What do YOU want this forum to be?

Beth Gallagher said:
How about an Entertainment section (TV, Music, Movies)? There are several music threads already, and some movie/TV discussions. It's kind of hard to locate stuff in the Chit Chat section because it's getting seriously crowded.
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Marie Mallory said:
A Media forum for movies, music and video's.
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How about Entertainment & Media as a category, with forums for TV, Movies, Music, and Media Technology?
 
Ken Anderson said:
Which would you prefer: a new thread for that purpose or moving the off-topic stuff from the one you started? Either one is fine with me. I like the title you chose.
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Here are my suggestions, if you agree.
- Pin the "Gone But Not Forgotten" thread in Reminiscences
- Move posts from that thread, starting with post 25, to your existing thread called "Things I Miss."

I will add Ruby Begonia to that thread once you have moved the posts. Thanks.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Here are my suggestions, if you agree.
- Pin the "Gone But Not Forgotten" thread in Reminiscences
- Move posts from that thread, starting with post 25, to your existing thread called "Things I Miss."

I will add Ruby Begonia to that thread once you have moved the posts. Thanks.
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@Beth Gallagher, that sounds good to me. I may not get to it today because this is the last day of my pay week, when I try to make up for all the stuff I didn't do the rest of the week.
 
What do I want the forum to be? A little more Privacy and Security. I know it's a default for most forum installations to be open wide for search engine bots, and that I should have remembered that before I started posting about family, friends, etc. But too late... I already did. I was looking up whether what I did on the Pit with Invision Power Board was possible, I found a perfect AI post that explains it quite well.

To restrict search engine bots to a single, public "Introduction" forum while hiding the rest, configure node-level permissions to deny "View node" to the "Unregistered / Unconfirmed" group for all forums except the one meant for new members. Use XenForo's user group promotions to move users to a "Registered" group after they post, unlocking the remaining content.
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The only thing I did different, was when you get promoted out of that forum, it gets locked, I set all forum staff members to still be able to see that forum, because it is inevitable that some people manage to get stuck in there and would have the ability to email an Admin or Moderator to ask for help.

This takes a bit of work, but it makes your forum safer for everyone.

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How about no categories? Real life conversations have none. You just blab away. It probably won't happen but it's a thought.
 
Ed Wilson said:
How about no categories? Real life conversations have none. You just blab away. It probably won't happen but it's a thought.
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We actually had a thread for that kind of chatting last time. It was called Miscellaneous Banter, or something similar, and was where any chatting went that was not an actual conversation about something, and was just random chatter. If you enjoy that, you can start a thread for random chatting in the chit-chat section.
When we had that before, then anything that took a devoted thread off topic was just moved to the misc. banter thread, where it didn’t matter what people talked about.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Why should it matter anyway?
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Are you asking why staying on topic should matter, @Axel Slingerland ? I can give you my answer, at least why it matters to me; but it also makes a difference for the SEO for the forum, because there is a dedicated thread about a specific topic that people might search for online and find the answer in our forum.

However, the reason I like it is because i often want to find something that someone has suggested or recommended, or just mentioned at some point in time in the past.
So, I enter that word as a search and look for the thread where we talked about the topic I am interested in, and then I can read about it, or watch the video again, and find it easily if the whole thread is on topic.

Also, it make much more sense to someone who is just reading through the thread. A good example is when @Beth Gallagher started a thread about members we remember from our first SOC forum, called “Gone, But Not Forgotten”.
Somehow, the whole thread got WAY, WAY off topic and is now about jumping beans, for Pete’s sake ………. How did that happen ?
Now, Ken has to go in and moderate that thread, and move the off-topic posts somewhere else so we can have the memorial thread back again.
It matters…….
 
@Ken Anderson -- Just thought I'd share something kind of strange. I was looking on the Internet Archive of the old forum and noticed that my avatar on there shows the little green blinking light indicating that I am "online." Also, there are now pages from THIS website included in the archive. I found that kind of interesting.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
@Ken Anderson -- Just thought I'd share something kind of strange. I was looking on the Internet Archive of the old forum and noticed that my avatar on there shows the little green blinking light indicating that I am "online." Also, there are now pages from THIS website included in the archive. I found that kind of interesting.
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That's because you were online when that page was saved to the archive, and yes, it will include the new version of the site because it's the same domain: seniorsonly.club.
 
Hedi Mitchell said:
@Axel Slingerland - and... to stay away from topics that a person does not like to discuss.
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Well, I suppose if they didn't want to discuss it, they shouldn't have posted it in the first place, if they did, and if they did not, they shouldn't have opened it in the first place.

But I have to ask... What would that have to do with having to stay on topic?

Marie Mallory said:
And if not, don't rock the boat.
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What fun is that? Is this a place for people want to have a little fun, or a bunch of Party Poopers?
 
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