Topic: [Opinion] Off-topic sub-board - what do you think? - page 2. (Read 370 times)

I see, but to me if am to contribute to the renaming I will say it's better we have; Politics and society (Naija) which is already there, "Bitcoin discussion", "Altcoin discussion", "Economy", "Trading" and then, the "off-topic".
This will make the board balance well. I hope you get what i mean?

I agree with Marvelockg reply- indirectly answered your suggestions.

As for me i didn't really see the need for renaming the board bcos there are some topics  under this board that are not cryto  related so were to classify them will become a problem.so and suggesting , instead of renaming it  we should create more board becos off topic is best name for that board. if  i say lets take altcoin discussion , that means we have to either delete or create another board for those topics that are not related to altcoin .

I'm aware of that thread, but this is different - it was a requested thread, whereas this is not; I merely created this topic to address current questions and to see if the rest of the community agrees. BTW, we can direct a community discussion to Meta; this is an internal matter.


Opinion and off-topic are two different things; if that portion scares shit posters or people who only want to write to meet their signature quota, it's a win for the community. If you've been around for a while, you know that I don't moderate opinions, only trash posts.

Apart from threads that are moved from the main board to off topic, it's primarily deficult to see people going to the off- topic board to have a discussion probably because most campaign restrict users from posting in off topic and we know that it's mainly some high ranked users who are part of a signature campaign that normally gives quality contribution on all the boards both on the main and sub board in the Nija local board.

Also, the name off topic tend to send a kind of message that threads that are on that sub board are of low quality or one that is irrelevant and that's why it's been shifted to that sub board which is the possible reason why we don't usually have a lot of engagement on that board.

Changing the name to General discussion will obvious make it much lively than it is currently but I think it's still not going to be the best improvement that we need. What I think will work well is that, the politics and society sub board can house all the general topics that's worth talking about relating to general news, societal issues,  Nija politics, some random information that can help board members and any general topic that's not of the category of being tagged Off topic. maybe changing the name to general discussion might work or leaving it this way and putting a discription that tells that general topics are also allowed on the sub board could be another good way.

The off topic board can still remain as a trash bin where low quality post and spam post will be pushed to so you know that once your post continues to pill up on that board, it's clear you're a nuisance to the forum.

The summary is that to encourage active engagement on the local board, we need fewer boards and we just need to work on how to make the ones available to become more active. The change of name is not a bad idea as long as we see regular quality discussions going on their and not just a change of name that doesn't reflect on how willing members are to visiting the sub board.

Hey Igebotz,

I know there have been lot of discussion about board to be included during creation of our local board, I will suggest you either make reference to that topic created by our brother here Agbe (Proposal For Naija (Nigeria LB) Sub-Boards Creation) lot of people contributed the ideal board to be included. If not for time consumption you could have just go through that topic and see what majority points out then send the request to theymos for renaming, that will be more better since your post here has already scared people away by saying if off discussion will be deleted.

Majority of people who are to comment here are already on a paid adverts so they are afraid to post not to be deleted were it would serve as lost to them, for my suggestion that part should be removed to make people post freely so you can see different opinion from people maybe after you go through this topic you can then filter out the most mentioned name and you send to theymos as second option.

That is, either you go through this topic created by Agbe (Proposal For Naija (Nigeria LB) Sub-Boards Creation)

Or

you remove the statement; This alone will make people not to have interest to comment or contribute. In a discussion like this, you make it neutral for people to have their opinion contributed because is already scaring people off from this discussion.

Thank you

DPHOR

Hello Community,

I've been thinking about it, and several people have expressed their opinions/suggestions about the off-topic sub-board - some believe it should be renamed General Discussion (which may be a better name), Altcoin Discussion, or something else rather than off-topic. I agree that the off-topic sub-board has served its purpose and is still very important to the local board, but there are topics that do not fall into Politics and Society, Bitcoin-related, or off-topic but were moved to the off-topic sub-board because there was no reason to have them on the main board or Politics and Society, so I'm opening up this thread for further discussion.

If the community requests modifications, I will mention to this thread in any message I write to Theymos. I don't make decisions; I'm only here to serve, so whatever you decide is what I'll pass across.