View Poll Results: Are there too many sub-forums?
Too many
57
57.00%
About right
33
33.00%
Too few
10
10.00%
Voters: 100. You may not vote on this poll
Are there too many Australia sub-forums
Jan 10th 2007, 8:49 am
#46
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Nov 2005
Location: at the bottom of a wine glass
Posts: 28,176
Jan 10th 2007, 9:15 am
#47
Crazy Cat Lady
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 65,493
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
Oi, you lot back on track
The newbies one isn't needed IMO. The meet up one is probably useful but I forget it's there, therefore I'm obviously a miserable so and so and it is irrelevant to me if it's there or not.
There are obviously two different points of view to the updates one. If you are like Wendy and here all the time
you don't need a special forum for them and I think we probably do like reading them. If, on the other hand, you can only get on here once a week or so, then it's useful. It depends on how much crap people are posting in general
Was I one of the first to speak to you iPom? How nice am I? Oh, was I useful??
The newbies one isn't needed IMO. The meet up one is probably useful but I forget it's there, therefore I'm obviously a miserable so and so and it is irrelevant to me if it's there or not.
There are obviously two different points of view to the updates one. If you are like Wendy and here all the time
you don't need a special forum for them and I think we probably do like reading them. If, on the other hand, you can only get on here once a week or so, then it's useful. It depends on how much crap people are posting in general Was I one of the first to speak to you iPom? How nice am I? Oh, was I useful??
Jan 10th 2007, 10:43 am
#48
Account Closed
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 10,158
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
Oi, you lot back on track
The newbies one isn't needed IMO. The meet up one is probably useful but I forget it's there, therefore I'm obviously a miserable so and so and it is irrelevant to me if it's there or not.
There are obviously two different points of view to the updates one. If you are like Wendy and here all the time you don't need a special forum for them and I think we probably do like reading them. If, on the other hand, you can only get on here once a week or so, then it's useful. It depends on how much crap people are posting in general
Was I one of the first to speak to you iPom? How nice am I? Oh, was I useful??
The newbies one isn't needed IMO. The meet up one is probably useful but I forget it's there, therefore I'm obviously a miserable so and so and it is irrelevant to me if it's there or not.
There are obviously two different points of view to the updates one. If you are like Wendy and here all the time
you don't need a special forum for them and I think we probably do like reading them. If, on the other hand, you can only get on here once a week or so, then it's useful. It depends on how much crap people are posting in general Was I one of the first to speak to you iPom? How nice am I? Oh, was I useful??
I was very worried and this place put my mind at rest immediately. Excellent.
Jan 10th 2007, 11:34 am
#49
Cheesy Member
Joined: Jul 2003
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 1,033
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
I eagerly await the following sub-forums:
- Lettuce is a rip-off
- Got it!!!!111!!1
- Shipping [Possibly with a sub-sub-forum just for people asking if they should ship everything or start from scratch]
- Water down the plughole
- My son/daughter/husband/wife isn't settling in/is getting bullied/can't find work
- Cheese
- Mooncups
Cheers,
DagBoy
Jan 10th 2007, 11:38 am
#50
Cheesy Member
Joined: Jul 2003
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 1,033
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
I had to vote for about right.
I only ever look in
Forum/Lifestyle & Culture/Australia
and
Forum/Lifestyle & Culture/Australia/Barbie.
All the others are irrelevant to me and I never see them - did not even realise there were others until I read this - the two I look at are bookmarked.
Cheers,
DagBoy
I only ever look in
Forum/Lifestyle & Culture/Australia
and
Forum/Lifestyle & Culture/Australia/Barbie.
All the others are irrelevant to me and I never see them - did not even realise there were others until I read this - the two I look at are bookmarked.
Cheers,
DagBoy
Jan 10th 2007, 11:52 am
#51
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Nov 2003
Location: Scotland
Posts: 7,949
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
Is anyone else missing meets, not welcoming newbies, or not reading updates before as there are too many sub-forums?
Or do you only want to meet people in cyberspace, glad you don't have to mix with the freshers or don't care what happened to that person you used to chat to 12 months ago?
Or do you only want to meet people in cyberspace, glad you don't have to mix with the freshers or don't care what happened to that person you used to chat to 12 months ago?
I tend to only look at the Lifestyle and Culture forum and don't bother with much else. I find it a little annoying when threads get moved (which wouldn't be necessary with fewer forums) eg from L & C to The Barbie and often scratch my head as to why something isn't lifestyle and culture. Let's face it, what do people usually talk about around the Barbie - lifestyle and culture.
If this is a democratic forum which is responsive to its 'customers needs' then the approx 2/3 of the poll currently voting for too many will see some action from Sue to reduce the plethora of forums.
Another suggestion would be to have more than one board for British Expats if that doesn't have any financial implications for the owners. I've set up a number of different boards, work and tennis related on Invision Free and they are free so there aren't any cost implications. i.e. instead of one board with oodles of sub-forums, have >1 board with fewer sub-forums. I realise this doesn't necessarily reduce the number of places to look, check and post but I just throw it in as a suggestion.
OzTennis
(must be my age 
Jan 10th 2007, 12:15 pm
#53
Crazy Cat Lady
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 65,493
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
and of course, if her post count was there..............................
Jan 10th 2007, 2:16 pm
#56
Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Location: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Posts: 93,824
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
Jan 10th 2007, 4:38 pm
#57
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,376
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
FWIW, I personally think the sub forums are a great idea! Saves having to trawl through hundreds of posts trying to find what you are after! I can now log in and go to exactly what I'm looking for depending on my mood, wether that be, winding someone up (moi?) in the Barbie or reading reports of what people have been upto and how they have settled into their new lives!
Some people seem to forget that The Barbie is also a sub-forum! It would appear that many of the regular posters seldom leave it, so sub-forums cant be all that bad, can they?
The Australia forum, as others have stated, is VERY, VERY popular...probably (don't quote me) attracting 1000's of unique visitors per day....it makes sense to 'sort' the different topics surely? You wouldn't tip up to a porn site (per example) and expect to find all the different genres of filth all jumbled in together now would you? NO! You would wish to be able to search by your particular 'kink', so to speak! The same applies to a busy forum such as BE......
I vote that the sub forums are a fantastic idea and look forward to seeing many more of them appear.
Have to also add, that I think the vote is affected by people voting what they 'think' others will want them to vote, especially the noobs, trying hard to impress. I actually find it very hard to understand why the vote so far is that their are too many????
Some people seem to forget that The Barbie is also a sub-forum! It would appear that many of the regular posters seldom leave it, so sub-forums cant be all that bad, can they?
The Australia forum, as others have stated, is VERY, VERY popular...probably (don't quote me) attracting 1000's of unique visitors per day....it makes sense to 'sort' the different topics surely? You wouldn't tip up to a porn site (per example)
and expect to find all the different genres of filth all jumbled in together now would you? NO! You would wish to be able to search by your particular 'kink', so to speak! The same applies to a busy forum such as BE......I vote that the sub forums are a fantastic idea and look forward to seeing many more of them appear.
Have to also add, that I think the vote is affected by people voting what they 'think' others will want them to vote, especially the noobs, trying hard to impress. I actually find it very hard to understand why the vote so far is that their are too many????
Last edited by FluffyTheCampfireSlayer; Jan 10th 2007 at 4:40 pm.
Jan 10th 2007, 10:26 pm
#58
Account Closed
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 10,158
Re: Are there too many Australia sub-forums
FWIW, I personally think the sub forums are a great idea! Saves having to trawl through hundreds of posts trying to find what you are after! I can now log in and go to exactly what I'm looking for depending on my mood, wether that be, winding someone up (moi?) in the Barbie or reading reports of what people have been upto and how they have settled into their new lives!
Some people seem to forget that The Barbie is also a sub-forum! It would appear that many of the regular posters seldom leave it, so sub-forums cant be all that bad, can they?
The Australia forum, as others have stated, is VERY, VERY popular...probably (don't quote me) attracting 1000's of unique visitors per day....it makes sense to 'sort' the different topics surely? You wouldn't tip up to a porn site (per example) and expect to find all the different genres of filth all jumbled in together now would you? NO! You would wish to be able to search by your particular 'kink', so to speak! The same applies to a busy forum such as BE......
I vote that the sub forums are a fantastic idea and look forward to seeing many more of them appear.
Have to also add, that I think the vote is affected by people voting what they 'think' others will want them to vote, especially the noobs, trying hard to impress. I actually find it very hard to understand why the vote so far is that their are too many????
Some people seem to forget that The Barbie is also a sub-forum! It would appear that many of the regular posters seldom leave it, so sub-forums cant be all that bad, can they?
The Australia forum, as others have stated, is VERY, VERY popular...probably (don't quote me) attracting 1000's of unique visitors per day....it makes sense to 'sort' the different topics surely? You wouldn't tip up to a porn site (per example)
and expect to find all the different genres of filth all jumbled in together now would you? NO! You would wish to be able to search by your particular 'kink', so to speak! The same applies to a busy forum such as BE......I vote that the sub forums are a fantastic idea and look forward to seeing many more of them appear.
Have to also add, that I think the vote is affected by people voting what they 'think' others will want them to vote, especially the noobs, trying hard to impress. I actually find it very hard to understand why the vote so far is that their are too many????
