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The cool wall has been clogging up the Cars in General section lately and there's been a few suggestions for a separate cool wall forum. Would this work?
Separate Cool Wall Section?
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I liked it back when it was once a week. I miss those Cool Wall days.
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Trust me, I'd do this if I could. But no one wants to wait more than a year for their nomination to go up.
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I would say four a week is about the right number. Gets through the nominations in a timely manner and keeps interest in the threads up without boring people through over saturation, and avoids cluttering up Cars in General too much.
Once we've got past the Thanksgiving Special nominations I'd recommend perhaps dropping back to three a week. Any slower and people will still wind up waiting the best part of half a year for their nominations to go up.
However, I would still advocate the moving of cool wall threads into a separate section, if anything because it would just make it easier to sort through previous threads and what have you and because it would clear up Cars in General's later pages without getting rid of the old polls.
I would also advocate locking the polling threads maybe five days or so after the poll closes.
Once we've got past the Thanksgiving Special nominations I'd recommend perhaps dropping back to three a week. Any slower and people will still wind up waiting the best part of half a year for their nominations to go up.
However, I would still advocate the moving of cool wall threads into a separate section, if anything because it would just make it easier to sort through previous threads and what have you and because it would clear up Cars in General's later pages without getting rid of the old polls.
I would also advocate locking the polling threads maybe five days or so after the poll closes.
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If all future Cool Wall threads could just crawl down into the furnace, that'll be great.
Whatever happened to just making a thread about the [whatever it is]? There's no reason to quantify everything with a poll. It was cute for a while, but it's just flooding the Automotive and Rumble Strip forums at this point. That's what's so stupefyingly annoying; a separate forum for something stolen from Top Gear. Three cheers for unoriginal mainstreaming!
Okay, we've tried sub-forums for many other things in the past, and there's probably about 50+ merged subfora that no longer exist. Some will come and go, but this just seems like an additional sub-forum for threads that don't really need to be created, let alone separated from other threads, in the first place.
Whatever happened to just making a thread about the [whatever it is]? There's no reason to quantify everything with a poll. It was cute for a while, but it's just flooding the Automotive and Rumble Strip forums at this point. That's what's so stupefyingly annoying; a separate forum for something stolen from Top Gear. Three cheers for unoriginal mainstreaming!
Okay, we've tried sub-forums for many other things in the past, and there's probably about 50+ merged subfora that no longer exist. Some will come and go, but this just seems like an additional sub-forum for threads that don't really need to be created, let alone separated from other threads, in the first place.
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I suggest it goes with its own section within 'Cars In General', like it's been done for 'Motorcycles' and 'Member's Rides'.
That's to make sure those that are interested should go there.
That's to make sure those that are interested should go there.
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I'm all for a cool wall section, but this isn't true. There's far more Photomode threads than there are Cool Wall threads.
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The weird thing is, the DC photo mode subsection was created, and this is how many threads there are:
Makes you wonder how many of the GT6 threads are completely and utterly pointless. You know, seeing as they have eleven pages of them.
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FFS, how many threads do I need to apologize on for reviving this monstrosity?
Almost every main sub-forum has so many of those, the site actually requires you to click the "find older post" link IN THE FORUM. As for what does get sub-subs, Photomodes, Racing Series, Tuning, and News are the main ones. The reason they get those, if I had to guess, is because by their nature participation includes actively showing what you/they/it has to show, and they can be over different things with different setups and be something unique, and they can go on for a long time. The Cool Wall, on the other hand, doesn't change in anything but subject. The setup works, the problem is that the "discussion" usually devolves into Top Gear levels of ignorance for about three days, then dies. I've seen house flies live longer than some of these threads, all putting them in one dub-sub does is move the mass to a dedicated septic tank. Add to that the wall goes back to 2010 IIRC. Does anyone really want to dig through five years of posts just to move them, even if they follow the links, that's almost/over 500 vehicles.
Almost every main sub-forum has so many of those, the site actually requires you to click the "find older post" link IN THE FORUM. As for what does get sub-subs, Photomodes, Racing Series, Tuning, and News are the main ones. The reason they get those, if I had to guess, is because by their nature participation includes actively showing what you/they/it has to show, and they can be over different things with different setups and be something unique, and they can go on for a long time. The Cool Wall, on the other hand, doesn't change in anything but subject. The setup works, the problem is that the "discussion" usually devolves into Top Gear levels of ignorance for about three days, then dies. I've seen house flies live longer than some of these threads, all putting them in one dub-sub does is move the mass to a dedicated septic tank. Add to that the wall goes back to 2010 IIRC. Does anyone really want to dig through five years of posts just to move them, even if they follow the links, that's almost/over 500 vehicles.
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The Photomode section got it's expanded treatment for GT5 (and subsequently, GT6) because of that section being far and away the most popular during GT4's time. The top member galleries would crest 100,000 views by the time GT5 was released, actually. GT5's subforum totals are skewed by the trading and FAQ sections, but even GT6 is still showing Photomode as the most popular sub-forum bar online racing. That not as many threads are made in the Photomode sections isn't really comparable to the Cool Wall posts: that section is very tidily organized, so a lot of existing threads cover nearly every possible new post a member could want to make. They're also very much about sharing (as @BKGlover mentions), and cover a lot of different subjects.
None. You aren't the one flooding the board.
Ask @Famine about the Car Suggestions section.
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Glad I was able to get at least a partial hit.
No, but as @Tornado can attest to, I dug it up, I made changes, and I tried to make it my own Frankenstein's monster. The first of a few things I've done that have reared back and bit me hard. In the end, I'm still partially responsible for whatever happens.
Ask @Famine about the Car Suggestions section.
I've seen in there, I don't think I dare. That said, What that has become is as close to an absolute communal Cool Wall as you can get without Jeremy Clarkson getting involved.
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In my opinion, the cool wall stuff, much like kudzu, should either be eradicated, or contained. Currently it is out of control.
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This would be because it needs it own section.
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I would say lock it until the nominations are cleaned up completely, but basically that seems like the best idea. I'd say most of the issues regarding the Cool Wall start with how the nomination thread has been open for months on end. There wouldn't be any rush to burn off nominations as fast as possible if there weren't dozens of ones in the backlog at any given time.
