PLEASE!!!!! REGIONALIZE the member activities forums.

I'm sure this has been brought up, but its frustrating to have 1 Boston thread, with 8 different conversations going on, actual meet ups trying to be scheduled and local FS/WTB topics being so dilluted. It would be so much easier if it was broken up like

It would just like a section with the option of making new threads

"Tri-State area"
"New England Area"
"MId Atlantic area"

That way, members can comfotably come in, introduce them selves, try and sell something and plan an event without having so much going on in 1 single thread.

PLEASE!!!!

Why not make it easy and just have a Boston Thread? That way it would all be condensed into one, easy-to-understand thread.

People should not be selling items in the regional discussion threads.

All sales should be conducted in the correct forum. No exceptions.

MikeFairbanks wrote in post #12158418
Why not make it easy and just have a Boston Thread? That way it would all be condensed into one, easy-to-understand thread.

because its annoying to wake up, and read through 7 pages of stuff to find something im interested in reading. Tracking new topics is annoying when you have to wade through pages to find where it started

I would rather wake up or log on and see

"Shooting the boston marathon, who's in"
"Anyone know a good tax guy in boston?"
"Car shoot, 4/15"
"Sale at Wolf Camera this week!"
"Blah blah blah top"
"Blah blah blah topic 2"

Instead of having a 850 page thread that just keeps going and going and going
This is the only forum sof the 15 or so I visit that has 1 thread for an entire state.

Also, people in Rhode Island, NH, and CT might be interested in stuff we're doing. So, they need to scroll through countless pages to jump in the middle of a discussion, after they finally find where it starts?

There is no logical reason for the way its set up. It would even be much easier to moderate if it would broken up.

Pete wrote in post #12158425
People should not be selling items in the regional discussion threads.

All sales should be conducted in the correct forum. No exceptions.

Another forum first i've seen, I didn't even know it was like that. Sorry for bringing it up

Examples of what Im referring too.
It would take all of 20 minutes to set up?
http://www.mr2.com/for​ums/regional-discussions/
http://forums.nasioc.c​om/forums/forumdisplay​.php?f=5
http://www.stripersonl​ine.com …lk/forumdisplay​.php?f=155

Ok.

I'd suggect talking to whoever "leads" the Boston thread and see about adding meet/important details into the first post of the thread. You'll be able to see at a glance what events/deals are coming up. This happens in the regional thread that i'm local to (UK SE) and it works very well. I also don't have the time to catch up on pages of discussion, so seeing things at a glance is great for me.

POTN is a photography forum, so the discussion should predominently be related to photography, but we're not overly hot on this in the discussion threads.

It'll probably be a good idea to continue discussion off POTN by creating Facebook groups for example.

There's no reason why you can't create a discussion thread for a tighter area, if it'll attract enough members to make it viable (these regional threads are by no means "official", anyone can create them).

Lastly, the marketplace regulations are clearly stated in the forum rules as well as the additional pinned guidelines and regulations in the buy/sell sections.

ok
/10char

I see Neill's point that (I think) he's trying to make. For people who don't log on often, the Regional forum can get pretty difficult to weed through so you can find out what's going on.

I'm constantly on, and even then I just stay in the Boston forum (where we discuss the majority of the New England region stuff - who knew?) so I don't get affected by this. But I think if we had regional sub-forums, that might help out with the constant thread bumping/listing that goes on. Instead of 1 forum having a bazillion threads, you'd have 50-75 sub-forums with 4-8 persistant threads.

I don't know - I could go either way, but I can certainly see his angst.

CiM_Photography wrote in post #12158751
I see Neill's point that (I think) he's trying to make. For people who don't log on often, the Regional forum can get pretty difficult to weed through so you can find out what's going on.

I'm constantly on, and even then I just stay in the Boston forum (where we discuss the majority of the New England region stuff - who knew?) so I don't get affected by this. But I think if we had regional sub-forums, that might help out with the constant thread bumping/listing that goes on. Instead of 1 forum having a bazillion threads, you'd have 50-75 sub-forums with 4-8 persistant threads.

I don't know - I could go either way, but I can certainly see his angst.

So how many sub-forums would that take to regionalise the whole world? It's not just a US forum...

Mike wrote in post #12161135
So how many sub-forums would that take to regionalise the whole world? It's not just a US forum...

Never said it was just a US forum. For JUST the US, you'd only need about 9-11 regions. I can't imagine that any other country would need much more than that, based on member activity. Europe, Australia and parts of Asia would need to be broken down to multiple regions, whereas South America and Africa would only need a few (again, based on member activity).

So my 50-75 figure is a generous one, I think. I'm not looking to marginalize anyone with my statements - I'm simply supporting a more compartmentalized approach to forum activity, making it easier for users (especially new ones) and moderators alike.

It would also reduce serious stress on the forums servers and speed things up. Most forums close threads after 100 posts. This server has threads with pages in the THOUSANDS It's very demanding to open a thread with 500 pictures, even if you're opening a pictureless page of the thread.

All im saying is it would help make the forums a more enjoyable experience and feel it would open upany more opportunities for members

An example is I asked if anyone knew a good tax preparer in my area. Two other members had s back and forth conversation for 30 minutes and now my question is buried 5 pages back and I have yet to get an answer, most likely because the majority of people don't pan back 5 pages to read through a conversation they wernt involved in.

Please concider it, it's not like I'm asking you to restructure and rename the whole forum.

And I want a subforum for Copenhagen!

CiM_Photography wrote in post #12161304
So my 50-75 figure is a generous one, I think. I'm not looking to marginalize anyone with my statements - I'm simply supporting a more compartmentalized approach to forum activity, making it easier for users (especially new ones) and moderators alike.

And you are not the one to moderate these 50-75 new subforums!!! Honestly it is rediculous to suggest we add that many subforums.


This has been asked and answered many times before. At this time we are not adding regional subforums. There migth be a different solution in the future but that is unknown at this time.