Too many soccer threads?

[Buddhmaster]

Hahaha Murphy, ignore list.

 

[chaminda_00]

The current poll is irrelevant, a totally new one is needed in order to solve the issue of a sub-forum.

Probably but do really want to create another thread, people might start complaining

 

[benchmark00]

12 out of 100 threads is hardly clogging.

Fair enough. Say I was to make a thread called "Effects of global warming" then made another 11 on the same topic, would 11 of them be uneccessary? ofcourse. Just because it's 12 out of 100 means nothing.

 

[Burpey]

Probably but do really want to create another thread, people might start complaining

The more threads the merrier IMO. However, the mods around here don't always agree with me. Anything that is slightly pointless has to go. We can't have the board clogged up with people having fun it seems.

 

[Loony BoB]

But when the World Cup goes on, that is pretty much all that is happening in Football.

So when the World Cup is not going on, there is obviously more going on in the world of football - which, logically, would mean that there is even more reason for there to be a forum when the World Cup is not going on!

 

[Matteh]

Given the nationalities of the people on the forum, the entire talk about football is basically centred around English football. If there was a thread for each European league then you'd have a point.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Given the nationalities of the people on the forum, the entire talk about football is basically centred around English football. If there was a thread for each European league then you'd have a point.

*starts the Bodø/Glimt Thread*

Seriously, though, EPL and A-League needs to be separate. The people following them are as diverse as AFL and NRL, and if you consider it a "nuisance" to scroll through posts on the first page of off topic to find a thread you're interested in, then surely you can see that it's a similar "nuisance" to have posts about a league you're not interested in cluttering up a thread you would be interested in otherwise.

Similar things go for games like CW XI.

Maybe the predictions and games threads should be merged in, though - but, again, AFL and NRL have had similar games threads floating around, and I don't see the harm in that.

 

[steds]

Maybe the predictions and games threads should be merged in, though - but, again, AFL and NRL have had similar games threads floating around, and I don't see the harm in that.

AFL and NRL don't have 3 game/prediction threads in one season.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

AFL and NRL don't have 3 game/prediction threads in one season.

They do not?

(Yes, I can see the difference between AFL and NRL too. But, as mentioned: separate games, separate threads...)

 

[andyc]

The 40% shown in the poll shows that it is a sizeable group who have this concern and their concern should be heard out. Is anyone strongly against a sub-forum like the predictions league one? I for one am strongly for it. There are others as well here with this concern. Soccer fans should perhaps think of everyone else for a second and if 60% dont hate the idea and 40% are strongly for it, then why the hell not?

How do you know that that 40% feel any more strongly than the 60% that voted no? And given that the majority seem to feel that the soccer threads are fine, wouldn't it make more sense for that 40% to think of everyone else, rather than the other way round?

****, do you wanna stop following me around and making stupid points?

It's not as if he's not allowed to reply to you, Darren. And to be fair, what he said is no more stupid than this:

Fair enough. Say I was to make a thread called "Effects of global warming" then made another 11 on the same topic, would 11 of them be uneccessary? ofcourse. Just because it's 12 out of 100 means nothing.

 

[benchmark00]

How do you know that that 40% feel any more strongly than the 60% that voted no? And given that the majority seem to feel that the soccer threads are fine, wouldn't it make more sense for that 40% to think of everyone else, rather than the other way round?



It's not as if he's not allowed to reply to you, Darren. And to be fair, what he said is no more stupid than this:

My point was a rebuttle to Marc's point that 12 threads out of 100 isn't bad. It was an example to back up my point, not stupid at all, and illustrates the point in an acceptable fashion.

 

[steds]

They do not?

Completely different sports. I obviously meant 3 each. Wouldn't hurt to engage your brain for something other than quadratic equations every now and then.

 

[andyc]

My point was a rebuttle to Marc's point that 12 threads out of 100 isn't bad. It was an example to back up my point, not stupid at all, and illustrates the point in an acceptable fashion.

Even though it's been stated that pretty much every thread serves a different purpose. And what I was trying to say was that it's a bit harsh to just call his post stupid when it, to his mind, would have 'illustrated the point in an acceptable fashion,' even though it may not to you.

 

[benchmark00]

Even though it's been stated that pretty much every thread serves a different purpose. And what I was trying to say was that it's a bit harsh to just call his post stupid when it, to his mind, would have 'illustrated the point in an acceptable fashion,' even though it may not to you.

Sigh, the point was that he was taking it along personal lines opposed to making a relevant point to the discussion.

Think it might be bed time, Cameron.

 

[Loony BoB]

It's notable that I'm in the 60% that say they aren't ruining Off Topic. If it was a poll saying "Should sports (or just football) threads have their own forum?" then I'd have voted in favour of the new forum. I don't think Off Topic is being ruined, but I think it would be better off if the sports threads had their own forum. It makes sense in a cricket forum anyway!

I'm confident that you would get more threads in each of Off Topic and a General Sports Forum than you would in, say, Rugby Union World Cup 2003 (33 threads would easily be beaten by all the sports threads we could come up with), Attock Cricket Club (why not have a single thread?), Cricket Mail (why not put it in Site Discussion?) and possibly even Backyard Cricket (Cricket Chat?). I'm not saying these forums shouldn't be there, but I'm saying there's just as much justification, if not more, to have a sports forum than there is to have those forums.

EDIT: It might also encourage people to come up with some more interesting topics in Off Topic, too.

 

[Piper]

Completely different sports. I obviously meant 3 each. Wouldn't hurt to engage your brain for something other than quadratic equations every now and then.

Steady now Stedly
There are too many soccer threads for sure.

 

[marc71178]

Fair enough. Say I was to make a thread called "Effects of global warming" then made another 11 on the same topic, would 11 of them be uneccessary? ofcourse. Just because it's 12 out of 100 means nothing.

Irrelevant, because all 12 threads would contain the same content entirely.

 

[FRAZ]

No..

 

[Kweek]

lets just make a special thread for the ozzies now that would clear up ! and save us a lot of b-s

 

[superkingdave]

personally i think the fantasy thread's could be merged, as could the FM/CM ones, the french one will dissapear soon and the CW football ones will when that goes to a new forum so you'd be left with 4, the A League, the English Dom, the fantasy one and the fm one which only appears once a month anyway.