Forums names and subjects

Also these days if you want to see the latest video-games-e-games it is easy.
baseball-mlb, football-nfl or football-soccer-fifa or maybe basketball-nba all simple via the tags. If people got use to using them. They are effectively subforums.

I mean I read every baseball thread and most football threads but very few of the other sports threads.

Hint, click those names and takes you to the threads tagged as such
Second hint, list of all tags on the hamburger menu
Third Hint: want to create a shortcut to a list of threads tagged , type a # sign a few letters of the tag name or forum name and select the one you want

Good point and I hate that I always forget about tags, they are so useful.

I do know Thread Games overwhelmed The Game Room . Thus the split. Both forums thrive and the overlap of posters are fairly light.

Politics & Elections & Great Debates leaves GD light on threads but the threads are the most cantankerous on the SDMB in my experience. I think overall it works having them split. Politics & Elections overwhelms Great Debates otherwise.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share is very light and fluffy and the only forum where bloggish posts are tolerated. The only question is should breaking-news threads be somewhere else or their own tiny forum as they’re kind of unique and people get confused despite the titles and tags.

In My Humble Opinion is kind of the lax catchall for Factual Questions and Great Debates . I think it works pretty damn well actually. Minor debates, general opinions, legal and medical questions and the like.

I like @ParallelLines ideas. Not exactly as they propose them, but for highlighting the point that different people will find different organizations more or less logical.

Most of us know the history of how Game Room and Thread Games came to be split off from Café Society. As SDMB shrinks there may come a time that recombination makes sense. I know I don’t know whether we’re there yet. Ditto GD & P&E.

The comment upthread that folks forget about tags, and folks don’t want to use the personalization features are a real point of concern. Discourse provides some great tools. But when only a few percent of users will bother to learn them, while everyone else still tries to use the place like a prettier vBulletin (3+ years after we switched) the rest of us can’t take advantage of them.

I’m just darn glad we were able to get folks to switch from LSLGuy to @LSLGuy. Having Discourse manage the times I’m quoted or referenced so I don’t have to go hunting for them is great. Shame we can’t get folks on board to use tags.

Couldn’t effectively read every post on my phone. My apologies if this was argued to death already.

We just need sub-forums. Tags and sorting options would probably be sufficient near term. Thank you for your time.

A small voice of dissent re tags. Maybe only to my own preferences…

The happenstance exposure to questions and subjects that I did not know I was ignorant about or did not know would be interesting, merely found because it was in more general forum, and which I’d never have seen if I sorted by tags, is a feature not a bug for me.

But everyone floats their own boat.

On that note, I would like to make the very tiniest of little nitpick criticisms, submitted with all genuinely due respect to one of our most valued and interesting posters. Which is that you sometimes reply to posts (specifically, a number of mine) using the general thread “Reply” button rather than the post-specific “Reply” button. Which means that I get no notification that you’ve replied, and generally come across the reply completely by accident, sometimes hours or even days later.

Which inhibits any attempt I might want to make at a witty and timely comeback, which I’m absolutely certain would have enthralled everyone!

Well, you don’t really have to pay attention to tags—or forums even, as long as you’re not starting a new thread—if you don’t want to.

Tags don’t prevent that. Like with subforums, you can go to a subforum and see just its threads or you can click on the parent subforum and see all the thread in it.

So The Game Room contains all of the baseball, football, soccer, boardgames, racing, video games and etc. but if you want to see the latest boxing-wrestling-mma threads, you can get just those.

For the Mods we have a Documentation Forum and under that are subforums for Moderation (which includes the cornfielded threads) and several other subforum.

Hmm.
When I intend to address multiple posters I’ll usually use the thread reply button then insert excerpts from each. As I’ve done here for you. Which by the excerpt, ought to trigger notifying you.

There are issues with Discourse where a reply directly to the final post in a thread are at least sometimes automatically redirected as a reply to the thread at large.

The other thing that may be happening is that I’m really long-winded (something that may have escaped most of y’alls notice. )

So I start replying when I’m right below you. By the time I submit there are 3 posts between us. I’d used the thread reply button because you were at the bottom and I’d be adjacent. But then somebody snuck in.

When that occurs I try to go back and add a comment at the top to make clear who I was addressing.
ETA: @wolfpup 3 posts up.

Oh I get that. I just want to point out what might be missed by creating individual very specific channels. We can end up isolating ourselves into narrow interest silos.

That’s not the issue, it’s a notification issue.

If I’m replying to something someone says, I always hit the reply button for their post so that they get a notification and can react to me.

The only time I reply to a thread itself is if I’m posting something that’s not in response to a particular person, but rather to the topic in general.

The word you were looking for is prosecution. It’s impossible to take this thread seriously if that was intentional.

I think it’s getting worse.

All the SDMB is all Trump, all the time.

It’s everywhere. Not just here. TV, newspapers. It’s a giant story.
He’s way ahead in the Republican field because his name is everywhere.

I’m afraid we’ll just have to ride it out.

I’m not changing my way of being because of it.

It’s easy enough to find a thread I want to read or a show on TV.

I just tagged pretty much every Trump thread for the last year. They’re in P&E and The Pit. It is over 100. trump

You can if you want ignore all of them at once now.

Steps to Mute a Tag or Category (Forum)
Click your user icon next to the menu.
Click the last Icon for Profile
Click Preferences
Click Tracking
The lower right hand box is for Muted Tags.
Enter tru and you’ll be prompted for trump. Click trump.
Click Save Changes

Oh wow! Thanks. It’s high time we had a “trump” tag, but that’s felt like way too much work to me.

It was, but I was both curious and had some free time and have enough OCD to do it.

Subforums don’t work terribly well in Discourse, and make for a messy menu. The software is really set up too really mostly on tags.

Cite, please.