Compulsory "Post What You're Listening to" winge thread

[Eoin247]

It doesn't have a post count? :S I guess it's just generic "Welcome !" messages, but to say that would mean that the "What are you listening to?" would have to have a disabled post count too.

The congratz section doesn't, but the welcome section does. Seems kinda odd to me

[FlyingJesus]

I've not come across this? They shouldn't be though, because the whole point of categories and forums is to group together similar discussions in one place. Many of the big threads have stayed where they were created - Post... a picture of yourself, a picture of your setup, your desktop, your car etc etc

Plenty got moved to spam when Jake came back and had his usual spout of creating them

Where?

You suggest that a subby with just one thread is a bad thing, which is essentially the same but not really an important point

Most appear to be the odd "if something has to change" or "I wouldn't mind" rather than definitive yes or no answers. There doesn't seem to be any real concerns.

If there weren't concerns there wouldn't be a thread lol

By default you cannot disable posts counts in threads, it's only the forum with the ability (unless 4.1 added this feature?). Your suggestion of moving it to some unknown forum and leaving a ghost will give it a different location (people viewing/posting in the thread will see the forum name associated with it in Last Post etc.) Plus you have the task of creating the sub-forum or forum to place it in - Would spam want it? It's not a pointless thread afterall (as the Spam forum description suggests) and creating one sub-forum for one thread is incredibly wasteful and it's not a forum game. I'm not entirely sure if Ghost threads last, sometimes they disappear but I assume this can be altered.

Wouldn't need to disable post counts in the thread itself because it would be in a different forum. The actual forum ID wouldn't matter as it would still just come from the music section where the ghost would be, and the sub itself can be madeas a child forum ofMusic and hidden so that it doesn't take up any visible space and wouldn't cause any "waste". It would look exactly the same as it does right now to us peasants

Then you have the problem of members not creating threads to express what they are listening to. Not everyone posts threads, they tend to reply to them instead.

There's already a thread for that, it'sthe onewe're talking about threads for actual discussion and opinions on music are made in the rest of the section, which does happen and won't be hampered (indeed, might even cause an increase in activity) by making this change

[The Don]

What does Habbox gain from removing the post count in that thread or relocating it into the spam/forum games section? The only thing that will do is reduce activity in the thread which doesn't benefit Habbox whatsoever. Jake's threads were all moved to spam because they didn't create discussion and they weren't as popular as the 'Post What You're Listening to' thread. Obviously, theoretically, it should be moved to Spam, but considering the forums activity is decreasing and the thread generates a lot of interest, it shouldn't be changed.

[FlyingJesus]

I'd argue that removing post count from it might actually promote more discussion, since anyone who does post there just for a post count would instead be getting more involved in current discussion threads or creating their own to actually talk about a track/artist rather than just record what they've got on at the time. Of course, people genuinely interested in the thread won't stop posting in it anyway, so that wouldn't be an issue

AND YES THESE WORDS MERGING IS BLOODY ANNOYING lol

[GommeInc]

Wouldn't need to disable post counts in the thread itself because it would be in a different forum. The actual forum ID wouldn't matter as it would still just come from the music section where the ghost would be, and the sub itself can be madeas a child forum ofMusic and hidden so that it doesn't take up any visible space and wouldn't cause any "waste". It would look exactly the same as it does right now to us peasants

I'm pretty sure this is impossible... The forum will have to be viewable for us peasants to see the thread, as the forum permissions would effect who can see it. So if the forum is hidden from view, then so would the thread as the forum will look at your permissions (for example) and notice that you lack the pre-requisites to view the forum, which then leads to an access denied warning when attempting to view the thread. It's like when threads are moved from Feedback to Trash/Bin (whatever Habbox call their archive of 'deleted' threads).

Also, I'm fairly certain it won't make people create discussions in the forum about what songs they are listening to. If they do not do it now they will never do it unless there is an incentive. It will be business as useful for the Music forum, which people use to discuss songs they've done covers of or particular songs worthy of discussion.

[FlyingJesus]

Forums can be made that are "visible" (ie: people can get to them) but don't have actual links on the main page/in the category, and so wouldn't take up any space visibly. If you really fancied it you'd be able to get to the specific sub by either writing the forum ID in the URL or clicking the link once you're already in the thread, but it can easily be set so that other threads can't be made in there. It really is the work of about 5 minutes and would do the job perfectly

[Grumbles]

Well, I like feta cheese

Edited by Catzsy (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not spam

[Eoin247]

Why not un-stickie them? there are a hell of a lot of threads on this forum that shouldn't have been stickied for as long as they have been. Most forums regularly change the stickie threads in the forum of this type.

[Chippiewill]

The "Post Your Desktop and Setup" threads in the Technology Discussion forum are just as guilty of this supposedly cardinal sin, except some with an interest reply to some of the posts (though mostly they do not).

There's at least triple if not more points of discussion in those threads per page, they also are not spammable in the same way.

[JerseySafety]

Well, I like feta cheese

Edited by Catzsy (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not spam

LOL, totally off topic.

OT: Removing post count just makes the thread dead (in most cases), unstickying the thread could work but then again it could become dead. I really don't see a problem.