DraftPlanet is not closed.

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

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 Gods mods have spoken. Just port over the active threads and go from there.

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

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Phobia

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

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.

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

Leave it open until after the combine's finished, then close it if you feel strongly about doing so.

Is Direcshun agreeable to this solution?

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Is Direcshun agreeable to this solution?

I'm not agreeable to any solution that ends in "...and then we shut down DraftPlanet."

Honestly, I'll let you guys handle it. I just really disagree with it.

[OldSchool]

Originally Posted by Phobia

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

If you look at the majority of other NFL team fan forums, they are mainly divided into several different topics:

[Insert Team Name] Talk - Obvious, threads about anything that pertains to the existing team/players

Around the League - anything related to the rest of the NFL/ players not on the team, etc

College Football/Draft

The Lounge - where all of your poop threads, child molestation by a teacher threads, NSFW threads, etc, can be found. Crap that has nothing to do with football.

It's weird that actual talk about the Chiefs seems to be side chatter here while the main forum is all of the random stuff.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by OldSchool

If you look at the majority of other NFL team fan forums, they are mainly divided into several different topics:

[Insert Team Name] Talk - Obvious, threads about anything that pertains to the existing team/players

Around the League - anything related to the rest of the NFL/ players not on the team, etc

College Football/Draft

The Lounge - where all of your poop threads, child molestation by a teacher threads, NSFW threads, etc, can be found. Crap that has nothing to do with football.

It's weird that actual talk about the Chiefs seems to be side chatter here while the main forum is all of the random stuff.

See, there's the circular argument again. We shuffled all the offseason draft talk off the main forum, now people are complaining there isn't enough football talk on the main forum. It doesn't make any sense.

But also the appeal to this forum was always that it wasn't like most NFL forums. The whole "normal" structure of team/around the league/off topic forums is a bad idea.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by OldSchool

If you look at the majority of other NFL team fan forums, they are mainly divided into several different topics:

[Insert Team Name] Talk - Obvious, threads about anything that pertains to the existing team/players

Around the League - anything related to the rest of the NFL/ players not on the team, etc

College Football/Draft

The Lounge - where all of your poop threads, child molestation by a teacher threads, NSFW threads, etc, can be found. Crap that has nothing to do with football.

It's weird that actual talk about the Chiefs seems to be side chatter here while the main forum is all of the random stuff.

Having the general forum being the main forum is a plus. When Patriots Planet shifted away from that (and made a bunch of other really stupid decisions), the site went to shit.

My preferences, for what that's worth, would be in this order:

1.) Just allow people to start draft threads in the main lounge as well as Draft Planet until the draft is over.

2.) Wait until the combine's over to close Draft Planet.

3.) Burn the place to the ground, douse it in antifreeze, and throw "Obama was here" posters all over the ashes.

4.) Give in to the whiny shits who had the ability to start draft threads in the lounge and give the mods the opportunity to just let them slide without this becoming a big deal, but decided to start bitching instead.

Originally Posted by OldSchool

If you look at the majority of other NFL team fan forums, they are mainly divided into several different topics:

[Insert Team Name] Talk - Obvious, threads about anything that pertains to the existing team/players

Around the League - anything related to the rest of the NFL/ players not on the team, etc

College Football/Draft

The Lounge - where all of your poop threads, child molestation by a teacher threads, NSFW threads, etc, can be found. Crap that has nothing to do with football.

It's weird that actual talk about the Chiefs seems to be side chatter here while the main forum is all of the random stuff.

We don't care how other forums do what they do. We've always done what we wanted, ditched what failed, and kept what worked. Most those other forums have copied at least one or two things we've done. We do as much as we can to keep the majority happy and this move is an effort to remind folks of that.

[OldSchool]

Originally Posted by Phobia

We don't care how other forums do what they do. We've always done what we wanted, ditched what failed, and kept what worked. Most those other forums have copied at least one or two things we've done. We do as much as we can to keep the majority happy and this move is an effort to remind folks of that.

Ok, that's fine, but why penalize the ones who were already talking about football in Draft Planet?

It seems clear to me that people in the main forum don't really want to talk about football, that's why it's dominated by poop threads, molestation stories, etc. Is it our fault that those people aren't interested enough to click a button to enter Draft Planet?

We post about the draft there because we want to avoid the clutter that is in the main forum. In my opinion, it's just simpler that way. If people want to talk about football they're free to come post on existing threads in Draft Planet; it's not like we're stopping them from doing that. Or they can post their threads here, whatever. Leave it the way it was.

I just don't agree with penalizing the existing Draft Planet users over a few complaints.

Originally Posted by OldSchool

I just don't agree with penalizing the existing Draft Planet users over a few complaints.

Then read OP again. It's been open for discussion. We've tried it half a dozen different ways in the past 14 years.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Then read OP again. It's been open for discussion. We've tried it half a dozen different ways in the past 14 years.

With the new change, you might want to delete my hat tip thread from the lounge.

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

With the new change, you might want to delete my hat tip thread from the lounge.

Thanks. Yeah. Less confusion that way.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Then read OP again. It's been open for discussion. We've tried it half a dozen different ways in the past 14 years.

Move all draft threads to Draft Planet from one week after the draft until the week after the Super Bowl.

For the time between the Super Bowl and through one week after the draft, allow draft discussion in both areas. That should allow Draft Planet to devote entire threads to the backup punter from division 4 Biteme State University, yet still allow for decent draft talk on the main board. Between draft talk and free agent talk, the slow time on the main forum should be short-lived.