Classic threads forum is a BUST, kill it, IMO !

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?p=4951617#post4951617

nobody goes there, and the best threads from the past can't be bumped to the main forum where they will be seen and potentially grow and become even better.

They are in jail now !

RobFunk · Jan 5, 2008

I dont agree. 8 viewing in the last 2 hours. That is more often than those fossils were getting bumped in the main forum where they are more of a nuisance than anything. Please. Leave them there.

teazeman · Jan 5, 2008

i have no opinion on this subject.

PBR · Jan 5, 2008

I agree with teazeman, at least to a certain extent

steaktartar · Jan 5, 2008

this thread wont make it thats for sure

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

RobFunk said:
I dont agree. 8 viewing in the last 2 hours. That is more often than those fossils were getting bumped in the main forum where they are more of a nuisance than anything. Please. Leave them there.

It's OK to segregrate them to classic,IMO...if they can also get bumped to main forum, I don't like the current format.

Let the masses opine, RF !

RobFunk · Jan 5, 2008

Doug said:
It's OK to segregrate them to classic,IMO...if they can also get bumped to main forum, I don't like the current format.

Let the masses opine, RF !

I don't think you are taking into account the search engine. It is not always easy for a lot of users to find these gems. Or even know they exist.

It's like walking into a museum. Would you have thought such and such an exhibit/fact about history was cool if they didnt present it for you?

I do understand your point about 'adding to it' . But if the topic is that important than I'm sure there is a creative way to state the same thing again.

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

steak tartar said:
this thread wont make it thats for sure

You never know, but I guess you're right... If the masses agree, then classic forum gets killed... like new coke.

few bump classic threads.

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

RobFunk said:
I don't think you are taking into account the search engine. It is not always easy for a lot of users to find these gems. Or even know they exist.

It's like walking into a museum. Would you have thought such and such an exhibit/fact about history was cool if they didnt present it for you?

I do understand your point about 'adding to it' . But if the topic is that important than I'm sure there is a creative way to state the same thing again.

I think the masses will agree with me that the threads should be bumpable to main forum.

RobFunk · Jan 5, 2008

Doug said:
I think the masses will agree with me that the threads should be bumpable to main forum.

'The masses' wanted that forum in the first place. It's not something we just concocted on our own.

wilheim · Jan 5, 2008

No need to have a major production over this..

Anyone who wants a classic thread moved to the Offshore forum and bumped to the top can do so easily be emailing me a link to the thread along with the title of the thread.

wilheim@therx.com CC person19481950@yahoo.com

I will then move the thread in question and bump it to the top of the Offshore Forum.

Otherwise the classic threads will be buried in the tens of thousands of day to day threads that are stored here in the Offshore Forum and nearly impossible to find without a keyword and poster name from within the thread who posted the keyword.

wil.

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

RobFunk said:
'The masses' wanted that forum in the first place. It's not something we just concocted on our own.

perhaps it seemed a good idea at the time, but in reality it wasn't ?

I'd like to hear thoughts from general posters instead of mods on this subject.

Not every idea is a good one. I don't know who is most responsible for the creation of said forum.

I'm trying to be constructive about it, I think the best threads ever get trapped down there.

trytrytry · Jan 5, 2008

there is a classic thread forum?

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

trytrytry said:
there is a classic thread forum?

I only had to go to p2 to find one of your's there.

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=243989

non -bumpable to main forum, in jail !

quantumleap · Jan 5, 2008

There are some good threads in there. Why have it deleted just because you don't read it? Some of us do.

earl · Jan 5, 2008

i never heard of the classic forum either. i figured if somebody digged up an old thread it just popped back up in the forum it came from. if it has legs we add on to it, if it has no added appeal it fades away again. that makes sense to me.

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

That's my point, these threads are effectively closed, and they aren't junk threads !

Look back, it can be a month+ before one of these is dug up and posted in again.

Rev_Al · Jan 5, 2008

Free

Doug

Doug · Jan 5, 2008

One of my jailed threads, p1 classic I believe, only 11 pages of classic threads exist.

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=403572

OK to isolate them, but they need bumpability to main,IMO !, otherwise it's a graveyard. Why kill good threads ? Sometimes they come back to life if bumped, RX gets new posters often.

Several veteran posters say they don't know classic exists.

wilheim · Jan 5, 2008

Anyone who cant figure out how to email a mod to have one of those threads moved can.

Use the Report a Post icon at the bottom left of the #1 post in the thread you want bumped to the top of the Offshore Forum - it will be acted upon promptly by being moved to the Offshore Forum and bumped to the top..

Icon:

All posts have this icon at bottom left.

Simply click on the icon in Post #1 of your Classic Thread and type "Move to Offshore Forum".

Very simple.

Thanks, wil..