Why I would like to get rid of the LoL forum

[NT!]

all,

i hesitated before giving OP this * because it turned into a semi-ok thread. but i did because he cut and pasted an entire article, which is not cool, and because i am a mean bastard.

i don't have a problem with people posting links for discussion, the problem is when you post JUST THE LINK and like 1 sentence or a poll or something. it involves no effort and it clutters the forum.

i don't care what they do with LOL, i never go there

[kipin]

I refuse to post in the LOL forum as it was I who coined the term "trash dump".

Every so often I do venture in there to look for some random flash game to pass my time however.

If I find a video, or link that I like I will just post it in OOT and add some of my own comments so I am not just link 'tarding.

I agree LOL is a waste of space, but I don't think Mat really likes to contract the board so I highly doubt he will do it this time. (Although I think it would probably be good for OOT overall).

[tuq]

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I agree LOL is a waste of space, but I don't think Mat really likes to contract the board so I highly doubt he will do it this time. (Although I think it would probably be good for OOT overall).

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I hope he isn't completely averse to contraction:

- having now looked at Sniper's numbers, OOT posts are down nearly 50% from a year ago at this time.

- LOL averages a tepid 50 or so posts/day. Two per HOUR.

So to those worried about LOL posts clogging OOT, that just doesn't seem feasible. Even with the huge rollback in OOT posts lately, the forum still posts at a rate nearly 18X that of LOL. Folding LOL back into OOT will just better foster discussion, rather than banishing it to some seldom-visited wasteland.

[mason55]

I just want to say that I have definitely seen some posts in OOT that are just links that would make good discussion but are locked because they're JUST links.

One of the big things we talked about with the problems was that it's tough to come up with good OPs. Links/other sites/etc are great fodder for good OPs. I honestly don't see any problem with linktarding but maybe we could at least switch the policy to *ing linktarded OPs but not locking the thread?

[Georgia Avenue]

LOL was gotten-rid-of, when bbv4l was created. But people bitched about having to sift thru jokes to get to links of flash games and funny articles. Wont the same be true if you put it back in OOT? Wont happen imo.

gl with this tho'
--GA

[mason55]

GA makes me think of something here.

There's really two kinds of links.

#1 is flash games and funny video, the stuff that's in LOL right now

#2 is stuff like 2007 biggest celebrities and news stories that a discussion can form around


Maybe keep LOL and remain strict about posting #1 type links in OOT but be more lenient with news story/discussion type links.

[MicroBob]

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Links/other sites/etc are great fodder for good OPs. I honestly don't see any problem with linktarding but maybe we could at least switch the policy to *ing linktarded OPs but not locking the thread?

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Seems to me that NT has made it pretty clear that as long as you include a reasonably okay paragraph or so giving your opinion of the material in the link it would usually be considered decent original-post material.
Doesn't seem too hard to me.

Don't think there's much difference between simple link-tarding a discussion-generating article or video. But the criteria NT has set isn't exactly very tough to meet.

[NT!]

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I honestly don't see any problem with linktarding but maybe we could at least switch the policy to *ing linktarded OPs but not locking the thread?

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i sometimes do this too, although usually my motivation is to just let people mock the OP