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MisterE
Social climber
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Bump because Duardo and others are just spewing the same-old, same-old and think it is new because it is THEIR TOPIC.
And still we respond, and as such it continues.
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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SPLIT THE FORUM.
There is a reason most forums have topic rooms. It works.
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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I think the problem is that most of us don't climb as much as we used to, but we still want to hang out with the ones that do.
I miss Doug's input, and stories too.
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jstan
climber
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SPLIT THE FORUM.
There is a reason most forums have topic rooms. It works.
And how are they doing as compared to the traffic on ST?
You have noticed how fast trip reports fall off the front page?
How many times do you pull up a thread just because others are interested in it and found something really interesting? A lot. Even when you have no interest in the topic. I'll even pull up one of those god awful chest beating threads, perish the thought, and find great comments.
The sites split up 98 ways are not worth the effort it takes to look at them.
We all have favorite posters. There might be a useful tool to add to search. One that pulls up all the recent posts by authors on one's list of favorites. I do it one by one all the time but that tends to be laborious.
Another idea. New posters often start threads to gain more attention. Might there be a requirement that one has to have been logging onto or posting on the site for N months before one can start a thread? That would help reduce the number of political threads.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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jstan- The problem with a wait period is that the reach of our forum is wide and lots of folks find it while looking for historical information and need an immediate response. The Gary Hemming thread is a good example.
We don't want to discourage participation.
Posters simply need to put themselves in Chris' position as lord of this CLIMBING forum. Incivility and coarse dialog chases good folks away as happens to any forum. Wet tee shirt threads do the same.
This forum is what WE make it, simple as that. Climbing content needs to drive it to keep Chris interested in continuing to host our glorious little mess. If it stops being worth his time and money then it may cease to be.
Degenerate political rant therapy gains Chris nothing.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Thanks Dingus.
I have to reign myself in just like everybody else. I get posts yanked now and then while heckling new political posters.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Original post bump
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Gene
climber
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We all love trip reports. But they have the highest views to comments ratio. The problem is that there are few things you can add beyond TFPU, bitchen, way to get after it, gnarly, and so on. TRs are very enjoyable but generally difficult to contribute something fresh to. I wish there was a way to keep them on the front page longer. Something like getting bumped to the top of the heap every X views.
g
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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^^^^ good points, and I like that idea
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Maybe have a tab for traditional "sort by latest contribution" and a different tab for "sort by latest views" to see what is most popular at the moment. For example, under the Forum tab have a link "Most Active" and another link for "Most Popular"
There is room for both approaches.
Then there's the whole categories, tags, letting people create filtered views using those tags, etc....
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Sep 20, 2012 - 04:33pm PT
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bump
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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You have to admit, the Werner multiplying birthday threads are pretty funny.
bump for zBrown and Hartouni
hahahahaha
EDIT: and of course Herr Braun. Where would the ST be without him?
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briham89
Big Wall climber
los gatos. ca
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Oh no!!!! Election season :( I wanna hear more about climbing.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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and Steve McKinney:
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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this is one of the best forums on the internet
don't mess it up
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Bump, in honor of E.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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[quote
TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
Oct 3, 2012 - 08:49pm PT
this is one of the best forums on the internet
don't mess it up
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Tom.... what do you mean one of the best??
Nothin else is even in the same league.
What? MP, RC, SP??? those places with the MODERATERS doing most of the posting???
Taco rules.
Thank you C. Mac
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Jul 19, 2013 - 10:39pm PT
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Wait, hang on, what's this "non-climbing thread" nonsense? I'm not sure that's actually a "thing" on this forum anymore.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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Jul 19, 2013 - 10:43pm PT
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yes please QITNL!! let's see your pictures!
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