Dr. Jeebus wrote:

I'm too hot

Hot, as in attractive, or as in warm?

joshwoodzy wrote:

FNJ wrote: Dr. Jeebus wrote: I'm too hot Hot, as in attractive, or as in warm? You be the judge.

GPFontaine wrote:

A single thread for multiple unique news stories is a bad suggestion and a misguided technical solution to a non-technical problem. A forum by design uses threads to separate topics. If we are going to merge disjointed posts into the same threads, readers will lose context of the discussion. As far as I am aware, there is no current CMS product available that intentionally combines dissimilar conversations. Wikis, forums, and blogs, all separate their topics in order to be comprehensible to the human brain. Purposefully misusing the forum software will ultimately lead to frustration amongst the community readership. It will decrease communication and create less meaningful conversations.

I agree, but I don't post enough outside of the videogame board to care anymore. I will say that some old timers like bomberman and char have said in the past that they don't post as much anymore because things have gotten boring. Might be all the political talk, but I don't know. I'm not an expert.

Common sense will tell me, though, that if general discussion is supposed to be general discussion. If it'sbeing overrun with multiple topics of a similar subject frequently (this isn't just a flavor of the week thing here. a lot of guys post and reply about news and politics here. Not a bad thing, just not a general discussion thing.) it's usually a good idea to give them their own section to discuss that.

I've known boards in the past that have done that, and it was fine. Kinda like seperating sports from television. You just make a "politics, news, and current events" subforum inside "outside the box" right along with sports and toys and movies and the rest. hardly clutter.

Another thing that I've learned is that your forumers are the life of your board. You might not like a certain decision, but if it makes them all happy, why not do it? it's better than having your longstanding guys get bored or annoyed and drifting away. I've seen guys like knyte and gishman post tech news a bunch of times, and people have made multiple topics asking for computer help. Knyte has even expressed interest in making weekly posts with tech tutorials. these are all excellent reasons to start a tech forum inside "outside the box".

I know that this is frowed upon because it supposedly makes clutter or something, but the way I see it, you'd actually be reducing clutter, and pleasing a decent amount of your forumers. It's not like we're having multiple subforums inside of other subforums, with links to other boards and stuff to confuse people. It's a straight line, non confusing. I realy think you should at least consider it.

well, just because I troll doesn't mean I haven't been around the block once or twice. That's all.

Blackout wrote:

HardcoreGamer4Ever wrote: joshwoodzy wrote: FNJ wrote: Dr. Jeebus wrote: I'm too hot Hot, as in attractive, or as in warm? You be the judge. Oh man, Jeebus is so sexy! Oh man you could grate cheese in those abs!

This man must have a he'll of a workout routine.