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Post by 10incher on Jan 28, 2012 23:58:35 GMT -6
Please bear with us as we are currently making some changes in the "General Figure Talk" and "Collector Cantina" sections. You may have noticed quite a few posts that have been moved around but things are still not finalized. Will advise in this post when all the changes are completed
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Post by 10incher on Jan 29, 2012 23:23:33 GMT -6
We have decided to merge the 2 sections. The Collectors Cantina was meant to be the place where members could talk to each other about collecting stories, finds, childhood memories and so forth. The general section was meant for informational posts about figures, not from any specific lines. Because their was such a fine line differentiating between many of the posts, and most were being placed in the General section anyway, we just moved all the posts from the General section to the Collectors Cantina. Then we deleted the empty General section and put the Collectors Cantina in it's place.
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Post by funkyterrance on Jan 30, 2012 0:48:23 GMT -6
Good thinking  . |
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Post by 80s Action Figures on Jan 30, 2012 21:56:16 GMT -6
Cool..now some attention to the other areas as well please!!!. This is just my thoughts here and not ment to be taken as negative...I would sure like it if some of the areas were merged or deleted all together...this just comes from looking at the home page of the forum and there are too many different sections: 8 under action figure talk 8 under market places (why the heck does ebay need to be separated from any online market places...we all hate it so why single it out?  ) 3 off topic 3 collector corner and see the post count in some of these? I know a wack of old posts have been deleted, a lot of good ones as well, but I don't see the need to separate everything by texture and color and smell.................way to many little bins for all the buttons to go in. |
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Post by 10incher on Jan 30, 2012 23:46:29 GMT -6
Ebay is a seperate section mostly because I always hated looking through marketplace posts which you don't find out is an Ebay auction, until you click on it to read it. Also all the Marketplace areas were seperated into wants/have sections so members can maintain their lists on the forum. This also keeps the ads more up to date with everone only allowed 1 post in each section that they need to maintain. I feel what feedback we received when the changes were made was fairly positive
We are discussing a few options on some changes we may do. If anyone has any specific changes they would like to see, we're always open to hearing new ideas. The main goal is to make the site more fun and easier to use for everyone.
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Post by figurecollector on Jan 31, 2012 8:10:43 GMT -6
80's, there is still a lot to be discussed and the placement and content of each section is one of them. Take cartoon figures, for instance, which is currenty in the MOTU section. Then, there is movie, TV and other figures of the like in the Star Wars/Sci fi section. It is a fine line to determine whether something goes in one or the other since cartoon figures likely were either TV or movie figures at some point, maybe both. Superheroes are with sports and wrestling figures. Some are animated, some are not, some are movies and TV characters and some are both. We will discuss items like that when there is time.
As for the nember of sections, I somethimes believe that there actually should be a few more (ot at least some of them organized and renamed) so that we can try to get things together like the above.
As for the sale threads, we think the current way is better as it breaks down the items better into the eras that they are intended. What I collect are older items and one thing I hate is to have to wade through multitudes of threads on current material to get to what I want to see. I want to think that those who collect the current items feel the same about seeing the older stuff intertwined with what they want to see. Ebay should be separate as those listing expire and become dead links. For those that do not keep ongoing accounts with items for sale, they can easily be deleted by us when they have nothing available. As Chad also indicated, everyone is permitted only entry per division, so it is also easier to clean up that way.
As for your mention of the deleted topics, I only delted those which had dead link photo or dead Ebay listings and conversations between individuals such as
"Hey, if those are available, i would like to get them/"
"OK, do you have a list of what you want?"
"Yeah, I will get it to you ASAP."
which sometimes went on for a page, particularly when it was outside of a sale thread in the Action Figure Talk or Rogues Galler sections. Noone wants to read that when they are interested in the line itself and noone knows or cares if the deal was ever completed. I also removed some comments which were not on topic. Other than that, the removal of old sale/want ads over a year old were deleted, nothing else was deleted that was still functioning.
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Post by 80s Action Figures on Jan 31, 2012 11:47:08 GMT -6
Ebay is a separate section mostly because I always hated looking through marketplace posts which you don't find out is an Ebay auction, until you click on it to read it. Yes I can see that that would be a pain. But for the size of the board and the number of members and what not it seems to have alot of sections with too few posts. But its not a big deal just something I look at and wonder why. I have this page set to '100 newest posts' and rarely go the main forum page anymore as this keeps me in the loop. |
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