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[Deberg_1990]

Maybe CP needs a Miscellaneous forum? Where we can post stuff like poop, hot teacher sex and wacky Florida news.
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[Dante84]

So, what's preventing the gen pop from starting draft threads?

I don't get what the purpose of this is... since they have the ability to start these threads anyways. Or they have the ability to step into Draft Planet and join in there.

If the issue is that people aren't clicking into DP, maybe make it a link, sticked at the top of the main lounge page?

That might be a good compromise - the Draft Planet link smacked right above the first thread in the lounge. Increase accessibility to DP while allowing DP to continue as is.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Dante84

So, what's preventing the gen pop from starting draft threads?

Right now, I think there's a perception that draft talk isn't welcome in the Lounge.

[Dante84]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Right now, I think there's a perception that draft talk isn't welcome in the Lounge.

Okay - how about this?

A stickied "Official Draft Mega Thread" at the top of the Lounge?

The masses will hit that up, and for deeper convo, they can head to DP.

Should any big draft news break (Clowney's 40, If someone is injured), let's not shun a person for posting it in the lounge. It's news, so **** you for bitching - especially if they are complaining about reposts when it was buried in a huge thread.

Side note- In fact - why not make "Repost Policing" an infraction, should someone throw stones at a thread starter for bringing it out to a dedicated thread?

Originally Posted by Dante84

Okay - how about this?

A stickied "Official Draft Mega Thread" at the top of the Lounge?

Isn't that what we did last year? I don't know how well that worked. I don't think I really clicked in it. Stickies tend to get overlooked unless they are high interest material. A sticky about Jovan Belcher's murder suicide was heavily trafficked that Saturday, for instance.

Side note- In fact - why not make "Repost Policing" an infraction, should someone throw stones at a thread starter for bringing it out to a dedicated thread?

I agree if the person is a frequent violator but reposts are usually innocent gaffs and often because the first thread starter chose a poor title. I don't think reposts are a huge problem here any longer.

[Dante84]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Isn't that what we did last year? I don't know how well that worked. I don't think I really clicked in it. Stickies tend to get overlooked unless they are high interest material. A sticky about Jovan Belcher's murder suicide was heavily trafficked that Saturday, for instance.


I agree if the person is a frequent violator but reposts are usually innocent gaffs and often because the first thread starter chose a poor title. I don't think reposts are a huge problem here any longer.

General reposts are funny, and deserve to get piled on.

The ones where it is annoying, is when a person posts news, and then someone attacks the OP for not seeing the story buried inside of a megathread.

Okay, then how about a non-stickied Draft Megathread? ***official*** and everything. It should get some play, after staying on the first page for a few days. I bet it would catch.

Trying to find a middle ground to keep DP thriving.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Isn't that what we did last year? I don't know how well that worked. I don't think I really clicked in it. Stickies tend to get overlooked unless they are high interest material. A sticky about Jovan Belcher's murder suicide was heavily trafficked that Saturday, for instance.

I don't think alot of people like Mega threads. They feel like their voice gets lost on page 63 out of 158.


Personally. I don't have any issues with draft threads in the main forum from January to April/May each year.
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[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Isn't that what we did last year? I don't know how well that worked. I don't think I really clicked in it. Stickies tend to get overlooked unless they are high interest material. A sticky about Jovan Belcher's murder suicide was heavily trafficked that Saturday, for instance.


I agree if the person is a frequent violator but reposts are usually innocent gaffs and often because the first thread starter chose a poor title. I don't think reposts are a huge problem here any longer.

Agreed, mega thread is ripe for simply becoming a high value target for a mega cluster****.

Originally Posted by Dante84

So, what's preventing the gen pop from starting draft threads?

I don't know. Complacency? Not everybody loves to start threads. I rarely start them. I participate in what's been started. I don't see much draft discussion, I just don't learn much about that year's draft. That's just the way it is. I'm not trying to cram anything down anybody's throat, just put some options out there.

Basically what you've described in the remainder of your post is how it is now. While that works for those who actually visit draftplanet, it's not working for our most trafficked forum.

[saphojunkie]

The answer to Direckshun's question is that there are 254 members viewing the Lounge right now and 10 viewing Draftplanet.

I know it took me a long time to start really venturing into draft planet, because I felt like it was the same 5 dudes posting over and over and over again.

We need to move the draft talk into the main forum, because eyeballs need to see that info. This board needs to become better educated, myself included. I'd love to say make the Lounge a subforum for poop threads, but the truth is most people prefer the poop threads to actual football threads.

It's sad, but true.

Maybe we should sticky a few draft threads up top, like a main combine thread, and some positional discussions. I don't know. Moar poop threads.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

The answer to Direckshun's question is that there are 254 members viewing the Lounge right now and 10 viewing Draftplanet.

I know it took me a long time to start really venturing into draft planet, because I felt like it was the same 5 dudes posting over and over and over again.

We need to move the draft talk into the main forum, because eyeballs need to see that info. This board needs to become better educated, myself included. I'd love to say make the Lounge a subforum for poop threads, but the truth is most people prefer the poop threads to actual football threads.

It's sad, but true.

Maybe we should sticky a few draft threads up top, like a main combine thread, and some positional discussions. I don't know. Moar poop threads.

This. That sub forum is a ghost town.

[Dante84]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

The answer to Direckshun's question is that there are 254 members viewing the Lounge right now and 10 viewing Draftplanet.

I know it took me a long time to start really venturing into draft planet, because I felt like it was the same 5 dudes posting over and over and over again.

We need to move the draft talk into the main forum, because eyeballs need to see that info. This board needs to become better educated, myself included. I'd love to say make the Lounge a subforum for poop threads, but the truth is most people prefer the poop threads to actual football threads.

It's sad, but true.

Maybe we should sticky a few draft threads up top, like a main combine thread, and some positional discussions. I don't know. Moar poop threads.

It still is that way - the same posters posting in DP. That's a turn off for some, but that's how the "better education" happens.

Same idea as having a huge lecture hall vs having a smaller, intimate class. You'll be more focused and learn more in the small class... teach the same thing in a lecture hall and the level of education (i/e: conversation) will be lowered by guys with 50 posts asking if we will draft Tebow in the first (on page 1), then starting a new thread with the same question, then putting it in 5 other draft threads (hi penbrook!)

I feel it should be consistent with the anti-socialist sentiment on the board - if you want to be educated, go to class (draft planet).

Don't make the school and classes worse by lumping everyone together.

[Brock]

I don't see this changing. This place just is what it is.

[saphojunkie]

The only real trouble is that Blackbob has been able to hide out pretty successfully in Draftplanet. Out in the open, he might not have a prayer.

[Dante84]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

The only real trouble is that Blackbob has been able to hide out pretty successfully in Draftplanet. Out in the open, he might not have a prayer.

Is that really him (OS)?

If so, how do you know?