Should the Fan Forum and Opposition Forums be merged?

Batnoe · Post: # 953078Post **Batnoe** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 1:07am

DO we have to have the introduction whenever we sign in? I just in a routine when i sign in and go 'click' click
without the intro on front page the opp forum may be used more

battye · Post: # 953081Post **battye** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 1:11am

St Fidelius wrote:NO...

and just why should it?

I Did suggest to battye a couple of months back that there should be more forums...

The should be a general sports forum as apart from the AFL Opposition Forum, where posters can discuss Cricket, Tennis, Soccer ect...

Battye thought it was a good idea, but to date nothing has changed.

I still think a general sports forum is a good idea, and I haven't forgotten that it was your idea originally

. I've brought the idea up a couple of times in the moderators forum since you mentioned it, I think the idea of merging the opposition and fan forums was an indirect result.

St Fidelius · Tue 06 Jul 2010 1:24am

battye wrote:
St Fidelius wrote:NO...

and just why should it?

I Did suggest to battye a couple of months back that there should be more forums...

The should be a general sports forum as apart from the AFL Opposition Forum, where posters can discuss Cricket, Tennis, Soccer ect...

Battye thought it was a good idea, but to date nothing has changed.
I still think a general sports forum is a good idea, and I haven't forgotten that it was your idea originally . I've brought the idea up a couple of times in the moderators forum since you mentioned it, I think the idea of merging the opposition and fan forums was an indirect result.

Just my point on this again...

Why is there a problem of having an extra forum as opposed to amalgamating the General Forum with the Opposition Forum???

They should be different because they are different and so is other sports...

This site will suffer as it has over the past few years if there just the General Forum and the Main Forum IMO....

Time has shown that in the off season posters still want to be here and when nothing much is happing it comes done to abuse...

History has shown that and yet the mods want to reduce the forums instead of creating extra ones...GO FIGURE!!!

Again NO for me and YES for an EXTRA SPORTS FORUM

aussierules0k · Tue 06 Jul 2010 1:27am

After reading all views I believe this appears the most practical...

St Fidelius wrote:What is wrong with a general sports forum where you don't have to re enter your details and meet up with politics and religious topics??

Maybe call it "All Sports Forum" and chuck the Ben Cousins stuff in there as well.

The General Forum is for cooking recipies, good places to eat, 10 ways to die, JLH, 2 party politics, new ways to brush ya teeth, cat in tree and cow in street stories - like this front page pearler...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victor ... 5880879931

skeptic · Post: # 953088Post **skeptic** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 2:40am

yes

i don't bother with the opp forum as there doesn't really seem to be much traffic there...

merging the forum would create a bit more discussion on other AFL topics and create a little more traffic on the main forum but IMO only the big issues would get a mention.
Don't think the traffic increase would be a problem. Would stop me having to go to bigfooty altogether.

Sainternist · Tue 06 Jul 2010 3:54am

I rarely look at posts in Opposition Forum. Occaisionally there are some worth reading. I can't see the harm in having them in the General Forum. It's not like their are a lot of them. I voted Yes.

mad saint guy · Tue 06 Jul 2010 7:52am

aussierules0k wrote:The General Forum is for cooking recipies, good places to eat, 10 ways to die, JLH, 2 party politics, new ways to brush ya teeth, cat in tree and cow in street stories - like this front page pearler...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victor ... 5880879931

Haha how did I not hear about this?! It would have been about 300m from my house at one stage.

Oh and yeah, merge the forums.

SENsei · Post: # 953114Post **SENsei** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 10:10am

Yes to merge.

35...LEGEND · Tue 06 Jul 2010 11:10am

no to merge.

GrumpyOne · Post: # 953139Post **GrumpyOne** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 11:24am

GoTheTorp wrote:
GrumpyOne wrote:neanderthal newbies
words from some elitist tugger i take it?

ewww i've been here longer than you.. i am more important! what a flog!

sounds like you need to take your toys and go home.

lol what a joke..

Take no notice of my start date Torpie, I'm on my second time around, courtesy of some idiot mod, but that's a long story that I won't bore people with.

SENsei · Post: # 953150Post **SENsei** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 11:51am

GrumpyOne wrote:
GoTheTorp wrote:
GrumpyOne wrote:neanderthal newbies
words from some elitist tugger i take it?

ewww i've been here longer than you.. i am more important! what a flog!

sounds like you need to take your toys and go home.

lol what a joke..
Take no notice of my start date Torpie, I'm on my second time around, courtesy of some idiot mod, but that's a long story that I won't bore people with.

I think Torpie might not be on his first time around either, just quietly.

cowboy18 · Post: # 953151Post **cowboy18** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 11:53am

SENsaintsational wrote:
GrumpyOne wrote:
GoTheTorp wrote:
GrumpyOne wrote:neanderthal newbies
words from some elitist tugger i take it?

ewww i've been here longer than you.. i am more important! what a flog!

sounds like you need to take your toys and go home.

lol what a joke..
Take no notice of my start date Torpie, I'm on my second time around, courtesy of some idiot mod, but that's a long story that I won't bore people with.
I think Torpie might not be on his first time around either, just quietly.

Grab 'em if you've got em

matrix · Post: # 953156Post **matrix** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 12:14pm

no
otherwise half the front saints page will be non saints news

and its not a general footy area
its a saints area

so in saying that i expect it to be merged

IluvHarvey · Post: # 953170Post **IluvHarvey** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 1:04pm

If we merge them we might as well call this site aflsational. Everyone knows where to go if they want to talk about non saints news. I believe that this being a SAINTS website we should have a board for saints only news.

To me it seems that a few "important" people are going to push and push until they get their own way.

GrumpyOne · Post: # 953199Post **GrumpyOne** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 3:13pm

IluvHarvey wrote:If we merge them we might as well call this site aflsational. Everyone knows where to go if they want to talk about non saints news. I believe that this being a SAINTS website we should have a board for saints only news.

To me it seems that a few "important" people are going to push and push until they get their own way.

Perhaps we could change the forum name to Irritational?

aussierules0k · Tue 06 Jul 2010 3:33pm

mad saint guy wrote:
aussierules0k wrote: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victor ... 5880879931
Haha how did I not hear about this?! It would have been about 300m from my house at one stage.

Answer:

MCG-Unit · Post: # 953214Post **MCG-Unit** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 3:48pm

Voted No to merge with the G F/ Opposition Bored

The main forum is sometimes like a General Forum anyway - with folks posting stuff that has no place on the main Saints Board IMO

benengel14 · Post: # 953229Post **benengel14** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 4:53pm

What makes people think that will be inundated with news about the other 15-17 other clubs?
98% of forum are st kilda supporters we're not suddenly going to be posting about Tom Murphy's thumb injury. As hard as they try there's only so many sex scandals at st kilda to keep this forum humming along. Wouldn't hurt to get some more discussion on the main page.

GrumpyOne · Post: # 953235Post **GrumpyOne** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 5:03pm

The problem I have with the suggestion to merge is that it is not always possible to tell the thread content from the title.

Something like "Another Injury Scare" could have people flocking to the thread in their thousands only to find out that Fevola has done another groin.

If you click on that thread in the Saints forum, you can be very sure that it is in relation to a Saints player. Likewise, in the opposition forum, an opposition player.

Save a lot of heart attacks.

saint66au · Post: # 953283Post **saint66au** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 6:43pm

GrumpyOne wrote:The problem I have with the suggestion to merge is that it is not always possible to tell the thread content from the title.

Something like "Another Injury Scare" could have people flocking to the thread in their thousands only to find out that Fevola has done another groin.

If you click on that thread in the Saints forum, you can be very sure that it is in relation to a Saints player. Likewise, in the opposition forum, an opposition player.

Save a lot of heart attacks.

Very valid and good point. We do have some very cryptic thread titles from time to time

Happy to be proven wrong, but I think every Clubs version of SS separates their own Club's news from anything else.. Hell some club sites (Punt Road End for example) have 8-10 different sub-forums

Goose is king · Tue 06 Jul 2010 7:29pm

St Fid Jnr · Post: # 953299Post **St Fid Jnr** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 8:06pm

my dad voted and both me and my mum can't

how come?

St Fidelius · Tue 06 Jul 2010 8:07pm

St Fid Jnr wrote:my dad voted and both me and my mum can't

how come?

rigged

evertonfc · Post: # 953309Post **evertonfc** » Tue 06 Jul 2010 8:44pm

I thought we went through this argument ages ago?

Saintsational board is for St Kilda-related topics.

Opposition board is for topics relating to other clubs.

General board is for non-footy related subjects.

It's not hard to grasp.

Milan Faletic · Wed 07 Jul 2010 12:20am

St Fid Jnr wrote:my dad voted and both me and my mum can't

how come?

Have no idea, PM battye and he should be able to fix it for you.

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