Forum Descriptions

5starpool

Not really sure if this is feedback worthy or not, but is it just that I never noticed it til now, or have the forum descriptions just now only been added to the top of the page?

I'm not sure I like it really as it is a bit pointless having it there, and only clutters things up even more, especially in forums where there are quite a number of stickys.

Karoma

Phew! It's not just me...

I say give it a chance and maybe update the descriptions to help posters put content where it belongs.

They've been on boards.us and others for awhile. I think it'd be handy for noobies who stray into a random forum.

AlmightyCushion

5starpool wrote:

Not really sure if this is feedback worthy or not, but is it just that I never noticed it til now, or have the forum descriptions just now only been added to the top of the page?

I'm not sure I like it really as it is a bit pointless having it there, and only clutters things up even more, especially in forums where there are quite a number of stickys.

I'm pretty sure it's new as I've never noticed it before either. I agree that it clutters up the page a bit but I think it would be handy when someone emails a link to a thread to someone especially someone that is not a regular.

r3nu4l

They're on boards.org.uk too. I agree with Myth, they are a useful enough function and do cut down on questions like "What's the 'Test' forum for?"

Dub13

Any option to turn it off...?

5starpool

They *can* be useful, but some are not so helpful. The Poker Forum's description is "Card Game". Genius

Most forums are self explanatory anyways to be honest if you have any bit of intelligence, and if you don't then you shouldn't be on the interweb in the first place.

Sparky

Personally I think they are great.

Ruu_Old

I don't see any problem with it, good idea. Has been on some of the other boards group forums for a while as mentioned.

Dudess

Personally I don't even think they're worth discussing. I noticed them, then I got used to them. No other difference was made to my life.

Stargal

I don't like them. Aesthetically they don't look great and their functionality is limited - yes, it's handy the first time you click in to a forum (especially a new one) but it's unnecessary for the banner to still be there after you've spent a few minutes in the forum.

In clearly-defined forums like TCD and Celeb/Showbiz for example, they seem especially pointless.

Sparky

Stargal wrote:

I don't like them. Aesthetically they don't look great and their functionality is limited - yes, it's handy the first time you click in to a forum (especially a new one) but it's unnecessary for the banner to still be there after you've spent a few minutes in the forum.

In clearly-defined forums like TCD and Celeb/Showbiz for example, they seem especially pointless.

Sure give it time you'll hardly notice they are there.

Zaph

The one for BGRH says

When things start to go pear shaped...

This is clearly inaccurate as a Brother is far more likely to be watermelon shaped. Pear shaped? Pfft, amateurs!

Exit

I would've thought it was for people who stray upon a thread on boards.ie through google. I have no problem with it but if others do, maybe it could be hidden when someone logs in and just be visible for unregistered members (assuming of course that that is the reason for it)

Mr Magnolia

I also think they're a good idea.

5starpool wrote:

They *can* be useful, but some are not so helpful. The Poker Forum's description is "Card Game". Genius

Forum created in a hurry I'd say. PM Vex or Cloud to have it changed to the description you'd like. There maybe other Admin can do it but I know they definitely can

Beruthiel

I like them and they will be useful for newbies.

RE*AC*TOR

Tell them I hate them.

Terry

Beruthiel wrote:

I like them and they will be useful for newbies.

They won't be helpful for the AH mods.

All things non work related is wide open to misinterpretation.

Someone will move a thread and we will then get some stick over it.

It has happened before. Once by me.


At the end of the day though, I don't really care.
Some of them are funny too.

delly

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Tell them I hate them.

Tell them yourself, there heading in your direction right now !!!!!!!!

mewso

Poker is a card game?

nesf

Terry wrote:

They won't be helpful for the AH mods.

All things non work related is wide open to misinterpretation.

+1

r3nu4l

nesf wrote:

+1

The forum descriptions are easily changed in the AdminCP so the AH description can easily be changed to something like "IQ < 25? This forum is for you!"

/That was my attempt at a joke but you get the idea, the description can be changed, so keeping the descriptions is fine

Beruthiel

Del Griffith wrote:

"IQ < 25? This forum is for you!"

Make it so Cloud!

LuckyLloyd

I don't really care. But I firmly believe that any argument or reasoning along the lines of:

"It's been on Boards.us // Boards.co.uk for a while ya know"

should be instantly thrown out. It doesn't matter what is on other forums. This one is ours!!

r3nu4l

LuckyLloyd wrote:

I don't really care. But I firmly believe that any argument or reasoning along the lines of:

"It's been on Boards.us // Boards.co.uk for a while ya know"

should be instantly thrown out. It doesn't matter what is on other forums. This one is ours!!

FYI! It's boards.org.uk and since the Admins own those sites too I guess they would like some consistency across the system...

monkeyfudge

I love them....

I'm deeply aroused right now at the very thought of them actually.

LuckyLloyd

Del Griffith wrote:

FYI! It's boards.org.uk and since the Admins own those sites too I guess they would like some consistency across the system...

Thanks!!

Sure, the admins might want consistency. But as far as I am aware - the point of the feedback forum on boards.ie is for the users of the Irish boards to give feedback on what they think of THIS website. As such, I personally don't give a monkeys what the sister forums are doing because I don't use them. And, therefore I don't think that such points should be considered valid in a boards.ie feedback thread!!

Sigh. Release the cats.

mike65

I ws going to start a thread on this yesterday when I glimpsed

City in the south east

referring to Kilkenny which is simply a lie.

Mike.

AdMMM

It's obvious that every forum description was thought up in about 45ms, which may be attributing to the hate they are getting (eg: Poker. Card game - doesn't really help people's understanding of what can be talked about specifically)

However, one thing that's been established from this thread is that they'll be useful for noobies. Perhaps they should be set so that only new members will see the description or members will only see the forum description on their first visit to a particular forum.

Dub13

mike65 wrote:

referring to Kilkenny which is simply a lie.

You bitch....:)

We all know there is only one city on this Island.

CuLT

The fact that there is a discussion thread about this is lol.

admiralofthefleet

Dub13 wrote:

Any option to turn it off...?

i just used the element hider in adblock but it knocked off the whole page. took me ages to find where to knock it off

DeVore

Oh god... I dunno what got switched on (but I have a damned good idea of who might be responsible! )

The crap I have been putting in that field for yeaaaaaars.... :eek:
AH for example was one of mine. Thats when we have Games, For Sale, Work and Afterhours. People were getting annoyed that work was cropping up in the Games forum so we created a Work forum (which was for all things work related during work hours) and After Hours (which was for all non-work non-games relaxation stuff.... not the Slydice kind).

So, there you go. I remember some of them being really sarcastic too and now I cant remember which ones ....

DeV.

5starpool

Such as the Winter Sports one DeV?

Winter Sports Things you can do with frozen H²O - just don't eat the yellow stuff.

I think it was one of the other admins that created that though, but still funny.

Plus the Prison Break one:

See Justin Timberlake weasel his way out of this one...

Or the Aviation & Aircraft one:

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, yes, it is a plane actually.

lostexpectation

it takes up way too much room try to put the description in the sme box as reply to thread...?