Proposed Change to WH Forum

[Tee Kay]

This subforum has lately become massively unbalanced in favour of "discussions" about a small country in Eastern Europe.

To restore this balance, I propose either:

1) merging all Poland-related topics into one "Polish History Megathread", and designate it the only place for topics centrally relating to Polish-history on these forums for all time.

2) create a separate subforum for Polish history threads, with no post count, and move all present and future such threads there.

Thus the natural balance of this forum may be restored, and sanity prevail.

All in favour say aye.

(PS not sure if this is best placed in World History or Site Feedback. I am putting this in World History for now because I'm not sure those who visit WH often visit Site Feedback, and this proposal is most directly relevant to them. Move this to SF if that is deemed more appropriate and I apologise in advance)

 

[Phrossack]

Entirely agreed. Aye.

 

[Azale]

It's almost as polluted as OT.

 

[Evie]

Please yes.

 

[Kyriakos]

It surely is shocking that in a forum supposedly about world history, there are 3 threads on Greece

 

[Domen]

You mistakenly counted 1 Baltic thread and 2 Slavic threads as Poland threads.

As for Poland:

The problem with its location is that it is in Central Europe, in fact in the centre of Europe, so no matter what you discuss, you often come across Poland. Germany has the same problem. E.g WW2 started in Poland, ended in Germany.

 

[Tee Kay]

Perhaps it's because you post so much, and most of it is about Poland, that the impression is of a forum overran by Poland threads. That Prussia thread is a good example of overposting; of 30 replies 19 are yours, including multiple consecutive double posts, of content which could really be condensed to one post in the OP as a proper history article.

Or when the topic is not about Poland but you mention it anyway.

 

[Masada]

I have to say aye for this.

 

[Quackers]

I think you are unfairly targeting Domen here. He isn't always just writing essays on the forum, some people reply to him and have a dialogue. So it isn't just self-indulgance on Domen's part.

Additionally, if you don't want to read about Poland may I suggest you skip his post? Not difficult to do.

I'm bored -stiff- with the number of US politics and religious threads in the OT section too. I just don't bother reading them..

 

[Masada]

Those aren't being generated by one poster though.

 

[sophie]

I agree that the degree of Poland threads on WH is disproportionately high, and I tend to avoid them because I feel it is completely pointless talking with Domen because he's going to say and believe what he wants to say and believe irrespective of any insights you might bring to the table. However the problem lies on this side just as much. Nobody other than Domen really ever makes threads on WH. If we want change, I think it's going to have to come from us.

 

[Phrossack]

I agree that the degree of Poland threads on WH is disproportionately high, and I tend to avoid them because I feel it is completely pointless talking with Domen because he's going to say and believe what he wants to say and believe irrespective of any insights you might bring to the table. However the problem lies on this side just as much. Nobody other than Domen really ever makes threads on WH. If we want change, I think it's going to have to come from us.

Seven of the threads in TK's pic alone were non-Domen threads. I made another, and there are a lot more outside the pic. It's not like we're not doing our part.

 

[Quackers]

Those aren't being generated by one poster though.

The threads themselves aren't, if that is what you're referring too, but they are invaded by Domen with his Poland facts even if they're only vaguely related. Lets not pretend this is anything else but targeting Domen and his posts. I understand why people are weary with the many posts about Poland but as I said, don't read it.

 

[Masada]

So essentially your saying one poster can achieve in WH, what dozens upon dozens of posters in OT achieve?

Personally, I'd like to think of this as an intervention or wake-up call for a poster who can make quality contributions... but who can't quite seem to reign in this one issue.

 

[Evie]

Regarding the US complaints, I think if we consider the membership and viewership of CFC we'll find that America make up a significantly larger proportion than Poland.

Poland and Polish-tangent threads are just way overrepresented right now.

 

[H4run]

There are many threads at the bottom that is not related to Poland nor Greek. Says, about Eurocentrism, Incas, Zimbabwe, Sovyet, German, etc. However it doesn't have that much popularity in comparison with Poland thread.

Domen also post a thread about Incas, Zimbabwe or Sovyet not exclusively about Poland, even though I don't like his post regarding German (I don't like nationalist back lash, be that German-Poland or say Turkish-Greece, it really against my principle, we need more healthier psychology not some 'tragic' nationalist feud). So don't blame Domen completely

I also agree with Owen regarding everybody have same opportunity to post threads just like Domen, instead of protesting why there are so many Poland thread why not contributing other thread that one interest in? As Domen have a 'special' interest on Poland, it is entirely logical if his post focus on Poland.

Says if no one post any new discussion, and Domen also not post any thread, isn't it possible the WH forum will be death as it was happen before (IIRC) reading from the old post? can actually Domen, and Kryiakos, are the Civfanatic members that keep WH alive?

 

[Joecoolyo]

I think you are unfairly targeting Domen here. He isn't always just writing essays on the forum, some people reply to him and have a dialogue. So it isn't just self-indulgance on Domen's part.

Additionally, if you don't want to read about Poland may I suggest you skip his post? Not difficult to do.

I'm bored -stiff- with the number of US politics and religious threads in the OT section too. I just don't bother reading them..

I was going to post something along these lines. So yeah, this^

 

[North King]

The problem with its location is that it is in Central Europe, in fact in the centre of Europe, so no matter what you discuss, you often come across Poland. Germany has the same problem. E.g WW2 started in Poland, ended in Germany.

This line of reasoning makes about as much sense as saying, "Kyrgyzstan is in the center of Eurasia, therefore it makes sense that it comes up in threads about Eurasia."

 

[Oruc]

Nay, he contributes more then you people. you're not mods ,you don't set the rules and this isn't a private forum for you and your buddies.

 

[Flying Pig]

I think the problem really is that we - collectively - have to make more threads.