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New sub-forum?
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it just won't move down the list as fast. The most popular topics like guitar playing could be made a 'sticky'. I think people will respect what we are trying to achieve and won't try and ruin it.
Why not? Those that want it can use it, those that don't can just ignore it? I'd definitely be interested.
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It won't stop anything, especially not the inane 14 pagers, arguing the toss over precisely nothing.
The Mod's suggestion was for a sub-forum covering 'poetry, music, film and books'. All it will mean, is that the arguments will be a little more high-brow. Page after page, slugging it out over Keats, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Shelley, Dumas, Constable, Dvorak, Gainsborough, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Hardy, etc, etc.
Then again: maybe not.
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It doesn't have to be that way....most of the posts in there so far have been sensible and informative...it is hard to understand why anyone would deliberately want to totally ruin it.
As Andrew S says if you aren't genuinely interested then just ignore it...very few people venture into word games and that runs completely smoothly with no problems.
We are grown ups on here...GD is there for banter and argument which is fine...but if a few of us would like somewhere that we can just chat and share info in a nice way, surely that is possible.
Yes I would happily moderate it....but if everyone uses common sense hopefully it won't need it.
As Andrew S says if you aren't genuinely interested then just ignore it...very few people venture into word games and that runs completely smoothly with no problems.
We are grown ups on here...GD is there for banter and argument which is fine...but if a few of us would like somewhere that we can just chat and share info in a nice way, surely that is possible.
Yes I would happily moderate it....but if everyone uses common sense hopefully it won't need it.
Diane2 said:what about a problem page......
Actually, that's not a bad idea.
We could hardly do a worse job than the relationships forum on mumsnet. You only have to check out their standard abbreviations:"Doing the deed."
Pretty much says it all.
Edit: What was so bad that it got deleted from the poetry thread?
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Whitespirit66 said:
Would that be so bad?
Edit: What was so bad that it got deleted from the poetry thread?
There was a young man from Wick
Who did amazing things with his............................
Wasn't exactly Wordsworth.
No wonder it got deleted. The second line doesn't scan ---
of course.............out there....in the real world.....most libraries offer reading/book groups n clubs..........poetry groups etc......where i work we "facilitate" this sort of stuff to get people out of their houses and get them to socialise.....................so tbh, why arent the folks on here who are interested in that sort of stuff out there being sociable??
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So what's the verdict then?
DIYnot has 164,000 registered users - about 20 of those use GD.
It's not about the occupants of GD - whether they would use it or not.
It's about whether the other 164,000 would use it.
One in ten people in society play guitar - that's 16,000 guitar players alone.
Nearly everyone has a hobby - so that's 160,000.
What are you waiting for? The vast majority of users steer well clear of GD.
If you have any sense you will make it a full forum - not a bolt-on to an unpopular part of the site.
You guys are missing a big trick here. It will prove to be far more popular than the 'PM question time' that is GD.
Anyway, I'm not pushing it any more. I'll forget about the whole idea. It's up to you now.
If you make it a full forum then SusieQ can moderate it.
DIYnot has 164,000 registered users - about 20 of those use GD.
It's not about the occupants of GD - whether they would use it or not.
It's about whether the other 164,000 would use it.
One in ten people in society play guitar - that's 16,000 guitar players alone.
Nearly everyone has a hobby - so that's 160,000.
What are you waiting for? The vast majority of users steer well clear of GD.
If you have any sense you will make it a full forum - not a bolt-on to an unpopular part of the site.
You guys are missing a big trick here. It will prove to be far more popular than the 'PM question time' that is GD.
Anyway, I'm not pushing it any more. I'll forget about the whole idea. It's up to you now.
If you make it a full forum then SusieQ can moderate it.
joe-90 said:
The original suggestion was for a forum on poetry, music and other 'arty' stuff and, for what it's worth, I voted in favour. Although there's an overlap, hobbies and interests are really a different subject, deserving of their own forum.
Patience Joe.
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