do you like the forum split?

[Grisu]

I'd blame that on the dismissive tone of some of the earlier posts by the staff that amounted to "don't like it, tough poo".

well, what can I say? I can only speak for myself...contrary to popular belief we do not have a hive mind

But you're no longer an ordinary poster once you're given the powers of a moderator: to edit and delete posts; to open and close, split and merge threads; to hand out warnings and infractions; to even edit our polls as was so insultingly done, anonymously, with the Postcount poll; all those and more, you're no longer our equal. With power comes responsibility. It's like a policeman in uniform claiming to be the equal of people on the street.

and here we have the core of the problem as I see it. because, IMHO, in a functioning society a policeman very much is an equal to a person on the street. he may have been given a few extra powers but at his core he still is a regular guy. societies where this isn't the case invariably experience a sense of disconnection between law enforcement and the citizens which leads to all kinds of nasty things. and the same is true of CFC, if I might say so, so let's not get there

besides, even cops in uniform get time off duty

 

[LucyDuke]

They typically take the uniform off. Really it's too bad mods can't post without their uniforms. It'd help a lot.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Nah, it sucks. Badly handled by the mods, and still the troll mods are getting away with their trolling.

When we wanted a forum without quote wars and BOLD CAPS idiocy, they just endorsed it.

 

[Grisu]

They typically take the uniform off. Really it's too bad mods can't post without their uniforms. It'd help a lot.

that would be kinda fun, though I'm not sure if people want to see me out of my uniform, I mean, err...nevermind

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

I like the concept but it's not working the way I hoped. I was hoping one forum would be for non-serious topics and the other would be for controversial topics. But if you show me ten thread titles I would have a hard time guessing which ones were from which forum.

 

[Kozmos]

Like the idea of bringing back OT the way it used to be, before Thunderfall disappeared and suddenly everything had to moderated up the wazoo but I dislike this execution. I dont expect they will listen anyway.

 

[Archbob]

No, sorry, but it sucks

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

I am not realy getting this. We have three off topic discussion subforums here and while one is for serious discussion, other for not so serious one and the third one? I guess it should be renamed "trolls paradise" where there is only one rule: "there is no rule", so it somewhat makes sense otherwise its all bit confusing..
Simplicity rules. Make it user friendly and intuitive pls. so that it doesnt look like its made by Microsoft... Thx

 

[Narz]

Definitely still sucks. This forum was on the decline anyway but this has made it that much worse. Used to just start typing 18 in my browser window. Now there's two subforums to scan thru just to find very little of interest... maybe it's a cue for me to find a place more in-line with my current interests, none of which have much to do with computer games or the usual politics, current events & tit for tat back & forth debating threads typical of these forums.

 

[Takhisis]

How the blazes do we get a 462 number for this forum? What have we done? Are there really 461 other forums?

 

[Maimonides]

Now what's going on? OT is open again & has two active threads... Three OT forums??? I'm confused.

 

[Atticus]

It's been reopened for posting only (no new threads), so that people can bump the threads they want to be moved. It will be closed again soon.

 

[Thlayli]

The long term effects of this will be stagnation in the OT community as fragmenting your group of posters will inevitably result in individual threads receiving less activity and attention.

Thus hurrying the death of the cancer that is OT. Excellent work, mods!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I can't tell the difference between the two forums at the moment. It seems both run on about the same scrutiny, which is fine by me in fact.

Split is still completely unnecessary in my opinion.

Question: what would it take for this split decision to be reversed? Is that even a consideration?

 

[Narz]

It's been reopened for posting only (no new threads), so that people can bump the threads they want to be moved. It will be closed again soon.

So, in other words, any thread not bumped in the next few days will die forever?

 

[Camikaze]

No, because you can always report it and ask for it to be moved. Or PM a moderator.

Question: what would it take for this split decision to be reversed? Is that even a consideration?

We wouldn't rule out anything entirely, as there might be some hypothetical situation in which we'd reverse the decision. But it's not likely, no. We're more interested in looking at how to make a split work.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

We wouldn't rule out anything entirely, as there might be some hypothetical situation in which we'd reverse the decision. But it's not likely, no. We're more interested in looking at how to make a split work.

I feel like this is pretty good approach. Ultimately something decent and better prior to the change could come out of it...

I would probably try to put art, science and history under the Chamber subforum and sports talk and humor under the Tavern....

 

[The_J]

How the blazes do we get a 462 number for this forum? What have we done? Are there really 461 other forums?

C&C and the related project subforums are probably contributing quite a bit.

 

[Atticus]

I can't tell the difference between the two forums at the moment. It seems both run on about the same scrutiny, which is fine by me in fact.

Split is still completely unnecessary in my opinion.

From this side of the fence the change is enormous. I suspect it will have or has had effect on non-mod posters too.

Perhaps it's not that good question if people like the forum split or not, since people often don't like changes. Perhaps the question should be: Is the forum split better than the OT that we had? Could the forum split evolve to be better than the OT we had.

So, in other words, any thread not bumped in the next few days will die forever?

Like Cami said. As far as I've understood, the old OT will be archived at some moment, so the threads won't be lost, come what may.

 

[Silurian]

From this side of the fence the change is enormous. I suspect it will have or has had effect on non-mod posters too.

Perhaps it's not that good question if people like the forum split or not, since people often don't like changes. Perhaps the question should be: Is the forum split better than the OT that we had? Could the forum split evolve to be better than the OT we had.

The percentage of people in the poll who have voted No to the change is increasing.

It would appear that people are not growing too accept the change from the figures in the poll.

From the number of active threads in The Chamber Pot and the other section it would appear that the number of posts has gone down.

Do the mods have any figures to prove or disprove that subjective impression?