The major thing about having it all in one thread is that multiple threads on multiple different topics get no attention, whereas one thread on one topic which is usually vague, can be extremely detrimental in that it restricts posting access and shows a forum with one active thread. If I'm a user, I'm not going to visit a forum with one active thread and forty threads with less than twenty posts , nor am I going to see just how active one thread is.You make some fair points Tony. But, respectfully, I disagree. I fail to see how focusing the majority of activity in a single thread contributes to the forum as a whole, it may as well be dead, because it amounts to the same thing.
I spoke with DW about Oblivion maybe having an effect, but we're not totally ready to take on that idea. We also spoke of the steady stream of older people leaving, in which I asked her how often she really see's an active member who actually posted heavily in 2005, not just with the join date like Kipi or Fiona.And when there are more people on it is more likely other threads will be active, but we seem to be thin on the ground quite a lot now, presumably for many reasons
How, presuming other threads will be busy is a bit of a reach here... considering that for about a week or two, the SS was busy and the rest of the forum seemed dead.
I hate blanket excuses. *shudder*I was merely pointing out that we are human, and therefore we cant be perfect.
I don't remember anything about being unwelcome, but I do remember several members posting extremely heavily in one thread and rarely anywhere else. Yes, other threads might not be active, but they won't become active unless you post in them.Also, I saw a complain earlier on about how the SS has developed into a sort of clique in which new people dont join and 'arent welcome'. Completely untrue.
I suggest you read some of those threads, especially the rolling thunder one. They were a group of friends who posted together most often because of ties, I suppose, although they always yelled welcomes and tossed drinks to any new comers. The Spammer's were completely random and the COMMs were always speaking of domination (*cough*), but as you can see these were just names to toy other people with. Hell, if this was more sect like, Mahar would have declared me unfit for SYM originally due to COMM tennants.not in the exclusive way in which COMM, Rolling Thunder, or the Heathens were.
My point is, you might not have a name, but the thread has been dominated by a few posters. Some of them are active everywhere, some I rarely see post out of SYM, and more I rarely even see leave that thread.
No, 1,500-3,00 is far more traditional.abandon a thread after 150 posts and start a new one?
Tap and Tea was actually a more a-typical pub thread. The Bohemian Breakfast and Book bar died too quickly.What is with people thinking SYM is plauged by spam? SYM was made for off topic and general spammity. I mean, geez, goody was one of the reason's this place was made, and random hypothtical threads have been around for a long time. Just read back to the first few threads... or even halfway in between, and you'll find lots of threads for random conversation rather than for serious discussion, which didn't even get all that much face time at the time anyways.I would almost go so far as to say that a favor is done to those who think Spam should be avoided by keeping all our spam in (mostly) one large place rather than litter the ground with our 'trash'. Thats all for now.
When you bottle it, you restrict it, and not all members like to post the same. The SS has a certain atmosphere around it that I really don't want to post in, but a pub thread might.
Right around when they get the mentaility of posting fairly exclusively in one thread. YMaybe you don't agree, but it is important to help people in the early stages and then if you want you can judge after they are comfy
es, I know, the SS might be the most active, but that's because when you look at the forum, you see members posting five times in it, wandering into the rest of SYM to post once, post again in the SS for about six times, maybe leaving to check on the Banshee Classifieds forum, coming back and posting in the SS again...
By the time new members come and see it, they know they want responses and to be excepted and go to it, and rarely leave until they are settled in enough that they fall into similar posting patterns.
I see you in the Lionheart and NwN forums fairly often, whenever you really leave, so I think your fine, really. You even went and posted in the Warcraft thread I started some time ago, which was excellent.For clarity's sake, I'd like to know whether I am one of these people everyone refers to as sticking to the SS.
Pub threads performed an identical purpose for at least five years by now. I really don't view the SS as much more than a longer version with set members.@DW: We know the list of spam threads 'SS, HC, etc.' Now, I log onto Gamebanshee, and I look through the threads with new posts. I go down the list, until I find the most recent spam thread that has been posted in, then I choose that thread. I the thread that is being spammed in, and I go there. I don't boycott any threads because I don't think I'm not wanted in there, I boycott because all I will have to listen to in there will be the cicaddas chirping.
I've been working on a General GameBanshee FAQ for a while now. It's still fairly shjort, but it answers some questions that come to mind, such as "I'm Bored, isn't there anywhere else to post.", "Why Do Some People Have Names Like Twisted Sister", "How Do I Choose Other Colours" and the like.The solution? Something that I mentioned here, it only came to me when posting, was the guide to SYM.
