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Roy Race
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Topic: This forum is what you make of it Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 4:35pm |
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What's the point? I'm quite interested in the America's Cup and have spent a few hours watching the live Fox5 coverage of the BFW on DZ blasting around in SD but AC Anarchy pretty much has that base covered. |
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Roy Race
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 4:30pm | |
Sorry, yes you're right. |
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Laser 173312
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 4:08pm | |
And the 'America's Cup', but you knew I would say that, didn't you!
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ASok
Really should get out more Joined: 26 Sep 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 739 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 3:45pm | |
What about cat sailing? Just because we're not an Olympic sport |
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Mikey 14778
Far too distracted from work Joined: 05 Feb 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 298 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 3:19pm | |
Yes, less is more. Too many sections serves only to confuse, and the threads in each will be old. Nothing kills a forum
quicker than seeing the dead leaves blowing through. Personally it bugs me that the RS100 and D1 have got so many pages, it looks a lot like free advertising. But it has to be said that it wasn't Nick or Luca or their employees who wrote most of them, not by a long shot. And if it's just people writing about boats, well that is what we're here for. The new section is going to be a bugger to police, especially given that it is billed as: "One Design Dinghies For the SMODs" A Mirror dinghy is a one design, as is a Fireball (I think), but neither are SMODs. And they are all dinghies so should ideally be in the 'Dinghy Chat' section, if you had one. Almost none of the stuff in 'Dinghy Development' is about dinghy development. Some further reorganisation or renaming might be an idea. |
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Roy Race
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 3:05pm | |
Agreed. Please don't add more sub-categories. Fewer is better. Mark Rushall's coaching corner needs putting out of its misery for a start. It just looks bad having categories around which haven't seen a post for 2 years and are covered in virtual cobwebs. It only really needs five or six categories, maybe: The Magazine Dinghies Yachts General Event reporting And maybe this trade section where commercial posters can post. That's it. It would at least keep everything rolling over and looking fresh. Mark, I sent you a PM in July with some constructive suggestions for the forum but you didn't reply. At first I figured you weren't bothered but in hindsight it was around the time the parent company was having its problems so maybe you were busy. Did you not get it, would you like me to sent it again or are you not fussed? Edited by Roy Race |
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blaze720
Really should get out more Joined: 28 Sep 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1635 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 2:45pm | |
1) So we should all be a bit more respectful ... of each other
2) Don't feed the trolls, or rattle their cage etc - regardless of the 'noise' if you do they tend to only make even more 'noise' 3) Do stay on this forum ... it can be fun/useful again if you follow sugestions 1 + 2 4) Take up a real hobby ... sailing maybe ? |
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Medway Maniac
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 2:31pm | |
What's wrong with just clicking "Active Topics" each time you visit the forum? Even if you visit only once a week, the list isn't all that long. |
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PeterG
Really should get out more Joined: 12 Jan 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 818 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 2:27pm | |
Totally agree. While the idea of say a clothing section sounds good the danger is that there is so little traffic there that no one bothers to check it and respond, so even less traffic etc. I'm not saying some rejigging of subdivisions wouldn't be useful, but it needs doing with care, and fewer is indeed generally better. I haven't found navigation too much of a problem even recently, the high levels of posting and strength of feeling have been mostly concentrated on specific threads, and since threads are usually clearly named it's not hard to sort what I'm interested in from what I'm not. |
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Peter
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laser4000
Really should get out more Joined: 02 Aug 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 589 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 Nov 09 at 1:51pm | |
personally I'd rename dinghy yarns to dinghy-general and then make it clear that dinghy-development is for the cherub sailors / beardie weardies / doug lord wannabes that what to talk about the finer points of foil tip deflection. If you look at lots of the current threads in dinghy-development they're completely unrelated to boat/sail/rig development
I'd also scrap some of the other lesser used sub-sections - e.g. weather, sailing holidays, Mark Rushall corner, and just roll them back into dinghy-general section. Less sections is better (IMHO) when it comes to forums. |
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