Feedback needed!!!

[Mr. Shadow]

Originally Posted by Magic I really appreciate eveyone's input. Lemme think on this a day or two more

Don't hurt yourself.

[eberg15101]

Originally Posted by Lynch Personally... I do NOT like the idea of merging new band news in with "official" threads, as they can get lost in them, especially if the thread is long (ie: the Kiss thread which has over 250 responses to it). It's up to you if you want to make a News/Concert subforum. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe you can actually combine these two ideas. Say, after 3 months or something, if there is an "official band x" thread, at that point move the "news" threads to those official threads, since they are old news by that time. the thread merge wouldn't have to be exactly at 3 months, just saying if an admin/supermod feels like doing some forum cleanup at some point when the site is quiet and they quit surfing midget porn for 5 minutes. JM2CW

hey!

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I can't take that much time away, maybe 1.5 minutes tops, but......

[Groovy Man]

Yeah, a seperate forum for "band news and concert information" would be great.

Putting news and tour info in the band's thread - people might miss it somehow.

Just my two cents.

[Mr. Shadow]

[eberg15101]

^^^

you just made my night with that Shadow

[Magic]

Originally Posted by Mr. Shadow

Nice feedback, Shadow!

[Lord Grendel]

Band news/concert information are two different things in my books. If the post is about a band and their new album we have threads for reviews and band threads that is where they belong.

Concert previews/listings...maybe a sub-forum would be applicable, but after the concert is over what does it serve? Anyone who wants to write about the concert can do that in the bands main thread. If we do have a section for concert listings it should be with the understanding that they will be deleted after a period of time.

[KISSFREAK]

My thoughts are that the band news and concert information gets lost in the general forum.....after a day or two it isn't seen anymore on the main forum page. If I make a separate forum for these threads, it is easy to check that forum for the latest news, etc.

Separate forums for each sounds like the best idea IMHO

I didn't want to make a whole new thread and get like one answer (waste of a thread, lol) so I hope it is okay to ask here but is there a way to make it so we can view the forum stats? I don't think it is possible with this host but another forum I am at has a stats page with how many people register a day, top 10 thread makers, most popular threads, stuff like that.

Meh, just something to look at when waiting for new replies or just out of curiousity. I doubt it can happen with vbulliten but I figured I would ask anyways. I thought it was a cool feature in the other forum but not sure what host he uses.

[Lord Grendel]

Have to wait for Magic or Shaggy to answer that one Foxy.

[Magic]

Forum Statistics can be shown in Vbulletin, it has nothing to do with the server host . Sometimes there are advanced statistics, like the most thanked, top poster, most active thread, yadda yadda. but that is an add-on to the program.

I will look into it Foxy, I dont know what statistics we have and whether they are turned off or if that is an add-on to the program.

[Lynch]

Originally Posted by FoxyPage I didn't want to make a whole new thread and get like one answer (waste of a thread, lol) so I hope it is okay to ask here but is there a way to make it so we can view the forum stats? I don't think it is possible with this host but another forum I am at has a stats page with how many people register a day, top 10 thread makers, most popular threads, stuff like that. Meh, just something to look at when waiting for new replies or just out of curiousity. I doubt it can happen with vbulliten but I figured I would ask anyways. I thought it was a cool feature in the other forum but not sure what host he uses.

I've seen and used what you are talking about. There are a number of "addons" that can do various stat lists. Some of these "addons" are used only by admins, others are more for public use/knowledge.

There are also some stats that are available via the "members list". Those stats are available via the normal software, but the options available are set by the admin staff as well. the more info available, the more work on the server/database end of the site. So on a really busy site, it's not a good idea for this stuff to be available for public use as it can really add to the load on the database, which in layman's terms, slow shit down for everyone.

Thanks guys, I really liked the feature and thought it would be cool here just out of interest sort of thing.

I haven't run a VB board for a while but a place I admined had a forum host and I had to go checking with the host for updates/add-ons. Pretty annoying, lol.

[Magic]

Originally Posted by Lynch I've seen and used what you are talking about. There are a number of "addons" that can do various stat lists. Some of these "addons" are used only by admins, others are more for public use/knowledge. There are also some stats that are available via the "members list". Those stats are available via the normal software, but the options available are set by the admin staff as well. the more info available, the more work on the server/database end of the site. So on a really busy site, it's not a good idea for this stuff to be available for public use as it can really add to the load on the database, which in layman's terms, slow shit down for everyone.

Thanks Lynch for your input

[Lynch]

I'm here but to serve... (and to steal little kids' candy and keep the damn cats in line) *nom nom nom*