TCD Subforum for society events?

Boston

What's the general attitude towards creating a forum just for notification about society/ SU /club events?

Mark200

YES

karlr42

Personally not interested, but it's a very vey good idea!
Though can we get them organised and motivated to update it? Obviously ilovemybrick has Comedy covered, but the rest of them? Will members actually have time/interest to get involved?

Ron DMC

There's already the tcdsu forums and there's a CSC events guide.

There is absolutely no need to bother the admins in setting up a sub-forum for things that rarely pop up in the forum as it is. When topics rarely do show up, they can often be some of the more interesting threads in the forum. If we moved them all to a subforum, what would happen to the main forum - just topics on "Where is this lecture theatre?" or "What's this course like?"?

There's a pimp thread, that's plenty.

If it gets busy a thread could be created each week, for example.

Boston

Ronny makes a good point.

Ron DMC

Boston wrote: »

Ronny makes a good point.

You sound surprised.

Boston

I expected someone to make the point. I can see both sides of the arguement and current I'm on the "no forum, and force all the events posts into one thread" side.

Crash

Neither of those are good examples ronnie - TCDSU fora have never suceeded, despite millions of attempts, and the CSC webpage, while finally fixed, is never all that used or available. I'd prefer to have societies post events in the one big pimp thread, and if enough start it then consider something like suggested.

Ron DMC

Boston wrote: »

I expected someone to make the point. I can see both sides of the arguement and current I'm on the "no forum, and force all the events posts into one thread" side.

Yeah, it's the better option, but obviously the thread will get messy when there's conversations on multiple events at once, but the mods can easily just split out the bigger events to prevent the thread getting too messy.

For example, if a massive guest (e.g. Bono) is coming to say, the Phil, there's potentially hundreds of posts on the subject and a thread of its own would be necessary.

It's up to the mods though in fairness, but even if they wanted it, they'd have a hard time convincing the admins to create it.

karlr42

Going Forward wrote: »

CSC webpage, while finally fixed, is never all that used or available.

Indeed, so there's no reason to believe a subforum would be more used.

Jonathan

i dont think demand is there to warrant a subforum.

Epic Tissue

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

There's already the tcdsu forums and there's a CSC events guide.

There is absolutely no need to bother the admins in setting up a sub-forum for things that rarely pop up in the forum as it is. When topics rarely do show up, they can often be some of the more interesting threads in the forum. If we moved them all to a subforum, what would happen to the main forum - just topics on "Where is this lecture theatre?" or "What's this course like?"?

That has 19 members. I think it's a good idea

gaybitch

Personally, I think it's a good idea. I don't use the su forums. Boards is a great source of information on Trinity, and its societies, and I don't think a subforum would do any harm - I'd definitely use it, and I'd probably know more about events going on as a result.

ilovemybrick

The potential promotion in a single mega-thread is so small that socs would not bother publishing them here.

With big events I think it is fine to post a thread about it.

What could occur and what could be added to the charter (lest one day someone actually reads it) is that the event promo should be cleared with a mod.

For example should I want to promote a great comedy event I should pm the entire structure of the post to a mod. Get approval then post it. I know it would be a minute or two extra work for the mod but it would keep things tidy and if there are any problems like MCD events or the forum getting messy the promotions could be stopped stop.

Awayindahils

I was thinking of an events of the week thread. Each society may pimp out their events of the week in a single post.

Should there be high interest and a thread along the lines of 'so what did you all think of that then' starts up that could be fine.

I however can see an awful lot of Hist/Phil/Comedy/SU pimping if there were individual threads for events all the time.

EGaffney

Forum = counterproductive, after a month the only people who will view it are the posters themselves. Thread = similar to an extent. But it might be good if people are eager to put their events up on Boards, rather than multiple threads crowding out all our other valuable discussions, like lockers and mangonels.

PurpleFistMixer

We could have a thread (separate from the Pimp Your Society one) dedicated to just event announcements, with no chat or whatnot. Then, if an event was happening that was generating talk, a separate thread could be created...
However I'm not sure what this forum is like during the year for societies pimping their things, so I don't really know what's necessary, subforum or anything else wise. I definitely think information on what's going on would be useful (lord knows I'm confused), but we don't want the forum just being a spamfest of threads about society events.

Crash

Weekly thread seems the best option so far - quite like the idea actually, we should've tried it before now

gaybitch

I like PFM's idea!

Awayindahils

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

We could have a thread (separate from the Pimp Your Society one) dedicated to just event announcements, with no chat or whatnot. Then, if an event was happening that was generating talk, a separate thread could be created...
However I'm not sure what this forum is like during the year for societies pimping their things, so I don't really know what's necessary, subforum or anything else wise. I definitely think information on what's going on would be useful (lord knows I'm confused), but we don't want the forum just being a spamfest of threads about society events.

I agree with PFM. I think a thread. If it gets very busy, make it weekly but give it a shot for the next month and see how it works.