This forum is useless now.

[mdh]

Please just return it to the way it was. If something is RETARDEDLY off-topic, then moving it seems fine, but News&Discussion, like it or not, was where the main discussion was, and where most things got done. If you guys don't like it, perhaps add a different section called "Popular" or whatever and we'll do most of the discussion there.

Yeah, many threads were moved before tonight, and no one ever complained about it that I saw - at least not a general complaint. This is a big sudden change and caught a lot of us off-guard. Now it's wasting a lot of our time trying to adapt and deal with it, which is unfortunate.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Another problem... some things cover many topics; the Ames Ad as Example: You had Graphics, Donations, News, Events.... Where the fuck do you place that?? You cant micromanage shit or it will fail. And if we fail the campaign fails. If it fails America fails.

 

[dsentell]

This forum was everyone's favorite. There were no complaints, everyone was happy.

There were substantive discussions, many plans made, many victories and celebrations!

This change has disrupted the campaign! Put it back the way it was and let us get back to work!

 

[foofighter20x]

Yes and I also grip when they change the Constitution... Some things don't need to be changed... It works don't fix it!

You analogy isn't apt.

In fact, it's precisely the opposite.

You guys are like Congress, doing what you aren't supposed to be doing out of perceived convenience instead of following the Forum Rules (i.e. the Constitution, respectfully).

When someone comes along and says you've got to follow the Rules (me, like Dr Paul) and that there are tools for you to do something similar to what you are doing, if only you'd use them (mark and reprisal, anyone??), you guys get angry and attack the messenger.

Life imitates life. Interesting.

 

[ShaneC]

Concur on the "Rabble rabble rabble rabble rabblerabble rabblerabble rabblerabble rabblerabble rabblerabble rabblerabble rabblerabble rabble"

I've rarely (close to never) used the "new posts" option on any forum I've ever visited.

The problem isn't so much that "threads are being moved" because threads do need to be in the appropriate forum.

I think the criteria is a bit too vague in some cases. Discussions of Ron Paul's views that are often found in "Issues for America" could very well belong in "News & Discussion"; whilst "Issues for America" and "General Politics and Other" could lump together on occasion.

IMHO, the threads aren't so much in the wrong place, but the defining criteria for each sub-forum aren't wholly accurate.

Perhaps breaking out the forum topics to a larger (or at least different) degree would be a better way to go?

example:

"Grass Roots Campaigning" (for the various fundraisers, etc).
"Ron Paul General Discussion" (covering "What's Ron Paul's take on xxxxxx?")
"Politics and Issues for America"
...etc....

Just a suggestion.

 

[foofighter20x]

Another problem... some things cover many topics; the Ames Ad as Example: You had Graphics, Donations, News, Events.... Where the fuck do you place that?? You cant micromanage shit or it will fail. And if we fail the campaign fails. If it fails America fails.

if you made a new graphic for an event, I'd post an original graphic thread in the campaign materials and then point it out to other in the event's thread elsewhere.

indexing works. you just have to not be too lazy to use it.

 

[Nefertiti]

I never noticed the new posts link before but I am glad someone pointed it out. It's exactly how I like to access forums. I'm going to use it from now on-will save me time!

 

[UtahApocalypse]

if you made a new graphic for an event, I'd post an original graphic thread in the campaign materials and then point it out to other in the event's thread elsewhere.

indexing works. you just have to not be too lazy to use it.

So now we have to track multiple threads for one project???

LMAO yeah fuck that big time. No one will no what the hell is going on or be able to work things. The Ames AD would NEVER have happened with this new crap.

 

[Spirit of '76]

The "new posts" thing works pretty well tho.

It's really the best way to go. You never miss a new thread or a single thread that has new replies.

But that's just my opinion. Don't let me get in the way of the screaming mob. I'd hate to be on the receiving end of all these torches and pitchforks.

 

[foofighter20x]

So now we have to track multiple threads for one project???

LMAO yeah fuck that big time. No one will no what the hell is going on or be able to work things. The Ames AD would NEVER have happened with this new crap.

Says you.

The discussion in the graphics thread could be about the graphic and how to improve it. In the event thread, you could discuss where it would be best used.

You are just being contrarian. It's in every individualist's nature.

 

[Original_Intent]

Well, I will say I had not used the "New Posts" feature and I prefer it to how I was using the forum before. And it seems to be a pretty minor thing and people saying they are leaving the forum over the change I think is akin to a revolutionary soldier telling George Washington that he wasn't going to fight any more because they didn't agree with the brand of gunpowder being used. The freezing, the danger of being killed, the lack of food, all that is OK, but I am NOT going to fight if you use THAT gunpowder.

Seriously, it seems this is a tempest in a teapot compared to some of the stuff we have overcome from the REAL ENEMY. Are things going so well for the capaign that we now have energy to tear into each other?

Now in deference to the "Down with Foo" movement - if a change is made and "the market" hates the change - doesn't it make sense for adjustments to be made to "the rules" to accomodate the market than to take an authoritarian position and basically say "that's the way it is, if you don't like it, tough?"

My two cents.

 

[mdh]

if you made a new graphic for an event, I'd post an original graphic thread in the campaign materials and then point it out to other in the event's thread elsewhere.

indexing works. you just have to not be too lazy to use it.

I agree that that would be the most organized way to do such a thing. However, when people are trying to collaborate in real-time, a stream of conciousness in a single place may be more pragmatic. The "better way" also uses more time that could be used doing things that are quite likely more productive for the campaign than adhering to a forum organizational structure...

 

[foofighter20x]

It's really the best way to go. You never miss a new thread or a single thread that has new replies.

But that's just my opinion. Don't let me get in the way of the screaming mob. I'd hate to be on the receiving end of all these torches and pitchforks.

Their torches and pitchforks are no match for my slickshoes and pinchers-of-power.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

The moving is happening again. i hoped that a true discussion was opened, I guess not. FUCK THIS BOARD IM OUT!!

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Mods Please Remove Me.

I do not wish to be part of your new socialist concepts please delete my membership immediately.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Lame

Bye bye forums.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Fuck You Commie Bastards!

Yeah This Forum Is A Shithole Now.

 

[Jon S]

isn't this your second one of these posts in one day? why haven't you left yet?

 

[Jon S]

and third. why don't u just stfu and leave then?

 

[nullvalu]

Come on people.. This is a public forum.. All we need is curious visitors to come here and see this.. Real nice.