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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 6:36:50 GMT
I'd disagree with that take on Politics. That's not why the Politics board is the most active board here. It's the most active board because it came with the largest and most dedicated initial base of any of the IMDb boards to transfer over here. Most of the people there have been around for over a decade and some much longer. It's also a forum that is constantly externally fed considering the medium. Politics are never-ending. There is always going to be some current event that comes along which feeds the flames of debate and outright fighting. A series like GoT eventually ends so it either becomes the same topics over and over again or they all become off-topic. You can only debate whether God exists that many times before you're just repeating yourself. Politics does not have that problem because there is always something going on which can be politicized; not month by month but day by day and sometimes minute by minute. It's also extremely cliquey, so more often than not, the off-topic threads are an internal part of that community rather than something external being fed in. If you are an outsider, you will have a hard time getting a foothold over there because you have to be politically savvy enough to know what topics are going to be contentious and you have to have people who know enough about you to like or hate you in order to get responses which lead to further responses to those responses. In the case of being off-topic, you have to understand the interests of the people already there for them to stick. They could probably tell you more about each other than they could some of their own relatives. It is that hardened of a userbase and with that comes insider and outsider dynamics. Back to the topic of an animation board. I still do not believe that just because it didn't get fed once that it will never get fed. I think it is a board worth having even if it does get slow. All boards get slow from time to time. If there is even one good post there, I would consider it justified. I do not think it would take up much space, I think you could easily excuse making an exception for it without opening the floodgates, I think it is a hugely popular medium on a board about mediums, and I think it would make at least a couple of people happy. I think I've laid out most of my case there. That insider/outsider dynamic contributes quite a bit to the lack of activity in some of the other boards, especially given its initial population. And how does that clique mentality/behavior square with those who complain about the lack of fresh meat? I never left the topic of an animation board. The Politics board is a great example of why we don't need more boards here, much less specific genres. People don't go where the topics are, they go where the people are. I didn't bring up the music board just to further dispel your accusations of bias, but also because it, too, used to be sliced up into genres. I'm sure you remember how active they were. So I consolidated them all into Music General and the world still turned. Ditto for the Genre Zone, but I wasn't going to make a "Genre General" board, haha. Much like Science Fiction, Comedy, and War Films, Animation is covered by TV and Film General. The exception was the Horror board because it was its own cliquey community just like Politics, but not at all like Animation. The Politics people are rarely going to venture outside their domain. That's why they're here. You know this for a fact. If you try to move them around, they get pissed. They want their Politics board. You created a completely redundant News board presumably just to tackle certain problematic users from that board and it still sticks around even though Politics is where the news breaks. I think you understand why that board is an exceptional curiosity, to put it mildly and politely. That's not really what we're talking about with an Animation board and I'm not arguing for more cliquey communities. Just a community for the folks who want one. I know you're not playing favorites here. Music is your thing, after all, and you collapsed that into one board. I certainly couldn't accuse you of bias there. I'm saying as far as a medium goes, animation is as distinct to film and TV as music is to sound.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 6:37:22 GMT
Could you retitle it an Animation and Anime board? Also,
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2021 6:44:04 GMT
Could you retitle it an Animation and Anime board? Also, You sure? Seems to me "animation" isn't the unique classification you've been describing. ps. Not at all news is politics. And not everyone wants to talk politics, let alone in the Politics board.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 6:45:40 GMT
Could you retitle it an Animation and Anime board? Also, You sure? Seems to me "animation" isn't the unique classification you've been describing. Anime is just Japanese for animation. If you want to streamline it, I think just group the two. You're not going to find many detractors considering there was no animation board. I think it's a fair grouping of the medium.
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2021 6:46:56 GMT
You sure? Seems to me "animation" isn't the unique classification you've been describing. Anime is just Japanese for animation. If you want to streamline it, I think just group the two. You're not going to find many detractors considering there was no animation board. ok
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 6:49:51 GMT
Anime is just Japanese for animation. If you want to streamline it, I think just group the two. You're not going to find many detractors considering there was no animation board. ok How long do you reckon we have? A couple of weeks to show some interest?
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2021 6:53:56 GMT
How long do you reckon we have? A couple of weeks to show some interest? Well, the Radio board is still here...
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Post by Stammerhead on Feb 12, 2021 11:10:55 GMT
How long do you reckon we have? A couple of weeks to show some interest? Well, the Radio board is still here... Could you divide the Radio board into AM and FM with the option of including Digital at a later date?
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Post by Catman on Feb 12, 2021 14:05:38 GMT
Well, the Radio board is still here... Could you divide the Radio board into AM and FM with the option of including Digital at a later date? Don't forget satellite and internet radio!
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Post by Stammerhead on Feb 12, 2021 14:55:27 GMT
Could you divide the Radio board into AM and FM with the option of including Digital at a later date? Don't forget satellite and internet radio! I didn’t want to risk annoying Admin too much...
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Post by TutuAnimationPrincess on Feb 12, 2021 18:40:17 GMT
I posted this on the newly returned animation board, but I'll post it here too. What are the chances the old board's topics can be returned to it? In particular I would like my old decades topics back on there so I don't have to restart them. Thanks for giving us animation fans a chance, we'll do our best!
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2021 20:40:18 GMT
I posted this on the newly returned animation board, but I'll post it here too. What are the chances the old board's topics can be returned to it? In particular I would like my old decades topics back on there so I don't have to restart them. Thanks for giving us animation fans a chance, we'll do our best! All three of them? lol. Moved.
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Post by TutuAnimationPrincess on Feb 12, 2021 21:58:54 GMT
I posted this on the newly returned animation board, but I'll post it here too. What are the chances the old board's topics can be returned to it? In particular I would like my old decades topics back on there so I don't have to restart them. Thanks for giving us animation fans a chance, we'll do our best! All three of them? lol. Moved. Thanks. There should have been five though, but I don’t think I started the 70s or 80s one. Thanks again!
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Post by merh on Feb 13, 2021 8:16:16 GMT
And I’m sure you’d feel right at home on that kind of board. Absolutely not. My suggestion is that since my presence makes beta males so uncomfortable they can have their own forum where they feel comfortable. The rest of the forum could be for alphas and of course the ladies as well who prefer the company of alpha chads. An anime forum would serve that purpose quite efficiently. Real men watch anime & don't worry about their alpha or beta status. In fact, the actual alpha guys I've met dont really use that term. They are comfortable enough in their own self it doesnt matter.
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Post by merh on Feb 13, 2021 8:29:43 GMT
I get that but I think I gave you a pretty solid argument to take up with them. We're not talking a small subgenre or an era of filmmaking here, man; we're talking a distinct and huge artform. Animation was around since the silent films. It is a multi-billion dollar industry today. So is rock and roll, but the music genres got axed as well. Surely that was because I don't think highly of music. People flock to the politics board with all their non-political threads and posts merely because it's the most active board here. And then some of you get all bent when I move a thread from politics into a more appropriate board. Seems to me you would be more in favor of one single board for everything than multiple boards for single things. Of course this is extreme, but if we're going to draw a line, we should draw it closer to the former than the latter. I don't know if you noticed, but there currently aren't many boards here that are that specific. It's nothing personal against anime. It's just not practical. Actually? I am going through some stuff I packed ages ago... I am finding political cartoons I saved from the 1970s. Shoe. Kelly. I remember my parents boosting for Nixon in the 60s. I've always been a political person. And right now, there hasnt really been a lot of Marvel. Which is also political Anime as well. Ever watch Grave of the Fireflies? 2 kids struggling to survive WWII Japan. The creator drew from his childhood. I like the flavor of anime. Around Finding Nemo I burned out on Disney. It felt so assembly line. They had been doing boy lead/girl lead, but them Mulan failed to gross what the felt it should so they swung over to male leads for a few years on their anime. Might be why I never cared about Pixar. Their films never touched me until Brave. Bawled my eyes out. Damn them. The guy in front of me at the theater as well. I heard his kid as what was wrong "Nothing. Daddy's just crying"
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Post by merh on Feb 13, 2021 8:33:59 GMT
Thank you. I retire in a month so I will likely be hanging out here more . Although my goal is to re-watch my DVD collection. Over 2000 anime dvds Over 500 movies.
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Post by merh on Feb 13, 2021 8:37:15 GMT
You sure? Seems to me "animation" isn't the unique classification you've been describing. Anime is just Japanese for animation. If you want to streamline it, I think just group the two. You're not going to find many detractors considering there was no animation board. I think it's a fair grouping of the medium. Remember when it was called Japanimation? I know from my Comic-con years. Some of the old farts called it that.
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Feb 16, 2021 11:07:57 GMT
while we are at boards:
where to put articles about art/exhibitions/museums/galleries? Soap Box? (NO!)
(I put it in the political board, as good art is often political)
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Post by onethreetwo on Feb 18, 2021 7:34:49 GMT
while we are at boards: where to put articles about art/exhibitions/museums/galleries? Soap Box? (NO!)(I put it in the political board, as good art is often political) Yeah the art board would be nice to have back. If there was one I could choose to bring back it would be that one.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Feb 18, 2021 9:34:58 GMT
while we are at boards: where to put articles about art/exhibitions/museums/galleries? Soap Box? (NO!)(I put it in the political board, as good art is often political) General Discussion. There has already been a few art topics there.
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