Quote Originally Posted by Mistress Victoria View Post
I have the perfect counter argument for Block.

Why should the forums exist?

Because otherwise, everything is going to be extremely cluttered and unprofessional. With separate forums for every topic of interest, it makes things look neat and tidy. You may not notice, but TFF is kind of a "professional" forum.

I don't really see a reason to merge everything into General Chat. Sure, it may make it more "active", but that's just an illusion because everything has been absorbed into a single forum.

It doesn't bring more actual activity. It just...absorbs the existing activity from the other places, and puts it all into a big pot.

That's not what we want. We want genuine more activity. Not artificial.
Sure you're correct. It would look more active, not be more active. But who knows, maybe looking more active would bring more activity? Maybe, maybe not.

Face it boys, we're not going to do what you want. (Since, you know, as a reminder... the final say is with the staff. So I don't know why you all are arguing so many different ideas to improve the forum as if you have some stroke.)
Okay, we've covered this. Of course the staff has the final say. But if you aren't going to listen to your members and just do what you want, have a good time trying to bring in new members. That's what a few of us, especially me, have been saying all along. Some of us are arguing "so many different ideas to improve the forum as if we have some stroke" because we want good for the forum as well as the staff does.


At most, we'll probably implement Loaf/Merlin's Option 3, aka "Spamalot."

And also, as far as all these ideas go, they aren't to improve the forum at all. All they're going to do is just change how it looks. The look and feel.

Plus it'd be tons more work for the gen chat mods to look over tons more threads than they already have to.
At most, anything to change the current TFF would be a step in the right direction. And as for you thinking it won't change anything: changing the look and feel can change things too. You can't just predict everything. Who's to say when you make the option 3 change that you won't get 12 new active members? Do you ever think someone comes to the forums and goes "hmm, I don't really like how that's set up. That's worse than my forum. Why would I post here?" Then someone comes along after the change and they don't have that thought, they sign up and start posting because they like it.

TFF's Temptress, over and out.
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Not very tempting for a self-proclaimed temptress. You kind of just come off as TFF's jackass.

PS: If you really want to try and help change the forum, do you see those two project forums at the very top? The ones that are neglected more or less? Yeah, the purpose for those is to bring about a new change to the forum, whether aesthetically or practically.

If you're actually 100% serious in wanting to help improve the forum in some way, by all means, sign up. But this isn't just for your own benefit of what you want to see, this encompasses the whole community. So keep that in mind.
There are other ways to change a forum, provided the staff listens to it's members. It seems you specifically at least don't really want to, after reading this post. You're pretty solid on the current TFF, but at the same you say you want more activity. How are you helping the forums?