pretty much my thoughts too
If people can't talk about pool related topics on the main forum lets make NPR the main forum and all of the different subjects related to pool can be subforums. After years of people saying they wanted the off topic stuff on the main forum two friends of mine did just that with a site about the size of AZB. The site dropped down to 10% or less of it's value when the main forum was for all of the things related to the main topic. Giving everyone their own little niche destroyed the site. It's a great place for friends to chat with each other and there are always a handful of good morning threads and replies in all of them. They talk about their dogs, children, cars, motorcycles, whatever on the main forum. It's a wonderful place to visit with friends. Since it no longer targets anyone it is of almost no interest to advertisers or sponsors though.
Far from continuing to fragment this forum I think we need to take a hard look at if some of the present subforums need to exist. Require titles of threads to be pertinent to the thread and delete threads with misleading titles. Then let the big boys and girls sort through all of the pool related threads on the main forum and decide which ones they want to read. Keep a for sale forum, a NPR forum as a dumping ground, and a cue makers forum. Take a hard look at if the other forums really need to exist or would be best served by groups and threads on the main forum. I enjoy reading about 14.1, snooker, most cue sports. I don't go digging through every subforum every day.
Hu
I voted no. This is supposed to be a pool forum. If aiming isn't included in playing pool, then why even have a forum?? This is supposed to be a forum, where people can learn about pool related things, not a chat room.
If you put aiming in it's own category, are you also for putting "What tip should I use?", and "What cue should I buy?", and "What league should I play in?" in their own categories??
How far do you want to break it all down into subsections? Pretty soon, their won't be anything worth reading in the main forum.The thing I find silly about it, is that so many complain about aiming threads, yet they constantly post in them just to try and make those that use them look stupid for doing so. THOSE are the trolls in my opinion, not the ones talking about how to get better at pool.
If you don't like those threads, why on earth are you bothering to read them? You can't control yourself? You just HAVE to click on it and respond? If so, what makes you think you won't do so if it is in it's own subsection?? Or don't you ever click on the 'main category'?
If people can't talk about pool related topics on the main forum lets make NPR the main forum and all of the different subjects related to pool can be subforums. After years of people saying they wanted the off topic stuff on the main forum two friends of mine did just that with a site about the size of AZB. The site dropped down to 10% or less of it's value when the main forum was for all of the things related to the main topic. Giving everyone their own little niche destroyed the site. It's a great place for friends to chat with each other and there are always a handful of good morning threads and replies in all of them. They talk about their dogs, children, cars, motorcycles, whatever on the main forum. It's a wonderful place to visit with friends. Since it no longer targets anyone it is of almost no interest to advertisers or sponsors though.
Far from continuing to fragment this forum I think we need to take a hard look at if some of the present subforums need to exist. Require titles of threads to be pertinent to the thread and delete threads with misleading titles. Then let the big boys and girls sort through all of the pool related threads on the main forum and decide which ones they want to read. Keep a for sale forum, a NPR forum as a dumping ground, and a cue makers forum. Take a hard look at if the other forums really need to exist or would be best served by groups and threads on the main forum. I enjoy reading about 14.1, snooker, most cue sports. I don't go digging through every subforum every day.
Hu