by bluenine Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:07 pm
Allez les rouges wrote:Effectively transforming the site to a mass one of 8000 members would submerge it in something completely different and entirely defeat the point, or am I missing something?
The board might be "dying", but scarcely at the moment (I can't keep up with the WC thread as it is, perhaps partly because it's all in one set of threads...), and frankly it's lost a lot of deadwood, along of course with a few valuable posters. We need new members to be allowed, but I wouldn't be able to follow a mass site in any meaningful way, or find the wheat among the chaff.
I know exactly what you mean. We have been discussing the same thing at footballspeak at design stage, and one solution we have come up with is an "exclusive members club forum", where only the quality posters are allowed. That will ensure two things, (1) keep the larger population restricted to the general forum, and (2) have a selection criteria for new posters to get "promoted", ie a constant stream of pre-qualified quality new posters joining this exclusive club.
One way to do this would be to integrate all EB posters straight into the exclusive club, and perhaps the top 200-300 Footballspeak posters out of 8000 (in terms of quality, not quantity - we already have a ratings algorithm to define that). But I am open to suggestions. I love this EB, and only want to make it better, not worse. The EB is "dying" only in the sense that it used to be a lot more fun 5 years ago than now - a lot of quality posters have left (which will always happen) and not enough new ones have joined (which is the problem). There are a lot of football forum dinosaurs out there, and it will be a real shame if EB ended up as one. We need to keep it in tune with the times, and this may be one way to do that - I am making that investment anyways.
The best way to go about this integration would be to nominate a team of 5-6 EB posters/admins to give suggestions to the integration team, and all changes are agreed with this EB team. That way, we are more likely to achieve the most satisfactory solution.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves here. First, Tom & Co need to decide whether they are keen to move in this direction. Second, i need to check with my team on the challenges of integration and get their ok. Then we need to involve the key posters here. Only then should we discuss what, how and when. So over to you, Tom & Co.
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You know how highly I value your opinion, and how much it hurts when you say these things 
you're very kind. I wouldn't mind being a moderator if more are needed (is there actually a difference between mod & admin here?), don't really want to be in charge!