Forum Structure

[AgnesIO]

The staff forums are all needed yes but I have views about certain aspects of the use of staff forums which by all means decreases posting in the main forums - but that's a completely different topic than the structure of the index.

What I was saying by saying we have a lot of forums is we need opinions of all you people who use the index as it is - as we can't really look at it ourselves as that's not how we use it on a daily basis, so pretty much what im saying is we need your extensive feedback on the index before doing anything to it - when I left the Forum Manager role I was pretty sure the index was an ideal length - some agree, I know Forum Management seem to agree - but again, we need your feedback mainly.

Such as the RV spam thread? There are not 30 different departments at Hx - even including one for every AGM and one for the department managers lol

The staff 'discuss anything' forum is not needed either. Instead of posting in their, staff should be promoting activity for members.

[Hecktix]

Such as the RV spam thread? There are not 30 different departments at Hx - even including one for every AGM and one for the department managers lol

The staff 'discuss anything' forum is not needed either. Instead of posting in their, staff should be promoting activity for members.

30 staff forums may have been an exaggeration but there's sure a good few. Amount of staff forums isnt a problem anyway as they aren't public.

Fully agree about spam threads and talk about anything mind, although I probably would get shot if I took away the spam threads.

[AgnesIO]

30 staff forums may have been an exaggeration but there's sure a good few. Amount of staff forums isnt a problem anyway as they aren't public.

Fully agree about spam threads and talk about anything mind, although I probably would get shot if I took away the spam threads.

Forum speed - the amount does matter

I mean I know the staff forums can be fun, but all the discussions - apart from the odd ******** about forum members - could be done on the main forum. Perhaps staff should be reminded about this?

[Hecktix]

Departments would argue that their spam threads are essential for departmental bonding, which can be a valid argument.

[Inseriousity.]

Personally I feel the index has no problems in terms of length.

Agreed
Oh I might get told off with my one word answer so I suppose I'll elaborate. I think the forum length is fine and there aren't too many forums but it's the just-right amount. Goldilocks would like our forum

[beth]

Departments would argue that their spam threads are essential for departmental bonding, which can be a valid argument.

that's generally just an excuse, the spam forum could be taken away from hxl (for example) and not particularly have any effect apart from that a few choice dj's would have nowhere to post when bored and perhaps would use the actual public forum.

[AgnesIO]

Departments would argue that their spam threads are essential for departmental bonding, which can be a valid argument.

It can indeed be a valid argument - but the RV spam thread had like 40,000 posts when I left AGES ago - I know the first fair few pages were old rare value reports - but at one stage we were posting 50 times a day - that could boost forum activity loads.

Some departments used to have staff bonding where staff won prizes once a fortnight/week - this was always great. A little 'falling furniture' always went well. But too many staff rarely post on the forum.

[Hecktix]

Perhaps a new feedback thread is needed for this topic, afterall this one is for the index

[AgnesIO]

Perhaps a new feedback thread is needed for this topic, afterall this one is for the index

Quite right, I have posted a new topic - it just started due to you bringing up staff forums.

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