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Originally Posted by Boris2k7
I think that this poll loses validity in the fact that it isn't open. We can't see who's voting for what.
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Fair enough. I may have rushed the poll off a bit with not checking that off. I will keep that in mind if I need to do a second run of polls. By no means does this poll actually mean anything - just trying to get a sense of where we want to take this new direction that the administrators want to lead us in.
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Originally Posted by Boris2k7
The opening post is also somewhat misleading. The first half of the post leads the reader to believe that there is an entirely different set of options, before they are given them in the second half.
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Good point. I will edit it when I come up with a run off poll.
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Originally Posted by Boris2k7
I can see why some people would want change. Still, I am opposed to splitting up the two cities, though I like how you would allow for the megathreads to continue. However, I think that you would quickly come to realize that the megathreads are naturally dominant as they draw more people in than individual threads do. Massive threads just do better simply because the information is centralized. For Calgary, we have one food thread, one construction thread, one airport thread, one public transit thread, maybe a half dozen news threads and a few more individual project threads. Overflow from the Construction threads led to the creation of almost all the rest. In this light, a fully active construction thread is a good thing. In general, the local format is contrived and doesn't work well with the way people post.
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I see the megathreads as only being a function of containing large amounts of information with confined spaces. The megathreads only happened when it was felt that there was not enough space to be shared with the rest of the cities listed on the forum. At one point, Calgary and Edmonton posters were sharing the same forum with Toronto and Montreal. The split came and much resistance was had but it was for the better. After the split, Calgary and Edmonton only had to share with Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and Vancouver and much openness eventually came to be had and new threads popped up without having to feel constrained by Eastern Canada's sensibilities. The division of Western Canada has had mixed results.
When I say a that mega-threads are being dominant, I mean to say that they become the
only places to collect information. Megathreads, in their current state also lose information when they become archived. How is a newbie to catch up on all that was said three months ago if it is all in the archive forums, tucked under another Philadelphia megathread, another Portland megathread in the archives? It's unfair to expect a newbie to debrief themselves relying on the megathreads.
The solution is to have a thread for each project and to occasionally be updated by the regulars whenever they feel it needs to be done or they can choose to debate that particular project's merits or what not. That opportunity has to be there for the unaccustomed Calgary newbie - who then has to ask in the Calgary construction megathread to be debriefed on everything that he is interested - and often times, as I have experienced in the Edmonton Construction thread, the newbie's questions will be overlooked because the thread is moving too fast.
It's all about expanding the scope and detail which questions can be asked and updates to not be rushed. It would be the moderator's task to make all that information available outside of the megathread.
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Originally Posted by Boris2k7
A good example of what hasn't worked. Look at the Local Philly. A city with a huge number of posters, very active threads in other parts of the forum, but the Local is a dismal failure thus far. The Vancouver section has worked, but they have always had both a smaller, less active membership (seriously, its a chore for them to have to wade past threads from other cities to find old posts from months beforehand).
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Duly noted.
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