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Originally Posted by Karthik
But I've spoken with numerous people who don't read CD because of it's "childish" reputation. The don't believe that there can be information of value beneath the numerous chit-chat posts.
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I am with Karthik on this point. It's not as much as the chit chat threads covering up the portal page as the attitude of the forum seems to have shifted toward this "childlish" one. Not exactly childlish, but a lot of posts aren't as serious as they should be in the regular forums.
A lot of people think Chief Delphi Forum isn't useful anymore because of that. They get turned off by the chit chat attitude, and are no longer contributing as much as they used to or would have. You can see a lot of mentors no longer post as much as they used to.
However, this might be a seperate thing to work on, trying to change this attitude. Taking away the chit chat forum may or may not fix this. It will certainly make a statement that we want to be more serious in this forum, but maybe that statement does not need to be made by removing chit chat section. I am simply out of ideas on how to tell posters to treat their post more seriously and throughtfully other than posting about it.
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Originally Posted by JVN
An idea...
What if the folks at CD simply took out the chitchat forum, and began STRONGLY enforcing a no chit chat policy. Then, the chatter wouldn't just slide into the other forums (or, if it did, it wouldn't last long.)
To take it's place, someone else starts www.firstsocialboard.com
which is a message board dedicated to chit/chat among FIRSTers.
This way, CD remains the communitty hub for team/FIRST/technical support and discussion. fsb.com turns into the "chatty" board.
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This may be a very practical solution to the whole problem. We are not removing chit chat, instead we are giving it special focus and attention. Imagine, a website dedicated for chatting with other FIRSTers and socialize with the community. There can be many potentials for this website to be tons of fun. You certainly don't need Brandon to do things for you everytime you come up with an idea.
The only problem is the job of creating a website and maintaining it. Very hard to accomplish unless a certain individual/team is willing to put personal effort into making it happen.