New requirements for forums?

amp

In the old days when Boards was young and carefree, the criteria for a community board creation relied on 5 or so people to support it. These days with Boards population ever increasing, I think it's time to review that and bring it up to something like 20 or 30 users in proportion to that growth.

Also I think if someone suggests more than one new board a month then they should be banned for a month.

Thoughts? Comments? Outraged posts of condemnation?

spongebob

Where is my Rural Music Board .....the twitchy types driving the 10 year old Honda Civics with blacked out windows have been placated.

We Ford Asscart 1991 (recent NCT) with the bale of hay in the boot type persons have our needs.

M

amp

Ok, I think Muck should have his own forum. Seriously like. The man/woman is a multi-faceted character which I think would be fuel enough to keep a forum alive.

P.s. Is there more info about the IRMA vs CDWOW thing, I find it fascinating.

davros

Originally posted by amp
These days with Boards population ever increasing...

It's not the Boards population that applies though, but the number of people who read Feedback. These are the only ones who know that a forum has been proposed.

seamus

/me nods in Agreement.

A poll should be started with Yes/No only options, and the board should only be approved with at leats 20 yes votes, making up more than 50% of the total vote.

Rabies

ya, i agree. good idea. loads of forums getting created lately. hard to keep track of them all. sports has really grown over the past few months.

on a side note, what is with the recent influx of people wanting their name changed on the admin/support board?

spongebob

Originally posted by amp
Is there more info about the IRMA vs CD WOW thing, I find it fascinating.

Totally OT Amp. Tut Tut YOU :ninja: should know better!

There is something up I think, the HK site is now redirecting (sometimes ) to the UK site. I suspect that there may be an IP address re direct of sorts coming in.

The order history stack on the H K site is not being maintained properly since last week. It probably means that the system wide login may no longer work at some stage in the future and that a user will be 'assigned' a home site .

Eircom internet users and some of the IOL ones can be easily spotted and may be 'assigned' to their .ie site. Nevada (UTV) is much harder to prove and they will probably get assigned to the UK site as will certain others.

M

Slydice

Originally posted by amp
In the old days when Boards was young and carefree, the criteria for a community board creation relied on 5 or so people to support it. These days with Boards population ever increasing, I think it's time to review that and bring it up to something like 20 or 30 users in proportion to that growth.

Also I think if someone suggests more than one new board a month then they should be banned for a month.

Thoughts? Comments? Outraged posts of condemnation?

I think you should be banned!;)

davros

Originally posted by Rabies sports has really grown over the past few months.[/B]

The original question was about Community boards though, not the general interest sort. I might be wrong here but my impression is that such a board is for a pre-existing, offline community (society, whatever) that wishes to organise itself and discuss its own interests online.

Such a forum will bring new users to Boards (for example, I was introduced to Boards by IrelandOffline, as were many, I'm sure). But it's not realistic to look for a lot of support among old hands on Boards for a Community Forum for the Exotic Parrots Society, say.

seamus

Originally posted by davros
It's not the Boards population that applies though, but the number of people who read Feedback. These are the only ones who know that a forum has been proposed.

It has always been up to the suggestor to generate interest in a forum, not to hope that people who view Feedback will second it.

Rabies

Originally posted by davros
The original question was about Community boards though, not the general interest sort.

oh ya, i should really pay more attention to what i read. IOFFL has certainly brought many new menbers to boards. Most new community forums would bring more members but i guess what amp was talking about is should new forums be created for the needs of 5-6 people or for a greater population.

whats wrong with the Exotic Parrots Society

davros

Originally posted by seamus
It has always been up to the suggestor to generate interest in a forum, not to hope that people who view Feedback will second it.

Fair enough. But how do you do that when you are not allowed mention the new forum on any other board?

seamus

That's the conundrum

I'm pretty sure that enough people read Feedback to be representative of the opinion of boards as a whole. This isn't scientifically based or a truth at all, just something I believe

davros

Originally posted by Rabies
whats wrong with the Exotic Parrots Society

Oh, nothing Some of my best friends, etc.

My point was that you can imagine a highly specialised club/society whose members would enthusiastically sign up to Boards if they had a forum for their passion. But to get that forum created in the first place relies on existing Boards members to say "Hey, I've always been a closet parrot-fancier - I'll vote for that". Unlikely.

Is a community board intended to appeal to a wide cross-section of Boards users? That wasn't my impression (I can be corrected on this). I thought it was deliberately narrowly focused.

Peace

Originally posted by amp
Also I think if someone suggests more than one new board a month then they should be banned for a month.

Thoughts? Comments? Outraged posts of condemnation?

So someone is now only allowed to have one good suggestion per month now?
If its a good idea and get the 20 votes then i wouldn't care if someone suggested 10 new boards per day. If its a good idea it will pass if its a bad idea it will not.

Agree with the increased count and the poll.

amp

Originally posted by Peace
So someone is now only allowed to have one good suggestion per month now?
If its a good idea and get the 20 votes then i wouldn't care if someone suggested 10 new boards per day. If its a good idea it will pass if its a bad idea it will not.

I very much doubt people could come up with 10 sure fire new board ideas a year let alone a day. This would encourage people to do more research and think about it more before demanding a Mary Harney Appreciation board (no offence to all the M.G fans out there, but I know you are, you stupid fucks).

Vader

Originally posted by davros
Fair enough. But how do you do that when you are not allowed mention the new forum on any other board?

both amp and ecksor have attacked me for pimping which I think is unfair as how else can you bring new ppl to your forum when DeVore doesnt include you in announcements?

Vader

Originally posted by davros
The original question was about Community boards though, not the general interest sort. I might be wrong here but my impression is that such a board is for a pre-existing, offline community (society, whatever) that wishes to organise itself and discuss its own interests online.

Such a forum will bring new users to Boards (for example, I was introduced to Boards by IrelandOffline, as were many, I'm sure). But it's not realistic to look for a lot of support among old hands on Boards for a Community Forum for the Exotic Parrots Society, say.

Yea, I joined boards after becomming a member of the LNA, but when I thought up of the IJC I thought you could only create new community forums, dont ask me why. I would much prefer for the IJC to be made a regular forum.

DapperGent

Originally posted by Vader
both amp and ecksor have attacked me for pimping which I think is unfair as how else can you bring new ppl to your forum when DeVore doesnt include you in announcements?

Maybe nobody comes because it's really really dumb?

ozt9vdujny3srf

Originally posted by Vader
Yea, I joined boards after becomming a member of the LNA, but when I thought up of the IJC I thought you could only create new community forums, dont ask me why. I would much prefer for the IJC to be made a regular forum.

I was under the impression that community boards were for groups/organisations and the like(i.e. IOFFL, the IJC and LNA) and regular boards were for subjects (i.e. soccer, film or humour).

On a side note, devore doesnt mention all the new boards in the announcements and you board shouldnt need pimping to get the traffic you want anyways. Trust me, EVERYONE knows what the friggin IJC is now. I think you are getting as much traffic as you were going to get.


Moving on topic, i would think setting the quota at 10 people and having a poll for each suggestion is a good idea.

If the board gets more than ten yest votes and over 50% of yes votes then it should be created.

Woden

yeah i think a poll is a good idea and a larger number of votes required to make it pass. i think there is a tendancy for people to says yeah let this forum go ahead. They have no reason to go against it and so they just agree and will probably never post there.

(and while we're on the topic of new boards why the hell was the science boards split up so much its not like theres a phenomenal amount of traffic on it?)

Perhaps boards could also be shut down if there is not a large amount of traffic there or if they where just passing fads or something then when some one says lets have an exotic parrot society it can be said tried that but it didn't work

amp

Oh great, another thread de-railed by the Moronside.

Woden

ah amp you cut me deep

amp

I wasn't cutting you Dataisgod. In fact you brought it back on topic and I agree with your points.

Woden

knife removed, wound healed.

When i was looking for a star trek board a while back some suggestions came up with for example trial periods for forums give it 2, 4, 6 months etc and if it doesn't work integrate it back into the main board it came from which i also thought was feasible (trick is just removing power from the mods ) and you could put this together with the traffic thingy

davros

Originally posted by Dataisgod
Perhaps boards could also be shut down if there is not a large amount of traffic there or if they where just passing fads or something then when some one says lets have an exotic parrot society it can be said tried that but it didn't work

This in the FAQ already:

Boards that are not being utilised will be recycled.

Perhaps there needs to be a definition of "not being utilised" - number of posts/readers/length of threads?

Woden

yes and then it actually needs to be enforced

Peace

Originally posted by Dataisgod

Perhaps boards could also be shut down if there is not a large amount of traffic there or if they where just passing fads or something then when some one says lets have an exotic parrot society it can be said tried that but it didn't work

The sailing board hasn't had a post in ages...but that because its off season. Same for the scuba board. Doesn't mean when summer comes around again that it won't be bustiling with posters.

Woden

well it would be quite easy to highlight seasonal boards as exceptions

CuLT

Ah but you could close them with witty comments like:

"Surf's Up!"

and

"Apparently, there AREN'T plenty more fish in the sea"

yellum

Didn't DeVore mention something recently in this forum that the at least 5 rule for the creation of a board didn't need to happen anymore because it seems whatever forum you create now it will in fact get traffic ?

Someone with patience can probably find this post.

sceptre

Originally posted by yellum
Someone with patience can probably find this post.

No patience required - did a search for "picking":D

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=124850&highlight=picking

echomadman

Goddamit vader, you really dont know when to shut up do you.

Anyway I agree with amp, not that my n00b opinion counts for much. They seem to be letting anyone become a Mod these days

The boards.ie-ness seems to be getting diluted, even in my relatively short tenure its noticeable.
Or maybe I'm just suffering from the Viz "Its not as funny as it used to be" syndrome


Edit: I also agree with Amp that Muck should have his own Forum, He's a regular one-man Lone Gunmen.