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.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Phobia

But we need an infusion of what brought us all here

A-****ING-MEN!

Hallelujah!

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

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.

This!

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Phobia

You obviously have a lot of experience. Help me make it work. It can work if it's designed to work and tweaked as necessary. We've never really made a concerted effort to make it work. We fly by the seat of our pants a lot and that's sometimes a recipe for disaster.

You know I'm willing to help if it means more football discussion...

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Keep the draft forum for the threads that Direckshun likes to put together and the CP mock. The Lounge can be used for things like talking about a certain player or a certain position....

I think you're close. Direcshun actually wanted the CP mock stickied in the Lounge and that would be productive. I think the Lounge should only be used for high profile players and maybe some sleeper picks, especially those from area universities which would garner lots of amateur interest.

Another idea is that we can copy threads between forums. If a thread is incredibly intriguing, it doesn't have to get moved necessarily. It can get copied over to the lounge. Wish we had the capability to mirror them in real time because that would be ideal. But we don't.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

You know I'm willing to help if it means more football discussion...

Thanks. I'm optimistic we can make it work and I appreciate buy-in from draftniks. It won't work at all without you guys.

Originally Posted by Halfcan

This!

We're way past that, bro. Read up to like #150 and then start responding, please. Lots of progress within the thread.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Phobia

I'm looking to regular participants in DraftPlanet and The Lounge to help fill in the blanks with their own cool ideas.

Free beer and strippers.

[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.

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.