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Post by onethreetwo on Sept 4, 2020 0:16:33 GMT
What about an "Interesting Things" or an "Interesting Places and Things" board for more specific places and things not music or movie related? You might be asking yourself, why not just put those things in General Discussion? To me General Discussion is too much of a hodgepodge. It's practically a banter board for random thoughts and questions. This could be a place where someone (me) could post a Nerf Football thread and someone else could post a thread about Salem Massachusetts. Specific things and places we find interesting.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2020 0:26:09 GMT
What about an "Interesting Things" or a "The More You Know" board for more specific things not music or movie related? You might be asking yourself, why not just put those things in General Discussion? To me General Discussion is too much of a hodgepodge. It's practically a banter board for random thoughts and questions. This could be a place where someone (me) could post a Nerf Football thread and someone else could post a thread about Salem Massachusetts. Specific things and places we find interesting. General Discussion is "Interesting Things" "The More You Know" Have you posted a "Nerf Football thread" there and seen what happens ? With a clear title it may be found by anyone interested who happens to wander into General Discussion. Starting yet another new board which will be pretty much ignored because people tend to just stick to the ones they know and post OT threads seems counter productive (imo)
my 2 cents ... here's a nickel .. keep the change 
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Post by onethreetwo on Sept 4, 2020 1:04:17 GMT
What about an "Interesting Things" or a "The More You Know" board for more specific things not music or movie related? You might be asking yourself, why not just put those things in General Discussion? To me General Discussion is too much of a hodgepodge. It's practically a banter board for random thoughts and questions. This could be a place where someone (me) could post a Nerf Football thread and someone else could post a thread about Salem Massachusetts. Specific things and places we find interesting. General Discussion is "Interesting Things" "The More You Know" Have you posted a "Nerf Football thread" there and seen what happens ? With a clear title it may be found by anyone interested who happens to wander into General Discussion. Starting yet another new board which will be pretty much ignored because people tend to just stick to the ones they know and post OT threads seems counter productive (imo)
my 2 cents ... here's a nickel .. keep the change I see where you're coming from, but does a thread about Salem Massachusetts go in General Discussion? That doesn't really feel right. At least not to me anyway. Especially since General Discussion has essentially morphed into a weird Soapbox2.0/General Discussion/Casual Chat hybrid. |
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Post by onethreetwo on Sept 4, 2020 1:21:10 GMT
What about just "Places and Things"?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2020 1:25:45 GMT
onethreetwoThe description of General Discussion says "whatever"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 7, 2020 3:01:38 GMT
What about just "Places and Things"? There used to be a weekly thread where the OP posted information about a town or city or tourist destination .. with photos and an essay and links and then others would post that they had been there or wanted to go there and added their comments. There were several members who participated regularly. It might have been on the Watercooler ..or General Discussion.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Sept 24, 2020 0:32:25 GMT
I'm sad the "Art" board was taken away. It's useless under General. It was part of an amalgamation
before that I thought worked. I mean it's a lot more positive than True Crime, but what do I know.
Actually there is crime in the Art world, hmmm
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 16, 2020 10:27:05 GMT
I personally don't think there is enough discussion on the existing boards to warrant even more specific boards.
General Discussion is fine IMO for the topics you suggested.
I don't even know why we have a separate General Discussion and Soapbox to be honest. They're both basically the same thing. I know there is meant to be a theoretical divide that General Discussion is more "restrained", but again given how slow both boards are I don't think both are necessary.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 18, 2020 15:52:02 GMT
I personally don't think there is enough discussion on the existing boards to warrant even more specific boards. General Discussion is fine IMO for the topics you suggested. I don't even know why we have a separate General Discussion and Soapbox to be honest. They're both basically the same thing. I know there is meant to be a theoretical divide that General Discussion is more "restrained", but again given how slow both boards are I don't think both are necessary. I'm not going to post about artists/paintings/art galleries/museums/photography etc. under General. (only movies about artists on Film General) There are a number of artists on this board that liked to post their drawings and what not. True, not much traffic, but it worked as a sub board. imo
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 18, 2020 20:04:07 GMT
I personally don't think there is enough discussion on the existing boards to warrant even more specific boards. General Discussion is fine IMO for the topics you suggested. I don't even know why we have a separate General Discussion and Soapbox to be honest. They're both basically the same thing. I know there is meant to be a theoretical divide that General Discussion is more "restrained", but again given how slow both boards are I don't think both are necessary. I'm not going to post about artists/paintings/art galleries/museums/photography etc. under General. (only movies about artists on Film General) There's a thread about artists there now. As there is no sub board it's probably the best place to post about it. If you're not comfortable posting about art there, I guess that's your prerogative.
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