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Diaries - where do you want them?

Sky_DaveSky_Dave Member Posts: 3,288
edited February 2012 in Poker Chat
Howdy folks,

With more and more diaries popping up in GPC, it's had me wondering if you'd prefer to have a dedicated section of the forum for them to go in, or if you rather have them in General Poker Chat?

Pros and cons of moving them (as I see it, anyway)

Pros: more people read them as GPC is definitely the busiest part of the forum. That means more people want to write them and that's not a bad thing (unless they're rubbish, which they're not!)
Cons: does it stop other GPC threads getting as much time on the front page as you'd like? Does it mean the GPC is too diary full?

I am literally undecided on this one, so what do you guys think?
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  • rancidrancid Member Posts: 5,947
    edited February 2012
    New section is required, GPC just getting bogged down with them and there a bit like marmite )


    mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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  • EyemanEyeman Member Posts: 1,039
    edited February 2012
    Diary farms?
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  • penguin7penguin7 Member Posts: 1,095
    edited February 2012
    Own section please.

    Then we can find the ones we follow easily.
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  • YOUNG_GUNYOUNG_GUN Member Posts: 8,948
    edited February 2012
    New section with a comedy name :) 
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  • devonfish5devonfish5 Member Posts: 4,291
    edited February 2012
    as above
    :-)
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  • cgoldiecgoldie Member Posts: 234
    edited February 2012
    Perhaps a sub section of GPC if that is possible?
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  • MAXALLYMAXALLY Member Posts: 17,646
    edited February 2012


    Can we not just stick all the low stakes ones in a section on their own?

    ...............Leave all 'golden ones' in GPC !!  ☺

    New section please for Diaries.....Profiles (my name is, introduction posts etc).....and the return of 'IN THE WELL' !!! 


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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,780
    edited February 2012

    I think it would be a horrendous decision to move the Diaries to a seperate board.

    GPC needs pepping up - badly, VERY badly - & the Diaries COULD do that. They could, if managed well, completely freshen up & rejuvenate GPC.

    The current Vote is very much against my line of thinking, & I'll accept & respect whatever decision is made. Currently, I read every Diary, every day, but I doubt I'd do that if I had to change Boards, personally I just don't have time to peruse the other Boards.
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  • Dudeskin8Dudeskin8 Member Posts: 6,228
    edited February 2012
    It's going to happen eventually so might as well just move them now than leaving it hanging in the air. 
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  • Poker_FailPoker_Fail Member Posts: 1,755
    edited February 2012
    Keep them in GPC.

    Else GPC is simply DEAD
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  • simuksimuk Member Posts: 315
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diaries - where do you want them?:
    Keep them in GPC. Else GPC is simply DEAD
    Posted by Poker_Fail
    Agreed, also will give more exposure to the diary. If subsectioned, they could all just die a death!
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  • DazlerDazler Member Posts: 3,970
    edited February 2012
    personaly i think there are too many sub sections to plough through for my liking and only stick to a couple that interest me, so to make another one i reckon it would get lost like some of the others so i would say leave it as is. people like to see them updated on a regular basis and the GPC is the place i always vist first when i log on as im sure most do.

    but hey ho what ever the masses want!
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,780
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diaries - where do you want them?:
    personaly i think there are too many sub sections to plough through for my liking and only stick to a couple that interest me, so to make another one i reckon it would get lost like some of the others so i would say leave it as is. people like to see them updated on a regular basis and the GPC is the place i always vist first when i log on as im sure most do. but hey ho what ever the masses want!
    Posted by Dazler
    This, very much this.

    Regularly Updating them is the key, & if we had 6 or 8 Diaries on the go, regularly updated, GPC would spring back to life.

    It's the very nature of Forum Diaries that most drop by the wayside because of lack of regular updates, and they in turn get replaced by others.

    I made some, I hope, helpful hints & comments on Tommy's Diary this morning, follow these, keep them nice & fresh, & with an eclectic range of subjects, (not just poker, DEFFO not just poker) & they cannot fail.

    Good Posts by the Diary owner generate lots of interest & replies from readers, these then get respnded to, & the activity on GPC suddenly takes off.

    I keep an Online Diary elsewhere which has had 1950 posts since January 1st this year, & 38,000 views in the same period, & as most of you know, I'm not exactly Mr Interesting, other Diaries get far more, I imagine. Of those 1,950 Posts, I doubt 10% were by me - the rest were responses, & others debating topics, which I have raised.

    If we had 6 or 7 decent Diaries here all doing that, the whole tone, mood, & activity level of GPC would be uplifted. And it needs to be uplifted, badly. This is a Forum, not Customer Care, & it should reflect that, it was never intended to be the place where Customer Care conducted their business. 
     
    Forums are what WE make them. Nobody can point fingers, Forums get the readership their Members deserve. I think we deserve better, & it is in our own hands to make it better.

    As to whether Diaries stay on GPC, or have their own board, that's Blandy's shout, & I won't argue, but there's no chance I'll be navigating inter-board any time soon, I just don't have the time. I'm quite sure the Diaries will manage vey nicely without my input!
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  • EvilPinguEvilPingu Member Posts: 3,462
    edited February 2012
    I voted yes but changed my mind now, lol.
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  • TommyDTommyD Member Posts: 4,389
    edited February 2012
    Turn the question on it's head.  What else is in GPC recently?

    There are some good non diary GPC threads but sadly they are getting fewer and fewer.  Never is there a more blatant example of how losing fabulous thread starters can damage a forum.  (Irish Rover, we miss you).  GPC needs something to get it going, diaries seem to have a chance of doing this.  While it is chock full at the moment as starting a diary is en vogue this will thin out over time as people lose interest in updating regularly.

    Also, breaking all forum convention and encouraging people to click 'Page 2' isn't a bad thing.
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  • spornybolspornybol Member Posts: 8,212
    edited February 2012
    I suggested a new section for this a while back and it got shot down, so obvs keep here.

    amazing a sky member asks this question and will get more replies than my ORIGINAL THREAD.

    so sky dave i`m still taking credit, lol

    edit: my thread also got moved too community suggestions, i take it yours won`t ?? he-he
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,780
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diaries - where do you want them?:
    Turn the question on it's head.  What else is in GPC recently? There are some good non diary GPC threads but sadly they are getting fewer and fewer.  Never is there a more blatant example of how losing fabulous thread starters can damage a forum.  (Irish Rover, we miss you).  GPC needs something to get it going, diaries seem to have a chance of doing this.  While it is chock full at the moment as starting a diary is en vogue this will thin out over time as people lose interest in updating regularly. Also, breaking all forum convention and encouraging people to click 'Page 2' isn't a bad thing.
    Posted by TommyD
    Precisely - it is the sign of a healthy Forum when stuff drops off Page 1 quickly.
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  • Sky_DaveSky_Dave Member Posts: 3,288
    edited February 2012
    I love a good conversation.... keep the comments coming folks.
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  • YOUNG_GUNYOUNG_GUN Member Posts: 8,948
    edited February 2012
    I suggested yes earlier but now agree leave in GPC 
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,780
    edited February 2012

    So TWO folks have changed their mind now?
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