Reconsideration for environmental forum

[Trousersnake]

I would like the introduction of an environmental forum to be reconsidered. The last time I asked here SlaveoftheBeast (lulwho?) took it upon himself to ruin the likelihood of even trialing the idea by making up lies about Green Planet from back on Totse.

Then a lazy admin added "and green living" to the flora and fauna forum and called it a day. The thing is that the forum maybe has had 5 green planet-like threads since the name was slightly altered, I said that piggybacking the subject with an established forum wouldn't work, looks as though I was spot on.

A lot of environmental discussion already takes place here in different forums, typically off topic like in the Fragyard thread that prompted me to bother putting in this suggestion.

Environmental issues are something I find interesting and I like sharing, discovering and discussing matters related to it...as are a lot of other people on here evidently.

[Fish]

I usually prefer to add a forum when there's a demonstrated need for it, not when someone says "hey, _____ is a topic that could be in its own forum!" As it is, I think there's only been a few "green planet-like threads" because I think that's about the extent of the community's interest in the subject.

There's no reason you can't post those threads in the FFGL forum. Do we really need a new, separate forum for such a narrow topic? Are people actually going to post in it, or is this going to be another "I just like knowing that it's there" forum?

[Trousersnake]

Originally Posted by Fish

I usually prefer to add a forum when there's a demonstrated need for it, not when someone says "hey, _____ is a topic that could be in its own forum!" As it is, I think there's only been a few "green planet-like threads" because I think that's about the extent of the community's interest in the subject.

There's no reason you can't post those threads in the FFGL forum. Do we really need a new, separate forum for such a narrow topic? Are people actually going to post in it, or is this going to be another "I just like knowing that it's there" forum?

I only regularly visit 5-6 different forums here and from what I've seen there's content that would be fitting, and when it's there and people see it they'll think to ask something, share something or engage in discussion a topic.

Green Planet was a slow forum by general standards, but it wasn't the slowest, you'd be lucky to get a thread a day, but the fact was that intelligent and ongoing discussion did occur.

The thing about the environment is that elements of most, if not all, other forums can relate to. Pissed off at lying climate scientists and what to explain why they are wrong? Sure that fits into PEOO but I'm sure OP would get some better response from a in-house community that have an opinion on it too.

Want to know what to do with an old PC? Why ask the technology guru's they know circuits and programming but they aren't masters at recycling and up-cycling.

People that will use this forum (where you get off you ass) will be DIYer's, opinionated on politics, most likely implement modern technology in how they do things, know good documentaries, know good books....generally have loads of content to offer.

But hey, if going into the admin control panel and filling in a few fields to enable this to happen is detrimental, well all means continue to pretend that people seriously consider the outdoors, hunting, hiking and the pet photo forum a place to discuss environmental matters.

[Fish]

If we were to implement it as a sub-forum, rather than a regular forum, where would you put it? F&F? or OL?

[Trousersnake]

Originally Posted by Fish

If we were to implement it as a sub-forum, rather than a regular forum, where would you put it? F&F? or OL?

F&F

Do suggestion threads get many responses? If it's going to flop I'd prefer it not to be pursued, but I really think if people know about it that they'll use it.

[zombo.com]

it tends not to work like that.

usually if they're interested you'd be seeing a decent bump of those types of threads in one of the other forums.....unless you're going to the other extreme of a narrow, specialized forum (the seed is a good example) that's expected to be slow, but gets a lot of attention paid to the threads, both because they usually are specific queries needing a speedyish response, or because it's got a dedicated group of posters who watch for it to light up.

if you wanted to flesh this out trouser you might be better off going for that model, if you can figure out a way to apply it to your interest.


(note, i'm n o longer a mod in here so this is just a personal opinion)

[elf omg]

lol, trousersnake.