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For a long time there's been this idea of starting an anime board
HakureiSM:
I don't see why anime, manga and gaming were even chucked into the off-topic board to begin with, seeing as those are obviously very relevant subjects to the members of this community anyway
And I've yet to understand how anime and manga fit in "Let's talk about the real world."
Well whatever then, despite opinions the decision was made.
Instead of one, or three, anime/manga threads we should have as many as we want then? Okay.
helvetica:
--- Quote from: HakureiSM on October 03, 2010, 01:43:35 AM ---I don't see why anime, manga and gaming were even chucked into the off-topic board to begin with, seeing as those are obviously very relevant subjects to the members of this community anyway
And I've yet to understand how anime and manga fit in "Let's talk about the real world."
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Err the "real world" was a joke, since everything else was related to Gensokyo (an imaginary place). It's meant to be the "serious" offtopic forum (CPMC being the silly spammy one). It's always been about discussion of not-Touhou related topics. AA was branched off because well, games are obviously popular in a gaming community and if it had stayed in Renko's it would have drowned out any other discussion.
--- Quote ---Well whatever then, despite opinions the decision was made.
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Don't be a smartass please. I said if traffic warrants it I am not opposed. And the post traffic right now does NOT warrant a separate subforum. If anything there's not enough activity in Renko's anyways, so it'd be silly to break off a potential source of discussion.
--- Quote ---Instead of one, or three, anime/manga threads we should have as many as we want then? Okay.
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Yes I've said this several times, and the answer I got was that after this megathread ended then you guys would start making individual threads.
HakureiSM:
--- Quote from: ♪ Baneling-chan ♫ on October 03, 2010, 01:56:41 AM ---Yes I've said this several times, and the answer I got was that after this megathread ended then you guys would start making individual threads.
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--- Quote from: HakureiSM on October 02, 2010, 09:56:31 PM ---The idea came up more than once before, but there's was no real discussion centered on it.
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As in, a thread here, in this board, where everything stated is made clear and available to every member.
If there was ever one, I apologize for missing it, because every past time I've seen this topic brought up it was in some other thread while discussing some other subject, leaving this one to fall into darkness without a clear conclusion.
Glad we sorted this out, anyways.
helvetica:
--- Quote from: HakureiSM on October 03, 2010, 02:08:30 AM ---As in, a thread here, in this board, where everything stated is made clear and available to every member.
If there was ever one, I apologize for missing it, because every past time I've seen this topic brought up it was in some other thread while discussing some other subject, leaving this one to fall into darkness without a clear conclusion.
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The last time this came up was when I kicked the anime and music thread out of CPMC. The call was made that twittery type what are you watching/reading/jerking off to threads can go in CPMC, and any serious discourse threads go in Renko's. And it was permitted, if not encouraged, to have smaller yet more narrow discussion threads (such as this season's anime, or a particular show) rather than a catchall THIS IS AN ANIMU THREAD.
From day one I've felt the megathread thing was a bad idea, especially for such a general topic as anime, as to me it stamped out any serious discussion. For someone who wasn't following the thread regularly, it's practically impossible to jump in. I've asked that the megathread be split up and the answer I got was that you guys wanted to let this one finish out first before doing so. I feel there could be room for a lot of visual culture discussion, but for the time being I also wanted to build traffic in Renko's up. This is when I decided to kick the anime megathread (and other discussion threads) out of CPMC.
--- Quote ---Glad we sorted this out, anyways.
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Sorry if it sounded like I was annoyed. The discussion about this issue was fine, I was more annoyed about the sentiment that anime/manga stuff will not thrive unless we make a separate subforum for it. And like I said it's not our job to encourage discussion beyond the main sections of the site (TARC/HME/etc). The "Beyond the Border" subforums are really to foster a community beyond just talking about Touhou, but at the same time it's not our concern nor would it be proper for us to force certain topics of discussion. That's something the community decides as a whole.
If you guys want a separate subforum then maybe rather than complaining about the lack of it, go out there and stir up discussion and interest! It's not our job as the staff to build interest in certain topics, especially offtopic things. It's your job as members of this community. Just making a subforum isn't going to magically start an explosion of threads. You guys have to be interested in it first, and frankly, there isn't enough interest right now. So if you want a subforum work on getting interest going first.
If Renko's starts getting crowded then the issue will be revisited, but until then all off-topic "serious" discussion that isn't gaming goes in Renko's. There will not be a separate anime/manga/TV/animal board until Renko's traffic gets unmanageable.
HakureiSM:
--- Quote from: ♪ Baneling-chan ♫ on October 03, 2010, 02:20:35 AM ---Sorry if it sounded like I was annoyed.
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You always do, that's your main issue. I'm probably sounding too, today. Sorry about that, there's general stuff making me too impatient to type as politely as I'd like to.
But the let's make another forum suggestion was done mostly, if not entirely, because we(well at least I do) fear cluttering Renko's.
I don't see how or why the megathread was maintained for so long, especially after most of the members who managed to take part in it said they were against it.
--- Quote from: ♪ Baneling-chan ♫ on October 03, 2010, 02:20:35 AM ---From day one I've felt the megathread thing was a bad idea, especially for such a general topic as anime, as to me it stamped out any serious discussion. For someone who wasn't following the thread regularly, it's practically impossible to jump in.
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That's exactly what everyone meant by
--- Quote ---The megathread supresses discussion
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to which you replied
--- Quote from: ♪ Baneling-chan ♫ on October 03, 2010, 01:26:35 AM ---Even if the megathread is "surpressing discussion" (which I argue it isn't),
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Just wanted to point that out.
But anyway, if there's no problem with making several threads and you don't really believe it will clutter up Renko's, then I'll take your word for it, as it will give us a lot more room by solving the megathread problem.
I don't even know if I'm making myself clear anymore.