Travel forum....?

[mbillie1]

I know this has been brought up before... but a travel forum with a suitably detailed master sticky would be a really useful thing to have. I'm in the process of planning/reserving a 2-week trip from Barcelona -> Paris -> Berlin -> Vienna -> Marseille -> Barcelona (tentatively) and while some things (eg cheap plane tickets, hotels, etc) are readily available via Google, etc some things are more obscure. Judging by EDF/OOT/etc it seems like there are a bunch of people on 2+2 who travel / have traveled with some regularity... it might be nice to amass some information (eg, generally what is the cheapest way to get around in france, germany, japan, russia, wherever) and also provide a place for all of those "going to X, what should I do lolz!?!?!" posts to go.

Just a thought!

[XXXNoahXXX]

They said a travel forum would come when they update the software to vbulletin which will come in 2-3 minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years.

[NT!]

i would rather see a fantasy sports forum

when we had a travel forum before, what happened was,

nobody posted in the travel forum
people posted (or reposted) their questions in OOT
i moved them to the travel forum
i had to listen to bitching / answer PMs about why those threads couldn't stay in OOT, because nobody was posting in the travel forum.

and i have actually pushed hard for this forum in the past, but i kinda have a feeling it won't do very well.

[MicroBob]

NT - I thought that it was up for only 3 days and it didn't even appear on the green sidebar in that time?
If this is correct then it's pretty reasonable to think that is why it didn't get any traffic.

I don't know how successful a full-fledged travel-forum (on green sidebar and being allowed more than 3 days) will do but it might have a chance if it is given just a little bit of time to grow and develop.

People can't post and participate there when they don't even know it exists.

[mbillie1]

I'd mod it, if they want to start it.

I really just want my name in green for no reason. I do spend all my time on 2+2 though. I'm qualified in some abstract sense.

Other yet-to-be-created forums I could effectively mod:

Laziness forum (how to / DIY)
Mooching forum (how to / DIY)
Frozen foods forum
Porn forum
BBV4T (Beats, Brags and Variance for Temporary)

[NT!]

microbob,

it was also a mod's playground IIRC. or else i just ended up moving a bunch of threads during that 3 days and was in a pissy mood.

mbillie,

it is my goal to prevent as many promising posters from becoming mods as possible. this includes basically anyone who nominates themself as a mod. sorry.

[Voj]

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I I'm in the process of planning/reserving a 2-week trip from Barcelona -> Paris -> Berlin -> Vienna -> Marseille -> Barcelona (tentatively)

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Huh.. Should I make a topic 'Ask me anything about Marseille' ? In OOT ? That may be the right time of year to do that...

[TheMetetron]

NT,

It had a crapload of traffic for not being on the side bar and a ton of people not even knowing about it. It did better than a lot of the other Other Topics forum are doing now.

Like has been stated, Mat has said it is coming when vBulletin comes (which is likely never). Why would it be so hard to make the forum now? It's hardly an incredibly difficult process to push some buttons in the uBB admin panel.

[Mat Sklansky]

Actually, I will make it whenever. I just wanted confirmation of support and we do have some critics.

[Troll_Inc]

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Actually, I will make it whenever. I just wanted confirmation of support and we do have some critics.

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Do you really decide what becomes a forum on the basis of critics?

How about you do a poll on who doesn't want either of these forums:
OOT
Travel

Whichever forum gets more negative votes loses out and you only have one forum moving forward.

Will that help you in your decision?