REQUEST! Lobby for a classic topics section in this forum?

[Fergmiester]

Do I have motion on the Floor?

[jfugate]

Create a sub-forum that does not allow us mere mortals to create new topics. We can post replies, but we can't start anything new. That keeps out the "my favorite beer" topics.

Who decides? This community. Once someone feels a given topic has reached classic status, they can nominate it to be moved to the classics sub-forum by the moderator. If there is a general concensus among the clientele on here that the topic is a classic, then it gets moved.

That's how I see it working.

[Fergmiester]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Brunton

Guess I'll be the first real nay-sayer.

Most of the clinics should probably be in the Layout Construction forum and not here, anyway. While things do slide down the list there, it happens a lot slower than on this forum. So I suggest the forums on DCC, Scenery, etc. go where they really belong anyway.

Creating another forum for Bergie & Co. to monitor and manage won't help much - people will still come in here and post the same oft-asked questions they already do. Why? Because this one is first on the list, and this one has the most action.

So I say "no" to a new forum - let's just put the topics in the existing forums where they belong anyway.

This is a good point but...

Spacemouse raises an issue regarding who decides, which is also a good point.

After being here for close to two years I've noticed people coming and going and old becoming new again. Like everything it goes in cycles. Would a classic forum resolve some of this I don't know. I think the big reason people come here is fopr the interaction.

Saying that there are some forums which are truly classics and if they can stay active for a three month period then maybe that should be the criteria, that and volume and validity.

Fergie

[Pruitt]

Guess I'll be the first real nay-sayer.

Most of the clinics should probably be in the Layout Construction forum and not here, anyway. While things do slide down the list there, it happens a lot slower than on this forum. So I suggest the forums on DCC, Scenery, etc. go where they really belong anyway.

Creating another forum for Bergie & Co. to monitor and manage won't help much - people will still come in here and post the same oft-asked questions they already do. Why? Because this one is first on the list, and this one has the most action.

So I say "no" to a new forum - let's just put the topics in the existing forums where they belong anyway.

[SpaceMouse]

Just to throw a fly in the advocate, who decides what's calssic and what's not. What's to stop me from posting a thread about my favorite beer commercial?

[Anonymous]

Either that or a bunch of sticky's...and that would get annoying.

[andrechapelon]

I'll add my $.02 and say yes.

Now we gotta keep this one on the top of the heap.

A model railroader's work is never done.

I need a job. This hobby's getting way too stressful. [(-D]

Andre

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

Please do, it seems like a good idea. Another thing you might put there is a thread on how to post pictures. You listening, Bergie? Thanks, if you are.
Matthew

There is one, it's just lost, along with Joe's clinics and Bob's clinics.[:(!]

[trainboyH16-44]

Please do, it seems like a good idea. Another thing you might put there is a thread on how to post pictures. You listening, Bergie? Thanks, if you are.
Matthew

[dgwinup]

YES!!!

Having one location where you can find classic topics is a change long overdue.

It is not enough to have an active topics list. If a new member comes on the forum, he will not have the scenery clinic in an active topics list and will not even know that it exists! A lot of hard work is ending up on page 14 where new members will never see it and old members will have a hard time finding it when they need it.

Okay, Administrators! Ball's in your court!

Darrell, soap-boxingly quiet...for now

[Anonymous]

Agreed. As Joe said, some topics cover questions asked every day, but are way back into the "Lost" sections. Also, it always seems like nobody bothers to do the "search" option.

Great idea, Joe.

[jfugate]

Okay, okay! The general discussion section is nice for raising quick questions and getting lots of vigorous discussion going on this-and-that.

But there are certain classic topics that it would really help to have moved off to their own sub-forum within the Model Railroader forums, called something like "Classic topics".

My FORUM CLINICS, for instance, cover many of the questions people keep raising every few days, but to go dig up the FORUM CLINIC yet again back on page 14 is really getting old.

And even when I do dig it up again, it's already back on page 3 within a few hours.

What do you think ... isn't it about time we lobby to get this changed?