Hi everyone !

I guess most of people here (including myself) joined the community because they once watched Durarara!
I assume that these people, close to japanese culture (and foreign cultures in general), are used to being part of web communities like forums and such...
Based on my own experience, these type of forums have similar types of boards (Games; Music; Food; Technology etc...)
But shit, I read the FAQ and all and I thought that this site was different from other sites and forums.

I don't wan't people to reconsider what may took a lot of time to build but, why the hell a lot of interesting threads are in the Random Board ? Why an important board such as Personal is below trivial boards like Food and such ?

I mean, okay people do what they wanna do and talk about what they wanna talk about, that's what being a Dollar is about. But, I think it would be better if the Board system was more focused on what tends to make a member of Dollars to be more open to other people and to his world, maybe to himself as well :).

I'm posting this on the Suggestions Board, so I'll make a suggestion :D , but I'm quite interested in everyone's opinion about the main idea :

Main Board :
- Introductions
- Countries
- Missions
- Suggestions

Personal Board : (ask for advice, share your experience, talk about many things regarding our members life. Many Random topics could fit in this board)

News Board :(may be it could be divided into "News regarding the knowledge of everyone" and "News that could directly implicate some kind of a mission")

Interests Board : (or something like that)
- Animation
- Art
- Comics
- Films
- Food
- Games
- Literature
- Music
- Sports
- Technology

Random Board : (with real random topics and games...)

The boards are alphabetized. Discussion type threads CAN go on Main, but aren't. And whatever "interesting" threads you see there, probably can. Or not, depending on our definition of "interesting".

Well, alphabetized except Main and News.

>>3

Just thought of this, but shouldn't Random be above Sports alphabetically?


>>1 A thread on Random may be interesting, but it may not necessarily provide a conversation that is Main-worthy. The Main board does contain discussion threads, however.

While the thought is appreciated, I don't particularly like your layout for the boards. Especially the part about the Interests board. Taking the threads we already have,and converting them to sub-boards under a new board seems quite unnecessary to me.

>>4 Fine then, Main, News, and Random are the exceptions to the alphabetization.

>>5

Alphabetized with Main, News and Random as the sole exceptions is word of god according to the response I got when I emailed him about making the personal board.

And again, I don't see any reason to re-arrange where the boards are. They'd still be in a list of massive bold letters to your left. If you can't be bothered to look down a short list of big bold letters, there's really no hope for you.

>>6 It's not that a can't stand "big bold letters"...
The main idea is that, in my opinion, there is minority of important boards regarding the main goal of this site/community (which would be helping each other and all...)
May be it's just a matter of presentation but I think it gives too much importance to discussions about Food, Sports, Games, etc...
Okay, that's cool but you have so many other sites where you can talk about that at will.

Dunno if I'm making sense or not ? Anyway, thanks for the concern.

>>7 Not everyone comes here to help people, some come because they enjoy the communitys company.

>>8 Yeah I quite understand that !
As for me I decided to make suggestions :P

Are you saying we're single serving? That we only have one, singular goal, and it is related to philanthropy? Can we not just be a community?

Yeah, there are other sites, and if you don't want to talk about it here, then don't. It's not like those boards were made because we wanted people to talk about those things - on the contrary, they were made because people wanted to talk about them.

Your logic is flawed all over the place, as well. To point out a few instances:

>I guess most of people here (including myself) joined the community because they once watched Durarara!
>I assume that these people, close to japanese culture (and foreign cultures in general), are used to being part of web communities like forums and such...

First off, watching anime makes you no closer to japanese culture than eating sushi does. Second off, being close to japanese/foreign cultures makes you no less a stranger to web communities as making an email account does.

>why the hell a lot of interesting threads are in the Random Board ?

Admittedly, you seem to be a new member, so I'll explain this one.
The Personal board is rather new. Like, made only maybe a week ago. And the Random board is a catch-all board to begin with - lots of people are too afraid to post on the Main board when a topic really is worth discussing, which is just as well, because many people who post on the Main board do so with reckless disregard for importance.

It's a vicious cycle. Someone posts something dumb (like "hurr looking for some1 in the chatrooms") on the main board, they get yelled at, and everyone witnessing doesn't want to be yelled at even if they have a topic really worth discussion. And then the content drifts towards Random.

That's not something we can deal with directly, though, so if you believe a thread belongs on main instead of random, that's really up to the poster. However, when a thread is supposed to belong somewhere else, clearly, it's usually pointed out.

>I think it would be better if the Board system was more focused on what tends to make a member of Dollars to be more open to other people and to his world, maybe to himself as well

If you want to make threads like this, go right ahead. It's not the first thing on everyone's mind, but you're certainly welcome to discuss it. In fact, it's likely been discussed at some length, somewhere on the site already - we've been up for almost 2 years now, you know.

But it's not something you can continue to discuss at length without wearing it out. This isn't a psychological introspection site, you know. Some people are just here to talk to people as a community.

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It's an alright suggestion, but it puts an unnecessary amount of importance on something that people should just be inclined to do in the first place. There's no point to split the board into categories when people already know what reasons they come here - it just makes things more of a hassle, really.

Personally, I go by "if something isn't broken, don't fix it." Our board categorization isn't causing any problems or misleading people in any way. In fact, it would be more misleading to make it seem like partaking in missions is a criteria for joining the site.

I understand your point here. And I don't disagree with you. But...

> if something isn't broken, don't fix it."
Well, if everything was alright there would be less people who'd been yelled at or less people scared to post... Nothing is perfect I guess and it's true that everyone has to make efforts regarding the policy.

>>11 Some people are just here to talk to people as a community.
>>7 Not everyone comes here to help people, some come because they enjoy the communitys company.
Sure, but some people came here for help purpose, some both...
Personnaly, I came here for the help purpose, that's why I suggested all those things, even if it's a individual point of view.

Anyway, I dunno if we'll get anywhere now with this discussion :). After some reflexion, I'll say that it's not bad if the Board system stays like that but I'm not against some changes ;).

I like that you made suggestions, however most of us tend to be mildly paranoid regarding flippant changes in site navigation or purpose.

That's not to say we're against it - However, like with the Personal Board's Suggestion Thread, it's a good idea to bring along a series of logical, thought out points for why it should be done.

Those points will then be challenged, torn apart, and discussed (sometimes at length). This is not because we oppose the idea, but because the people talking about it want to be sure it's a good idea before doing it.

So don't take Misuto, Insert, myself, sleep and the others as opposing the idea - If we criticize the idea, or provide counterpoints, it's because we're looking to fully understand and be persuaded that your idea/suggestion is a good one.

Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. But I wanted to just state it plainly that this is why you often see walls of text regarding suggestions that don't necessarily agree with them; It's a normal thing.

Yeah yeah I know...
When I made this suggestion I knew it would't be a piece of cake, but it's sad to be on the defensive like that :( .
Once again, I know that you've been through a lot with this site and its members but come on don't be so cold !!
I think I'll warm up this place a lil' bit :) !

... What?

This is the part where you're supposed to change your idea a bit so that it can be better, not where you're like "you're so cold. Stop being cold."

No offense, but, what does us being cold have to do with anything? It's not being cold, it's being realistic. It's the same thing in the world outside the internet. No one's gonna implement any of your ideas just because you suggested it and thought it was a good idea. They're gonna implement it if it's efficient, if it can actually serve a purpose, if it can do something good.

Sorry for the off topic thing, just had to make a comment, about your comment.

It actually serves a purpose : be more oriented on HELPING EACH OTHER !!!!!!

But it as already been said that all the people here didn't come here with the same goal. Okay, what Imma gonna do now ? Control people's mind so they can agree with me ?
I think my idea is pretty efficient regarding the goal of helping each other wich I think is not a trivial goal.

If you want something more efficient based on my idea then help me instead of telling me shit. Or just say that you'd rather leave these Boards unchanged.

>>16 I help people, I help them by directing them how use their noggin.

Okay. So I'll say this again. I understand the system and all, but the fact that there are so many threads on each board makes it hard to sort through. If there are so many threads on one board then it takes more time then necessary to figure out if you idea was already posted by someone else. It sometimes takes more time then people have to look through it all. I have a busy life and I'm assuming that a lot of you people do too. That means some of us don't have the time to look through it all while we're trying to make the world a better place or doing our missions.
The fact that people are posting threads in the wrong boards or making repeats make it harder as well because that's MORE threads we have to sort through. There needs to be a way to take down the duplicate threads and move the threads that are in the wrong sections so that they may be in the correct section. Or just take those down too. I also think that the threads should be broken up more into sub-threads and even break up the sub-threads into smaller groups as well. That way people will only have to look through smaller amounts of threads to see if their idea is a duplicate. It also makes better organization.

>>18 I am somehow under the impression you're not familiar with using Ctrl+F for searching. Because it takes almost no time at all to get to what you're looking for using that.

And the rest of your post is more or less based on the idea that a thread is difficult to find in a long list of things because you have to look through all of them. And then if you divide them into categories and sub-categories what you're looking for could be easier to pinpoint. But that's pretty unnecessary, since with a simple keyword search you can find whatever you're looking for however long or short the list you're looking through is.

>>19 I am under the impression that you think every computer can use Ctrl+F for searching. When I click Ctrl+F nothing happens. If it were that easy, then I would not have this issue.

Are you using a Mac? Because if so, it's command f.

is the basic keyboard function the same world wide?

>>20

Given you can easily GOOGLE how your computer can use it, we're more so under the impression any idiot can find out how to use it's built in search function. I am pretty certain every computer has it's own.