forums are fine as-is. In fact, I prefer the chaos of doing away with categories and putting everything into one big clusterfuck forum a la K2 SkiChatter
Originally Posted by bbirtle
Don't like it? then don't fucking read it. Now there's an idea!
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01-24-2006, 01:37 PM #7Originally Posted by Superstar Punani
It's not a matter of not reading it - I haven't - it's that it's tough to sift through all the threads to find things that you want. Easy solution? not sure... but the chaos is keeping away new users and not leading to the best content, it seems...
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01-25-2006, 08:19 AM #8drowning
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Originally Posted by bbirtle
-NSR means not skiing related, it's a good bet that there's nothing skiing related in them
-If you're looking for pictures, look for the thread labeled w/ pic or TR
-Threads labeled things like - OMFG, IT WAS F'ING NIPPLE DEEP TODAY usually either contain no pictures or have medicore pictures of mediocre skiers in boot top deep snow
-Avoid all threads started by me, they're usually quite disappointingLast edited by crashnburn'd; 01-25-2006 at 08:21 AM.
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01-26-2006, 12:47 PM #9
I think maybe the best of both world might be to have some sort of search function that can pick up on "TR". As it is now, you get:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : tr
Soooo, maybe there is some sort of filter that ONS could add in that could pick up on that "flag".
Paging Ogre, Ogre to the white courtesy phone
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01-30-2006, 10:13 PM #10
I agree in principle with FreakofSnow. However, it seems it would be pretty simple to have the best of both worlds otherwise as well.
Why not have the main thread contain everything that is contained in any other thread, but have a few other threads that contain specific info only. So, if there was a TR thread, it would still be on the main board. But if you just wanted to check out the TR thread, you could go to the TR thread board.
Under this format, I would suggest the following rooms:
Main Forum
TR Thread
Padded Room (b/c I think that adds a lot to the community - reinforces that anything goes here)
Gear Swap (b/c I scored a great deal on some Fujatives there)
Tech Talk (b/c TGR is full of gear queers)
Gimp Central (lest we forget our fallen heroes)
Hall of Fame (b/c it wouldn't suck if the orig threads were still contained in the main forum)
Sprocket Rockets (b/c that seems to be the summer sport for Maggots)
MUSIC/BOOKS/MOVIES (b/c a Maggot needs his culture)
All of the other threads can die (even my beloved Surf thread).I should want to cook him a simple meal, but I shouldn't want to cut into him, to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born unto new worlds where his flesh becomes my key.
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01-31-2006, 10:38 AM #11drowning
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I think we should not waste TGR's time or money and just deal with it. Their movies are already expensive enough.
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02-02-2006, 08:45 PM #12Originally Posted by crashnburn'd
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09-20-2006, 09:11 PM #13
Good ideas here. It could be organized like this:
Maggots Forum - all in one
TR Forum - TRs only
Padded Room - ?$%^#*&
Surf
Summits
etc
Originally Posted by bbirtle
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