Use it or Lose it and Start Discussions On Other Messageboards [Thread Closed]

Oh...

I see what you mean.

Tell you what... It would be super-handy to have a "favorites" for the movie/tv boards we like the most... As it stands, they have to be caught in the trending bar, or searched one by one.

Prelude, I do the same thing you do. Even if I am replying to someone who isn't here on this site, it does come up on the trending bar. I have often gotten responses with others who are here. I have had several interesting discussions as well.
We shouldn't be discouraged. I think this site is doing fine considering how new it is.

Prelude,

I agree; however, it is a very passive approach. What I am trying to do is set the pipleline.

Think of this site as a field right?

You can either put a hose out and let the water find its way (which takes a long azz time) or you could put piplelines in (give direction.)

These suggestions above will do that and will actually give direction. This all starts with a general movie/film t.v. board.

You think people, who now respond on the General Discussion board, will just keep commenting if there is a regulated t.v./film board? No. It will help them exercise the effort to find this board again. That is what I want to happen.

There are so many excuses thrown around like "this site does not have many people", "we're trying to get more people" etc.

The underlying problem is NOT the # of people, but how active they are and what incentives are in place. If this website was a well regulated machine, people would be seen everywhere, there would be ZERO gaps! It would be as active as the old IMDb.

Then there is a group of people we have to get passed that pretty much want to shut down this whole idea. They know who they are and they will make it EXTREMELY hard. They have very closeminded attitudes of seeing ANYTHING change and if it does, they will make sure you are gone!

In the end, it is Jim that has the final say. Not us, not the mods..Jim.

But then there are those other boards, ones that are like "Food", "Politics" and those do not show up in trending. I have an idea for that too. If we had a members trending and it shows where the member commented, the chance will skyrocket that someone else will comment on that thread. It would revolutionize this site as much as notifications did!

I told them the same thing months ago. Good job for catching up.

To paraphrase Dazed's somments more succinctly and, admittedly, more crassly, why don't you just STFU about this, arvin?

"Interestingly you only seem to post here Arvin"

Very rough estimate and research out of 2879 posts 150-160 were NOT in GD.
This is roughly 5-6% of total posts.
Out of those a large percentage were not on movie boards.
So there's that.

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ATM is just a movie-watching group. Its purpose is fun! Those who've joined get to be on a list of those who suggest which movies to watch. It means watching movies you otherwise might not watch, and might not even heard of. Then the group discusses the movies.

Most here don't bother with the genre, general films, general TV, and other similar boards, and go directly to the board of the individual film/show/actor to post. It was the same on IMDb.

Also like on IMDb, sometimes no one replies to your posts. Sometimes they do, but weeks, months, or even years later.

It seems more people seem to post on the popular or newer movie boards.
Most of the time these don't interest me or I'm so far behind on watching a new show that it becomes old
once I start watching it.

ATM is for fun but also to try to get a group of people together to discuss a movie. Especially older movies.
This seems to be where this site is lacking. A small amount of people each with different tastes.
We're just trying to get some discussions going on some of these movies. Not to mention a great way to discover
some really good movies that we might not have seen before.

There are a number of people who post here but never answer replies. You will get to know them after a while.
As of now everybody is scattered.
I wish I had a better answer for you.
I will say that I have seen more new names posting in the last month than I can remember in the past.

I think a lot of people have different sites where they are posting. Nobody is happy with any of them.
They post then come back every few days to see what they have. Trying to find the "perfect" one.

I feel you. It is mostly due to the disorganization of this site and the passiveness most members go by to "reach" those audiences. The site needs to focus on a board that has some relation to movies and t.v. It's great that you noticed that and a change some of us are fighting for!

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I know what it means! It means "my thread hasn't gone the way I wanted it to go, so I'm going to pretend I can control others and prevent them from posting in it anymore by adding [Thread Closed] to the title."

One day you will all understand.
Arvin is one and one is Arvin.