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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2014 23:53:41 GMT -5
Hey everyone, I'm creating this thread so that I and the rest of the staff can gather some feedback on potential changes in the country forum. As you all [should] know by now, we updated the country forum posting guidelines ( thread here) last year and I posted the revised guidelines in December. One of the other ideas that has been floating around is the possibility of an added sub-board to the country forum (such as how the General Artist Discussion part of Pulse has A-J and K-Z sub-boards). I've discussed the topic with a few of the country 'regulars' as well as with other staff members. One of the big reasons why I am interested in adding a sub-board comes as a result of the increase in non-singles threads here in the forum (such as "what happened to the variety on country radio?" and "Favorite Songs that never charted high", etc). The genre forums of Pulse (so, not just country, but also CHR/Pop, AC, Alternative/Rock, etc) have basically always operated as singles-based forums, and lately the country forum has become a little bit cluttered. However, with that said, there has been a lot of engaging and meaningful conversation in some of these newer non-singles threads, and the last thing I wanted to do was 'put a lid on' any of that discussion. Discussion of radio singles and the charts is still very popular but we recognize that not everyone is here for that reason as evidenced by the rise of news discussion as well as discussion of the genre and country radio as a whole. So I am creating this thread as a place that we can discuss the proposal of an added sub-board--I want YOUR feedback :) I've added a poll and you will see 5 options; you may select up to 2 of those options. If you choose to vote, please vote "yes" or "no" on the News Sub-Board and either "yes" or "no" for a potential International Releases Sub-Board. You may also select the 5th option "other" if you have another idea or thoughts you want to share. Whatever you select, please feel free to reply to the thread with some thoughts/comments.If you have any questions/comments/concerns (etc.) that you don't want to post publicly, please don't hesitate to PM me! Thanks, ~jhomes87
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Post by Markus Meyer on Mar 1, 2014 1:03:44 GMT -5
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I think we need a sub-forum for non-single, but not for international.
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Post by Old Fart In NC on Mar 1, 2014 1:27:38 GMT -5
I used to be a moderator on a baseball message board, and we used sub-forums. I think that helped the organization of the board. Making a sub-forum for non-single discussions could allow for starting threads on popular songs that aren't official radio singles (for example, had it been allowed I'm sure there would have been a lengthy thread on Follow Your Arrow long before it became an official single). Perhaps threads on specific albums could be started even without a listening link rather than relegating them to the A-Z forum, which many of us (myself included) probably don't even think to check (in my time here I have made a total of zero posts outside the Country forum and almost never visit other forums). Some of the popular threads like the Random Video of the Day, the links to the Billboard and Country Aircheck updates, and Country Historian's weekly chart flashbacks might be appropriate for the new sub-forum.
I don't see the need for an international forum, but I don't see any harm to one either. It doesn't seem to me like there's a lot of discussion in that area other than an occasional Canadian-only release
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 1, 2014 1:37:55 GMT -5
I too am ok with a sub-forum. I'll be honest, when I see another non-single thread stared I'm not exactly enthusiastic. Luckily the recent ones that have been started have been extremely fun and started great and lengthy discussion which is one of the biggest reasons many of us joined pulse. But I just don't want to see a day where there are more non-single threads on the first page than actual single threads.
Being one of the handful of posters who occasionally ventures to post outside the country forum, I found myself getting more and more used to some of the other sub-forums. It may take some getting used to but I think that everyone would benefit from it.
That being said any decision made by the mods and staff would be fine by me, whether to start a sub-forum or leave it as it is.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 1, 2014 3:56:56 GMT -5
A sub-forum for the non-single based threads would serve a good purpose, I'd say, considering the newfound popularity in discussing such topics. I also voted for 'other' because I would also like to see a sub-forum in our genre folder dedicated entirely to polls (much like the pre-existing Polling Booth), but exclusively for the purpose of country music. I say this because I have created and wanted to create many a country music poll and the voter turnout is always less than it could be because most of the members who partake in this section of the forum do not venture out of the genre folder. I feel like it would be of good use, so I'd love it if you'd consider adding such a sub-forum as well, jhomes87, if it's not too much trouble. ;)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2014 4:11:06 GMT -5
Here's my take on things: I'm obviously interested in adding a sub-board. The main country page would still display exactly as it is now, but it would just have an added little 'nook' for discussion of all things country that just aren't singles.
Some of the initial conversations I had with members regarding a sub-board were focused on having that sub-board being for international singles. I'm not opposed to that, but at present I think we would probably implement one sub-board to start (likely a news/general country discussion type of focus), sort of a "pilot" board to see if it works and if it's something we'd look at doing for the other genre folders of Pulse (even though I am like many of you--I rarely post outside of the country forum). It's something that's being discussed, though.
Anyway, that would probably rule out an international country singles sub-board. I did add that option (a separate international sub-board) to the poll and it is still being considered but my thoughts on that proposal is to instead allow threads for Canadian singles in the main part of the board, and then to tell them apart from others, we could simply denote them with [Canada] (or [Australia], etc.) in the thread title.
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Post by sbp17 on Mar 1, 2014 6:10:08 GMT -5
I think a sub forum is a good idea.
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Post by Andy on Mar 1, 2014 7:52:20 GMT -5
I think this is a flat-out excellent idea, and I couldn't be happier that something like this is being considered.
This is a great community with tons of knowledgeable and passionate fans, so I definitely want to stick around here. But I'll be honest: I don't really listen to radio or follow singles and charts nearly as much as most of the posters here, so it's hard for me to contribute personally beyond the "Random Video of the Day" and "Country Music News & Discussion" threads. When threads such as your "Your Ten Favorite Albums", "What's in Your CD Collection?", and "Top 10 Songs That Never Charted High" were created, I loved it, and felt that those threads generated a lot of stimulating discussion and provided me with a lot of exciting music recommendations.
I understand that there are forums on this website that are dedicated to discussion-type topics (like Your Opinion Please? and Nostalgia), but virtually no country music-related discussion takes place there, and there seems to be almost no overlap between the userbases of those boards and the country subforum. I always thought the country forum was kind of its own thing, so creating a discussion subforum makes all the sense in the world to me. I wholeheartedly support this idea, and would be a regular poster on such a board.
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Post by Zazie on Mar 1, 2014 8:39:07 GMT -5
I would support the establishment of a sub-forum, if it were designed to improve the level of discussion on the main country board. In other words, if we are going to kick some posts off to the side, which ones should they be?
My candidate for removal would be endless speculation on what single will come next, and next-next, and next-next-next, during the main weeks of a song's chart run (before the single has started to fall). Those posts cannot be understood by any readers who haven't heard the album, and they don't generally come with explanations, and sometimes the prospective single is referred to by its initials -- in short, I think they are not promoting engaging, thoughtful discussion if that is what is wanted here. They limit participation in a song's thread to those who've invested in the song's artist enough to buy the album, which makes impossible discussion about chart runs, lyrics, arrangements, comparison to previous songs by the artist, etc.
I don't think discussion of the direction of country music takes up nearly as much room, and at least it has a chance to be interesting. I can see a problem with allowing huge numbers of non-song threads to be created, and taking away mods' power to regulate these. Maybe a policy that mods have to approve suggested non-song threads? And if that doesn't work, then maybe a sub-forum is needed. But that would be second sub-forum to create, IMO.
Anyway, my answer to this thread's poll is "other" regarding non-single threads, because that doesn't address the board's elephant-in-the-room. Maybe I'm too blunt and should have PM'ed JH instead, but if there are other people who think the subforum should be for follow-up-single posts, this is the only way I can find that out.
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 1, 2014 10:11:22 GMT -5
One of the other ideas that has been floating around is the possibility of an added sub-board to the country forum (such as how the General Artist Discussion part of Pulse has A-J and K-Z sub-boards). I've discussed the topic with a few of the country 'regulars' as well as with other staff members. I would not mind having a subforum for General Artist discussions. Instead of clogging the country news and non-singles discussion thread, you can have a true discussion of your favorite artists there. Some of the popular threads like the Random Video of the Day, the links to the Billboard and Country Aircheck updates, and Country Historian's weekly chart flashbacks might be appropriate for the new sub-forum. I am not willing to split my weekly column just for the last thing I talk about (in the Milestone Top Ten Chart and/or A Blast From The Past feature). I DO start that column with the most up to date chart actions, so I am not really going for that. If it's international you want, here it is: pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/136361/1-country-singles-albums-2014
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Post by 14887fan on Mar 1, 2014 12:50:48 GMT -5
If it means that posting 5,000 radio playlists every day in different threads will be minimized down to one thread devoted to it in a separate sub-board, then I'm all for it. I dig the idea of a separate area for sole discussion purposes that don't involve the singles themselves.
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Post by Old Fart In NC on Mar 1, 2014 13:41:18 GMT -5
I am not willing to split my weekly column just for the last thing I talk about (in the Milestone Top Ten Chart and/or A Blast From The Past feature). I DO start that column with the most up to date chart actions, so I am not really going for that. I used poor wording; I didn't mean to suggest splitting your columns. I referred to the chart flashbacks because that's the part of the column I enjoy the most given my older age and personal recollection of those milestone songs or artists. All I meant was that I thought your column is one example of the type of discussions that could be moved to the sub-forum if there's a desire to focus on singles in the main forum.
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Post by 14887fan on Mar 1, 2014 14:20:15 GMT -5
I would not mind having a subforum for General Artist discussions. Instead of clogging the country news and non-singles discussion thread, you can have a true discussion of your favorite artists there. I don't think having a general artist discussion sub-board would be necessary at all. That's what the General Artist Discussion folder is for, so Country shouldn't have to have their own separate sub-board for their artists, too, if that's what you're trying to imply with this.
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 1, 2014 14:41:45 GMT -5
I would not mind having a subforum for General Artist discussions. Instead of clogging the country news and non-singles discussion thread, you can have a true discussion of your favorite artists there. I don't think having a general artist discussion sub-board would be necessary at all. That's what the General Artist Discussion folder is for, so Country shouldn't have to have their own separate sub-board for their artists, too, if that's what you're trying to imply with this. However, a lot of people do not venture into that section of Pulse. If it were possible, to have those threads merged into the Country Forum would be better. That way, you would have more people posting about their favorite artists.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2014 18:40:26 GMT -5
I would support the establishment of a sub-forum, if it were designed to improve the level of discussion on the main country board. In other words, if we are going to kick some posts off to the side, which ones should they be? I don't think discussion of the direction of country music takes up nearly as much room, and at least it has a chance to be interesting. I can see a problem with allowing huge numbers of non-song threads to be created, and taking away mods' power to regulate these. Maybe a policy that mods have to approve suggested non-song threads? And if that doesn't work, then maybe a sub-forum is needed. But that would be second sub-forum to create, IMO. I agree with you that there is probably too much "future single discussion" in the current single's thread but I am not sure what we could do about that. We do have an Album Tracks forum here at Pulse but like others have said here, it seems that many country regulars don't venture outside the country forum all that often. I would prefer to see future single discussion not spill out of the album listening party threads, but if I see too much of it taking place in the current single's thread, I can definitely be quicker to jump in and steer the discussion back toward the appropriate topic. I've always liked the idea of PM-ing a mod to see if it's ok to start a thread (that isn't for a radio single). But I don't know that that would 'work', per se, because I think I would probably veto most of the threads. That's just where my head has always been--I've always liked the idea of keeping the genre-folders based on radio singles. So that's why I was personally interested in a sub-board where it would be ok to post the non-single threads, and Andy made a really good post up-thread on his support for the idea and that's basically how I feel as well. Typically if I would see a non-single thread, I'd simply just lock it. That's the way we've (and not just Country, but the other genre folders as well) basically always operated. But a bunch of general discussion threads sort of popped up at the same time in the last week or two, so that by the time I got logged on, there might be 4-5 at the top of the forum, and I didn't really want to play the role of "scrooge" and lock them all at the same time, especially when I found that the discussion within was rather engaging and some pretty good stuff. If some of these newer non-singles threads had popped up one at a time, they probably would have gotten locked, to be honest. I'm usually on Pulse for several hours a day (probably too long, lol) so if a thread gets started but it's not really supposed to be there, it gets locked. But with a lot of these new threads, they were getting a lot of replies right off the bat, and none of them were "mods, lock this thread!", so it wasn't too hard to see that the threads were being embraced. So my thought process became 'maybe these threads have their place' and then 'maybe we could create a sub-board for these types of topics.' I agree with you that the sub-board wouldn't see nearly as much traffic as the main country board but I think that's ok. However I do think that we would see more threads pop up in the sub-board. I am sure posters would create them if they knew it was ok to do so, whereas now there are probably people interested in discussing non-singles topics but they don't create a thread for those topics because once again, we've always kinda steered away from non-singles topics in the genre forums of Pulse.
Anyway...right now the votes are 35-4 in favor of a new/general discussion sub-board. Thanks to everyone who has voted and replied to the thread. It helps us (staff) get a good feel for what direction we're going in. Just to clarify: I envision the potential sub-board as more or less an expansion of the current "Country News & Non-Singles Discussion" thread where people could create individual topics about news or discussion topics about the genre as a whole. I would probably say "no" to having a ton of threads there for individual album tracks because as I mentioned earlier, there is an album tracks board on Pulse (even though many country regulars don't visit that part of the board). We also have a Polling Booth forum and the A-J and K-Z boards of General Artist Discussion for artist/album threads. I can't pull all of that stuff and put it into various country forum sub-boards, because then we'd be taking away from other parts of Pulse (e.g., would the General Artist Discussion then read like this: "General Artist Discussion - post all album threads here, with the exception of country artist albums, as those belong in the country sub-boards." Or, for the Polling Both description: "Post all polls here, with the exception of the country-related ones, as those belong in the country sub-boards). You can see how that would get sticky, right? We would likely get a bunch of questions like "why does the country forum have all these sub-boards but the other genres don't?" We're looking to expand while cleaning up the country forum at the same time, but there are limits upon that expansion. There seems to be a good amount of support for a news/general country discussion sub-board and I am in favor of such a board as well. The idea is that this sub-board would act as a sort of 'pilot' sub-board--in other words, "will it float or will it sink?" And is it something that the staff might look at doing for other genre folders? It might be something that other genre folders decide they want to implement as well or it could wind up being popular only here. Keep the discussion/responses coming, everybody!
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Mar 1, 2014 18:50:17 GMT -5
The polling and games can just be included then because I'm right with .indulgecountry in wanting to start polls and games but never really being able to because non of the country posters really go to the other forums. I'd be honestly disappointed if we got a new sub-board and weren't allowed to create polls and/or games.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2014 20:11:57 GMT -5
The polling and games can just be included then because I'm right with .indulgecountry in wanting to start polls and games but never really being able to because non of the country posters really go to the other forums. I'd be honestly disappointed if we got a new sub-board and weren't allowed to create polls and/or games. If there's enough support for it it's something we could discuss and look into but honestly I'm just not sure that there's that much interest in a lot of polls/games from most of the regular country forum posters, aside from a few. We can talk about it though...that was the whole idea behind this thread: to gather feedback on the proposed sub-board(s) but also to open the floor for other suggestions/ideas.
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Post by zjames on Mar 1, 2014 20:17:22 GMT -5
I'd be a fan of games and polls. I venture into those sections of Pulse and there's barely anything country related.
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Post by Andy on Mar 1, 2014 20:25:38 GMT -5
I'd be a fan of games and polls. I venture into those sections of Pulse and there's barely anything country related. Ditto.
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Post by zaclord 🌈 on Mar 1, 2014 21:51:20 GMT -5
I definitely voted to add a sub-board for non-singles discussion - that's a really great idea! I also voted other because I, like a couple others mentioned in here, would love to see polls and games specifically for country music in the country forum because I am one of those many posters who rarely gets out of the country forum. I think a place for games like the February Madness, Pulse Country Chart, New Country Challenge, would be great because then we could add in games like Survivor for artists like David Nail and Eric Church, who would get no attention in the regular forum here if they were placed in there, and then other fun polls and things like that to engage more discussion that isn't necessarily based around just current singles.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 1, 2014 22:22:04 GMT -5
The polling and games can just be included then because I'm right with .indulgecountry in wanting to start polls and games but never really being able to because non of the country posters really go to the other forums. I'd be honestly disappointed if we got a new sub-board and weren't allowed to create polls and/or games. If there's enough support for it it's something we could discuss and look into but honestly I'm just not sure that there's that much interest in a lot of polls/games from most of the regular country forum posters, aside from a few. We can talk about it though...that was the whole idea behind this thread: to gather feedback on the proposed sub-board(s) but also to open the floor for other suggestions/ideas. I feel like there'd be more interest if more members were made aware of such polls/games. As it stands now, a lot of the country forum folk just don't venture out enough to find them, and there's not a lot of country-based threads in The Polling Booth and Games sections because of that lower turnout. The popularity of such threads as the Madness tournament, the weekly polls for new country songs, and the Pulse Country Chart suggest to me that there'd be some interest in those types of things, imo.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2014 23:07:02 GMT -5
Subforum, please! For non-single discussion, that is. I think the other sections of the board, namely the General Artist Discussion and The Polling Booth sections, should remain the primary spot for discussions of artists and polls. However, I think the subforum for news articles and general interest threads could be quite useful. allow threads for Canadian singles in the main part of the board, and then to tell them apart from others, we could simply denote them with [Canada] (or [Australia], etc.) in the thread title. I like this, too.
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Post by Markus Meyer on Mar 1, 2014 23:29:06 GMT -5
I know my Pulse Country Artists competition would be way more popular in the country section.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2014 1:48:12 GMT -5
The problem I see with a polling/games sub-forum within the country folder is that I feel it would take away from other parts of Pulse. The Pulse board is not a country-only board, and so I want to avoid the notion that the country forum gets special treatment (as compared to other genre forums). I do understand that having some other things here would be more convenient (a la one-stop shopping), and for many country forum regulars, it would be easier having a lot of that extra stuff (polls/games) here instead of searching elsewhere on the board, only to wind up sifting through a ton of other [non-country related] threads that you're not interested in. But the fact is that we do have places for Polls and Games here at Pulse, whereas I don't feel like we have a specific area of the board to discuss country-related news and topics (that don't pertain to radio singles). I feel that, if we start pulling a bunch of aspects from other parts of Pulse and placing them in country sub-boards, then the other genre folders might want to do the same, and that makes for a really sticky situation. The results? Probably a severely depleted Polling Booth, Games forum, and likely the General Artist Discussion board would take a big hit as well. And I really don't think that would be fair to those parts of the board. Pulse just really isn't designed that way, and as much as I wish I could, we won't be able to please everyone. In the end, the country forum is just one part of Pulse and even though I'm just like many of you in that I don't venture outside of the country folder that much, I must once again point out that we do have other parts of Pulse for things like polls and games (and it doesn't bother me if you link to them through threads posted in the country forum). Polling/Gaming sub-boards within the genre folders just isn't something that the staff is really looking into. I might be a moderator here but I don't run the whole show (thank goodness for that!). We (and I speak for the rest of the staff here as well) have also been discussing everything separately among ourselves and so far the consensus is support for a country news/general discussion sub-board, and we've seen that here as well (currently 35-4 in the poll, in favor of the news/general discussion sub-board). I'm not sure what else to say regarding polls and games, though. One other thing: the sub-board would probably display just as the "Global Music Charts Archive" sub-board displays in the WORLD HITS forum. If you follow the link, you can see that the World Hits forum displays just like the country forum, only with a separate sub-board linked to at the top of the page. That is probably how we would do things here as well, that way the 'main' part of the country board would still be focused on radio singles and the charts, but then we would at least have a sub-board for other discussion.
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Post by someguy on Mar 2, 2014 2:31:16 GMT -5
I think that having the subforum to support non-single discussion is the best way to go. Games and polls can still exist in their respective forums, but a number of the posts on the first page (listening parties, four and five #1 hits, favourite albums, BCU links, etc.) would do nicely in their own subforum. That may also increase discussion in the threads of smaller/less Pulse-popular singles, as more single threads would then be on the first page. And, to address Zazie 's concern of next single discussion happening (which I know I'm guilty of too), I'm not sure exactly how we stop it, but maybe we can try to post links to songs that we're discussing. For example, if I say that Kacey Musgraves should release "My House" after "Keep It To Yourself" i can try to post a link to it, so that people who would like to take part in the discussion but don't have the album can stay informed. I understand that that might not always be an option, depending on the artist/album, but maybe being mindful of that would solve some of the problem.
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Post by 14887fan on Mar 2, 2014 2:56:08 GMT -5
I don't think having a general artist discussion sub-board would be necessary at all. That's what the General Artist Discussion folder is for, so Country shouldn't have to have their own separate sub-board for their artists, too, if that's what you're trying to imply with this. However, a lot of people do not venture into that section of Pulse. If it were possible, to have those threads merged into the Country Forum would be better. That way, you would have more people posting about their favorite artists. Well, to be quite frank, if they don't venture outside of the Country folder to the already-designated areas for where they can discuss their favorite artists in the appropriate folders, then that's their problem. I don't think it's fair that the Country folder conforms to others that prefer staying in this folder by adding on Country-only sections of things that already exist on Pulse. The same goes for The Polling Booth & Games sections. It'd be nonsensical to make a "Country only" version of those. Might as well make a new forum if we wanted a "Country only" of everything. I'm good and firm with a sub-board within the Country folder that's solely dedicated to non-single discussion, but anything outside of that is pushing it, in my opinion.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 2, 2014 4:12:10 GMT -5
The same goes for The Polling Booth & Games sections. It'd be nonsensical to make a "Country only" version of those. Might as well make a new forum if we wanted a "Country only" of everything. I'm good and firm with a sub-board within the Country folder that's solely dedicated to non-single discussion, but anything outside of that is pushing it, in my opinion. I totally understand this nothion, but at the same time I feel so disheartened when so few people vote and respond to country-related polls/games unless they are about a very select few, such as Carrie Underwood or Taylor Swift. All the genres are well-represented in those forums (TPB/Games), but the country genre has always operated on a different level than all the other forums (CHR/Urban/AC/etc.) here. I mean, seriously, if this genre folder has its own separate set of rules/guidelines from the rest of the Pulse boards, why would it be such a stretch to assume that the country forum operates a little differently here? I feel like the mentality of this forum is just different from the others here, and I doubt that people in the other genre folders would feel "cheated" that they don't get their own sub-forums, because there's no shortage of games/polls related to CHR, Urban, Hot AC, etc. topics in those broad folders as it is. The only other forums who tend to be underrepresented there are Latin and Christian/Gospel perhaps, but the popularity of those genres on Pulse pale in comparison to the Country community here.
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Post by Andy on Mar 2, 2014 4:51:05 GMT -5
I completely understand and accept this logic. Personally, it's much more important to me that we get a country-specific general discussion subforum in the first place. A country-specific polling/games section would be nice, but I understand if it's perceived as problematic and/or redundant. Personally, I will be making a conscious effort to visit the games/pollling booth sections and participate in any country-music related threads. Just an idea: maybe if people make country-related polls/games on those subforums, they can post a link in the news/general catch-all thread on the country subforum, just to capture the attention of the country board posters who habitually never wander to the other parts of the forum? Anyway, happy to see the overwhelming support for the non-single subforum (39-5 as of this writing).
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Mar 2, 2014 11:38:04 GMT -5
Anybody who goes over to the polling booth or games section for country would be overwhelmed. The other genres have a very different posting habits. A lot of The country posters post maybe one or two posts on average per day meanwhile the other genres tend to do a lot more. When I tried to make a poll in the current polling booth I had to make sure it was an artist that had some pop exposure, otherwise the poll ended up on the 5th page in about 2 days tops. This is a problem for those posters who can't find the country ones or are unwilling to dig through pages to find one.
Another option would be labeling the polls by genre so they can be easily found. I don't know if pulse has the option to add a genre colum to a thread but it'd make finding the country ones a lot easier if it were possible to bring them right to the top. Otherwise I see no harm in having a country only poll/game subboard. I'm sure if you polled the other genres they probably wouldn't care all too much.
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Post by Kurt on Mar 2, 2014 12:12:18 GMT -5
Anybody who goes over to the polling booth or games section for country would be overwhelmed. The other genres have a very different posting habits. A lot of The country posters post maybe one or two posts on average per day meanwhile the other genres tend to do a lot more. When I tried to make a poll in the current polling booth I had to make sure it was an artist that had some pop exposure, otherwise the poll ended up on the 5th page in about 2 days tops. This is a problem for those posters who can't find the country ones or are unwilling to dig through pages to find one. Another option would be labeling the polls by genre so they can be easily found. I don't know if pulse has the option to add a genre colum to a thread but it'd make finding the country ones a lot easier if it were possible to bring them right to the top. Otherwise I see no harm in having a country only poll/game subboard. I'm sure if you polled the other genres they probably wouldn't care all too much. I know this is a very minor point within the scope of the thread, but I did want to point out that The Polling Booth has added a Face-Off subforum for the "song A vs. song B" polls, which should alleviate that issue somewhat. Adding a new column like you mentioned isn't possible without manipulating ProBoards code, something none of us on staff has experience doing. However, adding a tag in the thread title is possible, and I like Andy's idea of posting links here to redirect to those polls (alternately, you could start the threads here, then a moderator could move them while leaving a redirect in place so at least a link appears in both areas).
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