Fear not my fellow sports fans, I am indeed putting in a bid. Again.
What type of forum are you nominating? Sports
Include details on the type of threads and content you can picture in this area: I "run" the sports section on another gaming website I frequent, and I post sports threads there, with vibrant opening posts, with details about the upcoming season, etc. Separate threads get made for the offseason and playoffs. Could also do separate threads for the ultimate games, if necessary.
If you could choose the forum's name, what would you call it? The Locker Room
• What type of forum are you nominating?: Superheroes/Supervillains: The Forum
A super area that merges Treehouse, The Mall, and General Entertainment into one super active area! Woooooooo!
can we throw in Playground as well?A super area that merges Treehouse, The Mall, and General Entertainment into one super active area! Woooooooo!
I'm not sure a dedicated sports area would generate more views than a sports tag in GE. A topics current activity is generally a good indicator of how it will do as it's own forum
Genuine question: how much activity would a superhero forum actually get? There's only so much to discuss before we get repeated "who is your favorite villain/hero/movie/etc." and "marvel vs dc" threads.
if superheroes loses to sports i'm deleting this thread
I'm not sure a dedicated sports area would generate more views than a sports tag in GE. A topics current activity is generally a good indicator of how it will do as it's own forum
I swear to god if Sports loses again for the millionth time I will change my username to 'PC Hates Sports' out of spite.
In full transparency, I did post an NFL thread before the season started, and it quickly sank to the bottom of the pile with 0 posts, so...
But again, I think if we had a forum that was clearly dedicated to Sports - and knowing PC's tendency to gimmicky label stuff be called The Stadium - would overall boost sports activity.
Fear not my fellow sports fans, I am indeed putting in a bid. Again.
What type of forum are you nominating? Sports
Include details on the type of threads and content you can picture in this area: I "run" the sports section on another gaming website I frequent, and I post sports threads there, with vibrant opening posts, with details about the upcoming season, etc. Separate threads get made for the offseason and playoffs. Could also do separate threads for the ultimate games, if necessary.
If you could choose the forum's name, what would you call it? The Locker Room
sports forum or riot.
i'm serious. we need one for like yesterday.
Sorry but I couldn't disagree more. The activity will not rise just because the topic has a new spot on the front page. Perhaps the initial bump in activity due to its conception, but give it a few months and you'll be back to your GE numbers.
Well numbers are derivative of how each section is led, so we'll see about that.
Like The Mall, sports has enough consistent newsworthy subjects that it can hold on its own. Here are some right off the top of my head
I have more but you get the jist. General Entertainment is, at its core, a music and TV Show/Movie forum. The core group of people who go to that part of PC don't go for sports but for the above listed and as Evil Chameleon pointed out, there's no breathing air for sports to even have a fighting chance because of it. General Entertainment is, in essence, the pop-culture version of The Treehouse; with the right leadership, like with The Mall, can make it work. You give sports it's own clear cut place and it will thrive, I guarantee that.
- Professional Sports: American or International
- Fantasy Sports: weekly advice on particular matters, survivor pools, hell create your own leagues on here.
- Recreational Sports: for the casual fan who just wants to talk about normal stuff they like to do
- Newsworthy trades, transactions, and injury updates
- Disentegration of "sports megathreads"; instead of singular, megathreads like the soccer one, you can break it apart by team and/or weekly scorings.
- Weekly wagers: each week users make a bet on particular outcomes of games, can be anything from making your avatar a dickbutt for a week to donating $x money to a particular charity
- Power Rankings: each week PokeCommunity discusses as to what the power rankings for a particular sport should be. Discussion posts can be done at the beginning of each week and then at the end is.
- Sports Podcast: each week members come together and talk about their favorite games, newsworthy items, and so forth.
I agree entirely that the subject itself is enough to host plenty of discussion, I think the main problem is the interest on the forums. If a larger portion of the member base of the forum were interested in sports, that would be reflected in General Entertainment. The reason why GE is overrun with music topics is because music is an equally topical and popular subject of conversation, with a significant portion of our member base having an interest in it. That is the missing factor in sports, that I'm sure will stun it's growth.
Jokes aside, the point of Forum Frontier should be to try and make a permanent forum. When the suggestive of the forum is already calling it a "gimmick forum" and is already admitting defeat that it won't stay, I have a problem with that when there are other ideas that are trying to get something permanent on the board. Personally - and you call me a stiff stick in the mud for this, I really don't care - I don't want a gimmick forum that is just for three months; I want these forums to last and is why I put in the effort - as well as Jaeherys - to get The Mall to stay as it had/has a lot of potential. Same is the case with sports personally.the forum isn't supposed to last longer than three months and there are many ways to fill out that time
a gimmick forum that doesn't have any lofty ambitions and gladly bows out when the next frontier comes around. no fuss, no mess. a true christmas miracle.