Main Forum vs Club Forums

[fergalr]

It s few blokes who read some threads and think some of them deserve to go into other forums.

Sorry this does not wash. They read some threads!? How do they come to the decision about which ones to read with a view to potentially moving them? At random?

The bottom line is that its an internet discussion forum, and people take it far too seriously.

We are LOI fans. Of course we have a tendency to be a tad obscure about what we get worked up about.

[Dodge]

Sorry this does not wash. They read some threads!? How do they come to the decision about which ones to read with a view to potentially moving them? At random?

it doesn't work like that. They read the threads that interest them, and if they think they should move it, they do. There's no obligation to read everything (nor should there be)

[Longfordian]

No, I'm just a regular (or irregular) poster like the majority

Fair enough, I see the list of admins now. It was just pure curiosity.

[A face]

Lads, there is no hassle here. If anything this thread gives us the opportunity to discuss whats best for the forum. If anyone has suggestions the chip in with them. All we'd ask its that it is workable.

First up, there is too much traffic for it all to be posted in in the main forum. And even if you argue that 'right now theres not' (main forum contents + moved threads) then be conscious that if there was a stage where everything 'right now' is posted in there you'll see even more threads posted in the main forum which would previously have been posted in clubs forums if threads were not moved.

I know people are saying that 'i have posted stuff that people would be interested in' and you would be right. There is a stack load of stuff that people would be interested in in the club forums. That thing is there is too much of it there.

People are saying that "once it goes into a club forum they will never see it" and i know that actually is the case for some people. But if threads are not moved from the main forum then the exact same thing will happen because you'll have to go two, three sometimes four pages back to see all the active threads. People DO NOT do this as has happened in the past, events have come and gone and people didn't realise it because threads fall back down the peaking order.

I dont know about other mods here but what i aim to do is to get all active threads visible on the main forum, so people dont have to go to the second page of the main forum.

If it goes to the second page on the main forum then its gone forever imo, if its moved to a club forum then its active there for normally much longer than the main forum and if its of interest to LOI fans and they know its related to a certain club then they will see it if they look. Bare in mind that if Sligo play Cobh next week then generally Sligo fans go to the Cobh forum to see whats going on, so my point is that all fans will at some stage go to most forums. If people dont click around then they cant expect to see everything, i'm sorry that is the case. Has anyone any suggestions?

Merging threads, if its in the same forum i normally do not leave a redirect link because for the most part the thread that is being merged was posted without looking if there was an existing one on the same topic in the forum. If its in another forum, depending on the topic i wont leave a redirect but i try and leave it if there is a chance the poster wont find it (depends on the topic). In short, i dont leave redirects for merges in the same thread.

Moving threads, if its a match preview/report then i will move it to the home teams forum. I normally leave a redirect for a day or so unless there are five or six threads for the same game. And i do this because people are clearly not looking to see if its been posted already.

I have moved threads to club forums before and got destroyed for it so i had to move it back, but thats only if its something like Shels trouble, Cork City trouble, Tallaght reopening, etc. (NOT my decisions, i had moved them and had to move them back)

[fergalr]

Thanks face for taking the time to post the theory. Not sure that it matches what I've observed in practice but lets hope things improve.

There should already be a good feel for what people want to see - all you have to do is look at which threads attarct posts from supporters of other clubs. I would have thought that articles about the league in high profile foreign media would always be of general interest and should stay in the main forum. Any major negative develpoments such as clubs going bust likewise (we all love misery).

Anything development that is is positive and of benefit to the entire league should also stay in the main forum and if Tallaght does not match that description then I don't know what ever would.

[SMorgan]

No, I'm just a regular (or irregular) poster like the majority

Well when did that happen? Because I got an infraction from you a few days ago because I had a go at a poster that showed considerable disrespect to another poster.

[A face]

Thanks face for taking the time to post the theory. Not sure that it matches what I've observed in practice but lets hope things improve.

Can i ask you to expand on that (or anyone else as well)? Is there something thats being missed?

There should already be a good feel for what people want to see - all you have to do is look at which threads attarct posts from supporters of other clubs. I would have thought that articles about the league in high profile foreign media would always be of general interest and should stay in the main forum. Any major negative develpoments such as clubs going bust likewise (we all love misery).

Anything development that is is positive and of benefit to the entire league should also stay in the main forum and if Tallaght does not match that description then I don't know what ever would.

Fergalr, how do we judge though? And thats not being difficult, its just people will always say that an issue related to their club will be of importance to the whole league.

I'll be honest, i hate making a call myself because people always claim that i'm biased. This is a big issue for me personally. Its just opening a can of worms for me because i'll just have to defend a decision for a few days and still come out of it looking bad. Its because of this that i personally like the current system, but as i said ..... if there is a better way of doing it then i'm all for it.

Just need a good way to judge what stays and what goes.