shakran

By your first statement, you seem to have managed OK. And the forum goes out of its way to help you keep track of threads that have new replies. In the individual forum, it bolds the subject line and kicks it up to the top. And you can get to it through the New Posts feature. Hell you can even subscribe to the thread and get an email every time someone posts to it. What more do you want?

I could make the same argument. Gee I have trouble keeping track of the democrat threads in the politics forum. Let's make a democrat forum!

Why? Put it in the general forum. If you have so many questions and so much information for us, why haven't we seen one shred of it yet?

And here's a hint for you - - - if the mods see that a lot of people are following your example and there's a LOT of discussion (REAL discussion, not 9 spam posts in a row that die out almost before they're started) that's consistant and carried on for some time, then maybe they'll see a need for a pet forum and create one. Right now, they're right. If they made a pet forum it'd be a ghost town. You'd have the forum so no one would feel the need to do 9 pet topics in a row. We'd have the average number of pet topics on here, which is pretty damn close to 0 per week. What good would that do?

well hell I guess the mods don't clean their bathrooms because there's no cleaning products forum, even though I see the occasional "how to clean" post out there.

I have a lot of specialized interests myself, but I'm not asking them to create a chess forum or a star trek forum or a photojournalism forum because I realize that those forums would be dead.

Seriously, what the hell? They created a GENERAL forum for GENERAL topics of interest. You guys are acting like the universe will implode if you put a pet topic in there. FFS if you wanna talk about pets, the mods aren't stopping you. Post it in the general forum. That's what it's there for. Why in hell are you all raising such a big damn stink about this? This is not OUR board, it's THEIR board (and more precisely it's HALX'S board). If we want something we can ask. If they agree, great. If not, suck it up and take it like an adult.

If you're really pissed about it, go get your own server space and make your own pet forum.

Yeah, some of us (and fortunately I'm not a mod so I don't have to be as nice about it) are getting pissed about this little scuffle. Possibly because people on this board are paranoid as hell and they LOVE to suspect the mods of being the Evil Ones of the TFP. Either they're out to ban everyone or they're out to suppress the republicans or the democrats or they're out to get the pet lovers. Just let it go.

General forum is safe. I don't see any scary topics in there.

Yes, and it's from the pro-pet forum coalition. Dead forums lead to dead boards. Let's say a new member goes to the pet forum looking for that safe place to post at first. There's nothing, or almost nothing going on in there. But over at PetLovers.com and PetsHub.com and petsforum.com there's LOTS of discussion about pets. So the new user goes there, and promptly forgets about us. How does this help us?



Quite frankly the thing I appreciate most about Analog is that he doesnt' sugarcoat things. You don't have to wonder what he's really thinking about you. If he thinks you're full of shit, he'll let you know. I think that kind of honesty is frankly refreshing, especially in this over-the-top political-correctness society.

And you should note that, unless you say something completely, appallingly stupid, he won't start out browbeating you. He'll explain what's going on, but if you don't get it then after awhile he gets annoyed. I'm pretty much the same way, which is why the tone of this post is not nearly as friendly as the tone of my first post in the original discussion thread.