10-28-2013, 01:12 PM
As the admin, and creator, of several large forums, I disagree entirely on your views. You're welcome to hold your view, but as somebody from a position with analytical data to back me up, I find you can't provide evidence to back up many of your claims. I don't believe running a forum besides the one in question gives any more value to your thoughts than being a member of the forum in question does. That is of higher value than anything.
On all forums I have been involved in, Chit-Chat threads have caused segregation and separation, and devoid the forum from any in depth discussion. I understand why you feel the way you do as somebody who has been member for a long time and is already established here, but as somebody who isn't an hourly user of the forums, a fault of my own I admit. But, when you go to a forum and have to go through a single THREAD to read every new post that occured in the last 24 hours, you see an issue.
I don't want to go through 6 pages of "I ate a burger today" in order to find anything to actually develop a discussion on. We have a forum for posts like that, I hasten to add, which many people have neglected to remember; it's called the Playground.
Regardless of how well established members see this situation, we shalln't be bringing the thread back. I have been in charge of well over 100,000 people on forums in my time. I know what makes a forum click and what doesn't, and the easiest method of knowing if it's working is if people actually engage each other in discussion.
Just because we closed a thread doesn't mean we closed the forum, there is a whole board for those 10 threads you're insinuating you'd make - and if you had posted 10 posts in quick succession, we would have straight up suspended you for spamming anyway... So that would have just fallen flat anyway. I miss the point you attempted to make there.
Anyway; want to talk about burgers? Make a discussion about foods. Want to discuss drinks? Ask about drinks. People need to stop being self absorbed and talk to each other, which the Chit Chat thread prevented. We want you to engage in one another and act like human beings, and not treat the forum like Twitter.
On all forums I have been involved in, Chit-Chat threads have caused segregation and separation, and devoid the forum from any in depth discussion. I understand why you feel the way you do as somebody who has been member for a long time and is already established here, but as somebody who isn't an hourly user of the forums, a fault of my own I admit. But, when you go to a forum and have to go through a single THREAD to read every new post that occured in the last 24 hours, you see an issue.
I don't want to go through 6 pages of "I ate a burger today" in order to find anything to actually develop a discussion on. We have a forum for posts like that, I hasten to add, which many people have neglected to remember; it's called the Playground.
Regardless of how well established members see this situation, we shalln't be bringing the thread back. I have been in charge of well over 100,000 people on forums in my time. I know what makes a forum click and what doesn't, and the easiest method of knowing if it's working is if people actually engage each other in discussion.
Just because we closed a thread doesn't mean we closed the forum, there is a whole board for those 10 threads you're insinuating you'd make - and if you had posted 10 posts in quick succession, we would have straight up suspended you for spamming anyway... So that would have just fallen flat anyway. I miss the point you attempted to make there.
Anyway; want to talk about burgers? Make a discussion about foods. Want to discuss drinks? Ask about drinks. People need to stop being self absorbed and talk to each other, which the Chit Chat thread prevented. We want you to engage in one another and act like human beings, and not treat the forum like Twitter.