DraftPlanet/CasinoPlanet: A Proposal

[DaFace]

Every year, we have the debate about when (and if) Draft Planet and Casino Planet should be hidden from the top and when (and if) they should be brought back. This has all been discussed ad nauseum around here, so I won't reiterate everything, but the basic idea is that there's not a LOT of talk in the regular season about the draft (though there is some), and there's not a LOT of talk in the offseason about fantasy sports (though there is some). So, it would be nice to have them both available year-round, but doing so adds another subforum to an already large list at the top of the Lounge. (Yes, you can hide them, but 90% of people don't, and they'd still be there for guests and the like.)

After a brief chat about it in the mod forum, we'd like to propose that the two forums be combined into one, but left up year-round. We'll add prefixes to the forum so that the different topics can be distinguished from each other and filtered if desired. It won't be the cleanest combination ever, but I think it'll be manageable given that people are already used to the hodgepodge of topics they sort through in the Lounge anyway and that the activity in those forums is comparatively low anyway.

Anyway, this thread is mainly to see if there are any strong objections to doing so. I might add a poll to this thread later if necessary, but the current thinking is that we'll do it unless a bunch of people hate it.

Discus.

Originally Posted by Laz

I vote we combine the draft planet subforum with the Lounge and turn it into a gigantic "Football Forum"

Just think ... all the Chiefs fans could go to it and talk about football and stuff.

T'would be awesome.

I would be fine with that as long as every Tom, Dick, and Harry didn't start a "Hey, Look at my new daily mock" thread....

Originally Posted by Basileus777

If you are so worried about clutter, why does every thread about someone's grandmother getting a skinned knee get stickied?

That's a good question. I used to only do immediate family and only for 24 hours. But if we want to do away with that courtesy, it's possible to vote it away.

[Direckshun]

It's pretty clear the mods just don't give a shit about the NFL draft.

Totally fitting for a board dedicated to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Thanks for shitting, yet again, on the draft forum. You guys dedicate yourselves to disappointing, and it shows.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

It's pretty clear the mods just don't give a shit about the NFL draft.

Totally fitting for a board dedicated to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Thanks for shitting, yet again, on the draft forum. You guys dedicate yourselves to disappointing, and it shows.

At least you've provided us some things to think about.



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[Hootie]

what the **** does it matter Direckshun?

Who cares if you have to filter out a few fantasy football threads during football season when no one cares about the draft and vice versa?

the two forums belong together

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

At least you've provided us some things to think about.

er...

I don't know if this is even remotely considered a request for input.

I've been giving my ****ing input on this topic until I started getting neg rep and a mod openly pondered taking my thread starting priviledges away.

This is a football forum. SUPPORT A DRAFT FORUM by putting it at the top.

I get it, though. We don't really have a mod on CP that gives two shits in draft threads, so the issue doesn't get the voice it deserves.

No big whoop. I take my draft conversation to other boards that actually care about it. Just wish this forum would get the **** on board with it.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Short Leash Hootie

what the **** does it matter Direckshun?

Who cares if you have to filter out a few fantasy football threads during football season when no one cares about the draft and vice versa?

the two forums belong together

There's an AIDS tree somewhere sorely missing your presence.

[SPchief]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

I don't know if this is even remotely considered a request for input.

I've been giving my ****ing input on this topic until I started getting neg rep and a mod openly pondered taking my thread starting priviledges away.

This is a football forum. SUPPORT A DRAFT FORUM by putting it at the top.

I get it, though. We don't really have a mod on CP that gives two shits in draft threads, so the issue doesn't get the voice it deserves.

No big whoop. I take my draft conversation to other boards that actually care about it. Just wish this forum would get the **** on board with it.

The suggestion would get that forum to the top of the page YEAR round

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by SPchief

The suggestion would get that forum to the top of the page YEAR round

By combining it with something completely unrelated. Might as well combine it with the pictures thread.

I have literally no voice on the issue, and I go elsewhere for my draft conversation, as have several of the people who dig the draft really hard. What you guys decide to do is your perogative.

I've just been exhausted with the half measures on ChiefsPlanet.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

I don't know if this is even remotely considered a request for input.

I've been giving my ****ing input on this topic until I started getting neg rep and a mod openly pondered taking my thread starting priviledges away.

This is a football forum. SUPPORT A DRAFT FORUM by putting it at the top.

I get it, though. We don't really have a mod on CP that gives two shits in draft threads, so the issue doesn't get the voice it deserves.

No big whoop. I take my draft conversation to other boards that actually care about it. Just wish this forum would get the **** on board with it.

This thread is a request for input.

There will be a permanent sub-forum for the draft, fantasy football, and gambling threads. Two of those are primarily Sept-Jan, and one is primarily Jan-April. The mock draft folks will basically have the forum to themselves from Jan through July, then from Aug-Jan, instead of having a month's worth of threads on the first page, there might be two weeks worth of threads..... and there will be prefixes.

What's the problem?

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Phobia

I would be fine with that as long as every Tom, Dick, and Harry didn't start a "Hey, Look at my new daily mock" thread....

Hey, remember when I started a Mock Draft thread? To fix this problem?

And the mods responded by promptly moving it to the gambling forum? I can dig it up if I need to.

I rest my case. The mods on this forum do not give a shit about the draft.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

This thread is a request for input.

There will be a permanent sub-forum for the draft, fantasy football, and gambling threads. Two of those are primarily Sept-Jan, and one is primarily Jan-April. The mock draft folks will basically have the forum to themselves from Jan through July, then from Aug-Jan, instead of having a month's worth of threads on the first page, there might be two weeks worth of threads..... and there will be prefixes.

What's the problem?

1. I hate prefixes.

2. If you remotely cared about the draft, you'd understand it to be a year round venture.

[philfree]

I'd prefer the draft forum to stay unto itself. What's the real harm?

[morphius]

Originally Posted by Phobia

That's a good question. I used to only do immediate family and only for 24 hours. But if we want to do away with that courtesy, it's possible to vote it away.

Well, with the easy ability to ignore thread it shouldn't matter.

[RealSNR]

Good question, philfree. What IS the harm in adding a permanent draft subforum to the main page when the tools to hide it for uninterested viewers are there?

What was the stat you brought up, DaFace? 90% of people don't use the hide subforum feature.

It really makes no sense for people to bitch about one extra subforum on the Lounge page.