Holy moly

[KathyTX]

I think the one negative of spliting the huge threads off is that (as a regular at one of the medium sized ones) I really enjoy the "new blood" we get every now and again. We have people jump in all the time. Some stay and some do not. If we were off the CB I doubt anyone new would ever find us.

That's exactly the challenge, Haley.

Fragmenting the boards and splitting those threads off means that they will not get the traffic of the Community Board, and could suffer from the lack of new blood.

Another negative is the housekeeping effort, the work created for the mods in identifying and moving the threads.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

Nothing at all! Some cliques, however, will hijack a separate thread where a clique member has posted and go on and on about inside jokes while everyone else is totally lost. That goes too far. But about 1/3 of the CB is consistently taken up by games, exchanges, and well-established cliques. It's already been given 3 sub-boards, why not one more? Why is this request, which has been discussed more than once, not granted?

I know it seems like a simple thing, why not just do it.
Over the years we have gotten a pretty good feel for what works and what doesn't. We have criteria for what makes a good new board and what will cause us more problems than it's worth. Some things happen pretty quick because they fall in line with what we know will work and where we want to take the boards. The photography board is a good example. I think that one took 1.5 minutes of discusion. Both the Game and a "Clique" or big thread board really don't meet those criteria. They are actually the opposite. One of the things we learned from the debate board was that boards designed to pull traffic off of other boards to reduce "problems" usually end up with more problems of their own.
This does not mean we are not going to do it, it just means we are going to give serious thought as to how it is going to work, where it is going to go etc.
Why don't we just try it and then turn it off if it doesn't work?
Well we shut down the debate board over 3 years ago and people are still screaming about it. Once you give a board it's very difficult to shut it down.
We may do it if we decide it really is in the best interests of the boards but we have to determine that.
Also everyone needs to keep in mind the boards are a lot more than the community board. This shocks some people but the Community board is not even our busiest board!
Any boards we create have to make sense to the boards as a whole

 

[WebmasterAlex]

May I please point out that even though we posted at the same time mine is longer! That means I started before Kathy. Either that or I type faster

 

[transparant]

Have a wonderful barbecue Dan - enjoy those fireworks and tell Marie I said "Hi" and "HAPPY 4th!"

 

[KathyTX]

May I please point out that even though we posted at the same time mine is longer! That means I started before Kathy. Either that or I type faster

Mine was more efficient.

 

[Caradana]

One beauty of the internet is that it's cheap, if not entirely free, to try a new idea. If we had a regular retail store that sold wonderful assorted trinkets, and we found that our store was suddenly overrun by people who wanted Irish Margarita Glasses - and only Irish Margarita Glasses - we would probably celebrate it as storeowners (as I hope moderators might as well), and we could consider creating a separate section of the store for I.M.G., or even another store entirely. All of that would cost us money.
On the internet - it's incredibly cheap. A couple hours of development (maybe less if you're Alex or Kathy ), some diverted bandwidth, and it's ready. The moral of the story ... what would be the harm in a very cheap experiment? I hope we can try a Clubs and Games board. If it fails, it can get zapped into forum heaven and share a fictional Irish Margarita with the Debate board. If people get upset ... oh well. The DIS is not a democracy!

 

[tevagirl]

Mine was more efficient.

Don't make me separate you two.

 

[Louise-Montreal]

Hi Dan, glad you are here!! As you can see I have been here a long time, in fact I remember when there was just one board before we moved here. As you can tell by my number of posts and I am mostly a lurker but I am here every day
Dan is one of the reasons why I love these boards- his kindness is second to none. Always ready to help with anything- posting pictures, camera questions, disney questions, etc!

I Dan Murphy. You da man!! Hope you are here for a long time!!!!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Holy Moly! How do you possibly find 6 a week to report? I've been here at least 6 years, either posting or as a lurker, and have maybe reported 6 posts in 6 years!
I tend to only open the threads I think are going to be interesting to me or that I think I can contribute something to. Yes, sometimes it's even a joke or sarcasm. I just leave the other threads to those posters that will be interested in that stuff.
As for lots of responses...Who cares how many posts a thread has? I mean really. If the Maelstromers have their thing going ( Sorry, I've never visited that thread. ) or the exchange people have their thing (Sorry, I don't go there either. ) then what's the problem? If there are THAT many replies to a post I'd think it was a GOOD thing, right?
What's the difference between a bunch of people joking and laughing to make someone else feel better and the long threads for someone who is ill, that Dan often starts?
And I know a lot of people don't like the drinking threads or the stupid jokes that go on. Then stay away from those threads. You know who it is and who's involved, so just stay away. How hard can it be? I've posted it before and I'll say it again. For those of us on those threads that may be the only thing we have to smile about that week.

Wise words!

I'm not sure what people think about some of us, but we don't all have the wonderful life that we appear to have. I have a pretty damn good one, I'll have to say, but the last few weeks here have really allowed me to escape some temporary financial issues that my family has had the challenge of facing. It's been wonderful to know that I can come laugh and joke with my internet friends and have been able to take my mind off my worries. Others have been able to get their minds off of other problems. And others simply like a good laugh or even a good cry. Not sure what the issue with that is.

 

[Saffron]

Fragmenting the boards and splitting those threads off means that they will not get the traffic of the Community Board, and could suffer from the lack of new blood.

But what would be the harm of that? Either the "oldies" will keep the threads alive, or "newbies" will go and keep the threads alive, or the threads would die ... a natural death ... like every other single thread around here and every other BB does.

Oh my Dan! You sure do have some people mad at you! I think it's pretty funny. How dare you have an opinion about anything.

And to those saying "skip over the threads, don't open the threads", you're missing the point completely. I don't agree about the point of the number of threads clogging the front page here, I couldn't care less. But you can't escape the inane hijacking that occurs on threads that others find interesting. "They" should be made to stop, and now with Kathy's suggestion of reporting the hijacking, hopefully it will. No one should have to skip over an interesting thread because some people want attention and want to hijack a thread.

Yes, this is the community board, where everyone is free to post clique threads, games ... AND opinions.

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

Dan, you don't know me, but I know you. You responded to some of my posts and the one I remember vividly is when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. You showed me the way to that thread that I lurk very often. You also guided me somewhere else that helped me. I am a pretty darned good judge of character and you certainly ooze with it. I am so glad that you are a member of the DIS. Happy 4th, Dan!

 

[Keli]

Hey Dan, I had a great 4th. I went to an annual cookout with some friends that I don't get to hang out with as often as I'd like. And I took lots of pics with my new camera. Gotta love a day like that even if the sun did try to roast us the whole time, lol.

Personally this whole thing with the boards, well, I personally LOVE the idea of the jumbo board, and the exchange/game board. I get tired of trying to sift through the cliques, exchanges, and games to find the regular threads.

I used to never understand everyone's griping about them but now that they take up 3/5ths of the first page I've changed my tune!

 

[Planogirl]

Dan, I hope that you're having a wonderful 4th.

As for the subject at hand, if nothing else you've got lots of people discussing this issue. I personally think that's a good thing.

 

[Poohbear123]

Ah but I do....even have a Chicago Mickey to prove it.

Sorry, thought you were being snotty..... Dan is a very kind Man, and I am very HAPPY I know him! I will defend him anytime if need be.

 

[Pop Daddy]

Mine was more efficient.

and more sexy

 

[bubie2.5]

Sorry, thought you were being snotty..... Dan is a very kind Man, and I am very HAPPY I know him! I will defend him anytime if need be.

I don’t think he needs to be defended. I’m sure any other poster spamming the boards would have been banned.

 

[Poohbear123]

I don’t think he needs to be defended. I’m sure any other poster spamming the boards would have been banned.

I don't think he was "spamming" the boards, but, thats just MY Opinion.

 

[Planogirl]

I don't think he was "spamming" the boards, but, thats just MY Opinion.

I agree. I think that he was trying to make a point but I guess that not everyone gets it.

 

[phorsenuf]

I know it seems like a simple thing, why not just do it.
Over the years we have gotten a pretty good feel for what works and what doesn't. We have criteria for what makes a good new board and what will cause us more problems than it's worth. Some things happen pretty quick because they fall in line with what we know will work and where we want to take the boards. The photography board is a good example. I think that one took 1.5 minutes of discusion. Both the Game and a "Clique" or big thread board really don't meet those criteria. They are actually the opposite. One of the things we learned from the debate board was that boards designed to pull traffic off of other boards to reduce "problems" usually end up with more problems of their own.
This does not mean we are not going to do it, it just means we are going to give serious thought as to how it is going to work, where it is going to go etc.
Why don't we just try it and then turn it off if it doesn't work?
Well we shut down the debate board over 3 years ago and people are still screaming about it. Once you give a board it's very difficult to shut it down.
We may do it if we decide it really is in the best interests of the boards but we have to determine that.
Also everyone needs to keep in mind the boards are a lot more than the community board. This shocks some people but the Community board is not even our busiest board!
Any boards we create have to make sense to the boards as a whole

I don't quite understand why we needed a photography board, but whatever. If space and available mods are the problem why not just get rid of the Katrina board and make that the games/exchanges board. Does anybody really post at Katrina any more to keep it? This seems like a logical answer to me.
I also agree with all the thread hijacking posts. Sometimes it gets way out of control yet nothing ever gets done about it. I don't get that.

 

[CheshireVal]

I belong to another Disney board where the mods are a bit more heavy-handed than they are here on the Dis. In some ways that's kind of annoying, but in other ways it makes things a bit nicer. They don't allow "clique" threads on that board. In fact, when the general chatter forum started getting to be too "cliquey," the mods pretty much told people to stop being so exclusive or they'd shut the forum down.

Also, I did get involved in one super-long kind of cliquey thread there once, and after it got to a certain number of posts (nowhere near the numbers of some threads I've seen here), the mods told us to disperse and "go play" with other people and shut it down.

It was annoying at the time, but now I can see it's even more annoying when there are too many cliques on a board. It makes it seem pretty unwelcome.