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The idea, as I understood it, was to create a place where long-form discussion, the type that was easily buried in OOT, had a place to flourish, where nuances could be explored and the obscure could have a place to find an audience. I saw a place where a discussion of the French New Wave would be next to an exhaustive study of different types of whiskey and small details from TV serials and alt.country albums and the like. There may only be 5 or 6 active posts, but they would be 5 or 6 really good active posts, and all other rubbish would be shipped to OOT.

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The problem I see with this is that with only five or six threads going, you don't have something for everybody, even people that really like the forum. If you try to maintain something like that, you're just asking to kill the forum.

If there's a thread about say the new movie...excuse me. forgot this was tldr...the new "film" that's out, many people will give their opinions and be done. Everyone won't be interested in that long discussion. So you quickly end up with like three people discussing it. If you've only got 5-6 active threads going, you've got like 15 people discussing. That's not even worth having a forum for.

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Its worth noting that unlike a year ago, there are now several ongoing "Broad topic" threads: What TV are you watching?, What books are you reading?, What movies have you watched?, Beer Club, Pregnant, B&S, Weekend games, Ask the Ladies & Men threads.

These cover broad topics and allow everyone to share their thoughts and help to build a sense of community. I expect we will see a few more of these types of threads.

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A forum is like a neighborhood bar. People like to come to the place where everybody knows their name. They like to come often and stay long. If there are only a few deep discussions going on, the chances are not that good there's something they'll be interested in at a given time. If there's not, they won't come back. So you've got to have variety.

If you're going to have variety, you've got to tolerate some diversity. You're going to get some bad with the good. As I see it the best thing you can do is start threads about things you're interested in and hope someone else will discuss it with you while you ignore the rubbish piling up in the corner.

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I agree with much of this, but will add that one man's rubbish may be another man's treasure. If we all liked the same exact things, this place would get boring real fast. Diversity of opinions is the spice of life, or something like that [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]