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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. Uprising

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    I love the idea. Would make it easier from having to search through the hangout (so many threads) for a specific thread etc. (most recent CF thread etc.)

    Would be nice to have all the Football talk in one general area.
     
    #101 Uprising, Oct 22, 2010
  2. rpr52121

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    Agree that an All Football and an All Baseball forum would be good.

    I would however ask that in that scenario, that the "Houston sports forum" simply be changed to "other sports". After this many years of Yao, I feel that Clutchfans' appeal has really outgrown Houston or even Texas with all the Chinese fans. This way all those other sport stories and such get lost in the madness of the Hangout. This way any other sports (UFC, boxing, wrestling, Olympics, soccer, golf, tennis, or whatever) will not have to sifted out of the Hangout. Who knows, with this forum maybe a Ping-pong following will start or something?

    I know that it would not be a large thoroughfare forum, but neither is the "NBA Draft 2011: College and International Basketball" but it serves an obvious clear purpose and is very beneficial.
     
    #102 rpr52121, Oct 22, 2010
  3. Raven

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    NFL + Texans
    MLB + Astros
    Rockets
    NBA

    But I'd hate to see college sports clog up the NBA and NFL forums.
     
    #103 Raven, Oct 22, 2010
  4. Rocketman95

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    pretty please do not put the other sports in separate forums. with sugar on top. i'd much rather it be as is than that. i HATE too many forums.
     
    #104 Rocketman95, Oct 22, 2010
  5. tinman

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    does this mean the Vince Young the GREAT thread, the thread that all the VY lovers like DonnyMost and MasterBaiter moves from the Hangout?
     
    #105 tinman, Oct 22, 2010
  6. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    Good idea Clutch, and of course I would be happy to be the moderator....

    DD
     
    #106 DaDakota, Oct 22, 2010
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  7. DonnyMost

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    I'm all for a "Vince Young" forum so you can masturbate in peace. :)
     
    #107 DonnyMost, Oct 22, 2010
  8. tinman

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    So can I post pictures or evidence that Vince Young is a Houstonian there?

    like this one:

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    What about a U of H only thread too? So people can relive Rice vs UH games.
     
    #108 tinman, Oct 22, 2010
  9. JeopardE

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    You owe me a new keyboard.
     
    #109 JeopardE, Oct 22, 2010
  10. Chilly_Pete

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    I wouldn't do a NFL + Texans or a MLB + Astros. That might as well just be a NFL or MLB forum.

    I would leave Texans, Astros, Dynamo the way it is and add two new forums.

    NFL Dish
    College Football
     
    #110 Chilly_Pete, Oct 22, 2010
  11. Clutch

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    Seriously I love the input. Thanks everyone. I used to be able to make decisions when the site was smaller, but I'm more fearful of change I guess now.

    How about we leave the Texans/Astros forum untouched (for now) and just create a new NFL/College/HS football forum for this weekend and try it out? Obviously if there are only two threads ("NFL Week X" and "College Football Week X") that would defeat the purpose. I'd like to see it be for discussing games, news, trades, recruiting, etc.

    We can then decide from there if it works or not, or what else should go in that forum ("All Sports" or just the Texans).

    I do like the "All Football" (including Texans) and "All Baseball" (including Astros) forum ideas , but in that scenario, I think "Other Sports" should maybe remain in the Hangout (I don't know -- are there many discussion threads on soccer, hockey, tennis, golf?). If you do that, that's a grand total of one new forum addition since the Texans/Astros/Dynamo basically gets absorbed by the two new forums.
     
    #111 Clutch, Oct 22, 2010
  12. droxford

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    ^^^ This.
     
    #112 droxford, Oct 22, 2010
  13. DonnyMost

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    I'm ok with the idea of leaving all sports threads that don't have to do with Football/Baseball in the hangout, I just think that you will see less confusion and noobs posting football and baseball related threads in the hangout if there aren't other sports threads floating around in there already.

    I'm a big fan of the simplicity inherent in "all football" and "all baseball" forums.
     
    #113 DonnyMost, Oct 22, 2010
  14. Rocketman95

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    i just like the idea of all sports being together if you're going to move the non-texans football talk from the hangout. other than the occasional music/tv/movie thread, that's all i post in these days.

    eta: not that you're making these changes for me! :)
     
    #114 Rocketman95, Oct 22, 2010
  15. tinman

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    I don't know what baseball is. is that the sport where the Astros wouldn't resign Nolan Ryan for $1 million back in the day?
    And now he owns the best baseball team in Texas?
     
    #115 tinman, Oct 22, 2010
  16. tinman

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    Great idea,

    So the Hangout can just be the TMZ section of Clutchfans
     
    #116 tinman, Oct 22, 2010
  17. Clutch

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    We could maybe go with that too if that's how it plays out... I think it's easier to add to the forum than subtract though, initially. I think we have to go with what is best for the overall interests of the majority of forum users rather than ease of use for those who don't post much (no offense intended).
     
    #117 Clutch, Oct 22, 2010
  18. Clutch

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    I know these replies conflict, but they represent my views as well. When that forum was created, we were doing NBA Draft coverage. The Rockets finally started avoiding the lottery, time constraints, etc. and we stopped doing that, but that was the initial reason for that forum.

    It's been a little confusing too... during March Madness, those threads would routinely get started in the Hangout. NBA Draft stuff often got posted in the NBA Dish and what do you do with anything Rockets draft related?

    I agree it's probably best to merge that with the NBA Dish, but even though it's small and relatively low activity, the NBA Draft is a big interest of mine and the threads in there have been categorized for years so I struggle with combining it.
     
    #118 Clutch, Oct 22, 2010
  19. Major

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    I think this probably gives you the most flexibility for "Step 2" as far as experimenting. From the above, you can either:

    1. Leave it as-is if it works out well.

    2. Add Baseball/March Madness/Golf/Soccer/etc to the Football forum and make it "All Sports", leaving the Houston forum.

    3. Merge the Texans with Football and turn the Astros into Baseball.

    Worst case, it doesn't do what you want and you throw all the threads back in the new Football forum back into the Hangout and no harm done as you re-evaluate.
     
    #119 Major, Oct 22, 2010
  20. Deckard

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    Then that's reason enough to leave it alone. I have to admit that I don't poke around in that forum very much. It's somehow off my radar screen. As you said, often the topics pop up in Dish or the GARM. I guess that's why. (or I'm lazy!)
     
    #120 Deckard, Oct 22, 2010
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