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Guiz plz. I love the move and no complaints about anything except this is the only thing that I haven't been able to get used to, and really, it sucks. I have so many feelings about this matter that I just can't do anything but hold myself everytime I open the JCC and pretend that a nonexistant friend is hugging me and whispering that everything is going to be okay.

Can you guys reconsider the whole merging tons of forums together into one? I know we use tags to see just one group or whatever, but that's not automatic and the whole no-entertainment-outside-of-amph thing is stupid. The YJCC used to be a place where we could go to say stupid crap and post about movies in unintelligent broken english. Now it's full of middle aged women named stuff like Moonstar_UnicornPoots playing scrabble games and a ton of political people talking all serious about countries other than the USA. And if you want to talk about a movie you have to actually use sentences and explain your feelings rationally. And there are sports everywhereeeeeeee.

I get maybe the combination of a couple of forums, but there's so much **** in the JC now that I only end up looking at a couple of the same threads each day. I understand the merge of Amph. *Maybe* I could understand the merge with Arena. But yahtzi games + the Senate just seems like laziness or something. That crap doesn't belong there. And the users posting in those are for the most part different than those posting in all the other ones. A couple cross over but meh, not enough that I could see it being rational. If anything wouldn't you want to merge video games with the JCC? Doesn't that kind of cross over into the same target audience as Amph + YJCC?


Also plz don't reply with that it's too much work to move these sub forums. It's too much work for me to click the tabs every single time I go to the JC. Just merge the ones you want together, scrap the tabs, be done with it. Go put scrabble poots and the senate together in their own personal hell and call it a day.

 

I can get a hint. I'll stop posting in the JCC.

Back to LACWAC then.



Oh **** there IS no LACWAC!

But to be sirius for once, I actually agree about the games -- I remember there had been talk on the other side of the mod veil that the games wouldn't be mixed with the JCC, and somehow it happened anyway. I can see Amph. Maaaaaybe Senate, although it defeats the purpose of the JCC being an animal funny farm. I suppose it comes down to whatever rep you want the JCC to have these days.

 

Firstly, I'm going to assume this is a serious post and not a troll post (no offense).

Is there any way to allow users to permanently filter on specific tags? If it's possible then it may be the easiest solution....just have your preferences set to only show "JCC" and you'll never see the other threads. If not then as I said in this thread a case can still be made to at least separate The Senate because it still requires specific posting guidelines that are different than the rest of Community.

Perhaps the Amph tag needs to be renamed to "Media" or something like that. My understanding is that the Amphitheatre forum we used to post at is esentially gone and we can talk in broken english in those threads. The "Amph" tag is just a way of indicating what the thread subject is about and nothing more. If I'm wrong on that then someone let me know. But I can see why people would think they'd need to discuss a little more in-depth which goes back to my first point that perhaps it should just be renamed to get rid of that Amph stigma.

 

Leave it the way it is. There isn't remotely enough traffic to support a separation.

 

I go back and forth on this one, but I think ultimately I'm ok with the way it is now. I was very against this at the beginning and I definitely dislike the loss of the Arena community, however I've friended them all on facebook and merely enjoy the community there now instead of here.

I do like how this new way has tamed the JCC. I never thought it would happen, but it did and I kinda like it. There are still silly threads, but far less than there used to be and most of them get buried under real discussions from Amph, Arena, and the Senate threads.

 

Why would you want the jcc to be tame?

 

There is if you divide it into 2 groups. Serious vs. lighthearted forums.

 

So after all the kerfuffle we had about the change to the current format during/after The Move, there's a chance to undo all of that? How fickle are we around here?

 

I don't remember this part ever being discussed. Not among the users anyways. It was more of a this is how it is now thing.

 

This.

 

I will post two more posts every day if you split it up.

 

You're right... I should have addressed my post to Grimby there, but I forgot to. Anyway, it will be interesting to see if any changes stem at all from this discussion (and whatever discussions are going on in the MS). Either way, the boards will still be around in some form, and that's all that matters.

 

It was discussed over on the Temp Boards.

 

Link.

 

http://gd.theforce.net/xentemp/index.php?threads/the-future-of-the-community-forums-new-debate-page-30.364/{/URL}]Temp[/url] boards: future of the community


I don't fare that well in much of the discussion, because I was such a stubborn jackass about things.



I don't think clutter is something the JC will ever have to be concerned about again, short of another round of feature films.

KnightWriter, Jul 3, 2012


Ironic, wouldn't you say?

 

Only 60 pages? Huh, thought it was longer.

I'm really ambivalent on the merged community, these days. I like it for the convenience of having a bunch of boards I browse all in one place, but there are some faults; either way it's hard for me to have a strong opinion one way or the other.

 

I will say this about that thread: it sure as hell helped to pass the time during many afternoon's at Walmart last summer. How could I be focused on work when there was stuff to get "outraged" over?

 

lol... has anybody heard from Zaz... at all, or did he just fall off the face of the Earth?

 

I'm not reading 60 pages of crap. There's no need. You make a list of pros and cons of the forum combination and choose whichever has most. Arguing back and forth can go forever.

 

I don't want to read the majority of the jcc stuff at all which is why I was against the merge in the first place. I come here for actual discussions, not reading pages of people putting other people down or nonsense. For the most part the only time I see that now is against Juliet and she does do what she is being made fun of for so it isn't horrible. I get that some people like the nonsense and that's fine. There is a place for it. Right now that is the JCC tab. I was worried that it would spread to the other forums where serious discussions take place and it hasn't. The mods have done a good job of keeping the tabs separate and I give them a lot of credit for it. We had a few issues at first, but they stuck to their guns and people settled down. I don't have to read the nonsense, I can click on my tabs and be a happy user.

 

Yeah, this is sort of what I was getting at -- speaking as someone who didn't used to post in the JCC due to its old rep (I would occasionally glance in to read the first page and be generally befuddled/disgusted at humanity the rest of the day), it's not at all what it used to be. I'm actually reading threads in there regularly now when I never did before. And I know I'm not the only one. So if the goal of merging forums was to draw in new people, it's being achieved.
But the question would be, are people leaving? Because there are old regulars I don't see posting there anymore, or at least infrequently. And there's a lot of tension between people who can't take a joke/want to talk srs bsns/are just there for a good time. Then again, maybe that was what the JCC was always like (y'all would know more than me about that).

I would imagine this would be preferable. And it would have saved the Lit/EUC divide last year as well.

Teh haxored again no doubt.

 

The JCC has been "tamed"?

I don't see why JCC'ers have any room to complain. Media threads are supposed to be automatically tagged "Amph" but we can still post stupid crap in them, and the Senate practically doesn't exist anymore because most favor tagging politics and current events threads as JCC.

I do think the games are dumb and I find it funny whenever people mistake it to mean videogames. I just skip over them.

 

^ I pretty much agree with that, it is nice to have different members posting in there. But I think there's a huge difference between dividing all the forums up and dividing some of them up. There is a middle ground. It doesn't have to be keep them all separate or keep them all combined. In this case, like I said earlier...why not keep the ones with similar audiences together, and separate the other ones? Combine YJCC, Amph, Arena + Videogames. Figure out where the Senate etc could fit in somewhere else on the forum, or keep it separate if you have to. I definitely do see a lot of Senate threads, not sure why DGuy isn't. Maybe he's evolving into a higher being unable to see such unsightly conversations. As far as game games go, I honestly don't see how that fits with YJCC + Amph + Senate, nor do I see where it fits at all. Fanfiction? Lit? Drop that bomb in Lit. Those folk are very serious and could use some old timey parcheesi to lift the spirits.