Ok, well I know I'm relatively new here, but I am not new to forums. I have been going to them for years. Quite a few forums I go to have incredible amounts of members and are constantly active even into the wee hours because they are shared with so many people all over the world.
This is a good forum, I have enjoyed myself here, good people, great ideas to keep people interested. But I have noticed the foot traffic so to speak is not so heavy. There doesn't seem to be a bustle of activity on here. By that I mean, you can post a thread, wait a few days, and it will still be in the same spot and sometimes with only a couple of replies. That’s fine, but the mere fact that it is in the same spot shows there is not an abundance of new threads coming in to push the thread down and out. Now we don't exactly want this, but my point is, this is not an insanely Active forum. Its kind of calm. Two forums I go to that show TONS of activity are http://www.sherdog.net/forums/ & http://conceptart.org/forums/ .
These two places have so many people the need for sub forums is needed and works well due to the massive amounts of posting going on.
This brings me to my point, if you are still with me. Why does this forum have so many SUB forums? Hell, its SUB forums have Sub forums. To me this takes the limited amount of posting that is going on and divides it up and separates it out till no one is seeing anyone posting anywhere else. Is the eventual conclusion to have a sub forum for each member to only post in? My example here is the Art Cafe being split into Original art and Fan Art.
Why is this? The Fan Art section as a whole was not incredibly active. I posted art a month or more ago and the threads where still toward the top of the screen. To me it makes no sense to break up a forum into two smaller forums when the forum as a whole was hardly active to begin with. It's not as if there was so many threads you couldn't sift through them. And the main Luca Forum is already broken up 4 times. Now that I can see, Artwork, Writing, Costumes, Miss. But is it necessary to then break one of those up again?
I think you are over organizing. By doing this I think you just take what community you have and separate it out all over the place. The less sub forums, the more people are posting in the same areas, the more people will see other peoples threads, and perhaps the more they will then comment on them. When you go to see art, what does it matter if it is FF related or Original, when you can take a broad glance and see for your self which is which and post away. I know the idea of just clicking a different forum area isn't so hard. But you may find more people would rather just see everything as a whole instead of in it's own little area. Those forums I mentioned earlier are the kind where you post a thread, and some times it moves off the front page so fast that it has just a couple of views and no replies. THAT forum needs more sub forums.
Well ill leave it at that, ill be surprised if someone reads all this. If you have your reasons for this great. I’m not going to stop coming here or anything. Just of all the forums I’ve been to over the years I have never seen one so broken up into section and then even more so. Not my forum so I’m not really TELLING you how it should be, just curious as to why it is like that.
My last analogy that I think sums it up is.
If you have a small group of members to your community. And they are Pencils, Pens, and Mechanical Pencils. You can put them into One Cup and let them hang out. They all see each other, any activity done by the other is seen and can be reacted to encouraging discussion and activity. But if you decide you need a Cup for the Pencils, Pens, and Mechanical Pencils, then you get less interaction, even if they can move from one cup to the other. But then you go further, you take the Pencils, and put the #2 pencils in a cup and the B4 art Pencils in another. Then you take the pens, put the Capped pens in a cup, and the clicky top pens in another cup. Then you take the Mechanical pencils and put the .05 led ones in one cup and the .07 led ones in another. Now you have a completely organized group of members. But hopping back and forth between each of them to see what the other is doing becomes time consuming and just a bit annoying.
Thanks
Im not trying to stomp on anyone’s toes here. If you have your way of doing things that is fine. If this has been discussed somewhere, I didn’t catch it and I just wasted my time writing this out. And sorry it is so long. I still like the look of this place and the Arcade that is connected to the forum is just one of the coolest features ive ever seen on a Forum. I am still trying to figure out what to do with this RPG part though.
Peace
Blitz
PS: Just wanted to add, I could be missing something entirely as far as this goes. If there is someplace on the forum that everyone goes to and I don't know about it that could be the reason. But as someone who just browses the forums, I ask these questions.
This is a good forum, I have enjoyed myself here, good people, great ideas to keep people interested. But I have noticed the foot traffic so to speak is not so heavy. There doesn't seem to be a bustle of activity on here. By that I mean, you can post a thread, wait a few days, and it will still be in the same spot and sometimes with only a couple of replies. That’s fine, but the mere fact that it is in the same spot shows there is not an abundance of new threads coming in to push the thread down and out. Now we don't exactly want this, but my point is, this is not an insanely Active forum. Its kind of calm. Two forums I go to that show TONS of activity are http://www.sherdog.net/forums/ & http://conceptart.org/forums/ .
These two places have so many people the need for sub forums is needed and works well due to the massive amounts of posting going on.
This brings me to my point, if you are still with me. Why does this forum have so many SUB forums? Hell, its SUB forums have Sub forums. To me this takes the limited amount of posting that is going on and divides it up and separates it out till no one is seeing anyone posting anywhere else. Is the eventual conclusion to have a sub forum for each member to only post in? My example here is the Art Cafe being split into Original art and Fan Art.
Why is this? The Fan Art section as a whole was not incredibly active. I posted art a month or more ago and the threads where still toward the top of the screen. To me it makes no sense to break up a forum into two smaller forums when the forum as a whole was hardly active to begin with. It's not as if there was so many threads you couldn't sift through them. And the main Luca Forum is already broken up 4 times. Now that I can see, Artwork, Writing, Costumes, Miss. But is it necessary to then break one of those up again?
I think you are over organizing. By doing this I think you just take what community you have and separate it out all over the place. The less sub forums, the more people are posting in the same areas, the more people will see other peoples threads, and perhaps the more they will then comment on them. When you go to see art, what does it matter if it is FF related or Original, when you can take a broad glance and see for your self which is which and post away. I know the idea of just clicking a different forum area isn't so hard. But you may find more people would rather just see everything as a whole instead of in it's own little area. Those forums I mentioned earlier are the kind where you post a thread, and some times it moves off the front page so fast that it has just a couple of views and no replies. THAT forum needs more sub forums.
Well ill leave it at that, ill be surprised if someone reads all this. If you have your reasons for this great. I’m not going to stop coming here or anything. Just of all the forums I’ve been to over the years I have never seen one so broken up into section and then even more so. Not my forum so I’m not really TELLING you how it should be, just curious as to why it is like that.
My last analogy that I think sums it up is.
If you have a small group of members to your community. And they are Pencils, Pens, and Mechanical Pencils. You can put them into One Cup and let them hang out. They all see each other, any activity done by the other is seen and can be reacted to encouraging discussion and activity. But if you decide you need a Cup for the Pencils, Pens, and Mechanical Pencils, then you get less interaction, even if they can move from one cup to the other. But then you go further, you take the Pencils, and put the #2 pencils in a cup and the B4 art Pencils in another. Then you take the pens, put the Capped pens in a cup, and the clicky top pens in another cup. Then you take the Mechanical pencils and put the .05 led ones in one cup and the .07 led ones in another. Now you have a completely organized group of members. But hopping back and forth between each of them to see what the other is doing becomes time consuming and just a bit annoying.
Thanks
Im not trying to stomp on anyone’s toes here. If you have your way of doing things that is fine. If this has been discussed somewhere, I didn’t catch it and I just wasted my time writing this out. And sorry it is so long. I still like the look of this place and the Arcade that is connected to the forum is just one of the coolest features ive ever seen on a Forum. I am still trying to figure out what to do with this RPG part though.
Peace
Blitz
PS: Just wanted to add, I could be missing something entirely as far as this goes. If there is someplace on the forum that everyone goes to and I don't know about it that could be the reason. But as someone who just browses the forums, I ask these questions.
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Actually we just got rid of one just a few days ago (Handheld section), but added the Gamer's Guide sub-forum yesterday, which we all agreed would be beneficial to the forum once it kicks in.