Suggestion: Removing the Recommendations subforum

Let's face it: It barely is used. It has, what, six topics in it? Only one of the topics in it has any sizable amount of posts, and it could be moved to a different subforum (like Yack Fest) anyway. The other topics could be moved to their own separate media subforums. Western Animation already has its own pinned Recommendations thread, as well as Music, so each other media subforum can have that. I don't see much of a point to having a separate Recommendations subforum when its purpose is very, very specialized and can be covered by a single thread in each other subforum.

Thoughts?

edited 7th Feb '14 6:17:09 PM by Odd1

Apparently someone higher up agrees with you, and is already moving the threads back into the media subforums. Forum heralds take note.

For the record, I never liked the concept myself anyway.

edited 7th Feb '14 6:18:35 PM by TotemicHero

It has six threads in it because someone just moved most of them to their native board

Not to say that I disagree. I never liked the idea of having the rec threads outside of their main boards, and most of what's left is kind of useless

To be fair, from what I remember last time I checked before today, it didn't have many threads in it before anyway. It just never seemed to have much of a purpose that a single thread in each subforum couldn't fulfill better.

For the benefit of the people moving the threads, here's where I believe the remaining ones should go.

• Media In General: Should go away, as is covered under every rec thread ever.
• Magical Girl Novels: Should go away, as is covered under Literature.
• Web Original: Goes in New Media.
• Let's Play: Goes in New Media. (I say keep multiple rec threads there, since New Media covers multiple types of media.)
• Non-fiction/reference: Not sure. If it's for books, it's Literature, but if it's more general...no idea.
• Artist books: Even less sure.

Artist Books pretty clearly belongs in Visual Arts. Media in General and Non-fiction/reference could be tossed in Yack Fest

I originally created that Let's Play thread in the Video Games section. Not sure which one it would fit better.

We have indeed determined to dissolve the Recommendations subforum after investigation proved that it was not filling the purpose that it was originally intended for. The necessary additional steps, like changing herald messages and any relevant rules posts, will be done as we have the time.

We still want to keep the forums clear of dozens of separate threads about "favorite X" and "X you liked best". Those are almost always redundant.

New Media is where the dedicated threads for Lets Players are. So it's pretty logical to put the recs thread for them there.

FYI, I knew the thread was made in the Video Games subforum, as I'm the one (or one of the ones) who hollered to have it moved from there.

Dissolving Recommendation forums and putting the threads in the appropriate subfora...

Holy shit, this is genius.

Given that was the original arrangement before Recommendations was conceived as a separate forum, I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not.

I am being sincere.

Why did we ever even have a Recommendations subforum, anyway?

Because people kept creating new recommendation threads despite there being pre-existing ones (even if they were stickied).

Keep in mind this happened before there were forum heralds, so forum guidelines weren't nearly as visible as they are now.

edited 7th Feb '14 7:06:05 PM by TotemicHero

It was originally created as a general media board, but was turned into it's current form as it was getting set up. Not sure what was up with that

They're pinned now. That should help (have no idea if they were pinned before). Also, some people were occasionally using the chatterboxes for this purpose, which just further proves the rec subforum was redundant.

We have chatterboxes?

Yes? They're the general discussion threads for the media boards

Could've fooled me, I never see them.

Also, I always thought a chatterbox was like that thing some websites have in a sidebar where anyone can type into it to chat and it's just kinda there and a lot of fansites and such have it. Like this.

I know! I'm just that good.

/not entirely serious

Hey lu, don't get cocky, everyone knows that without my foresight this wouldn't have happened! As my custom title thing says, I'm just awesome like that

Finally.

Also, I agree with the vote to move the Media in General thread to Yack Fest. If you ask for "something like X" people only give recommendations for works from the same medium, and if you go specifically to the thread for medium Y, people just tell you to ask in a different thread... instead of giving recommendations for things from medium Y that are like X. Media in General has less of a problem with that, and it would be more help in a well-used forum.

All right, how about we get rid of this whole Sub-forum for real?

• Media in General - Can go to Yack Fest
• Web Original - Can go to New Media section
• Magical Girl novels - Nuke it; way too specific.
• Recommend a Let's Play/Let's Player! - I think New Media thread can cover this.
• Non-fiction & Reference - Nuke it; it's much better to just go to relevant threads. For example, if you need a history book, ask people in The History Thread.
• Artist Book recommendation - Can go to Visual Arts.