Too many forums?

Brian_Rice said:
I think the thing people (in general) need to protect themselves from is exstinguising completely the "happy mistake". Often times I'll be rushing down to Cafe or DSLR General and will spot an interesting thread title and will join the convo. What I have trouble with is reengaging with that thread once I leave for a day or two. Signing on and having something linked to my profile that shows me what threads I'm currently "involved" in would help me personally with thread maintainance -- and could also help with the original OP's issue that says everyone *hangs out* only in specific threads. Cafe and DSLR General are usually the easiest places to track my more informal threads.
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You can subscribe to threads that you find interesting - so that you get notified when new posts are made, and you can easily find the thread again. Go to the 'Thread Tools' menu at the top of any thread and you'll see the option.

The other options would be to simply go into your profile and look at your recent posts (if it's a thread you posted in in the past few days you should be able to find it rather quickly.... unless you have the post frequency of Barry Green).
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Luis Caffesse said:
I would urge those of you with specific ideas on what you'd like to see to write them up and PM me any ideas or suggestions.
That's an open invitation.

As far as wanting to see certain types of content on the site - I would strongly urge you to add what you want to see to the site.
A community is made up of it's individual members - you guys make the site, you make the content, you decide what the most active forums are and what kind of discussion is had there.

I can't stress this enough - if there are threads that you find annoying or unhelpful the best thing you can do is ignore them completely. Don't add to them, don't bump them to the top, don't engage in those types of conversations (as tempting as it might be).

And conversely (and more importantly) if there are conversations you wish were happening more often here - then make a serious effort to post that type of content, find other threads like it and add to them, foster the type of content you wish we had more of.

We often hear people say that they wish the site wasn't quite so focuses on gear, and instead gave equal weight to the craft of filmmaking.
I'm not saying one way is better than the other - but I am saying that if you want to see more craftsmanship related threads...then start them, foster them, create the content you want to see.

The long and short of it is - the best thing any member can do here is ignore the content they don't like, and add and foster the content they want to see.
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Pshaw! Making us do all the work. Geez. You highly paid mods always ask too much of us. No politics, no flaming, no nude pictures of my hot body posted here. So many rules and now this. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
Oh, and I wanted to mention that I think "Verses" threads are an integral part of gear-based forums. Most of the time when I'm googling gear I usually type in the ole "vs" because, as a not particularly tech-savvy dude, I need a point of reference. So when I want to know how good an FS100, I need to compare it to something that I know, like the EX1. If I want to know the craptitude of an Azden mic, I want to hear it next to an NTG3. From there I can start building a frame of reference to better make purchasing decisions.

Tech-talk and in-depth charts are awesome, but some of us just want to pit our 90s Ford Taurus against an '06 Hummer and watch them play chicken.
 
Maybe I just skip over the multi-paragraph rants, because I've always found the discussions to be quite technical. Also, though, I'm usually looking for proof of footage.

When I first started looking for cams and mics and recorders the verses threads were especially helpful. Now that I've sort of niched myself over the years, I find them less useful. But for instance, when the AF100 and new Sonys were starting to emerge, pitting them against the current breed of prosumer HD cams was crucial IMO.

I think maybe what happens is that the verses threads do actually come to some closure and then someone pops up and starts one all over again. So you'll have HV40 vs HMC or something, it'll go on for 3 weeks, exhaust the data and information, and then instead of someone finding and reinvesting in that old thread, they'll start a new one.

Sounds a little crazy (and maybe conterintuitive to what most people seem to feel here so far), but it might not be terrible to have an actual sub-forum specifically for verses threads. You can then take the fifteen most popular models here on DVX and allow them to tango with whatever cam walks in. That way the people who want to *piss* about their camera can just hang out there on defend it instead of trolling the entire forum.

More deep thoughts...by Jack Handey.
 
This thread is posted in the wrong forum.

A subforum should be created for people who like to post about too many forums.
 
roxics said:
Not exactly. Imagine if it was one forum, one stream of posts. At the top was a drop down with all the available categories. When you first come to the forum you would see everything. Like one big melting pot of posts. But if you wanted to get specific you would just select the category you want from the drop down and it would filter out all the posts except for the posts in that category. No need to type or search. Just filter out using predefined categories.

Hell it doesn't even have to be drop downs, it could be a list of categories on the side with check boxes. That way you could see whatever mish mash of posts you wanted for whatever categories you choose. So for instance if I just wanted to see topics about lighting and sound I would check off the lighting and sound categories and my forum feed would filter out everything but those. Then I could just hit "reset" to see everything again. it could all be done with Ajax or jquery so that the page doesn't even need to refresh. It would happen immediately. Similar to how facebook can drill through your feed to show you just photos or just links without even needing to refresh the page.

Yeah this isn't something I think the current DVX system can do. It would probably require entirely new messageboard software. Like I said, just an idea. More of a web 2.0 method of dealing with data versus a web 1.0 method these forum softwares were built using.
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alright, let's call what we have currently "default view".
what you describe could be called "realtime view".
then there could be a "hybrid view" where you could see the forums as they are now, but there will be a box off to the side that displays posts as they pop up.

the user could select the view they want.
 
I vote for this forum.

It's simple, with instructions.

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