Split up General Discussion forum?

[airdata]

Should the General Discussion forum be split into 1 main forum with serious threads and another where people can post all their doom+gloom threads?

I endorse something like this.  Mods can swiftly move all retard threads to the retard room or however they would like to aptly name it.  It's like joining a Coca Cola forum just to make threads saying how awesome pepsi is.

[fascistmuffin]

It's like joining a Coca Cola forum just to make threads saying how awesome pepsi is.

That pretty much describes how all forums eventually look.

[giszmo]

bitCoin is not coke. It's way more complicated and I'm happy that all my questions got answered when I was more of a noob than I am now. Split the forums if you want to keep the masters of bitCoin separated from the apprentices.

I mean I wouldn't mind when moderators were more active about those SELL SELL SELL trolls but enthusiasm and doubt about bitCoin in the General Discussion should be fine.

Slightly off-topic: Is it possible to jump to the first unread post in a thread? I don't even recognize any distinction between read and unread.

[jackjack]

Slightly off-topic: Is it possible to jump to the first unread post in a thread? I don't even recognize any distinction between read and unread.

Just click on the purple "new" image instead of clicking on thread name

[giszmo]

Slightly off-topic: Is it possible to jump to the first unread post in a thread? I don't even recognize any distinction between read and unread.

Just click on the purple "new" image instead of clicking on thread name

OMG thanx so much. I hovered over that icon trying to find out what it tries to tell me but there was no tooltip.

[koin]

That pretty much describes how all forums eventually look.

which renders them as useless as the yahoo! finance forums.

[BitcoinPorn]

Maybe all the threads about the price of bitcoin going up/down/sideways should be put in the TRADING board, since the price is all about trading?

And this topic should be moved to 'Meta'.

There just needs to be a little more hands on moderation for better thread placement.  But I mean, technically almost anything could be Bitcoin Discussion, so maybe delete Bitcoin Discussion, yes this forum, make 4 or so more subforums (Bitcoin Marketing/Media, Bitcoin Theory, Bitcoin Love, and something else), the end.

People will be forced to keep their Bitcoin related discussions more focused into established Bitcoin subforums and the newly created ones, people can vote for what is important as the new subforums.   Anything else is Off Topic, which on any forum is the dumping ground, but that is basically what the main forum here has become.   I think this is a very possible solution too.

[giszmo]

agree.

people tend to post to the "general" forum everywhere as others read it there. i barely click through the other parts but if moderation enforces correct placement i'm sure noise could be reduced.

on the other hand i'm not so much for moderation but rather for some voting system that includes categories. allow all users to rate threads 1-5 for any of:
* quality
* insight
* fun factor
* bias
* ...
and display the most rated categories on the overview.

"MtGox again ...|Insight:1.2|Fun:4.3" would be totally different at first sight than
"MtGox again ...|Quality:2.3|Insight:4.3"

[AtlasONo]

doom+gloom = criticizing bitcoin = TROLL ALERT 

If this is the case then no the forum shouldn't quarantine criticism.

[Tx2000]

doom+gloom = criticizing bitcoin = TROLL ALERT 

If this is the case then no the forum shouldn't quarantine criticism.

You're right.  Criticism shouldn't be "quarantined" or banned.  But trolling should; i.e. doom+gloom+misinformation+unfound+slander, should be.