DraftPlanet is not closed.
 

Draft discussion is now encouraged in the Lounge. This format has been followed in the past and fell by the wayside.

We've had a discussion within this thread and reached a partial compromise. I don't know exactly what it looks like but I have a general idea of what I think would be positive for ChiefsPlanet. I'm looking to regular participants in DraftPlanet and The Lounge to help fill in the blanks with their own cool ideas.

The following is not yet etched in stone. There's a lot of pertinent discussion throughout the thread.
DraftPlanet will remain open until one week after the Combine. Draft gurus will be encouraged to start and/or ask for threads to be moved to the Lounge. We want to encourage football discussion in the Lounge and we hope Draftnits will seek to share their knowledge with the GenPop. Finally, DraftPlanet will remain open year around but new threads will be moderated by Draft moderators and moved to the Lounge or kept in DraftPlanet based on a yet-to-be determined criteria which is up for discussion.

Good it will bump some of the lame ass threads including the chicken ones off the front page.

:clap:

(But fear Direckshun's wrath...)

He just shot a load into orbit with the thought of seeing his name on every thread in the front page of the lounge. Voyager!

Of course. Why wouldn't it be.

I think this is a great idea... but I never liked moving football talk out of the Lounge. Especially during the offseason when the draft was the #1 thing we'd be talking about.

Oh come on I liked the draft so I don't have to weed through shit to find stuff on the draft.

:wayne:

I want to know what exactly ChiefsPlanet was losing with the existence of an ongoing Draft forum.

I don't expect any explanation to be sufficient. Some people are just stomping their feet that there are too many poop threads in the Lounge, and therefore DraftPlanet must be closed. Which... makes no sense. If you want to talk Draft and football, come to the ****ing Draft forum.

Now I get to look forward to a dramatic increase in people shitting on me for talking football on a goddamn football board.

im gonna post about this on draft planet!!!

Damn, it's sneaky.

Draft Planet let me go through the motions of starting a thread and then said it had to be approved by a moderator.

I know I'm just shouting against the wind here, but this really is just further proof that ChiefsPlanet mods don't give a shit about the Draft, which is only like THE most important way to build a football team.

Saccopoo started something like eight different threads segmenting the results of the Combine into easily scroll-able threads, that would all be on page 8 of the Lounge right now.

There's an NFL Draft thread prefix. Just sort threads by that, you'll see them all.

BTW i think we should consider Geno...

I hope it's to get the forum back to an actual football forum.

What about the CP Mocks? We'll need to start threads for those in the main lounge

Trade the 1st for Clausen.

It's also saying something about the state of affairs about CP, that the main forum is so inadequate for football talk that you're literally forcing people who want to talk football and the Draft to put threads in here, or not have threads at all.

Sounds good. A lot of shit threads that need out of my sight.

I can't believe you'd throw a fit about this. Actually I can... but it doesn't help improve football conversation by putting draft threads in a subforum.

For the record I think the media forum should be in here too. Put the right prefixes on these threads and you can sort them however you want.

:eek:

you have awoken a sleeping giant

So put them on ****ing ignore. It's not rocket science.

Or shut down arguably the best forum this board has. :rolleyes:

Shut down? It is putting it back where it belongs. The main page is all beaker tiger bullshit. Boooooring.

Also, I'm not looking forward to posting some shred of a draft tidbit in its own thread only to see bullshit like a houstonwhodat thread or one of Deberg_1990's parodies of What Does The Fox Say? bump it off the first page within 2 hours. You can bitch about the Lounge being nothing but shitty NFTs during the offseason, but like it or not those NFTs are getting posted no matter where the draft talk is. They'll get posted, people will still flock to them, and they'll be pushing the supposedly worthy draft threads that we want to take care of off the front page. Yeah. That's making sure those threads are within easy reach. :rolleyes:

Having the draft forum up during draft season does a lot of good things, and it has its use. A lot of members felt encouraged to post their own mock drafts because they knew discussion would be kept around about it for days. Now there will be far less of that.

Since when does ChiefsPlanet give two shits about improving conversation of any kind.

Suggestions that conversation needs to be improved are uniformly met with derision and "get out if you don't like it."

I mean, shit, the administrator of this board bans people left and right who disagree with him in the political forum.

ChiefsPlanet doesn't exist for improved conversation. It just, kind of exists because it does.

Most of this is personal, I'll admit. I get sick and tired of people shitting on people talking football on a football forum. Forcing draft threads, a topic which only a fraction of the people on this board are even conversant in, into this morass of poop threads really throws a wrench into what was honestly the best thing this forum has.

The people who participate in that mock draft probably don't want to go searching for the mother****ing thread every time they try to make a goddamn piss drinking pick

And yet the fantasy football forum lives.

God damn, mods. I'm not saying you don't care about the Draft for no reason.

I just don't get it, if you want to talk draft its pretty simple click draftplanet. Everything you want to see is right there easy to find.

Draft snobs

the mods burned ants in there childhood. Only explanation there is

This will be a long term positive for CP. Good decisions are often hard to make . This will keep quality discussion that CP is known for.

Direckshun, I want to **** shit up now. Want to meet in St. Louis and go turn over a ****ing police car?

Then maybe you shouldn't post here? I don't know what else to say, I don't mean that to be harsh. The whole argument is a big circle. We take the best offseason football threads off the main page > quality of football topics on the main forum suffers > attempt to move those topics back to the main forum > complaints that these threads are going to be lost in a forum where nobody talks football. Well of course that's going to happen, you put the football threads in another forum. You don't seem very happy with the basic concept of this forum. It's like going into Dunkin Donuts and complaining they don't have ice cream.

I didnt know there was a "draftplanet." Can I get a link? I need to catchup

Glad I wasn't disappointed. ROFL

This is exactly what I'm talking about. This right here.

Every other Draft thread very well might boil down to "the Draft is the crapshootz!" or "you're not an NFL scout, WTF do you know."

:facepalm:

Just not a very big fan of this at all.

nvm i see it

LMAO

Wtf? The organization of this forum is nothing else if not shitty.

You're a forum for your Kansas City Chiefs. Lounge/Media type crap should be Sub forums while anything pertaining to the Chiefs should go in a Chiefs discussion forum/Main forum. Draft threads should remain in the Draft forum.

Tread will hit 1000 posts.

"If you don't like it, get out."

Yes, ChiefsPlanet really is concerned with improving conversation. What was I thinking.

get crazy coffees car and take plenty of pics. thanks in advace

Well are you an NFL scout?

LMAO

I've never been tempted to have a sig until this moment.

LMAO

My own personal Kanye West moment.

From now until draft day I'm going to be doubling down on starting NFTs in the main forum. Big, farty, nasty, smelly ones. They'll be like that shitty new Joseph Gordon Levitt variety show that nobody ever ****ing watches... they'll be about teacher/student sex, constipation, grill recipes, in-house forum quarrels, and stupid uninteresting gblowfish-type news items. All rolled into one thread. Each ****ing day. And they'll show up whenever somebody takes the time to post a really great draft observation or report that they wrote themselves.

That's right. I'm going to destroy the things that I love to prove a point to everybody. All you mother****ers that think this is wonderful are going to want to join Warpaint ****ing Illustrated after I'm done pouring an ocean of moldy diarrhea all over everybody.

**** you all.

Yeah but you aren't arguing for improving conversation. You're arguing for improving the board experience for yourself.

I would argue that draft time used to be one of the best times of the year on this forum. We used to really get into it, and I think it did improve the overall football knowledge level to have these topics discussed on the main page. Instead you get stuck with 12 million Geno Smith threads and little else. I think re-introducing some of this on the main page would help improve the lack of football knowledge you're complaining about.

LMAO

I need this explained to me. This makes zero sense.

"Open season" compared to... what, exactly?

Ok, so be it.

**** yeah. Finally.

Guys, if you start a draft thread, just classify it as such.

When you want to only see draft stuff, all you have to do is click the little draft logo (while viewing the lounge) before any draft thread and it will display all of the draft threads.

Just keep posting in existing threads. Not too much of a biggy.

ROFL

If people don't want to give a shit about the Draft, let them not give a shit about it.

There's no reason to drop the IQ of the topic down a few points to ensure everybody else gets minimally literate on it.

Still tops a De berg who dat thread!!!

There's also a Thread Display menu in the bottom left hand corner that allows you to organize the threads as you wish.

How are we going to handle the CP Mock?

That's gonna be a shit show.

Leave them there, then. Keep running with the stuff you have.

I don't see the problem.

Winner

...as well as a few options under the Forums menu at the top to filter down to certain sets of topics.

Right. Because that's a feasible option.

Just get a DraftPlanet version of the Beryllium thread going. Because that's sustainable and everything.

next thing ya know they will integrate the bukkake forum into the lounge

We send a pm to everyone that's gonna participate with the simple directions on how to sort it to only draft threads so it can be easily accessed.

We have plenty of time to make sure everyone understands how to do it.

I welcome the additional discussion and audience.

You are 100% entitled to that opinion. No problem.

But, don't be flipping out about how the main forum doesn't want to talk football, or that no one cares about improving the overall level of football conversation... when it's really you that doesn't care if there are more football topics on the main page. Then you act like everyone in the main forum is essentially beneath you.

It's a stupid idea for them to have done this right in the middle of the combine. It should have been done either before or after. Having said that, the <s>Gods</s> mods have spoken. Just port over the active threads and go from there.

I foresee a ban in your future.

Then you will slam your fist down in anger, causing a nearby pipe organ to tip over and crush you. News of your demise will drift back to Chiefsplanet and someone will post a Curly Bill gif.

Don't let someone post a Curly Bill gif in your honor. Switch to laid back life outlook.

Just admit that in order to make the Lounge more football literate, you're taking a dump on the (admittedly few) people who really did enjoy DraftPlanet. That you're breaking a few eggs that nobody gives much of a shit about in order to make your omelet less mediocre.

I don't use any of those shitty forum view tools. Never have and never will. Chiefs Planet is all about trends and pulses. I ask myself every morning, "What are Chiefs fans and AIDS tree enthusiasts interested in talking about today?" I open up my laptop to find out. And there's Chiefs Planet in all its glory. Unaltered by thread view functions, ready to give me the answer to my question.

Yeah, I'm bitching about this because it's not the way I do things. Yeah, I'll have to change, and that sucks. No, seriously, it really does. It's bad enough that youtube made it ****ing impossible to find channels you subscribe to that haven't posted any videos in awhile. Now I gotta deal with this bullshit?

I'm a reasonable person. If you don't like this plan, then give me a plan that is going to be practical for the majority of the board.

I know there are a dozen gys who follow draft issues more closely than anybody else and they are why that forum was created. Why can't you use this opportunity to garner interest from another few hundred people?

Ya think?

Only like the biggest Draft event of the year, short of the Draft itself.

Timing. Ur doin it wrong

Have participants subscribe to the thread.

Hey - that's fair criticism. This decision should have been made a month ago. How do we make it work?

Acknowledged. Very sorry.

To be fair, if you guys really wanted to talk football, Draft planet was just a click away.

Leave it open until after the combine's finished, then close it if you feel strongly about doing so. Change this thread to an alert notifying people that the draft forum will be closed from the end of the combine until the draft.

Is Direcshun agreeable to this solution?

Well first of all, I'm not in the majority on this issue. So I'll let you handle it as you need to. But I'm allowed my say on the issue. At least until AustinChief arbitrarily bans me.

Second of all, the alleged interest on the topic from a few hundred people doesn't exist. If it would, the Lounge wouldn't look like it does. What it does is invite the typical CP irreverence and asshattery into legit Draft threads, and to sink those threads the next five times a teacher molests a student.

I don't use any of those forum tools, either...but it's easy to just click on the draft logo and boom, every draft thread pops up.

I don't think it's gonna be a problem keeping the thing on the front page, anyway.

It's gonna be better and easier this way to find draft threads IMO...and like I said, I welcome the additional discussion and larger audience.