New Forum Idea

[Jon Miller]

How about an election forum? There are a lot of people interested in it. There are a lot of people heavily interested in it. There are a very few people not interested in it. This would allow those who are highly interested in it to get their fill. And those who aren't as interested in it, or not interested, to ignore it when they so choose.

JM

[DanQ]

A 2008 American election sub-forum you're suggesting to be more specific? To close (and be archived) at some point after that election is over?

[Jon Miller]

yeah

JM

[Sirotnikov]

I think it's a bad idea.

subforums are a bad idea.

the OT would become an even emptier place with it.

[Ming]

Politics has always been one of the staples of the OT.
It seems the right place for it

[Asher]

Can we have an Aggressor Threadi Forum also?

[Jaybe]

What's an Aggressor Thread (or is that Threadi)?
Is that for Republicans, warmongers in general, wiggies (or hostile people) , or for military war-game opponents (at Nellis Air Force Base there is an Aggressor squadron to simulate "hostile" aircraft)?

[Asher]

I will not answer questions from aggressors such as yourself.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
yeah

JM

Use the History Forum... no need to clean up afterwards then

[Winston]

Originally posted by Ming
Politics has always been one of the staples of the OT.

And so has "sports", history and technology.

It seems the right place for it

So when will you abandon the OT subforums and give us back a proper Off Topic forum instead of three joke ones and another that's only half of what it used to be?

[Ming]

Originally posted by Winston
So when will you abandon the OT subforums and give us back a proper Off Topic forum instead of three joke ones and another that's only half of what it used to be?

You are always welcome to your opinion...
And the owners are welcome to theirs

The sports forum has been a great success and will continue. As for the other sub forums... time will tell.

[Alexander I]

Yeah, I suggested a Politics sub-forum a long time ago and it got shot down then too.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Ming
The sports forum has been a great success and will continue.

Ah yes, the single thread on the Olympics gathered a total of 112 posts there.

Oh, you mean a great success in terms of MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL debate? Absolutely, no contest. Those 15 posters are having a great time with it.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Winston
Oh, you mean a great success in terms of MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL debate? Absolutely, no contest. Those 15 posters are having a great time with it.

Counting is a skill

We have far more sports posting now than we did when it was buried in the OTF. We also have more sports forum contests that are being enjoyed by many posters. And those are the true measures of success!
It's tough to argue against those "real" facts.

But you are still welcome to your opinion. Fortunately, the opinins of people who actually enjoy the sports forum are also listened to. Many were really tired of the sports threads being buried by countless threads of posters picking on each other like little children

[rah]

As if they don't pick on each other in the sport's forum.