[Closed] This forum is a bit silly...

The fact that there isn't a load of sub sections is precisely why I like this place. Any more and it'd be bike radar. And that would never do.

The variety of topic is what makes it such a great forum.

Just like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, You never know what you're gonna get.

I did kind of notice after I started the thread that it was in the wrong forum.....

And you want more? No one would ever see your threads.

did kind of notice after I started the thread that it was in the wrong forum.....

So imagine how confusing it would be if you had more than 2 choices. 😆

Did chipps really not get the joke?

http://grit.cx/forum/topic/any-guitarists-in-the-building

Conspiracy forum
With an illuminati subforum and a dedicated jimmy saville photo thread.

could do the same as the swiss and german forums... have 178 sub forums, so the only way to easily see any updates is, ironically, to hit the "view all new/updated posts", so it then looks like here but with on+off topic combined in to one.

for one hobby in which I partake, I think there are actually more sub-forums than the number of regular contributors. so you could each basically have a private room.

Ooh private room, like it.
Then people could have an argument with themselves.

( which I have seen here before )

I like the echo you get in Bike Radar.
"as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."

I got moved! Asked for it I suppose...

Tips: use the search button

If you use Chrome, this is good.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-the-current-site/jliolpcnkmolaaecncdfeofombdekjcp?hl=en

Harry_the_Spider - Member
We need sub forums for the following.

Crisps
Airfix/Scalextic

Would suggest one addition:

"Airfix/Scalextric/[b][i]Lego[/i][/b]"

The official line, btw, is that this has been discussed before and the consensus is that both the owners and (most of) the users prefer it this way.

These suggestions have turned up pretty much since the forum first started.
I've been a resident here since 2003, before the Great Hack, and I hate forums where there are countless stupid little sections which makes them very difficult to use.
Does the OP, who admits to not being a regular, not think its a bit of a cheek to start demanding it be changed just because [i]he[/i] thinks it's a bit silly?

I thought we liked silliness...

jamj1974 - Member

Harry_the_Spider - Member
We need sub forums for the following.

Crisps
Airfix/Scalextic

Would suggest one addition:

"Airfix/Scalextric/Lego"

it would be good to split lego into sub forums:

Duplo
Lego (standard)
Technix
Mindstorms

Does the OP, who admits to not being a regular, not think its a bit of a cheek to start demanding it be changed just because he thinks it's a bit silly?

A fresh pair of eyes is always good and I'll defend to the hilt any new user's right to offer feedback. I didn't see any "demands", just suggestions.

Does the PP (previous poster, an acronym I just invented) not think that it's a bit of a cheek to be welcoming a new user by having a pop at them?

No personal criticism meant, but the search function is not particularly functional...

I'm pleased we have free speech and someone can post a picture from the live of brian without the whole place descending into death threats.

Whilst I'm pondering religious items, why is there a picture of the pope in the background so often in fresh good friday pictures and in the advent videos?

[quote=palmer77 ]No personal criticism meant, but the search function is not particularly functional...
Particularly if you try Advanced Search and try to find posts by a specific username

it's a bit of a cheek to be welcoming a new user by having a pop at them

No demands just to correct whoever that was. I don't even really care that much - as much as anything I thought people might be annoyed and then my thread might stay on the first page for a while, which would be a result...

Also not new to correct whatever others said that - just an intermittent visitor.

OP, I'll let you into a secret. You just wrote the VERY FIRST REAL POST EVER on STW. Before you it was just populated by a bunch of monkeys with typewriters trying to recreate Shakespeare, so it doesn't really matter how many forae there are.

We just got a bit stuck on wheelsizes, kids toys and substandard baked goods.

Yours, Chief Makack.

If every bike related subject could only be covered ten times never mind once the forum would have had to close down years ago.

This forum is super friendly to new members compared to others I have known where new member baiting is a sport that seemingly resulted in as many new members getting banned on their first day as made it through the deliberate flaming/trolling initiation.

ampthill - Member

Also STW is all about answering questions about topics that we know nothing about. Specialism could lead to a dangerously high quality of answers

Lolz. 😆

Yeah, MTBR with its 142 subforums* (if I counted right) is waaaayyyy much more betterer!! 😡 🙄

* argument commencing on the correctness of this word in 3...2...1...