Poly Sports Forum?

[Cort Haus]

Further to a discussion on one of of the sports threads here, what do people think about having a sports forum as a sub forum of this one?

One poster was extolling the virtues of having more than one thread for a given sport, but the problem with that is that OT could very quickly 'spam up' with sports threads. Not spam for those interested in the particular threads, but just too many sports threads generally.

So, is there a case for a special place on 'Poly for sports discussion, freeing up valuable space on page one of OT for the ME threads and the 'me' threads?

[Donegeal]

Nah.

If Sports gets its own sub-forum, why doesn't ME? Lord knows there is enough to talk about in that thread already. It works fine just the way it is...

[Imran Siddiqui]

If that forum gets a +1, I'm for it .

Otherwise... nah, why bother? More visibility in the OT anyway.

[reds4ever]

nah, from me too. there arn't too many posters on Poly who know bugger all about sports. Why dilute it even further?

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by reds4ever
there arn't too many posters on Poly who know bugger all about sports.

One of it's best features.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by quantum_mechani
One of it's best features.

I beg to differ...geek!

[Ninot]

Sports forum

Half the OT ends up about sports sometimes. and the general purpose MLB, NHL, NFL threads COULD be split up if a sports forum were made.

OTOH, only a handful seem to post about each sport.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And that's the problem... it may lead to LESS conversation as specialized threads pop up (on the team or division, or whatnot) and only a few post, others, who may be interested see that there aren't many sports fans and end up finding a sports board to post on.

Actually, that's kind of what happened to me, when I wanted to talk about American football and baseball. I found another forum to do that in because it seemed to few wanted to discuss such issues here... seeing as how many of the specific sport threads don't get much attention. Funny thing is that forum (Front Office Football Central) is expanding to talk about soccer, which I'm also getting here from the large thread .

[Ninot]

yeah, for hockey I rarely come here, since it mostly results in Asher and NYE bickering. I generally go to hfboards.com

I don't care to chat about other sports much. I don't like to fake knowledge.

[snoopy369]

Isn't that what FFZ is for

[Ming]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Isn't that what FFZ is for

That's one of the key reasons I post there

I've asked for a sports forum on many occassions. I'd even settle for a non post count forum. But the owners are pretty consistent on this topic... They have the same position when it comes to other forum requests... like a history forum. They say the OTF is meant to cover those topics.

[Solly]

Nah. It would just get full of nonsensical thread titled like "hands off reds", "stand up whites" etc

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Nah. It would just get full of nonsensical thread titled like "hands off reds", "stand up whites" etc

Yes, but the idea would be to get those active-but-only-for-three-people threads off the OT front page, where they seem to have been forever.

It was great to see all the vibrant discussion of the World Cup, but Terra's complaint in principle seemed to be that users shouldn't have to plough through pages of discussions on club football to find posts about international football. It wasn't really the case imo though, as the thousands of football posts this summer have mostly been on the world cup. I see his point in theory, though.

It's also true that Lawrence will get more people reading his posts on Swiss football in a combined thread, than in a Swiss Football thread - which may have been Imran's point.

Then there is the looking-up of things, or following specific debates, which can be difficult with multiple conversations spanning multiple threads.

I guess that on one hand there may not be enough posters to justify a sports forum, but sometimes there can be enough subjects to justify one.

[Cort Haus]

Hehe - we could even have a thread exclusively debating whether the Australians own the word 'football'.

[Japher]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Isn't that what FFZ is for

That's why I went there. I think I started a similar thread to this 2 years ago