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It looks like its about time to separate the 2 sports into their own forums?

PDXKat wrote:It looks like its about time to separate the 2 sports into their own forums?

I am not sure if it is time or not....I posted a message on the Site Feedback forum to get everyone's opinon on the topic. Right now basketball is really the only news happening so there isn't a lot of as far as football goes.

Maybe during the off season for each sport we could start a sticky thread for that sport. For example we could put a sticky thread up for Football right now and any football related news or chat could go there until Basketball season is over. The only thing is we would need everyone to stay on topic so that it doesn't create a headache to clean up every other day.

Come over to the site feedback thread and let me know what you all are thinking.

No. I like seeing all the info on one main athletics page.

theblackgecko wrote:No. I like seeing all the info on one main athletics page.

Again, I agree with "Theblackgecko" , but no I will lose no sleep no matter what you deside.

I agree, seperate it into two topic. Why, most other boards do so, I want our boards to look and act like bigger school boards. I too will not loose sleep either way, just want to improve the look, marketing of the Cat program.

theblackgecko wrote:No. I like seeing all the info on one main athletics page.

I like seeing it all on one page. 90% of the people who chime in are interested in football first and foremost. I think if their attention was directed towards the football only page, a lot of good conversations and information about basketball by mslacat, or the track team by Coach Carigan or volleyball by velo would go overlooked.

I'm in favor of creating multipul boards. As one who is primarily interested in football it would save me time.

We can't separate it into two boards -- there are more than two sports. We would have to separate it into at least three boards -- the third being "other." Already, that will have relegated a group of sports to second class status.

The main reason why I am against it is from reading the egriz board. They essentially have one board (even though they have numerous other boards listed). Everything gets posted on the football board, even if it has nothing to do with football. People know that it will get ignored if it is posted elsewhere, so they post where the eyes are looking. To police this activity and move every off-topic post to the appropriate board would be a huge pain, and we all know that without constant policing that eventually what we see on egriz would happen here as well if we split the boards by sport.

It seems that as long as we make sure that our subject lines are clear, people should be able to browse the topics they are interested in without splitting things into other boards. At the same time, all of the eyes will all be on the same board and will be exposed to the subject lines (but not the individual posts) each time they check in. They will then have the option to drill down into whatever threads interest them, and ignore those that don't.

I think we need to be careful to not pay as much attention to the effectiveness of the structure of a set of boards as much as its appearance. There are some "best practices" developing out there in this relatively new bulletin board world that we should definitely try to stay up with. In my opinion, though, adding a lot of topical boards doesn't appear to be a method that is very successful.

Bay Area Cat wrote:We can't separate it into two boards -- there are more than two sports. We would have to separate it into at least three boards -- the third being "other." Already, that will have relegated a group of sports to second class status.

The main reason why I am against it is from reading the egriz board. They essentially have one board (even though they have numerous other boards listed). Everything gets posted on the football board, even if it has nothing to do with football. People know that it will get ignored if it is posted elsewhere, so they post where the eyes are looking. To police this activity and move every off-topic post to the appropriate board would be a huge pain, and we all know that without constant policing that eventually what we see on egriz would happen here as well if we split the boards by sport.

It seems that as long as we make sure that our subject lines are clear, people should be able to browse the topics they are interested in without splitting things into other boards. At the same time, all of the eyes will all be on the same board and will be exposed to the subject lines (but not the individual posts) each time they check in. They will then have the option to drill down into whatever threads interest them, and ignore those that don't.

I think we need to be careful to not pay as much attention to the effectiveness of the structure of a set of boards as much as its appearance. There are some "best practices" developing out there in this relatively new bulletin board world that we should definitely try to stay up with. In my opinion, though, adding a lot of topical boards doesn't appear to be a method that is very successful.

From my point of view two board would be fine.
Board #1
FOOTBALL - the Main reason you are here
Board #2
Bobcat Athletics- Every thing else that is not Football

As a matter of fact I would prefer to see both men's and women's basketball in the same forum.

Bay Area Cat wrote:We can't separate it into two boards -- there are more than two sports. We would have to separate it into at least three boards -- the third being "other." Already, that will have relegated a group of sports to second class status.

The main reason why I am against it is from reading the egriz board. They essentially have one board (even though they have numerous other boards listed). Everything gets posted on the football board, even if it has nothing to do with football. People know that it will get ignored if it is posted elsewhere, so they post where the eyes are looking. To police this activity and move every off-topic post to the appropriate board would be a huge pain, and we all know that without constant policing that eventually what we see on egriz would happen here as well if we split the boards by sport.

It seems that as long as we make sure that our subject lines are clear, people should be able to browse the topics they are interested in without splitting things into other boards. At the same time, all of the eyes will all be on the same board and will be exposed to the subject lines (but not the individual posts) each time they check in. They will then have the option to drill down into whatever threads interest them, and ignore those that don't.

I think we need to be careful to not pay as much attention to the effectiveness of the structure of a set of boards as much as its appearance. There are some "best practices" developing out there in this relatively new bulletin board world that we should definitely try to stay up with. In my opinion, though, adding a lot of topical boards doesn't appear to be a method that is very successful.

Agreed. I think this is the best for now.