Is the Travel forum really a good idea?

[tuq]

citanul,

Generally speaking you're gonna have three kinds of threads, to which you generally referenced:

- questions about certain places, asking for advice, trip reports with pics from said places, etc.

- near future, short trips to places, i.e. "what to do in XXX for a night"

- really dumb, poorly constructed threads about some place that warrants no response due to poor effort.

I guess group one is fine in Travel. The problem I have is group two and so many of the time-critical, user-reliant threads being locked or shipped off to Travel, and as importantly users' probable confusion over where to post (grunching oddjob - "well I mostly post in OOT but I'm taking a trip...where do I post this in order to comply with the rules?").

If I had to boil it down the Travel forum in and of itself isn't a killer, but using it as a catch-all for trips to cities is a bad idea and detrimental to various communities.

[iron81]

Guys, I think we're stuck with the Travel forum for two reasons.

1. We beat the travel forum issue to death in ATF.

2. Basically, low traffic isn't a reason to get rid of a forum around here. Entertainment betting only gets about 3 posts per day and we can't even get rid of that one.

[Madd]

Imo, one can't compare forums like OOT and travel. A lot of the value of the travel forum lies in its lasting effect. With time many places in the world will have been covered by trip reports and 2+2 will have a good repository for what to do in x.
And users who are able to use the search function (ok ok, i hear you) might find fellow players and get in touch with them ("hey xxx, still in guatemala/mali/whereever?").
All in all, I like it and would hate to see it go.

[Jim Kuhn]

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Imo, one can't compare forums like OOT and travel. A lot of the value of the travel forum lies in its lasting effect. With time many places in the world will have been covered by trip reports and 2+2 will have a good repository for what to do in x.
And users who are able to use the search function (ok ok, i hear you) might find fellow players and get in touch with them ("hey xxx, still in guatemala/mali/whereever?").
All in all, I like it and would hate to see it go.

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[tuq]

Thanks for the candid feedback, everyone.

I guess it's here to stay. One element I will continue to not like though is when a forum regular leaves his community to post in that forum and largely gets ignored, whereas a simple post in his "home" forum would yield a lot of help and suggestions, quickly.

Maybe we should just force all users to start in the Travel forum, that way it will get more eyeballs...

[Nick B.]

Tuq, of course it was a terrible idea.

[Nick B.]

A couple guys get a certain agenda and beat the subject to death until they get what they want.

[El Diablo]

tug,

Prior discussion

[El Diablo]

Madd,

Seriously, though, if someone's going to actually SEARCH for travel content, you think 2+2 is going to be the place for them to do that? That seems pretty absurd to me.

And even if that is the idea, doesn't that actually make a case for keeping travel threads in higher volume forums?

[MEbenhoe]

Agree with Tuq on contracting Travel forum.

Agree with iron, get rid of entertainment betting too please. (Hooray 1 whole fricking new post today!!!)