gfy's fucking around discussion board is getting a bit big - idea?

reread what I was proposing. I doubt you understood it.

I like that idea.

I'd guess that probably 50% of the people here would too.

It's is a great idea in concept. I would even be on the side that would vote to use it

But over the long run, more forums will = less new traffic I think.

When the GFY newbies come to the main page, they would be confronted with more boards and a dilluted post base.

Ie if Sleazy & Pornkings (and whoever else wants to 'get serious' at times) decide to go hang out in the new 'industry news only' or 'serious business only' sections for the day... then them posting there instead of to the main forum will make the main forum smaller that day, and make the entire site seem just a little tiny bit smaller.

Now multiply that kind of 'main forum traffic loss' by however many new forums you want to add and you have the first-time GFY users seeing a completely different board.

Right now they come here & are like "1.5 million posts?! Wow! I'm hanging out here. This place is a zoo!"

If you notice, some of the other forums aren't really all that far behind. (I got a chance to look around at other forums during the downtime the other day )

Good idea

Correct. It was what I was suggesting though.


your idea is good too.



Nothing wrong with making a few suggestions, right? You never know if down the road Lensman won't decide to go with one of them.

Too many newbies.
Too many newbies.
Too many newbies.
Too many newbies.
Too many newbies.
Too many newbies.

Amen to that

you REALLY didn't get what i was proposing at all did you?

not even a clue.........

you really are a brainless fool..................

I understand what your saying...

You want to be able to tag & filter the forums.


You should have given more detailed example in your first message

....Maybe even tried to get your suggestion across better with a follow-up post rather than repeatedly calling me a fool.


I mean your first follow-up was...
you're a fool who doesn't read what's posted before you open your big dumb mouth

It almost is broke though. You put a post looking for something and it slides into obscurity before anyone gets a chance to see it. I know we all have shit to say but we also want other people to see it no?

Could this be just a seasonal problem though, with school kids out and all?

we need a designers forum!

Well even topic tagging / filtering wont stop that... unless the people with off-topic things to say willingly use it too.

Or unless you give mini-moderators the right to tag & lock (the tag) on the post as [x] fucking around vs. [ ] Serious Business or whatever.

For example the first thing that comes to mind is.. I'm not sure that anyone will be able to stop juicylinks blowing his load on any topic, no matter how serious it is.

It would be a cool feature though if it wouldn't add too much to the server load.

Still, there is often good bits of information branched off from forums that start out as pure bullshit.