Forum suggestions and feedback

[Centurions]

It doesn't put me,pam and girlbob off,it's a football forum,i would expect no less

Edit, add Eccles to that as well

That's just 4 of you Karen (I'm presuming there are others however), it's not an awful lot is it?

 

[Damocles]

I was being constructive. And you didn't answer the question on whether traffic was down.

"There's nothing you can do and I have no suggestions" is not constructive. This is now the second time I'm asking you to post things that are constructive or to stop posting in the thread.

I have no idea if the traffic is up or down and frankly as I don't own the site, it's not really any of my business in the first place. Server is running fine though there's three glitches that I need to put some time into tracking down.

 

[kaz7]

I'm not sure simply renaming Off Topic caused any change! It certainly wasn't a conscious decision to try and stop the humour. Quite the opposite in fact. I'd much prefer it if people were being light hearted and having a laugh more.

A lot got lost in the change over and posters drifted away,it probably doesn't make much sense to say the name change feels different,i want the other ladies to come back and i don't think there they will unless we can get some humour going again

 

[malg]

One big thing i think has been a mistake is taking away the cellar,the part where you could just chat and have fun not the heavy weight threads,there is no humour on here anymore and you seem to have taken a conscious decision to do that,i have to go elsewhere for that and i think that has lost a lot of the female posters which is a big shame

I liked the old Off Topic, and stayed away when it became the Cellar as I viewed it as cliquey and boring. However, I've no doubt I'm wrong, as all it did was change it's name, which is what has happened again.

 

[SWP's back]

One of the other things I've been thinking about is the player threads. There is a logical argument for keeping everything relating to a player (or even the manager) contained in one thread, but it feels a bit formulaic to me, and as a result the forum lacks the spontaneity and randomness that used to be part of its character. It'd be interesting to hear people's thoughts on this.

I'm gonna be honest and say I can't remember what we did before that. I know the player/manager threads came in about 2/3 years ago, but I'm actually at a loss as to say how the main forum ran before that.

I think a big part of the problem we have at the moment with them is that so many players that were the hallmark of our recent success are playing well below par and it's an emotive issue for many. Like slating a favourite Labrador as its pissing all over the lounge every night.

 

[kaz7]

That's just 4 of you Karen (I'm presuming there are others however), it's not an awful lot is it?

We have lost a lot of ladies from this place,see my posts to Ric,i wish we could get them back to the football side as well as off topic but it takes some nerve to just dive in when things are negative so i agree with you on that

 

[SWP's back]

The player and manager threads are the most depressing on the board, I, like many others dont bother with them anymore, there is only so many times you can read the same shit spouted by the same posters over and over.

As Colin Lee said above, I just avoid coming on here after a loss, maybe I will go into off topic and try and have a laugh but its hard, i'd like to put it down to rags infesting the place, and while there is a degree of that, we've always had an element of our support, who dont know the meaning of the word.

All good points but then when we do actually have a laugh in off topic, in a fun and derailed thread with lots of laughs, the thread gets binned without anyone reporting because one mod doesn't see the humour (even though plenty posting thought it had classic potential), as with the other night and Fat Boy Slim. Off topic used to have lots of threads like that, under current modding, half the classic threads wouldn't have lasted 24 hours, now it's basically politics (which even I've grown tired of), what's for dinner or 'how far underwater is your 40" Bravia'

 

[kaz7]

I liked the old Off Topic, and stayed away when it became the Cellar as I viewed it as cliquey and boring. However, I've no doubt I'm wrong, as all it did was change it's name, which is what has happened again.

I stayed away from the heavy weight stuff as there were a lot of nasty posters who have since gone,i accept the frothy stuff seemed cliquey but i managed to dive in to harmless threads and get established,anyway i'm not sure the sort of feedback i am giving is that useful just speaking from a female perspective

 

[SWP's back]

"There's nothing you can do and I have no suggestions" is not constructive. This is now the second time I'm asking you to post things that are constructive or to stop posting in the thread.

I have no idea if the traffic is up or down and frankly as I don't own the site, it's not really any of my business in the first place. Server is running fine though there's three glitches that I need to put some time into tracking down.

I expanded my reply to you with a more thorough (and constructive) answer but I think you replied before I'd edited.

Best of luck on the glitches.

 

[Centurions]

We have lost a lot of ladies from this place,see my posts to Ric,i wish we could get them back to the football side as well as off topic but it takes some nerve to just dive in when things are negative so i agree with you on that

Ahh, I've generally not ventured down to the cellar/off topic so perhaps I've missed them in the first place.