emuler wrote:If we delete them, won't we lose track of why they were deleted in the first place? IMHO far better to mark them as being undesirabe/ uninteresting, whatever.
Surely for purposes of this 18+ only = definitely off topic ? Any movie which is this should not be here - probably all agree that ?
One of things to think about is newcomers to forum - they get the excitement (and disappointment) of going through a whole candy box of films - that is a feeling which should not be denied them.
I agree we should start putting own reviews which, though subjective, could at least give a clue. If we feel this really is not worth the bother of download through being :-
Poor quality
Off topic
Only tiny bit of OT which does not warrant download
Uninteresting
We can say in review, if however even though not completely ot (and how many honestly are), but still an interesting film- again review can state this. Doesn't matter how in depth - I have seen reviews which consist of PHWOAR - so I think that says worth downloading
The question I would like to ask Rich, Ghost is WHY are we considering deleting films ? Is this is space issue, or one of confusion over too many films, or another reason not mentioned ? If we know why, we can be more objective in the how.
Just my thoughts but it was always going to be the case in such a high-participation forum that there would be a large number of posts, and we have gone the first step to creating a more usable forum by splitting into REQ and REL. This forum will need to evolve futher with considerations to :-
1. Seaprate forums for highly populated topics.
2. An Off topic form
3. A discussion forum for anything on (and maybe one for off-topic)
4. An archive "dump" forum
5. Special (but completely legal) interests forum
I know this is not needed now, but IMHO, the best forums on the web are those which are readable and manageable AND have inetresting posts and high participation. We have gone a long way to that here, but need to be looking at changes to reflect the quaility and quantity of posts. I suggest we all start by posting reviews of films (howver brief) and maybe say why kept or deleted ?
Just my ideas - don't go hanging me for them
