As those of you who are observant may have noticed, we've had a teensy bit of increased traffic since Black Friday displaced the entire Full Tilt Forum and had others looking for info.  As a result, I've gotten a handful of good suggestions from some of the new membership.  I'd like to hear what you guys think, and perhaps some of these things that you guys like we can vote on implementing into the forum.  For now I'll leave those whose suggestions I post anonymous, but of course they can take credit for them if that is their desire.

1.  More than one person suggested we have too many boards, and in fact it has been addressed before that perhaps we could combine some or all of the Life boards.  What do you guys think, and specifically what ideas do you have for combining/eliminating these boards?

2.  While we have a "view posts" tab where you can see your last posts in descending order on your profile, a lot of people don't know about it, being on our profile page toward the bottom.  Would you guys like to see that in a more prominent location; perhaps in the "more" tab on the index with the "view unread posts" and "show new replies to your posts" buttons?

3.  Would you guys like a poker news ticker on the front page, perhaps above the FB and Twitter widgets on the side?

4.  How about a sports ticker, either on the front page or perhaps at least in the sports board?  And if Fletchy feels like working his magic, perhaps we could have it as a feature we could turn on and off as we liked.

5.  Some more tools would be nice in the poker tools section, particularly widgets we could use right on the page or link to in a sub-page of the fourum.  Any suggestions on what you'd like?  If you know of particular aps, please post them here as well.



I'm sure there will be more coming, but for now, please let us know your thoughts on these ideas.  And thanks again to those of you who took the time to give me your ideas thus far.

OK. Let's put in 2 cents. 



1. Proof is in the posts. Combine whatever topics necessary. Add/Subtract topics to increase flow throughout the fourum.


2. Sounds good! Some people need directions on how to do things. 


3. Poker news ticker would be cool. People like the FB and Twitter widgets.


4. You know me. Sports would be fantastic but I am a diehard. Maybe a vote on this issue.

5. Don't have special knowledge in this area but more the merrier on poker tools imo.

For the record, reading that scrawling was almost painful.

Now when this was first mentioned, I kinda figured we'd just shorten up the Life section, but hearing JB and Fletch's suggestions, it seems we could be well served for a lot more shrinking down.  I'd like to hear some yeas or nays on whether we should go ahead and implement a reorganization similar to what Fletch and JB have mentioned.  If it seems like we have consensus, we'll start a side thread to discuss the particulars and vote on the final structure.  So please, everyone, put in your 2 cents so we know whether to put the time in on this.

1.  I would like to hear from some of the refugees on this.
The Forum
 :arrow: "Introduce yourself" "How To"
 :arrow: "Info center" "Links and Affiliates"
 :arrow: "News and Notes"
 :arrow: "Suggestions and Feedback"

Poker U/ Poker Gambling
 :arrow: "Holdem ring"
 :arrow: "Holdem tourney"
 :arrow: "Other poker games" "Live Poker"
 :arrow: "forum vid, education, Books and reviews, and Articles"
 :arrow: "Poker News"
 :arrow: "Forum games and free rolls"
             :arrow: "TTYL"  "AMASS"
 :arrow: "Rail requests" 
 :arrow: "BAPs"
 :arrow: "Sports Betting"
 :arrow: "Hot Air and ventilation"
(Just get rid of "other gambling")

Player's Lounge
 :arrow: "The Igloo"
 :arrow: "The Arcade" "Gaming"
 :arrow: "Sports"
 :arrow: "Entertainment"
 :arrow: "Politics"
 :arrow: "Sciences"
 :arrow: "Business, Investing and Finance"
 :arrow: "Life in General"
 :arrow: "Hot chicks dancing on poles"




2.  Meh, whatever.


3.  Meh, whatever.  Since I can't play poker ATM, I really don't give a shoot.


4.  Meh.  Sports, people like em I suppose.  whatever.

5.  Sure.  Odds calculator and hand converter.  Though, since I am in the US I won't be needing that for a while.  I am sure as hell not going to post stupid play chip hands for "analysis".  Talk about pointless, no offense meant, Gnome.

Updated my post to follow JB's style for easy comparison.

I as well.

Not so LMAO at the fact no one seems to have anything to say.  Your fourum's size could be cut in half, and that's not worth a yea or nay?  Democracy only works if someone shows up to vote, kids.

Ah, can't believe I forgot the fourum games and freerolls, I edited my post and put that under "Poker and Gambling" with a child-board for the Mucking Monkeys.

Going to quote Fletch and patches' posts now so I can give opinions.

Edit: I like what Fletch did to my post. Comments about his comments down below.

The News, FAQ, and Feedback could all be combined into one thing called 'Info Center' or something like that, with the deletion of links and affiliates and just having those as stickies in 'Info Center'.

Agreed, it would be best to combine politics and business/science into one section under 'The Lounge'.

If we removed the child board's of entertainment, we would just have people post about those things in entertainment, correct? Not put them somewhere else? If so, I'm for that.

http://www.sixandfourum.com/index.php/topic,1657.0.html

 

Now this is by no means the extent of our efforts, but I did implement a few preliminary changes.  Given that it was unanimous amongst the three plans given to combine Hot Air & Ventilation with Rail Requests, I have done so.  It's clearly unnecessary with the volume of traffic in RR to require a regular board.  It is now a child board of HA&V.

Also, given that it is redundant, I have eliminated Life in General, and moved the latest topics to the Igloo.  But, hack that I am, I ended up deleting most of the old stuff thinking it could be moved when I deleted the board.  I was incorrect in that assumption.  But I did at least move the recent topics just in case, so it shouldn't be an issue.

Now more contested and less obvious revisions I intend to hash out with these three who have volunteered their ideas.  No one has objected to a reorganization, so we're going to go ahead and try to hash these three plans into one, at which time we will put it up for an forum-wide approval vote. 

Did she even see it before you edited it out?