For subforums merged into general OT, just add prefixes to the dropdown so that those that only want to see those types of threads can sort by prefix. Kind of like was done with the Chamber when it got moved back into the Tavern.
Should the COLOSSEUM forums be merged?
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sophie
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I'm curious Owen, you were against the IOT-NES merger yet you want this merger to happen very much. I'm not trying to make an ad hominen attack, I'm just curious, because the way I see it the two issues are very similar yet you have two completely opposite viewpoints on them.
So your "solution" is "Let me Google that for you"? Are you suggesting that we should have to GOOGLE our own threads, instead of having them nicely organized in a proper subforum that's dedicated to that type of thread?
I'm curious about this as well. Owen used to post fairly often in A&E... often ranting at Aimee for posting about her musical interests. I haven't noticed her posting there in a long time, btw.
sophie
Break My Heart
See: Criterion 1. These two things are not congruous.
So your "solution" is "Let me Google that for you"? Are you suggesting that we should have to GOOGLE our own threads, instead of having them nicely organized in a proper subforum that's dedicated to that type of thread?
I'm curious about this as well. Owen used to post fairly often in A&E... often ranting at Aimee for posting about her musical interests. I haven't noticed her posting there in a long time, btw.
I'm suggesting that if your thread should sink to the bottom of the page, digging it out is a literal trifle that takes thirty seconds. So that's a nonissue unless your point is that it becomes less visible to new posters, which is not your point at all.
A&E was different those couple years ago. Since then the subforum as atrophied. The vast majority of A&E's unique posterbase (if there ever was one) has moved away or joined OT.
I can think of a couple of those people who aren't even at CFC anymore, or at least they never leave the Civ forums.
I dunno if you miss the days of Poster A. vs Poster B. feuds (there were two or three ongoing ones), but I sure don't.
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So Owen, say if the NES-IOT merger would not cause people to quit but rather cause many NESsers major inconvenience. Would you still oppose the merger?
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
How about this:
We merge all the forums into one. All of them. That way, there are no arguments about where to post and viewership. If a topic falls to the bottom, it takes 30 seconds to dig it up.
I'm sick of all these "let's merge A&E with something else that isn't related to it by much" topics. Might as well just merge everything with everything in one big pot of discussion.
It also might save bandwidth costs or something because there's less pages to visit. But then again, that'll affect advertising revenue.
So yeah, cast my vote for "Merge Everything"
And a vote for "Let's not merge A&E"
We merge all the forums into one. All of them. That way, there are no arguments about where to post and viewership. If a topic falls to the bottom, it takes 30 seconds to dig it up.
I'm sick of all these "let's merge A&E with something else that isn't related to it by much" topics. Might as well just merge everything with everything in one big pot of discussion.
It also might save bandwidth costs or something because there's less pages to visit. But then again, that'll affect advertising revenue.
So yeah, cast my vote for "Merge Everything"
And a vote for "Let's not merge A&E"
sophie
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See: Criterion 1
CivCube
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I went through OT and attempted to count threads redundant with the other Colosseum forums:
2 World History threads
4 A&E threads
4 Sports threads
3 Science & Tech threads
3 Computer Talk threads
That's over the 3 pages vBulletin gives you without adjusting for time range. With 45 threads per page, that's 16 threads out of 135. I don't think a rough 12% (or the 3% that is A&E-ish) is that much overlap.
2 World History threads
4 A&E threads
4 Sports threads
3 Science & Tech threads
3 Computer Talk threads
That's over the 3 pages vBulletin gives you without adjusting for time range. With 45 threads per page, that's 16 threads out of 135. I don't think a rough 12% (or the 3% that is A&E-ish) is that much overlap.
azzaman333
meh
A&E is a pointless subforum these days. The only thread that'd be adversely affected by being in a higher traffic subforum (ie OT) would be the pony thread. Is it worth maintaining an entire subforum just to keep one thread out of OT? I wouldn't have thought so.
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
You probably won't see this Azzaman, but what is the harm of having another subforum? Does each subforum cost 1% more in site maintenance or something?
If we gave the brony thread its own subforum, I can think of a celebrity moderator.
sophie
Break My Heart
When the subforum forces me to discuss the things I like with fewer people, then yes, it is harmful.
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
When the forum forces me to discuss the things I like with a lot of people shouting at the same time and drowning out my conversation, then yes, it is harmful.
sophie
Break My Heart
Except that doesn't actually happen.
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So OT threads don't get derailed constantly into talking about abortion/Obama/something else all the time? News to me.
