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ddlooping

Pros & cons for both ways of doing it I guess.

octatonic

Can we have a drum section s and can I be the moderator for it please?

TTony

A Drums sub-section within Gear?

ddlooping

If we're going to cover more than guitars how about keyboards too?

TTony

I'm just concerned about whether there's the demand for more sections - yet.

It's a bit chicken & egg perhaps - if we create the sections then drummerists and keyboarderers might drop in - but unless there's some obvious content or direction within the section, they're likely to just drop out again.

digitalscream

TTony said:

I'm just concerned about whether there's the demand for more sections - yet.

It's a bit chicken & egg perhaps - if we create the sections then drummerists and keyboarderers might drop in - but unless there's some obvious content or direction within the section, they're likely to just drop out again.

OK, solution - no more section proposals unless the proposer is willing to come up with some editorial content to get it going? It's still not a definite "yes" (it would have to go by The Committee), but it would at least mean that such suggestions were properly considered as opposed to a "we must have everything!" situation.

TTony

digitalscream said:

OK, solution - no more section proposals unless the proposer is willing to come up with some editorial content to get it going?

And (ideally) for the proposer to have some virtual mates to bring along to any new section that we create on theFB, perhaps from another forum that they currently inhabit?

dindude

As this is "the fretboard" and thus has already staked it's claim as a guitar biased forum, the traffic for specific instruments outside of this is likely to be guitarists with other interests, so maybe an "other instruments" section would catch all.

ddlooping

dindude said:

As this is "the fretboard" and thus has already staked it's claim as a guitar biased forum, the traffic for specific instruments outside of this is likely to be guitarists with other interests, so maybe an "other instruments" section would catch all.

That could be the way to go.

digitalscream

ddlooping said:

dindude said:

As this is "the fretboard" and thus has already staked it's claim as a guitar biased forum, the traffic for specific instruments outside of this is likely to be guitarists with other interests, so maybe an "other instruments" section would catch all.

That could be the way to go.

Aye - I was thinking more in terms of the suggestions which keep cropping up.

The sensible approach in terms of non-fretboarded-instruments would be to have the "Other Instruments" category, and then split it in the event that a particular instrument becomes over-represented in there.

TTony

dindude said:

so maybe an "other instruments" section would catch all.

Still leaves the drummers with nowhere to go though ??

dindude

TTony said:

dindude said:

so maybe an "other instruments" section would catch all.

Still leaves the drummers with nowhere to go though ??

Nice work
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Dave_Mc

dindude said:

As this is "the fretboard" and thus has already staked it's claim as a guitar biased forum, the traffic for specific instruments outside of this is likely to be guitarists with other interests, so maybe an "other instruments" section would catch all.

good logic there

and then as digitalscream said, if it happens to get busier, then you could split it later into individual instrument sections.

monquixote

I have had a drummer mate look at the site and complain, but I think most drummers are on Mike Dolbear and are unlikely to come on here when nearly everyone is a guitarist. 

The Drum section etc on MR was pretty much dead, so I didn't see the point of replicating it as ghost town boards make the place look bad. 

Mick

monquixote said:

I have had a drummer mate look at the site and complain, but I think most drummers are on Mike Dolbear and are unlikely to come on here when nearly everyone is a guitarist. 

The Drum section etc on MR was pretty much dead, so I didn't see the point of replicating it as ghost town boards make the place look bad. 

Send em over to me.

Dave_Mc

monquixote said:

The Drum section etc on MR was pretty much dead, so I didn't see the point of replicating it as ghost town boards make the place look bad. 

Also a good point. The last thing you want on a new forum is for it to look like it's going to peter out.

PolarityMan

I like drums.

equalsql

Any chance of having two sub-forums under Making and Modelling, one for pedal builders and another for amp builders? 

monquixote

equalsql said:

Any chance of having two sub-forums under Making and Modelling, one for pedal builders and another for amp builders? 

If they get busy enough we will split them.

stickyfiddle

I've got a weirdly formatted quote here: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/10164/#Comment_10164

I deleted some of ICBM's post and bolded another bit and now it won't next in a grey box as it should. Code looks correct in the Source view.