General Election forum feedback/ideas/requests/suggestions

Darragh

Hey there

We'd like to make this forum as useful, as interesting and as good a resource for our members and readers as we can.

If you have any ideas, requests or suggestions, we'd be happy to take and implement them if we can.

We'd like to see political candidates - both party and independent - engage on Boards.ie; we'd like to get video Q&A's with party leaders and we'd like to make sure the discussions are as straightforward as possible.

Thanks for your interest!

LeixlipRed

Is there any possibility of having sub-forums for the constituencies? And each having the list of candidates declared/sitting TDs in the opening posts?

Bottle_of_Smoke

I like LRs suggestion. If that would be too many forums how about having sub forums for regions just to tidy things up a bit.

P. Breathnach

Consider instead megathreads for the constituencies. It might require the mods picking up a lot of stuff and dropping it into those megathreads.

LeixlipRed

Yeh, regions with threads in them for the seperate constituencies might work better, less clutter.

Bottle_of_Smoke

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Consider instead megathreads for the constituencies. It might require the mods picking up a lot of stuff and dropping it into those megathreads.

Wouldn't that just leave a full page of megathreads? Seems like it would be messy to me.

P. Breathnach

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

Wouldn't that just leave a full page of megathreads? Seems like it would be messy to me.

Less messy than a page full of subforum links!

I do not think such megathreads should be stickied, and some might fall down to the lower pages.

Bottle_of_Smoke

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Less messy than a page full of subforum links!

I do not think such megathreads should be stickied, and some might fall down to the lower pages.

There are 43 constituencies. Even 10 megathreads being regularly posted on would be really annoying. and its likely 10 would be the minimum when we get close to the election. Plus one thread is not suitable for a constituency.

On the other hand having 4/5 subforums is not messy at all.

P. Breathnach

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

There are 43 constituencies. Even 10 megathreads being regularly posted on would be really annoying...

Much of the content, however organised, is going to be really annoying.

CoalBucket

Allow a poll in the threads

roosh

would it be possible to have a compariso of policies somewhere as well? where similar polcies are placed side by side, or compared/contrasted?

nesf

Just to note for people so they don't think they're being ignored:

The separate constituency forum idea is being discussed. No decisions have been made yet. The Politics mods aren't running this show btw.

The poll feature is turned off for a reason, otherwise we'd have half a dozen polls half of them worded in a politically biased manner. There will however be polls for people to vote in, it merely hasn't been decided what form those polls will take yet, but at absolute worst we'll do what we did in the last election and have a range of polls created by a moderator for people to vote in.

AmericanFranco

I check on here allot but never see really any contest for people who live in cork. I hope to see more contest that others in cork region can enjoy.;)

Carlow52

AmericanFranco wrote: »

I check on here allot but never see really any contest for people who live in cork. I hope to see more contest that others in cork region can enjoy.;)

You had your contest with the m martin election.

As to why no content with a Cork bias, sure ye are never content!

Fr Tod Umptious

Can someone put up a Sticky explaning PR ?

It was done for 2007 Election so I'm sure that one could be re-cycled

LeixlipRed

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Can someone put up a Sticky explaning PR ?

It was done for 2007 Election so I'm sure that one could be re-cycled

Shocked at how many threads there are that display the lack of knowledge of how it works. Great idea.

maringo

http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/Voting/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,1895,en.pdf

jeepers101

CoalBucket wrote: »

Allow a poll in the threads

I second this motion

Koyasan

Darragh wrote: »

We'd like to see political candidates - both party and independent - engage on Boards.ie; we'd like to get video Q&A's with party leaders and we'd like to make sure the discussions are as straightforward as possible.

I'm going to send this to some friends working with candidates (various parties). Who should they contact about this?

Darragh

Hiya, I'm at hello@boards.ie

Nehaxak

Could anyone (more adept at it than myself, otherwise I would do so) put together a post/thread and maybe mods make a sticky of it, with links to each party's up to date policy documents.
Presumably from the main parties - FG, Labour, SF, FF and including the ULA if they've managed to put something coherent together yet. Also I suppose any of the other smaller/newer parties if they've managed to put something together and are running more than 5 candidates in the upcoming election.

There's a lot of assumptions and misguided nonsense going around about each party's policies, but have people actually read their policies ? Indeed, can people actually find the feckin' things easily from the party websites and are they up-to-date

Eliot Rosewater

I was thinking, could we have a sticky thread containing links to all the individual constituency threads?

Sparks43

Maybe its time to bring the Debating forum into play with either Boards members or Party Politicians Engaging in discussion on the issues.


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