Restructuring of General And Miscellaneous

[Lunar Origins]

This is exactly what the thread title says.  Simply put, I think that Miscellaneous would be far better off as its own section, with Games and Clubs/Organizations as its subsidiaries.  This allows us to group the three forums with a disabled post count together, as opposed to having Clubs/Organizations as its own standalone thing.  This opens up more subforums for General to be opened, as well, without being so cluttered;  the Blog/Personal sections that some other members want can be placed under General as something more serious.

 

That's the whole point of this, really; General is more for serious discussion, while Miscellaneous is just that; miscellaneous things.  I feel that, with this change, things would make a lot more sense.

 

Here's what the structure would look like.

 

General

|-Polls

|-Blogs / Whatever the hell you guys want for serious discussion

|-Debates (ha this is probably never happening)

Miscellaneous

|-Clubs/Organizations

|-Games

 

Make sense?  Sound stupid?  What do you guys think?

[Blake]

Sounds about right to me.

[Aix]

Yeah, that sounds good.

[Darj]

Sounds good to me as well.

[~British Soul~]

That sounds good to me as well.

[Kazooie]

Agreed for sure, more organized and it opens up room in General.

[Nathanael D. Striker]

Iirc, I somehow convinced Pika to make clubs its own thing back when it was a powerhouse. Now, I agree that clubs needs to be sent back to subforum status.

[Tentacruel]

I agree.  Having them separate would make way more sense. 

[Greiga]

I'd want Blogs to have it's own section if we're going to have lots of people posting a lot, but I'm more interested in how a blog+comments is going to work on a forum without giving each blogger their own subsection. Unless you guys can highlight posts, in which case you can just highlight a new entry and the blogger can link to each one.

 

EDIT: I didn't see there was an actual thread for the blog section. Anyway I'm support, just to be clear.

[Rodrigo]

Support.

[Brinolovania]

Looks nice.

[Slinky]

People use blogs for serious discussion?

Thats new to me.

 

I thought it was just used to rant.

[Rodrigo]

People use blogs for serious discussion?

Thats new to me.

 

I thought it was just used to rant.

 

Can you kindly stay away from any serious topic, please?

 

Your jokes are of terrible taste.

[Slinky]

Can you kindly stay away from any serious topic, please?

 

Your jokes are of terrible taste.

 

Except it wasn't a joke. I'm dead serious, every blog I saw in my entire life was a rant. Which is why I brought it up, because I was confused as to why it was being considered serious discussion.

 

In retort; stop making assumptions.

[.Rai]

I think there's a fair decent amount of support for this to roll out the suggestion. And importantly no huge opinions against. I shall try to figure this out without destroying the forum. I'll PM one of the other moderators to see how the Admin CP works.
 

People use blogs for serious discussion?
Thats new to me.
 
I thought it was just used to rant.

Verbal warning to not spam in C&S before I issue proper ones. I like a good bit of banter, but pls miscellaneous exists pls

But, if you want to make suggestions/improvements on the blog goings-ons, there's a dedicated Blog Subsection thread for discussion! I'd stick away from tangential observations though.

[Rodrigo]

Except it wasn't a joke. I'm dead serious, every blog I saw in my entire life was a rant. Which is why I brought it up, because I was confused as to why it was being considered serious discussion.

 

In retort; stop making assumptions.

 

So you've only been to Tumblr then? Because yes, that place is full of blogs with rants.

 

But most blogs I've seen actually have interesting content.

[Maeriberii Haan]

In retort; stop making assumptions.

 

Same case applies to you.

 

Anyway, layout sounds really nice.

 

(I really wish Debates would return, but well....)

 

Perhaps debates can be hosted in General?

[Greiga]

Except it wasn't a joke. I'm dead serious, every blog I saw in my entire life was a rant. Which is why I brought it up, because I was confused as to why it was being considered serious discussion.

In retort; stop making assumptions.

Well then that means your blog will be the first real serious one. Be proud.

Also, can't we just put debates in general with a [Debate] tag?

Or a warning that debates might happen?

[Maeriberii Haan]

No, I mean, more like an organized debate of some sort.

[Lunar Origins]

I've got a proposal for debates, and I fully intend to submit that here when I'm finished writing it up, so hold on.

[Nathanael D. Striker]

Debates died a couple of years ago since not enough people bothered to keep it alive. It was somewhat of a powerhouse from 2008 to early 2010 iirc.

[Cierfrost]

Debates died a couple of years ago since not enough people bothered to keep it alive. It was somewhat of a powerhouse from 2008 to early 2010 iirc.

 

Wasnt the problem, nor was it a powerhouse and last a couple years. 3 months AT BEST. It was killed because it became pointless. People do not know how to stick to their side of the argument and immediately cave rather than defend their point. It became a glorified version of "he said she said" with people kissing the tushies of the posters above them. There was maybe 3 people who knew how to debate well. One left, the other saw the problem and went onto other sections, and not sure about the third.

[Lunar Origins]

Dark was the powerhouse of the debate section.  Him leaving basically ended any chance that it had of surviving, though if I remember correctly, he left after it was completely removed.

 

Debates can be reintegrated into the forum, but if they will be, they'll be reintegrated in a different way.