Remove All Discussions Poll

Seems to me that everything is already divided and compartmentalized. Doing this thing again would mean that we would just be redundant.

Seems to me that the biggest problem is throwing politics into nonpolitical threads, etc.

This is been repeated ad nauseum but bears repeating again: if you don't like the subject, don't click on it.

 

Exactly. Keep the politics in the political treads.

I do get what DP is saying. I've never seen an internet forum where every tread is displayed in one place like it is here. But I think messing around with things will probably only muck it up even more. It seems that this place is unstable enough as it is and tossing another wrench in the works might not be the best idea at this time.

 

It's a good idea DP, but i dont like it. I look at a few other forums from time to time. All set up the way you described, and i don't like it. It's not that i don't like it actually. But all those forums are different. Waaaaay more members and way more topics to discuss. This place is strange. In a good way. I don't take part in the political threads, but I'll pop in there to see what's going on. Who's beefing with who. I read a few threads i dint have any interest in just to see what's going on, because as we all know our threads never stay on track. Sometimes those golden SI moments come in threads your not interested in. Like iggys eat my f*ck. No idea what thread that was in, but i found it hilarious and it could of happened in any thread. So i for one like that everything is jumbled together, it works for this place. Also with us being a bunch of misfits and rejects and people who refuse to "fall in line", no one would respect the different "rooms".

This is the only forum i participate in, though i look at a few others. Iv never seen a forum like this. It's so disfunctional yet i wouldn't have it any other way.

 

Another example....you all have heard how i bought that bonzer of a awesome guy on here. I wasn't in the market for a new board, the title of the thread had the word bonzer in it and drew me in. And i ended up getting it. If we had different sections that would be in a "for sale" section that i never would of clicked on because i wasn't actively looking to buy. Live4truth just sold a few sets of fins i was interested in to fund his libs. Granted i didn't buy them because money was tight. But had money not been right i would of. Or if he didn't sell them all i would know who to go to when money was right. Again, i wouldn't of gone to the for sale section and seen any of that because i was not looking to buy. Just happened to come across it. You can get good deals on the perfect board or fins on here randomly out of the blue. But if your not actively looking to buy, you wouldn't click on the for sale section.

 

Good ideas, DPSUP.....but I'm seconding Keed & BMon2.

 

Back in the days the forum was segregated by geographical locations. Mid-Atlantic, northeast, southeast, Florida, Caribbean, west cost, etc. It was less good.

 

The easiest way to destroy something is divide it into oblivion. I've seen boards completely implode when the discussions were broken down into subgroups. Look at what happened to the democrats, they banked on holding their loose coalition together by pandering to each subset separately. All that did was show how little each had in common with the others and one defection causes the whole house of cards to collapse. The only thing keeping this lame set up going is that everything is smooshed together forcing interaction.

 

I don't know DP...a thread is a thread. The dis functionality makes this place unique. Good thoughts though.

 

with the degree of content, all we would have to do is split it into a 'what' and a 'how' section

what wesuite
what surbort
what presidente
what state EC only


How to sand reconne
how to sleep with blasters sister
how to complaine about the post above yours
how to wear a tinfoil hatte
how to repair surfbort
how do i get my wetsuite off
how to swim
how to surf
how to duckdive
how to change a fin
how to tie my shoes
how to not look like a kook

 

It is not a bad thing to put ideas out there. Without them, we would be living in caves and dragging our women around by the hair.....

 

We're a dysfunctional bunch of "misfits and rejects"?? I resemble that remark!

DP: Not sure if categorizing and segregating topics will address the issue you're wanting to resolve. It's more a personnel issue.
I sort of like the one-stop "smorgasbord" we have now.

 

This is a bad idea?

 

LOL...well, it can get very tiring, especially if you fancy having more than one.

 

I agree. there are about 2 dozen regular posters on here, and forum interaction itself (i.e. who on the forumme is doing what and to whom) is about 60% of the content to begin with.

Start dividing that up, and you get like three responses to a tread per day. Do the math.

 

Yeah it's probably not a good idea to section everything off. A big part of coming to this board is interacting with all the fun people, not necessarily trying to find specific information. But good for you for trying to come up with some new ideas. A famous person once said, "the only good way to have a great idea is to have a lot of ideas. Most ideas won't be very good but it's a necessary part of coming up with a great idea", or something like that merry Christmas to you!