Forum Reorg

Discussion in 'Admin Talk Support & Feedback' started by Vekseid, Jun 2, 2010.

  1. Vekseid

    Vekseid Regular Member

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    As some of you may have noticed I recently bought this place. I'm familiar with forums in general and run a number of them personally (totaling about 3.7 million posts between them all).

    Anyway, my current mode of thought is to collapse some of the forums to make individual forums more active (and look more active) - general rule of thumb being it takes more than ~5-10 updated topics per day before something deserves to be split out.

    Regarding TZ$, I'm thinking to have it based on the number of characters per post, rather than raw postcount, to discourage plain spam and to reward content-full posts. Will have to look it over otherwise, though.

    Thoughts welcome : )
     
  2. Teekay

    Teekay Regular Member

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    I like the idea of TZ$ given out based on the number of characters. This would encourage members to make longer and more detailed posts rather than a few words posts.
     
  3. Frazerboy

    Frazerboy Regular Member

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    Hey Vekseid, nice one on becoming the new owner!
    Just wanted to say best of luck... :)

    As for the ideas;

    Collapsing forums - Like it. Would much rather see less forums if they were more active, way more appealing.

    Characters in post - Could easily lead to abuse of the system, I don't want to start seeing really pointlessly long posts. Personally, I find it fine at paidperpost, after all it's quality not quantity.

    See you around the forum. :]
     
  4. Junaid

    Junaid Regular Member

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    I did not even notice you are the admin.. Good Luck
     
  5. Vekseid

    Vekseid Regular Member

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    I tried to keep it more hidden but Teekay went and flipped it again. I prefer a hands off aproach to running things. : )
     
  6. shihab

    shihab Regular Member

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    congratulations on becoming the new owner and your ideas are great, especially having TZ$ based on words in the post rather than just the post overall.....good luck
     
  7. Vekseid

    Vekseid Regular Member

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    Implemented (somewhat) I'm still rather pressed for time as a rule. Don't want to disrupt things overmuch. hrmz.
     
  8. resistingdestiny

    resistingdestiny Regular Member

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    I know this is very hasty so I won't blame you for saying no but can I buy this forum off you?
     

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