Combine IMHO and MPSIMS. Get rid of cafe society,it’s the ‘People Magazine’ of this forum. Also IMHO and MPSIMS should only go back 1 week. That will leave plenty of bandwidth for GQ,GD and BBQ pit, the really important forums. Thank You.
No offense, but I’m seeing a Grandpa Simpson moment in my head:
“Dear Mr. President - there are too many States. Please remove two of them.”
Any new Forum sees an effect like gas expanding to fill a void. It is very possible that the creation of IMHO and Cafe Society resulted in a huge increase of hits to the Board, but without access to the metrics, it would be impossible to say. I can say that I saw this on my Board when I added two new Forums, and the reads and posts both increased by large percentages - typically, more than 50%. I’m certain that the SDMB saw it as well.
I would say that, IMO, they are unlikely to be removing or combining Forums.
You’re welcome. Enjoy the remainder of your day.
Interesting set of priorities you have there, Quintas. Here’s a hint: The fora are listed in the order of what the administration feels is their importance. There are many here who think that the Pit should be the first to go.
With fewer forums, I guess thatPeople would just post as many messages, but just in the other forums. Except for the kind that we put in the pit.
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The reason IMHO and Cafe Society were split off was to reduce the load on MPSIMS. MPSIMS was so busy threads wouldn’t stay on the front page 10 minutes. There was some effort needed to make that forum smaller, and so IMHO first and later CS were chosen as ways to remove some of the content.
Plus, how does making fewer forums make the usage go down? Still the same number of threads, still the same number of people reading the pages, still the same number of respondents, just packed into fewer spaces.
And, as pointed out, many people find IMHO and Cafe Society more important the the Pit. “Oh, throw out the ones I don’t care about, nobody will miss them.” Right.
Are they? I didn’t realize that.
Does that mean there’s something terribly wrong with me that I browse the boards in order of how much I enjoy them… starting at the bottom of the list and working my way up from the Pit to ATMB?
Nonono, the order of the board actually started out being alphabetical pretty much, and then we switched some of the forums around per content.
I guess if it’s ranked by anything it’s by how tightly we regulate content; here, for instance, we bounce everything that’s not absolutely on this subject and nothing more and the same with the “Comments” sections. . . we’re looser with the General sections and increasingly flexible as you run down the list . . . until you get to the Pit, which is the most permissible area we got.
Know it probably doesn’t make sense to a lot of you, but that’s how we did it. Just worked out this way.
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