Would you support merging the social forums together again?

[IAteYourMother]

Seeing as traffic is much lower than it used to be, it'd be nice to merge them all again to have more traffic on one page, especially as I never visit the other forums.

 

[moshquerade]

Nice thread, don't expect anything to come of it though. : /

 

[Nik]

No. If you never visit the other forums, it's obviously not content you're after. The only thing this would change, for you, is how fast threads drop off the first page. I don't want to see Garage or Health&Fitness or P&N crap at all, so I stay out of there. I'm perfectly happy with OT the way it is and the L&R shit all collected in one place so I can laugh at the sheer stupidity of some people. It's easier to follow topics that don't race off the first page.

 

[K1052]

About as likely to happen as switching over to vB

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: K1052
About as likely to happen as switching over to vB

 

[Crono]

Yes. I'm also for renaming "Politics and News" to "Politics and Economics"

 

[se7en]

L&R should stay where it is.

Everything else should be assimliated.

And by everything else I mean everything but P&N as we all know how crazy it is over there.

 

[joesmoke]

so there would be 3 forums?

Off Topic
Politics n News
Hot Cousins

 

[ProfJohn]

I don't think putting them back together is going to create more traffic.

If anything the end result will be less threads related to the garage and H&F because those topics are so specialized that they would get lost in OT.

 

[ProfJohn]

P&N should be changed to 'Politics and Name calling' since that is mostly what takes place there.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: Nik
No. If you never visit the other forums, it's obviously not content you're after. The only thing this would change, for you, is how fast threads drop off the first page. I don't want to see Garage or Health&Fitness or P&N crap at all, so I stay out of there. I'm perfectly happy with OT the way it is and the L&R shit all collected in one place so I can laugh at the sheer stupidity of some people. It's easier to follow topics that don't race off the first page.

you're just upset that you'd have less opportunities to yell wrong forum.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

We've gone over this a zillion times. Yes, a large majority of ATOTers agree withh merging the forums. No, the "powers that be" don't care what we think, the traffic stats for ATOT show that they are determined to kill this forum with stupid decisions.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: Nik
No. If you never visit the other forums, it's obviously not content you're after. The only thing this would change, for you, is how fast threads drop off the first page. I don't want to see Garage or Health&Fitness or P&N crap at all, so I stay out of there. I'm perfectly happy with OT the way it is and the L&R shit all collected in one place so I can laugh at the sheer stupidity of some people. It's easier to follow topics that don't race off the first page.

you're just upset that you'd have less opportunities to yell wrong forum.

I have not spoken or typed those words in 5 years. Congrats, you fail.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
We've gone over this a zillion times. Yes, a large majority of ATOTers agree withh merging the forums. No, the "powers that be" don't care what we think, the traffic stats for ATOT show that they are determined to kill this forum with stupid decisions.

The "decisions" that are driving AT forums into the ground don't have anything to do with the way forums are catagorized. :Q

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: Nik
No. If you never visit the other forums, it's obviously not content you're after. The only thing this would change, for you, is how fast threads drop off the first page. I don't want to see Garage or Health&Fitness or P&N crap at all, so I stay out of there. I'm perfectly happy with OT the way it is and the L&R shit all collected in one place so I can laugh at the sheer stupidity of some people. It's easier to follow topics that don't race off the first page.

you're just upset that you'd have less opportunities to yell wrong forum.

I have not spoken or typed those words in 5 years. Congrats, you fail.

You sure it hasn't been less, like 3 or 4 years maybe? Because I remember seeing you post that, and I haven't been here 5 years.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Nik
The only thing this would change, for you, is how fast threads drop off the first page.

Bzzt. Wrong. You forgot the main change. The main change is that many, many more people will be looking at the thread title and you'll have a wider variety of answers. Hopefully, useful answers, but with social topics you never know.

We can keep subdividing until no one ever looks at a particular thread. Sure, it is in the correct sub-forum, but since they are busy browsing the billion other sub-forums, they never look at yours. Then Anandtech dies just like the other forums that over divided.

Divided we fall.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: se7en
L&R should stay where it is.

Everything else should be assimliated.

.

Why so you and other stupid little idiots like you can ruin perfectly fine discussions about Fitness with your stupid little comments?

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Nik
The only thing this would change, for you, is how fast threads drop off the first page.

Bzzt. Wrong. You forgot the main change. The main change is that many, many more people will be looking at the thread title and you'll have a wider variety of answers. Hopefully, useful answers, but with social topics you never know.

We can keep subdividing until no one ever looks at a particular thread. Sure, it is in the correct sub-forum, but since they are busy browsing the billion other sub-forums, they never look at yours. Then Anandtech dies just like the other forums that over divided.

Divided we fall.

OffTopic.com.

'nuff said.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
We've gone over this a zillion times. Yes, a large majority of ATOTers agree withh merging the forums. No, the "powers that be" don't care what we think, the traffic stats for ATOT show that they are determined to kill this forum with stupid decisions.

Owner Anand doesn't care about forum people

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Nik
The only thing this would change, for you, is how fast threads drop off the first page.

Bzzt. Wrong. You forgot the main change. The main change is that many, many more people will be looking at the thread title and you'll have a wider variety of answers. Hopefully, useful answers, but with social topics you never know.

We can keep subdividing until no one ever looks at a particular thread. Sure, it is in the correct sub-forum, but since they are busy browsing the billion other sub-forums, they never look at yours. Then Anandtech dies just like the other forums that over divided.

Divided we fall.

OffTopic.com.

'nuff said.

that place sucks donkey balls.
pay to post? forget it.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
P&N should be changed to 'Politics and Name calling' since that is mostly what takes place there.

You Politcal Hack, you NeoCon Moron, You Hair on Fire Wingnut, how dare you say such a ...oh wait....DOH

I guess P&N simulates real life Cable Political News Shows.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Nik
OffTopic.com.

'nuff said.

So, a stagnant forum with 1/4 of our traffic answers what?

The real answer is 1 forum with tags that individual users can turn on/off. You can thus ignore the garage threads if you wish or look only at L&R threads, or whatever but the rest of us can see all that we want simultaneously. But no one in charge would actually do that.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Nik
OffTopic.com.

'nuff said.

So, a stagnant forum with 1/4 of our traffic answers what?

The real answer is 1 forum with tags that individual users can turn on/off. You can thus ignore the garage threads if you wish or look only at L&R threads, or whatever but the rest of us can see all that we want simultaneously. But no one in charge would actually do that.

Tags would work best, and could be implemented easily in vB.

But like you said, it's not likely to happen anytime soon.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Nik
OffTopic.com.

'nuff said.

So, a stagnant forum with 1/4 of our traffic answers what?

The real answer is 1 forum with tags that individual users can turn on/off. You can thus ignore the garage threads if you wish or look only at L&R threads, or whatever but the rest of us can see all that we want simultaneously. But no one in charge would actually do that.

Until people get just as lazy about setting thread tags as they do posting in the correct forum, sure.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

L&R and P&N do better separately

I could see H&F and Garage merging in successfully, but really it should be up to the mods and people that post in them frequently that will know best