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General Forum - RE: Posting of Youtube and similar videos, should they have their own category? - Page 2
posted by Mark Oates on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 00:46
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Although I voted for a separate forum, I think on reflection the site traffic argument outweighs the videos argument. I welcome my esteemed colleague (Rob)'s idea of automating a (VIDEO] tag in the subject line, but I think we're reaching a point on this forum where we need to shake things up a bit. I've been coming to this forum for over eleven years because it has always been a very friendly, lively community. We share each others joys and woes, offer each other advice and debate the matters of the day. Or at least we used to. The top six topics on the General Forum at the time of typing are: this topic, two videos, a question about speed cameras, Ali's trainer passing away and cash back on credit cards. Where are any debates about current affairs? There were twelve and three hours between posts on the most recent topic in the Television forum, and two days between the last and newest post on the DVD and Film forum (which theoretically should be the most active forum given this is a DVD site, FFS.) Why aren't we debating upcoming and current DVD, Cinema and Blu-ray releases in there? Why have we stopped talking to each other and why do so many interesting topics get killed dead? Is it my breath??
If we come on this site for a read, we all need to put something on the site to make it worth coming back and for others to join us.
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posted by fluff_n_stuff on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 10:44
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It's damned facebook...everyone wants to go and chat on there where the most effort they have to put in is clicking a like button.
I like it one here, but there seems to be more and more lurkers, it is almost as though people are worried about upsetting other people with their point of view and don't want to risk it. I liked it best in the good old days where we'd all just post whatever and hope for the best and then end up with a great big debate!
posted by Paull on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 10:53
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Do these forums have a facebook site?
posted by Jimbo :oÞ on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 11:06
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Quote:
Mark Oates says...
Is it my breath??Depends... how many doughnuts did you nick.....?
I think there is an argument that every forum site online is slowing down, even the Gaming ones I used (read gaming as console stripdown, modification and hacking) I very rarely visit to the point I forget login details.
I've also had usernames and acc's deleted at some other "favourable" sites due to inactivity.
The pace of life nowadays is just too hectic to continually log in and although most of us check on a daily basis I don't know many of us with the ability to check in every five minutes anymore.
And Crapbook is the current generations "forum" or "messenger" of choice <shrug>
Jimbo : oÞ
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posted by Rob Shepherd on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 12:08
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posted by fluff_n_stuff on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 17:39
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I have to agree with Mark Oates too, I voted for a separate forum for the videos but presuming you're planning on doing what you've done to the "sheep tornado" thread, then I think that works better 
posted by Mark Oates on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 18:26
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I think fear of offending or upsetting others is one of the things that stops lively debate on here. I've lurked on other forums because the moment you open your trap somebody launches into a sanctimonious tirade because you're not one of the forum's "chosen few". We're largely not like that on this forum but we do occasionally have unpleasant clashes between forumites.
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posted by fluff_n_stuff on Friday, 3rd February 2012, 19:24
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We're largely not like that on this forum but we do occasionally have unpleasant clashes between forumites.
I think that since there's not as many of us posting on here as there used to be, and a few of us who are left seem to take differences of opinion very much to heart and get quite upset by what people say, whether it is personal or not, which can overtake threads and make it a little unpleasant at times. Its not like that all the time, and the gnore thing seems to have put a stop to it, but IMO it has put people off posting a little.
posted by Gareth Williams on Wednesday, 15th February 2012, 00:25
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How about a small icon instead of the block capitals [VIDEO]
Maybe something like one of these:
But smaller.
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posted by Rob Shepherd on Wednesday, 15th February 2012, 02:21
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Could do, but perhaps other people find [VIDEO] a bit more obvious, like [POLL]. What do others think?
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