Split up blogscape...

[1alebcay]

What I am suggesting is to make sub catagories for blogscape. Currently there are over 100 threads that have been replied to less than a day ago in blogscape. Most other forums there are under 50, or even under 25 threads that have been replied to in the last 24 hours.

 

 

 

What I would like to see happen is for some more sub forums in blogscape. Say, one for f2p, one for skillers, one for normal p2p mains, one for pures, and one for other things such as clans and groups.

 

 

 

One of the biggest problems with something like this is splitting up the current threads. What I would suggest is for the mods to Private message all of the authors of threads that have been replied to in the last week and ask them which forum they would like their thread in, and move it to that forum. I know this would be a fairly large undertaking, but it would be alot easier to find blogs that you are interested in and it would be easier for people blogs to be seen.

 

 

 

[misterxman]

Too many subforums. Just keep it all under one forum, if a blog is good, it will be kept bumped by others. This encourages people to work hard on making their blog good. IF you make all those subforums, people will have to do 4-5 clicks just to check all subforums which is really annoying.

[Kevin_]

Too many subforums. Just keep it all under one forum, if a blog is good, it will be kept bumped by others. This encourages people to work hard on making their blog good. IF you make all those subforums, people will have to do 4-5 clicks just to check all subforums which is really annoying.

 

Yep, it's fine how it is.

[tripsis]

Yes, I agree with misterxman. While subforums are nice for organizational purposes, they are not nice (in large quantities) for browsing purposes. As misterxman said, if a blog is good, other people will make sure that your blog stays on the first or second page (through their comments). If it's not good, then it may be left up to you to bump your own blog. But it's really not difficult to bump your blog once or twice a day. It would take a lot less effort for each person to bump their blog once, then for a group of 3-5 moderators or administrators to search through every single blog, PM every single user, await an answer, then move their blog accordingly (and that's on top of all our other duties as well).

 

 

 

Then we may even run into the same problems we had with the General/General P2P forums. Maybe you have a blog for your pure. But lets say that subforum isn't very big, so it prevents people from visiting it often. When not many people visit it, then the blog owner gets upset because s/he never gets any comments, then s/he requests that it be moved to a more popular forum so his/her blog can get more attention, blah blah blah. At least in one big forum, everyone has an equal chance at getting their blog noticed. It just takes the right amount of time and effort. But with subforums, people will choose which categories to browse in (instead of seeing every type of blog all at once), and will therefore neglect the ones they're not interested in entirely. Subforums for BlogScape would just greatly complicate things, for both the moderators/administrators and the regular users.

[jemathonical]

If this were to happen, I think some blogs would die. I personally would not go into the Pures Subforum because I just don't like them. This could happen with the other sub-forums too. P2Pers may not want to see F2P Blogs and so on.

 

Everyone's blog can be seen and no one is getting 'left out'.

[Sheynara]

Saidinwot has created a Blogscape Index, which has been made a Sticky in the Blogscape Forum.

 

 

 

All Blogscapers can post to have their blog indexed.

 

 

 

Its been a great help to find Specific Blogs when looking as the Forum is a very very busy forum.

[Ginger_Warrior]

BlogScape, as I'm sure Shey of all people will agree, makes for a nice community gather point. There are many people I know that have formed friendship, most of which have spilt out into RS itself, in the BlogScape board.

 

 

 

To make sub-forums would be to split that community asunder, and thus would only do more harm to Tip.It Forums overall than it would do good. As Shey has also pointed out, the index set up by SaidinWoT makes the need to split BlogScape up obsolete.

 

 

 

Also as jemathonical touches on, you'd almost create a kind of class system within Tip.It. We've seen what abuse occurs when that exists in RS in-game, I think the way everyone is banded together increases tolerance. As a certain Judge said, "Seperate is not equal".

 

 

 

So in short, no.