With the rally season soon to be upon us the possibility of getting all the jokes and amusing stuff and putting it in a "comedy corner" on the website has been suggested. This would be useful for two reasons that I can see:
1. It keeps the important information up where it should be on the first pages of the forums rather than it getting knocked off by people posting jokes and bits and pieces here and there, and
2. Any of us who need cheering up while it's still cold and wet and miserable can just click on the relevant area and hopefully get a giggle or two out of it without having to search through for the odd joke, video clip or otherwise here and there throughout the posting.
What does everyone else think? Matt has asked for input on this so your comments would be appreciated before he makes any decision on it.
Personally I think it's a good idea! Both points stated make sense and it will make it easier for each member to quickly access what is important to them from the site.
I def approve! its a real pain in the bum looking for info trawling thro all of the `comedic` banter between 3 or 4 people and if you do feel like a giggle its always good to know where to look
If you hit the active forums button, then yeah you'll lose stuff. But if you hit the All Forums button its all sorted out already, including a Jokes and Silly Things forum.
Unfortunately, most people use the active topics list to see what's going on during the day, as well as people randomly posting jokes and bits and pieces in general chat etc. rather than the jokes stuff so I can see the sense in putting it all somewhere else
So lazy people need to be nannied. Using a forum has to be THE EASIEST thing to do on the net, even kids know how to use them.
All the forums are formatted and we have an events calander, the site will be in danger of having too many places to look for relevant 'important' info IMHO
I agree with DT, just move the games/jokes etc. off of active topics and operate a three strikes policy or something. If people post jokes and stuff in inappropriate areas a mod will move it and send them a polite PM telling them they've done so and that jokes etc. go in a particular thread. If they keep doing it remove their option to post for 24 hours or something
its allready easy to find things,, " all forums" includes jokes and silly things right?,,, so maybe it would be a better idea to politely ask people not to post "banter" ie irrelevant stuff on the wrong pages. or is that just too simple?
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It may make things easier to choose which thread to open if each thread title had a note "posted in ........ forum" attached to it , as on other sites. (What do you think Matt?). Or maybe even colour code each forum?
Personally i don't have any issues with this as i usually head straight for "active topics" where all posts and threads go anyway, and i read them all. It was just a suggestion for those who may be more selective with what they want to read. But as with any friendly forum, people could add witty comments or friendly banter to 95% of threads
What ??!! They do jokes on here as well ??!!
If it's going to get serious I don't want to play. I do serious at work all day, so when I look at any forum and I belong to a few then I want the banter and good humour. It's not difficult to keep messages in their proper threads and if someone does inadvertently post in the wrong place then all a moderator has to do is move it to the correct one, ( isn't that what mods are for) if persistent then a.gentle pm usually does the trick ( doesn't it Jackie) :-)
I agree you should be able to see which forum things are posted in. Makes moving stuff to the right place a pain - have to go into general and make sure everything fits, then events to do the same and so on. If you went to active topics and could see which forum a thread had been put on we could just move it instantly Matt
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