tell me what you think of splitting 'a&e' into a separate forum

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[tdarko]

elwood,

I don't agree with your stance that the forum shouldn't have ever been split and that it takes away from the site as a whole etc.

Every site has a general discussion area for the same reason we do, to eliminate the inescapable ennui of talking only about poker or whatever the given site is about. If I read too much HSNL or strat posts I start to get cabin fever and I need to excercise my mind in another, lighter way without going to another website. This way I can support a community that I know and like and cover a broad range of interests on one board. I am a memeber of a movie discussion board and a book discussion board, the book one for over 3 years now but the difference is that neither of them as broad a range as 2p2 and it's why I read this site more than the others.

~td

[CharlieDontSurf]

Creating a Movies,Books,TV Forum(A&E is way to broad) just creates a filter for people who want to focus on those topics instead of having to weed through all the misc crap on OOT--the misc crap is a lot of fun, and thats 75% why I read OOT...the other 25% being the film/tv posts.

I don't think OOT is going to die off because the LOST 2/24, or Entourage Season Premiere threads will now be in the MBTV forum. And the idea that OOT posters will abandon it seems nuts.

I'd frequent OOT just as often, but I would post more in the MBTV thread cuz I know it won't disappear in a matter of hours.

Does it really matter either way? No.
But would it make things easier? Yes.

The less clutter the better.
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If there are sub divisions for Sports,Politics,SMR, why a movies/tv division would be a problem is beyond me.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

All,
I just want to say I agree wholeheartedly with every word El D has said in this thread. He shares my sentiments exactly, only he has expressed them much better. Working as an engineer for a few years has completely ruined my writing skills.

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El D really enjoys having his nutsack caressed.

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I'd frequent OOT just as often, but I would post more in the MBTV thread cuz I know it won't disappear in a matter of hours.





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There is a reason it disapears is because people don't want to read it, sorry to say. This is a fact: Threads on popular subjects get responded to. A thread on something not popular, or even garnering interest, will fall to the bottom as it should. This is what was said earlier and it is true:

You want to take a subject that doesn't get read in its home forum, and give it its own forum.

I think you are mistaking "getting lost in the shuffle of crap" for "the stuff I want to post about is part of that shuffle of crap."

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egohead,

Then there is no reason not to do it right? I mean from the POV of us posters. By your reasoning it can't hurt OOT, but only the site owners.

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egohead,

Then there is no reason not to do it right? I mean from the POV of us posters. By your reasoning it can't hurt OOT, but only the site owners.

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There is a reason not to do it. There will end up being 15 different forums for the people who continue to bitch about their stuff falling to the bottom. For my own selfish reasons (and I should add everyone else here who isn't too lazy to go to a different site for movies, books, etc), I don't want to scroll through piles of stuff I don't want to read when it can naturally fall to the bottom of the barrel where it belongs.


Also, not sure about the "egohead" thing, mostly I get called "Ego" or "egocidal", but if you want to be a dick about this thats cool too.

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You made dickish comments about me earlier. Lex Talionis demands the same in return.

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Wasn't he Supermans' arch enemy?