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  • Yes

    Votes: 7 14.3%
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    Votes: 35 71.4%
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    Votes: 7 14.3%

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I know I sound like Mr. Negative, but I voted: "Tell me more," fwiw.
 
With 37 no votes and 6 yes votes, it's highly unlikely we're switching. I hope we can at least keep the dialogue going about it and if it makes sense to switch at some point, we can.

I think that just means you need to make a working version that people can really understand.

Tagging threads across fan bases seems like a fantastic idea for you guys to grow the site. The single biggest asset (as far as I can see) to SportsTwo may be the Blazers forum. Using that as leverage to grow the others seems like a really smart strategic decision. You just have to do a better job of convincing Blazers faithful that it's also in our interest.
 
Doesn't vBulletin have some nature of a shadow topics feature?
 
No. When you post, you can post to more than one forum is all. Drupal is based upon tags, not proper forums/places. So Blazers posts are automatically tagged as Blazers and show up in the Blazers forum, but the thread starter can also say, "tag this as NBA, Game Thread, Nuggets" and it would appear in all those places too.

Wouldn't that be kind of a pain in the ass, though? How many people would actually do that more than once?
I'm pretty sure if I could make this post also appear in the Nuggets forum by selecting a dropdown or something, I wouldn't bother.

barfo
 
Wouldn't that be kind of a pain in the ass, though? How many people would actually do that more than once?
I'm pretty sure if I could make this post also appear in the Nuggets forum by selecting a dropdown or something, I wouldn't bother.

This thread is off-topic for the Nuggets forum.

Please don't abuse the Drupal, thanks.
 
I heard it's addictive. Plus, the moderators are testing for it now. You could be banned.

I AM WELL WITHIN THE LEGAL DRUPAL LIMIT

Sometimes I get so angry.
 
I want Droopy only if it has a teensy-weensy window like O-Live. I want to wear my baseball cap and squint into the Sun.
 
I would like to see an interface that uses the USPS. I enjoyed writing letters back in the day, and would like to do so again.

barfo
 
I want an interface where I can moon people like I did through my parents' car window when they didn't know.
 
And this is why I said months ago that you would have to create a new and completely separate site if you wanted to go a different direction.

I think someone will build a better mouse trap that goes above and beyond forums and the current social networking sites, but as of yet I have not seen it. If I could think it up, I'd be a billionaire.
 
I appreciate the effort to make that new look in the screen shots, but for me, all those things in the right and left columns are things that can either be on a splash page, or should be in a drop down menu. When I am reading posts, I like to focus on posts... I don't need instant access to my own posts, blogs, user cp, etc. All of that has traditionally been in a drop down type menu on either the top bar, or on a user avatar, and that makes a nice, uncluttered format.

I understand that many folks who are using the internet today are actually only familiar with myspace and facebook layouts, because the newer generation of internet users have never known a time without those, but that doesn't mean that it is necessarily better than what we have here.

I operate a couple of wordpress based blogs myself on and off (more off recently) and honestly managing my posts, making sure that I cross post things correctly, that I am tagging them so they make sense is really more effort than I want to do for my own site, I can not imagine taking that time on a simple wall post on someone else's site. At the end of the day when I look at other blogs I don't really take time to follow their blogrolls, I don't care about their tag clouds, I am not really interested in their orkut integration, or their easy-to-use rss buttons, and I am only to assume that most of my readers feel the same... they are nice tools for me, but clutter for everyone else.

I enjoy sitting down, scrolling through the screen, and picking out posts by title or author that look interesting. I DO NOT spend time on sites like BE because I really could care less what their article writing "experts" think is worth spewing, and then scrolling through the bottom with lots of "click here for more" type layouts hoping for some interesting conversation.

I guess for me, standard message board layout works exactly for what I am seeking. I am active on other social media sites, but I don't generally go there for discussion, I go to those sites for news and updates... they just aren't conducive to conversation, they are better for information dissemination.

Does any of that make sense?

You can see what I do in wordpress, it is similar to the layout you proposed, I understand the functionality... it just doesn't fit for me.

bacchation.wordpress.com
 
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