Totallympics Suggestions and Problems Thread

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

It's Agenda 2020, not 2020 Agenda. Well, actually Olympic Agenda 2020. 

 

Keep your facts straight.

 

 

Anyway, forum does look somewhat repulsive to me with all those rules and names like General Discussion Thread. So it's probably even more repulsive for newcomers...

 

However, I guess I keep forgetting that North Korea is our demographic target. 

[OlympicIRL 5,661]

There should be a pro vs con chart drawn up to settle this format feud

 

Edited January 7, 2018 by OlympicIRL

[Sindo 1,652]

Please make your suggestions about which name you would like to have for this thread.

[heywoodu 16,007]

Just now, OlympicIRL said:

There should be a pro vs con chart drawn up to settle this format feud

 

To the drawing boards! 

 

(well not me, I'm busy watching sports) 

[OlympicIRL 5,661]

Just now, heywoodu said:

To the drawing boards! 

 

(well not me, I'm busy watching sports) 

 

Ok, give me the cons of the format regime (unless you want to offer me the pros )

[heywoodu 16,007]

[OFF TOPIC] General chat

 

It's a thread, no need to have 'thread' in the name of a thread to specify that a thread is a thread. 

 

[OFF TOPIC] Café 'Le Café' sounds good too, but might be confusing for newcomers  

[Sindo 1,652]

So if we follow this, [OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread should be "[OFF TOPIC] Politics"

[heywoodu 16,007]

Just now, OlympicIRL said:

 

Ok, give me the cons of the format regime (unless you want to offer me the pros )

 

- A thread is a thread, it's not necessary to specify that in the thread title

- An OP is the first thing we as users (and more importantly, newcomers) see: basic information like a link to an official website and a schedule should be there (without having to scroll down and/or click on a link to open another site, as it is now, users don't want to have to open more sites, they want to see their info on-screen)

- If there's big news, people should feel free to open a thread about it without having a huge chance of this being merged into some general thread. It's a forum, once the big news is not news anymore, it'll die down by itself

- The bar to opening new threads is way too high when either you have to use a strict format or a moderator comes in and changes the whole thing without being asked to do so

 

Probably more, but I still got to write my bit about this weekend's luge World Cup before the darts starts  

[heywoodu 16,007]

1 minute ago, Sindo said:

So if we follow this, [OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread should be "[OFF TOPIC] Politics"

Yes! Why not? If I see a thread with the name [OFF TOPIC] Politics I would think to myself "hey, a thread, about politics!" and what do you know, I'd be right!  

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

[OFF TOPIC] Café 'Le Café' sounds good too, but might be confusing for newcomers  

 

I think they can manage alright.

 

It does sound fun and way more friendly.