I've been noticing that Main has a lot of threads for groups, but the threads aren't really for discussing anything. They're just threads that explain the group, and then... people bump it. So they're just full of bumps. Considering that there isn't any important separate discussion going on in those threads, I, personally, think that we should combine the official group threads into one thread. That thread would contain all the links and information for the groups, as well as how to add yourself to them. With these groups, I mean the main FB groups, Skype group, texting group, et cetera. That way, we would only have one thread to bump, it would contain all of the group information newbs need, and we could add to it as other types of groups are made.

Opinions?

Also, I think we should clean out/stop bumping group threads if the original group creators aren't active or keeping the group up. I've noticed several old threads that aren't active but aren't closed, leading people to not be sure if they should or shouldn't bump it. Even I'm not sure what groups are active anymore.

I disagree with this. I think someone should go through the groups and find out which ones are active. The ones that aren't should be closed or saged. I don't think we should have a thread filled with all the links because if one of the groups die, then people will still see it and try to use it.

I do think that all the groups need to be in one place and off of Main. Maybe another sub-board? (You can tell I'm trying to use sub-boards to solve all of your issues.)

>>3 I disagree with making a sub board just to get rid of the group threads. If we keep getting rid of threads and putting them in a sub board or something, then Main will become empty.

I shall provide some facts: Before the Missions board was made, we allowed Mission threads to exist on Main. Main was around what, 300 or something threads, not counting all of the spam and stuff before permasaging made threads get deleted.

Now that the Missions board was made, Main is now at 159 threads, well a couple threads less than that due to some spam and such. Now, if we take away the group threads... Too lazy to count them. But then again, there's only like... what, 5 group threads?

But then this would lead to a different point, that that's too little of threads to make a sub board. Sub boards, or just boards in general, are made for when shit gets too much in the Main board. Mission threads apparently was getting to be too much for Main, and so there was a Missions board. Country/location threads was getting to be too much and so Countries board. Suggestions... Well, there was a thread mainly for Suggestions, which was at like 200 posts, but I think it was the fact that people failed to look at the posts prior to the main 3 posts you can see that it was made, I guess.

So yeah, just making sub boards is not a way to solve issues, at least not for Main, because then it would leave the board practically barren.

As for the original problem at hand, I really don't think it's that big of a problem. And so what if there's no discussion? The threads weren't made for discussing in the first place. It was for sharing the profiles and whatever, just like the deviantart profile sharing thread in the Art board. And if you can say the same thing for the FAQ thread, there's rarely any discussions, just bumps. Or that "Use the View All Threads button" thread, that's also all bumps. These threads, plus the Group threads fall under the one of the three criteria for belonging in the Main board, and that is "Important topics", at least in my opinion.

>>4 Your right, but I couldn't think of anything else.

>>3 No. For reasons stated in >>4 which I don't feel the need to repeat.

>>4 I believe group threads should be on Main; I'm not arguing that point. However, I feel that having one organized thread with all of the groups would save us bumps and would make it easier to see all of the possible groups we could join. In my opinion, we don't need separate threads for things that are only going to have comments that say, "bump!" Most group threads don't get much discussion, and those bits of discussion can still be in the one thread. They're not really enough to need a whole thread.

I'm not saying it's some huge problem. This would just be for ease of viewing and bumping.

You mean like the Useful Thread Index but for groups?

>>7 I don't think she wants an index, just a consolidated thread, filled with the necessary information/links/whatever to such group.

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Bananas. They never die.

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Alice.. Stop bumping him off. You'er filling the thread with crapp..

Seriously, Alice. Knock it the fuck off. Every time you bump him off, he'll just come back to purposely bump your posts off. You're wasting my thread space.

I'm sorry, I'll stop. I just got tired of seeing all that when I came on here, so I assumed you all were, too. I was just trying to help.

It's fine; just keep that in mind for future reference.

Also, of course we're fed up. However, we're not going to antagonize a spammer because we're annoyed. That only makes things worse.

>>1 Whats with >>29 ? is he crazy or something ^^'

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Do not pay any attention to him or else he'll do it even more.

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I agree!