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Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« on: April 21, 2012, 10:07:07 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/124079551

Oh my.

Skins's island is pretty dull today.

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Stinky The Clown (46,008 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

Since Meta seems to have eclipsed Help, is it possible to start a new forum or split this one?
I have no problem whatsoever with the kinds of discussions that happen in this forum. Clearly its what the members want and it remains popular. There are few if any locked threads and, all in all, it runs well.

Except . . . .

The Help part seems to be lost in the Meta part.

So here's the idea. Leave this forum as Meta and let it keep on keepin' on. Then start a new forum (or maybe a group) that is strictly DU Member-to-Member Tech Support or some such. Basically, it is the Help part of H&M. Leave all the Meta, all the drama, all the pissing and moaning in one forum and bring all the plain old member to member help to the new forum.

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Ruby the Liberal (15,788 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. There is a tech support forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1095

Help threads in here seem to have competition to see who can be of first assistance, so it isn't like they are sinking without responses. Most requests for help I have seen are answered quite quickly.

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3. Help threads are often of broad interest. But if they sink into the abyss of Meta . . . . .

. . . . . . very few people get the benefit. In a tech forum, threads are visible longer and available to more people. In fact somebody who has questions may not even have to post a thread if their question's already been answered.

The problem right now is the help to meta ratio is heavily weighted toward meta.

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Ruby the Liberal (15,788 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

5. True that, but that is the nature of the internet.

If it bleeds, it leads.

My only concern would be that people would be afraid to ask for help in here because of all of the but in that vein, the speed in which questions are answered should mitigate that somewhat.

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Stinky The Clown (46,008 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. Yeah, I subscribe to that.

That's kind of a different forum, really. What H&M was supposed to be was help with DU from a technical perspective. That group s for computer problems.

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2. Trumad posted a help question just the other day

And it got answered. Quickly.

Of course it also spawned 17 alerts 12 hidden posts and 127 new threads discussing the same.

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ellisonz (18,331 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

8. I think it's going fine.

One improvement might be a pinned ask questions thread.

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Tesha (20,499 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

9. I've agreed with that suggestion before.

To a newcomer to DU who is simply seeking help in its operation, the "meta" aspect of this forum makes us look like we're all crazy!

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10. It would make someone with a nervous condition think twice about posting here.
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2012, 10:23:09 AM »
Quote from UnrepentantLiberal;

"To a newcomer to DU who is simply seeking help in its operation, the "meta" aspect of this forum makes us look like we're all crazy!"

Let's be honest, it's not the "meta".
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2012, 11:29:56 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 21, 2012, 10:07:07 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/124079551

Oh my.

Skins's island is pretty dull today.


Actually it's been kinda dull since they became primarily focused on Zimmerman.

I scanned through pages 4, 5 and 6 with many of those threads only having 3 or 4 replies. Granted that can change, but for the most part, Zimmerman is king.
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2012, 11:32:26 AM »
Quote from: Tucker on April 21, 2012, 11:29:56 AM
Actually it's been kinda dull since they became primarily focused on Zimmerman.

I scanned through pages 4, 5 and 6 with many of those threads only having 3 or 4 replies. Granted that can change, but for the most part, Zimmerman is king.

I'm wondering if traffic is down on Skins's island, like it is on freerepublic (it's up very much here).

I've been checking both freerepublic and Skins's island, and it used to be that if one "refreshed" the first page about every thirty seconds, every minute, presto! they'd changed.

Now it's like it takes a long time for a primitive or a member of freepublic to post, changing the page.
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2012, 12:25:06 PM »
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2. Trumad posted a help question just the other day

And it got answered. Quickly.

Of course it also spawned 17 alerts 12 hidden posts and 127 new threads discussing the same.

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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2012, 12:29:23 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 21, 2012, 11:32:26 AM
I'm wondering if traffic is down on Skins's island, like it is on freerepublic (it's up very much here).

I've been checking both freerepublic and Skins's island, and it used to be that if one "refreshed" the first page about every thirty seconds, every minute, presto! they'd changed.

Now it's like it takes a long time for a primitive or a member of freepublic to post, changing the page.

According to Alexa DU is ranked 1,191 in the US, Free Republic is ranked 1,102, FR definitely picked up ground and surpassed DU, and in Global rank DU is barely ahead of FR.

ETA: The reviews of DU are pretty funny at the link:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/democraticunderground.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freerepublic.com
« Last Edit: April 21, 2012, 12:34:20 PM by Ballygrl »
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2012, 01:14:03 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on April 21, 2012, 12:29:23 PM
According to Alexa DU is ranked 1,191 in the US, Free Republic is ranked 1,102, FR definitely picked up ground and surpassed DU, and in Global rank DU is barely ahead of FR.

ETA: The reviews of DU are pretty funny at the link:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/democraticunderground.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freerepublic.com

On a lighter note:

http://www.alexa.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.electstevedawes.com%2F&r=site_siteinfo&p=bigtop

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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2012, 02:34:56 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 21, 2012, 11:32:26 AM
I'm wondering if traffic is down on Skins's island, like it is on freerepublic (it's up very much here).
It's been down on FR since JimRob went batshit and banned everyone but lurkers, nuts, and trolls from the DUmp.
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2012, 04:32:58 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on April 21, 2012, 12:29:23 PM
According to Alexa DU is ranked 1,191 in the US, Free Republic is ranked 1,102, FR definitely picked up ground and surpassed DU, and in Global rank DU is barely ahead of FR.

ETA: The reviews of DU are pretty funny at the link:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/democraticunderground.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freerepublic.com

This is interesting:

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The best use of this site is News.
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Comments: Greed made the site a health hazard.
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Paradise lost?
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2012, 05:57:27 PM »
Quote from: redwhit on April 21, 2012, 04:32:58 PM
This is interesting:
(emphasis added)

Paradise lost?

Yeah I saw that, was wondering if it was someone pretending to be him though.
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2012, 07:00:21 PM »
What would the stinkDUde call it?
The Catbox? :???:
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2012, 09:44:26 PM »
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The problem right now is the help to meta ratio is heavily weighted toward meta.

What did you expect, Mike?  You're a bunch of whiners, just like all libs are whiners.  Go to any lib pol site and what do you see?  That's right: Whiners.

Look Mike, get it together son, before one of us has to get it together for you.

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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2012, 10:13:29 PM »
So Skimmer is going to take advice from a DUmpmonkey who recommends tuna fish spaghetti sauce?
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Re: Chrome Dome wants to start a new forum on Skins's island
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2012, 07:32:09 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on April 21, 2012, 05:57:27 PM
Yeah I saw that, was wondering if it was someone pretending to be him though.

That was my first thought too but then I wondered who or why?  After all, he posted on FR for a while (H&M is the greatest forum ever) and that's not a secret (nor has it gotten him kicked).  It's not like making a mildly negative comment could get him in trouble or anything.

Unless I'm being too logical?   :wink:
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