Originally posted by Wesker
We don't exactly have a lot of scholars browsing this place though. It's a movie/game/pwnz00rs type community.
It should be about time to change that really...too many bored teenagers with nothing better to do roaming around putting crap out there.
I like the idea 👆
Originally posted by Bloigen
Meh, it's all good now but when it comes no one posts in it.
True...if its going to just be copy/paste info from Google it'll get old fast...
Originally posted by Raz
Good point. There don't seem to be many history threads in the GDF.So I'm wondering if the people who are voting 'yes' would actually participate in such a forum?
Originally posted by Storm
The offer in the GDF isn' t big enough to separate the threads into a (sub) forum imo.Supporting an idea and actively participating in the debates once the (sub) forum is created are indeed two different things.
Well, there are 30 votes for yes and comparing it to the other Sub Forums...where there are like 3 regular participants, it certainly has aa chance. I don't see the harm in it either.
Hence the "general" in GDF.
I skimmed through the first 10 pages of the GDF and found 1 thread, contrary to the Philosophy and Religion Forum which earned their place. There were grounds for separating them from the GDF. I' m just wondering where those 31 members who voted yes are?
And no offense DE Calvin, but you haven' t started a single thread concerning history yourself.
I' m just of the opinion that there should be a reasonable amount of threads first, before requesting any new forums. Creating forums for the sake of it seems a tad pointless to me.
I'd actively participate in the forum. KMC gets a lot of traffic via Google, and with a month or set let set (With a few topics with common searched history ideas and names) and it'll be on the move. I disagree on the material being shoveled into the General Discussion; I look in there and see a lot of Current Events type deals and miscellany threads that haven't yet been moved to their proper sections. I can see a history subforum under there next to phlosophy and religion being welcome and useful. I don't look in the General Discussion section and go "Hey, I'd love to discuss Hannibal of Carthage here". I think "OMfg... this thread has way too much casual traffic. My history thread would get buried and neglected."
In any case, it won't hurt to try. If it doesn't pan out in a month or two, consolidate the threads into General Discussion and scrap the idea.
That's my two cents.
If your thread would get buried and neglected, then it would be because it doesn' t appeal a large enough interested public.
I’ m welcoming, applauding and supporting the idea to get debates going about history (I studied ancient history myself), but as things stand now, I don’ t see the point in creating a (sub) forum.
Not everything's going to just spring up and demand a place though. History isn't a popular trend or a media type- it's a serious subject. Like I said, looking as both a first-time poster and even now over a year later, I took one look in the General Forums and said "Nah, not posting anything really intelligent in here." It had nothing to do with it generating interest and everything to do with it being buried instantaneously about topics like "Wu screwd wu in teh show!!1/1??" and "arbortoin r teh wr0ng!!!" within the first hour. Most browsers are going to take in at a glance the first page-full of data they see and make a decision whether or not to post. If it's consolidated into one subforum, there's less crap to sort through to find chocolate.
In America, voting is simple. But less than 60% of voters vote. Why? Voter registration was the main problem. It was a simple process in itself, but it was one more hurdle and the public wasn't interested enough to put that kind of effort. This is the modern communications era- they wanted to hit a button, pick the guy who's securing their pension, and go home or to the bar.
Same mindset here- browsing is really simple. But when you can't browse at a glance and isolate topics you want to work on, it suddenly goes from hopeful to "Eh, I ain't doin' that" mentality. With 80,000 members or more, I'm sure the subforum will generate interest.
I have to agree with that, I never felt the need to start any kind of history thread in the GDF, now I am not the greatest thread starter out there. But a subforum about something like this would probably generate a lot more threads. Personally I don't really see the GDF as a place to post a history thread, to me its more a current events discussion place instead of a place where you can just start threads about everything you want as long as its serious.
With a history subforum you are kinda forced to talk about history, and people will make threads about history. And I know I would post in it.