I and a number of other folks posted Peter Green threads into the Gear > Guitar section last night and that obviously caused some frustration with the modmins
I think the issues here were twofold
1) Nowhere obvious section for a thread of a very famous guitarist passing (you have to really look to find Chat > Off Topic > Tributes.)
I'm on here a lot and I see that I didn't even know it existed - It seems I'm not the only one
Sub-folders don't appear on all pages and browsers, so it's not a gimme that people will be as aware of it, as the folders that get the main traffic
2) Because threads were being moved and deleted, it created a loop. If there's 40-odd Users on here at any given time, then 23 is a decent enough percentage to suggest we can't all be total numpties
I'm a site admin on a number of my company's applications, so believe me I get the frustration caused when multiple people do the same well intended but stupid things, that requires clean up work and setup tweaks
In that context, please take the below suggestion in the constructive way it which it's intended
Peter Green was a pretty big name, but there are others who are even better known. Statistically speaking at least, many may not be with us in 10 years time (..apart from Keef, Keef will of course outlive us all)
Just like the passing of a Senior Royal, some of these guys have a profile which transfers over into the general public consciousness. They may well find themselves looking for an outlet for very genuine grief and in some cases, they may want to join and post on a forum where they haven't previously.
Clearly that presents both a challenge and an opportunity to the forum
So how about re-naming Tribute 'Guitarist / Musician Tributes' and moveing it up to the top level of Chat, to nip any further issues in the bud?
The answer was never 42 - it's 1/137 (..ish)
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However, my beef yesterday was that some members simply weren’t reading anything. At one point there were 3 threads on the subject in Guitar - and one in Tributes. The fact that there were 3 in Guitar meant that 2 people hadn’t even bothered to look to see if the topic had been posted about already, but piled in and started their own threads.
If we took P&E out from under OT as a subforum and allowed people to block it by itself then OT and Tributes would be visible in Recent Discussions.
Or Tributes could be taken out from under OT.
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I’ll delete it later.
I can't do it on Mac (Safari).
Showing all Categories I can only hide OT.
Looks like I was wrong about tributes being under OT.
For some reason I thought it was.
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1 - I've moved Tributes to be a category directly under "Chat" (ie so it's no longer part of Off Topic).
2 - The suggestion of leaving redirect links is OK, but we need to think about how it works. For example, leaving a redirect on every thread wouldn't have achieved anything - that would just mean 24 redirect threads cluttering things up and one actual thread in Tributes. One redirect would've been a good idea, though.
Cheers Lee.
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Let’s see how it works out.
Unless it's somebody obscure, it's likely safe to assume that somebody else has beaten me to opening one up.