Author Topic: 3 forums - same content?? All read and comment please (Read 772 times)

azshooter · « **on:** April 10, 2006, 11:09:07 AM »

Graybeard

Perhaps I am seeing things a little different but perhaps you might want to do some forum consolidation. Up in the marlin forum there is outdoors experences, here we have strange things seen in the outdoors and now the Bigfoot forum. IMHO the Bigfoot forum was not needed and was mainly due to the promised and never delivered pictures and membersgetting fed up with the non-delivery and taking pot shots. Finally that fiasco seems to have come to a head and everyone knows the reason.

Unfortunatly, we now we have 3 forums with 70% content overlap. How about re-considering and consolidating all of them them into one forum?
Others chime in good or bad?

Graybeard · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2006, 11:26:11 AM »

I can assure you that neither BM nor his photos had anything to do with me setting up the BigFoot Forum. I just felt it time. In fact he is not even allowed to use the forum anymore.

When I first set up the Strange Things Seen in the Outdoors Forum it was for those routine interesting or funny things we all see who stay out in the woods and fields a lot. Over time folks who gravitated there seemed to try to turn it into a bigfoot and/or UFO/paranormal forum. That really wasn't what was intended.

So I have estabished a bigfoot forum and the content there will remain BIGFOOT ONLY or it will go away. I think there is enough interest here to justify it. If the use of it proves me wrong I'll fold it back into the other again.

Now the other one was set up when the Marlin/NEF guys came here because they had one where they left and wanted the same set of forums here as they had there and I obliged them. They've been here long enough now they should be comfortable here and it might be time to mesh it with the Strange Things Seen forum as there is a lot of over lap there. I'll think on that.

Graybeard · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2006, 12:15:43 PM »

I've made a post over at the Marlin Oudoor Experiences Forum asking for comments on this suggestion. It's at: http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=548973#548973

I'd like to hear the comments from this forum on the proposal also. You can post them there or here.

Graybeard · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2006, 06:36:10 PM »

I've now combined the Outdoor Experiences Forum into the Strange Things Seen forum and given the new combined forum a new name.