This may cause me to seem like some sort of grinch. I apologize if that is the case, but this has been kind of bothering me for a while now.
The Creative Corner board on this forum is bogged down with threads that serve no purpose beyond advertising Youtube videos, posted in large part by folks who have displayed no interest in the forum beyond that purpose, who in some cases don't even bother with an introductory thread before they begin their advertising spiel.
Twenty one threads - that's half of the front page being taken up by people who have never posted outside of their own advertisement threads and/or their own welcome thread.
So --- what's the big deal?
This box provides at-a-glance information regarding what people here are talking about.
It seems like, more often than not these days, it is taken up in large part by "Check out my thing" threads posted, again, by people who have displayed absolutely zero interest in this community. Instead of having topics that are likely to be of interest to the community and worthy of actual discussion being highlighted at the top of the index page, we instead have nonsense that, frankly - based on the average number of replies these threads get - nobody cares about.
In addition to jumbling up the content listed in the New Topics side bar, it also pushes topics that might be of actual interest to folks down amongst a mess of spam threads. Given that this forum often tends to be fairly low activity (which is okay), this means that posts to threads that actually have some degree of substance can take a while - meaning that they can get pushed down far enough that members who don't scroll beyond the first several threads (and could they be blamed, if all of those threads are simply video advertisements?) or beyond the first page of threads won't even see them.
With that in mind, I very strongly request something along the lines of these three options be implemented. There may be better courses of action available, however this is what comes immediately to mind.
1: Prevent members who are under X posts (where X is a small and easily reached number) from making threads in the Creative board, while also removing any threads advertising Youtube channels or videos that are created elsewhere in an attempt to sidestep this.
2: Remove threads located in the Creative board from the Recent Topics side panel.
3: Allow people to advertise their channels and videos without restriction, however limit them to one thread and require that any new videos or content they wish to advertise be placed within that thread, something that is most courteously done in the case of this thread.
Apologies for the rant, but I rather like this place and want it to do well - as such I strongly urge that any and all actions that can be taken to make it more appealing to people passing through be taken. While the impact of this particular bit may admittedly be limited by itself, there are probably a fair number of other such minor improvements that can be made... and little things do add up.
Anyhow, thank you for taking the time to read my ranting.
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This may cause me to seem like some sort of grinch. I apologize if that is the case, but this has been kind of bothering me for a while now.
The Creative Corner board on this forum is bogged down with threads that serve no purpose beyond advertising Youtube videos, posted in large part by folks who have displayed no interest in the forum beyond that purpose, who in some cases don't even bother with an introductory thread before they begin their advertising spiel.
Case in point, taken from the first page:
Twenty one threads - that's half of the front page being taken up by people who have never posted outside of their own advertisement threads and/or their own welcome thread.
So --- what's the big deal?
This box provides at-a-glance information regarding what people here are talking about.
It seems like, more often than not these days, it is taken up in large part by "Check out my thing" threads posted, again, by people who have displayed absolutely zero interest in this community. Instead of having topics that are likely to be of interest to the community and worthy of actual discussion being highlighted at the top of the index page, we instead have nonsense that, frankly - based on the average number of replies these threads get - nobody cares about.
In addition to jumbling up the content listed in the New Topics side bar, it also pushes topics that might be of actual interest to folks down amongst a mess of spam threads. Given that this forum often tends to be fairly low activity (which is okay), this means that posts to threads that actually have some degree of substance can take a while - meaning that they can get pushed down far enough that members who don't scroll beyond the first several threads (and could they be blamed, if all of those threads are simply video advertisements?) or beyond the first page of threads won't even see them.
With that in mind, I very strongly request something along the lines of these three options be implemented. There may be better courses of action available, however this is what comes immediately to mind.
1: Prevent members who are under X posts (where X is a small and easily reached number) from making threads in the Creative board, while also removing any threads advertising Youtube channels or videos that are created elsewhere in an attempt to sidestep this.
2: Remove threads located in the Creative board from the Recent Topics side panel.
3: Allow people to advertise their channels and videos without restriction, however limit them to one thread and require that any new videos or content they wish to advertise be placed within that thread, something that is most courteously done in the case of this thread.
Apologies for the rant, but I rather like this place and want it to do well - as such I strongly urge that any and all actions that can be taken to make it more appealing to people passing through be taken. While the impact of this particular bit may admittedly be limited by itself, there are probably a fair number of other such minor improvements that can be made... and little things do add up.
Anyhow, thank you for taking the time to read my ranting.
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