Hi NIck, if I may be so bold, I suggest decreasing the number of fora rather than increasing them, its good to have a single port of call when visiting a forum, rather than loads of different pidgin holes!
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You are not the only person to suggest that. However, I think the Weather forum is important from the point of view of keeping Simon's forecasts separate, so it is going to stay for now and we will see how it goes.
As for the others - they all get posts, but I am looking to reduce the number. What I am thinking of doing is:
~ Moving the YotBlog forums elsewhere - they were added on specifically to cater for YotBlog users, but this is not really what has happened so I think they will go, possibvle to another completely separate forum with its own YotBlog identity
~ Getting rid of 'Messing About in Boats' as I think this can be covered by Shooting the Breeze
~ Leaving the others, but moving Press Releases to the bottom of the pile
This would leave things looking like this:
Shooting the Breeze
Passages and Places
Gear and Gadgets
Tip of the Week
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Weatherman
WeatherChat
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Press Releases
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Site News
Suggestions Comments Bug Reports
I don't think that is too many, and I DO think putting all the posts into one forum would be a mistake as I do anticipate traffic growing considerably as time goes on. I don't want to see posts disappearing off the bottom of the page in less than a day, as happens on YBW.
The Gear and Gadgets forum in particular I would like to see used more often. On YBW people have frequently suggested a forum specifically for reviews and reports on sailing gear, but I suspect YBW have shied away from it because of legal worries. I don't care so much (or not at the moment anyway) and would like to see people writing mini-reviews for this section.
I am also thinking about the lavish prizes for teh Tip of the Week . . . not sure what to offer, but I was thinking of commissioning a BlueMoment burgee and offering them as prizes - what do you reckon?
Am posting this as a new thread with a poll so people can give their opinions, but unless there are very strong opinions ot the contrary the above will be the new structure of these fora just as soon as I find the timem to set the YotBlog fora up as a separate entity.
claymore wrote:I believe that it is fundamentally essential to have a "TakinraPiss" forum
shame on you .. there's a "whose got the biggest widget/forum/dick (delete as appropriate)" pishing competition amongst forum owners in Argyll and oor man wants tae be top pisher
