Off-Topic Rework

[tMoon]

My concern is that the current off-topic section is spread too thin. Too many sub-forums all with discussion, but a limited amount of discussion and I think the best implementation for off-topic (specifically General Discussion) would be merging a majority of the child-forums under it. This would effectively consolidate the forms without removing much of the sections.

The suggestion:

Have one over-arching off-topic section of "General Discussion." Every post under off-topic will fall under general discussion and is able to be viewed under general discussion; however, there is still an option (sub-forum or through the tag system) to limit the threads down to certain topics (i.e. anime and manga).

The results as followed:

General Discussion
- Media
- Technology
-- Programming
- Financial Discussion
- Health & fitness
Something For All
Spam Forum
- Upper Spam
- Viral Threads
Sand Box
- Dice Competition
- Sand Box Marketplace

Each topic under General Discussion would appear under general discussion as well with the option of being filtered down. Ideally this would cause threads to receive more exposure, spurring conversations; however if someone wants to only view their section, they can still limit what they are seeing. Now, I don't know how much of this is feasible, but it's my suggestion.

Thoughts?


tl;dr version is let's shrink the size of most of the sub-forums under General Discussion and have the opportunity to limit topics via tags (i.e. when making a thread, require the selection of like "media" tag and have that tag at the top of General Discussion for individuals to select to narrow threads).

Tl;dr of the tl;dr

right now its this big
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we want to make it this big
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and add a bunch of these
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I don't mind this at all.. seems a lot cleaner to me and just makes more sense.

Would media still have its separate subsections or no because I'm sure some people have expressed that they would not prefer a completely full merge.

Search various other threads in this section about how people have wanted off-topic changes.

 

[Sun]

Support, it would look a lot cleaner if condensed a bit. I like the idea of filtering.

 

[Program]

I think it's fine how it is now. I actually like it with the couple changes I've seen to expand. No support.

 

[tMoon]

Would such a tag system be possible @Sythe ?

 

[Superfluous]

i would prefer this to the current system. probably a little more disorganized but likely to contribute to increased discussion. kind of like a reddit subforum or something; generally on one topic (e.g., videos) but not super narrowly focused (e.g., anime shows)

 

[theArc]

Could I get a ELI5?

 

[Superfluous]

Could I get a ELI5?

the op has a tldr you froob

 

[theArc]

the op has a tldr you froob

could i get a eli5 of the tldr?

 

could i get a eli5 of the tldr?

right now its this big
| ___________________ |
we want to make it this big
| _____ |
and add a bunch of these
[ ]

 

[theArc]

right now its this big
| ___________________ |
we want to make it this big
| _____ |
and add a bunch of these
[ ]

 

[tMoon]

Bump and @Sythe is such a tag frame-work even possible? If so, the suggestion could be extended to practically every section in some way or another.

 

[Tyler]

This seems to be locked @Tmoe did you lock it?

 

[tMoon]

This seems to be locked @Tmoe did you lock it?

Yes, talked to big rich and it does not seem feasible; however, going to write up a new format for Off-Topic which will be discussed/possibly implemented

 

[Tyler]

Yes, talked to big rich and it does not seem feasible; however, going to write up a new format for Off-Topic which will be discussed/possibly implemented

Ok thanks archive whenever you feel like it.