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(11/2/2010: Poll Added) Open Discussion: New "Football" Forum

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by Clutch, Oct 21, 2010.

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How would you like to break up the Sports section of the BBS?

  1. 3 FORUMS: 1. All Football (w/Texans). 2. All Baseball (w/Astros) 3. All Other Sports

    89 vote(s)
    58.6%

  2. 2 FORUMS: 1. Houston Sports 2. All Other Sports (NFL, MLB, College, etc.)

    39 vote(s)
    25.7%

  3. No changes (Houston Sports & Football Forum. All other sports remain in Hangout).

    24 vote(s)
    15.8%
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  1. DonnyMost

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    Probably about the same as NBA dish, maybe slightly less. Especially slow during the off-season.
     
    #41 DonnyMost, Oct 21, 2010
  2. emjohn

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    100% All for it!
     
    #42 emjohn, Oct 21, 2010
  3. Xenon

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    I agree with this. I think the best solution is to fully utilize what is there now.
     
    #43 Xenon, Oct 21, 2010
  4. liljojo

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    Can we have a category for cheerleaders only as well?

    Texans/NFL
    Astros/MLB
    Cheerleaders

    Other (hockey, soccer, tennis, etc.)
    :grin:
     
    #44 liljojo, Oct 21, 2010
  5. T-Yao

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    Houston Cougars football forum
     
    #45 T-Yao, Oct 21, 2010
  6. mrdave543

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    I think Vince Young deserves his own forum. As well as the real Houston Oilers Franchise, AKA the Titans. :grin: :grin:
     
    #46 mrdave543, Oct 21, 2010
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  7. thelasik

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    That is perfect. I'm all for breaking up the sports into their own separate forums as proposed by others, but IMO there just aren't enough threads to justify doing so.

    It seems your goal is to separate the Week X threads and the other sports-related threads from the Hangout. The solution quoted above provides that in a very simple fashion.

    Exactly. I already go through the Dish, Hangout and Fantasy forums on a routine basis. I don't want to open 7 tabs for each forum of interest every time I come here.

    Also, compared to many dedicated subforums, the solution above will potentially foster more member participation as we will be able to see all football (college or NFL) threads in one place. It is all about simplicity, which will lead to more visibility and hence posting activity. lol.
     
    #47 thelasik, Oct 21, 2010
  8. Hak34

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    Not meant to derail, but a tech forum would be really good too. One dedicated to phones, video games and consoles, photography and chopping, cars.
     
    #48 Hak34, Oct 21, 2010
  9. s land balla

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    To play devil's advocate, I kind of like the way the forum is set up now. On a lot of other BBS's, they split topics into multiple forums, and I always like CF.net for is one, central source (BBS Hangout).
     
    #49 s land balla, Oct 21, 2010
  10. rhino17

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    The one thing I really like right now is the smaller community in the Houston Sports section, particularly the Texans. There are so many people in the garm now with repetitive threads and stupid posts that it is unbearable. We have a good group of Texans posters who tend to be far more mature and organized than the garm crowd.
     
    #50 rhino17, Oct 21, 2010
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  11. Mr. Brightside

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    Formally requesting an indie rock sub-forum.
     
    #51 Mr. Brightside, Oct 21, 2010
  12. Bojangles

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    Thelasiks idea seems sound.
     
    #52 Bojangles, Oct 21, 2010
  13. Rocketman95

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    no surprise, but i am 150% behind major's idea. i think you should just make one forum for all other sports. nba dish, rockets, all other sports, hangout, d&d, buy/sell/trade, fantasy, whatever that last one is. i like it a lot. the only other change i might make would be making fantasy a sub-forum of all other sports.

    edit...just read thelasik's response. spot on.
     
    #53 Rocketman95, Oct 21, 2010
  14. dreamfellas21

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    Do it Clutch. Imagine if it takes off well and more people start to join JUST for the Texans forum. It'd be cool if Clutchfans became the site to join to talk Texans.
     
    #54 dreamfellas21, Oct 21, 2010
  15. Harrisment

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    My vote goes to keeping the Houston Sports area, and then creating new ones for Football and Baseball.
     
    #55 Harrisment, Oct 21, 2010
  16. Castor27

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    I'm a little late to the party, had to work this evening. I am going to re-post some of my part of our discussion:

     
    #56 Castor27, Oct 21, 2010
  17. Major

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    One thing Clutch and company need to do is figure out if they want this. On one hand, it would be pretty cool to become THE Houston sports site. On the flipside, look at the quality of discussion in GARM vs the Astros/Texans forum. There's a lot of value in keeping a forum smaller and filled with high-quality posters that all sort of know each other within the forum as opposed to becoming where you get every crazy person participating and lose the sense of community.

    Personally, I like the smaller community in the Astros/Texans forum. But I also don't read the GARM, so I'm not the majority type poster here.
     
    #57 Major, Oct 21, 2010
  18. WhoMikeJames

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    I wish the GARM could go back to how it used to be. Honestly, it's crap now.
     
    #58 WhoMikeJames, Oct 21, 2010
  19. dreamfellas21

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    understood Major and WhoMikeJames but sometimes i wish there were more talk,news and feedback about Texans and Astros. since this is mainly a Rockets site i really dont see it much.

    i think there is and have been to a Texans site (forum) a few times but i really dont want to go to another site. i'd rather keep it here.
     
    #59 dreamfellas21, Oct 21, 2010
  20. Pole

    Pole Houston Rockets--Tilman Fertitta's latest mess.

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    Could we add "Cowboy" and "Cowboys" to the list of naughty words so they just show up as a string of asterisks
     
    #60 Pole, Oct 21, 2010
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