Denzel Zanzibar 8,867 16.6k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 5 minutes ago, BearSmog said: But to close it seems pointless and controlling. Do we close all threads at a certain time then? Or do we just naturally let it drift down the list until its irrelevant. In my opinion we should have a thread akin to the 'Other Boro Stuff' thread called 'The Transfer Thread' which can be used all season round because transfers are something that is always talked about.. It's funny you should say that, because we already have one here. Look, here. Click me. Click me now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonD 1,693 1.9k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 15 minutes ago, Denzel Zanzibar said: It's funny you should say that, because we already have one here. Look, here. Click me. Click me now! I clicked on this and got Rick Astley. Have we signed him? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty 6,204 11.2k Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 27 minutes ago, BearSmog said: But to close it seems pointless and controlling. Do we close all threads at a certain time then? Or do we just naturally let it drift down the list until its irrelevant. In my opinion we should have a thread akin to the 'Other Boro Stuff' thread called 'The Transfer Thread' which can be used all season round because transfers are something that is always talked about.. Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob 7,421 11.3k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 we want our gifs back as well , the giphy stuff is all free to use, dunno why they are still blocked 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redcar Rioja 9,930 9.6k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 8 minutes ago, SimonD said: 23 minutes ago, Denzel Zanzibar said: It's funny you should say that, because we already have one here. Look, here. Click me. Click me now! I clicked on this and got Rick Astley. Have we signed him? We got him in a swap for Dan Barlaser, a half chewed packet of Wrigleys and a Conker! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyMFC 2,071 2.2k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 1 hour ago, Redcar Rioja said: We got him in a swap for Dan Barlaser, a half chewed packet of Wrigleys and a Conker! We had their eyes out if we got a Conker thrown into the deal.......KS really is a master of negotiation! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsouth 8,792 40k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 2 hours ago, Rob said: we want our gifs back as well , the giphy stuff is all free to use, dunno why they are still blocked We may well start the gifs back very soon just waiting on @oneboro to confirm this 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob 7,421 11.3k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 21 minutes ago, Downsouth said: We may well start the gifs back very soon just waiting on @oneboro to confirm this that be sweet, all the gilphy stuff is completely royalty free to use as long as you not using it to sell a product without authorisation. sure there was loads of old fan made boro ones as well which would free of copyright as well I reckon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarmo Kink Army 4,441 7.2k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Mwah merry Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce 3,777 2.8k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 4 hours ago, Denzel Zanzibar said: It's funny you should say that, because we already have one here. Look, here. Click me. Click me now! For what it's worth, something hopefully helpful. It's very common in forums that have eternal threads to close the thread after a certain point and start a new version. Usually after around 1000 pages. At that point, the old thread is so long that it can cause problems and tends to put off new readers. Doing what has already happened and closing a transfer window thread a couple of weeks after the window closes and replacing it with a new thread for the new window makes perfect sense to me. You can add a pinned post to the top and use it to introduce the thread and keep track of confirmed transfers and loans. Odds are that each thread will end up over 1000 pages so it will have a natural, healthy lifespan. The worst of all worlds is if you close a thread but don't open a new one. That just leads to an endless spiral of complaining about the forum rather than talking about football, just like this. Forums have "desire paths" just like parks. A desire path is when you build a path across a park but people take a more direct route over the grass instead. There are certain things users on a forum desire to talk about and if the forum doesn't provide it they either don't engage (leading to a dead forum) or talk about in different threads which can lead to conflict and confusion. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoroDownSouth 558 4.3k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 15 minutes ago, Bruce said: For what it's worth, something hopefully helpful. It's very common in forums that have eternal threads to close the thread after a certain point and start a new version. Usually after around 1000 pages. At that point, the old thread is so long that it can cause problems and tends to put off new readers. Doing what has already happened and closing a transfer window thread a couple of weeks after the window closes and replacing it with a new thread for the new window makes perfect sense to me. You can add a pinned post to the top and use it to introduce the thread and keep track of confirmed transfers and loans. Odds are that each thread will end up over 1000 pages so it will have a natural, healthy lifespan. The worst of all worlds is if you close a thread but don't open a new one. That just leads to an endless spiral of complaining about the forum rather than talking about football, just like this. Forums have "desire paths" just like parks. A desire path is when you build a path across a park but people take a more direct route over the grass instead. There are certain things users on a forum desire to talk about and if the forum doesn't provide it they either don't engage (leading to a dead forum) or talk about in different threads which can lead to conflict and confusion. Spot on 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob 7,421 11.3k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 (edited) I'd like a transfers forum, why keep it all to one thread when we can have loads of threads! you could easily have at least one for every deal. in the forum could also have a transfers chat topic (and concise topics as well ) , then for every link/deal you can have one topic each players buy/sale - you can continue to rename topics as things progress, so people could see straight away if something had changed it would make catching up after a few days out on the transfer news like 100x easier and quicker. as you could skip to the end of a players topic to see where the deal is at, where current if you have 100+ pages on the transfer thread, you might not want to skip any in case you miss something - which normally results in the usual post from someone who's read 4 days worth of chatter only to work out nothing happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernSmoggie 5,738 7.4k Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Would a sensible compromise be that this one dies whenever the January one starts? Then no single thread drags on forever, but there's always somewhere for people to chat transfers if they want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithLambsFaxMachine 964 562 Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 43 minutes ago, SouthernSmoggie said: Would a sensible compromise be that this one dies whenever the January one starts? Then no single thread drags on forever, but there's always somewhere for people to chat transfers if they want. You mean, kinda like what's happened this time? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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