[bnk]

Dead?

It is just a question and not a slam.

The SSC Midwest thread is a least active enough to check out daily.

But in here the best I can get is the Moorhead East Dakota thread that talks to them selves mostly.


Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

...

I have become comfortably numb.

bnk

[Paintrain]

indy has some really nice threads it would be a lot better if indy had a section like chicago because you really ahve to read everything to know whats going on because there on so many subjects

[LMich]

I chalk it up to there simply being other forums dedicated to specific cities and states. Cities from Des Moines to Detroit have their own forums, the latter multiple.

[jpIllInoIs]

^ I'll 2nd that LMich... Omaha, DSM, OKC, and the Ohio cities all have their own forums. It's good for them but bad for me as a Chicagolander, I'm far too lazy to check into those local threads and miss out on their talk.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^3rded. Most St. Louis discussion doesn't happen on skyscraperpage. I tried signing up at one of the St. Louis forums outside, but it always failed. It must sense I'm not a true Midwesterner. I figured my time spent in Canada's more crime-infested and economically stunted cities would make me fit right in with midwest alienation. They did originally name the Man & Sask forum Canadian Midwest. :)

I find discussion is too fragmented on skyscraperpage right now (and this applies to all regions not just the midwest). There's the city compilation, the actual building thread, another thread inside the MidWest forum for the building and it all gets difficult to follow and have a cohesive discussion on something. There might be discussion on a building, but the Park East Tower for instance would get buried amid the eight hundred thousand 700+ft towers going up in Chicago and Dubai in the Building Construction forum. There's only ever maybe 2 or 3 browsing the actual midwest forum at any time either and I know there's quite a few Detroit/St. Louis/Chicago forumers.

[NanoBison]

Dead?

It is just a question and not a slam.

The SSC Midwest thread is a least active enough to check out daily.

But in here the best I can get is the Fargo-Moorhead thread that talks to them selves mostly.


Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

...

I have become comfortably numb.

bnk

Imagine what would happen to the Midwest Forum if we moved it to a seperate city forum like Chicago does... there'd be no traffic period!!!

[bnk]

I am not suggesting moving the forum or any major changes. I just am currious why SSC midwest forum ,which is very similar in format, gets much more traffic and threads. I concider SSP to be a better webpage for specific buildings but the SSC has a comprehensive Chicago thread that does a better job on all aspects of city issues. There are three stickys that get attention and almost a 4th sticky that deals with the Chicago economic developments.

[Avian001]

Similar to the other responses, Minneapolis/St.Paul relies upon minnescraper.com as its main forum. There are several hundred members there.

But as to why SSC over SSP is a good question. Maybe the past "liveliness" of debates on SSC vs. SSP made for a "Jerry Springer vs. Oprah mood."

And you know which one of those has all the good fights...:haha:

[skyfan]

^3rded. Most St. Louis discussion doesn't happen on skyscraperpage. I tried signing up at one of the St. Louis forums outside, but it always failed. It must sense I'm not a true Midwesterner. I figured my time spent in Canada's more crime-infested and economically stunted cities would make me fit right in with midwest alienation. They did originally name the Man & Sask forum Canadian Midwest. :)

I find discussion is too fragmented on skyscraperpage right now (and this applies to all regions not just the midwest). There's the city compilation, the actual building thread, another thread inside the MidWest forum for the building and it all gets difficult to follow and have a cohesive discussion on something. There might be discussion on a building, but the Park East Tower for instance would get buried amid the eight hundred thousand 700+ft towers going up in Chicago and Dubai in the Building Construction forum. There's only ever maybe 2 or 3 browsing the actual midwest forum at any time either and I know there's quite a few Detroit/St. Louis/Chicago forumers.

I agree with the fragmentation issue it seems much of the Detroit discussion that used take place in the Midwest forum has shifted to the compilation thread and I'd say that's true for the other cities here too. It's just too much of a hassle to discuss a development not only own city's forum(s), but here on SSP across multiple sections. When the discussion was centered in the Midwest there was more interaction forumers of different cities.

[Xing]

^3rded. Most St. Louis discussion doesn't happen on skyscraperpage. I tried signing up at one of the St. Louis forums outside, but it always failed. It must sense I'm not a true Midwesterner. I figured my time spent in Canada's more crime-infested and economically stunted cities would make me fit right in with midwest alienation. They did originally name the Man & Sask forum Canadian Midwest. :)

I find discussion is too fragmented on skyscraperpage right now (and this applies to all regions not just the midwest). There's the city compilation, the actual building thread, another thread inside the MidWest forum for the building and it all gets difficult to follow and have a cohesive discussion on something. There might be discussion on a building, but the Park East Tower for instance would get buried amid the eight hundred thousand 700+ft towers going up in Chicago and Dubai in the Building Construction forum. There's only ever maybe 2 or 3 browsing the actual midwest forum at any time either and I know there's quite a few Detroit/St. Louis/Chicago forumers.

Try it again. Sign up should be working now.

[the pope]

I am not suggesting moving the forum or any major changes. I just am currious why SSC midwest forum ,which is very similar in format, gets much more traffic and threads.

From a midwest standpoint, it just turns into a giant pissing match like ssc is always known to do. Quantity versus Quality anyone?

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

A lot of this works in cycles, but there are patterns.

SSC Midwest Forum is basically just Wisconsin, the Twin Citys, and Indianapolis. There used to be that Bonjour Toledo guy sort of like (F-Misthebest here) who ended up getting his own little "Toledo Development News" ghetto

Not too much else.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I miss the educated and respected opinions of GuyedGuy and Chi-town.

[Xing]

Chi-town?

[BorisMolotov]

I just am currious why SSC midwest forum ,which is very similar in format, gets much more traffic and threads.

Simple, because Edsg starts 50,000 interesting threads every day.

[mobyhead]

I would try to keep posts of Indianapolis development but have since jumped over to SSC for all the good discussion.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Chi-town?

Without him, how else would we know how uncultured and pathetic we were for not driving an Audi, shopping at Barneys, or living on the North Shore?

[Steely Dan]

Without him, how else would we know how uncultured and pathetic we were for not driving an Audi, shopping at Barneys, or living on the North Shore?

yeah, chi-twon was a true treasure.

there was also another dork who used to go around spouting the superiority of chicago over other midwest cities by praising schaumburg and other such suburban hellscape nightmares. or maybe he only posted over on SSC, i can't remember anymore.

and what was the name of that cleveland dipshit who used to go on and on and on and on about how much the midwest sucked ass and how he couldn't wait to leave? he finally moved to idaho i believe and we never heard from him again, thank god.

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

Moved to Idaho. Yoiks.

SSC had its goofballs. I recall an early thread I posted on Dayton was sort of a "gay tour" of downtown which freaked out this "Cage Fighter" guy from LA. I didnt know "gay" was an issue on these boards. And then there was the ever popular 'gych'

[SmileyBoy]

There aren't enough Fargo-Moorhead forumers around to start our own website and discussion board. So we just piggyback on SSP. Hell, the Boise forumers do the same thing. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.

[Xing]

yeah, chi-twon was a true treasure.

there was also another dork who used to go around spouting the superiority of chicago over other midwest cities by praising schaumburg and other such suburban hellscape nightmares. or maybe he only posted over on SSC, i can't remember anymore.

and what was the name of that cleveland dipshit who used to go on and on and on and on about how much the midwest sucked ass and how he couldn't wait to leave? he finally moved to idaho i believe and we never heard from him again, thank god.

I think that was SSC. The other guy was Skyscraper Fanatic. I thought he moved to Washington State?

The midwest forum use to be more active, before Urbanstl.com, and other local forums started. How old is UrbanOhio? I would assume that took away a bit of traffic too.

[Buckeye Native 001]

UrbanOhio started in January-February 2004. Hells yes it took away a lot of the traffic from here :)

I'd go there more often if I wasn't so busy trolling this forum.

[ColDayMan]

yeah, chi-twon was a true treasure.

there was also another dork who used to go around spouting the superiority of chicago over other midwest cities by praising schaumburg and other such suburban hellscape nightmares. or maybe he only posted over on SSC, i can't remember anymore.

and what was the name of that cleveland dipshit who used to go on and on and on and on about how much the midwest sucked ass and how he couldn't wait to leave? he finally moved to idaho i believe and we never heard from him again, thank god.

SkyscraperFanatic/LivinGhettoFab who moved to Couer d'Alene, ID then eventually Seattle.

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

UrbanOhio started in January-February 2004. Hells yes it took away a lot of the traffic from here

I started posting there before I started here, but I dont go to UO too much anymore. Its become sort of a Cincy/Clevo circle-jerk, and I don't have anything of interest to contribute there.

Most of the Dayton discussion (believe it or not there is some) happens on a blog network ("The Dayton Syndicate") . I use UO now more as a hosting service for pix/diagrams, which I then link to from the blog discussions.