That's not my argument at all. If I held that kind of mindset, I'd have been against new banners. What I'm saying is that the poll forum had a use, and just because people were shitposting in it during periods of inactivity doesn't warrant deleting the entire thing. It warrants better moderation.
If a board's activity rate is what determines whether it's worth keeping or not then the two Doujin Projects subforums need to be deleted too. Events & Gatherings can go as well.
A forum I would compare to the poll subforum is the Anime/Manga/Merchandise/Doujin subforum in the TM section. Whenever new content is coming in things get posted, but otherwise activity in that subforum is relatively low (during the F/Z anime these subforums were booming, same with CP). Thing is, Anime/Manga/Merchandise/Doujin has less idiocy potential than the poll subforum, so it didn't have the problem polls did where during periods of inactivity it's just a shitfest.
Now that there is another poll subforum in the 7th the
point is pretty much moot.Quote:
A forum that is only "active" 25% of the time and just sitting there or filled with silly crap the other 75% of the time isn't something that's getting good traffic.
For some reason people who lurked AND posted in fanfics, but didn't go to GD, came to polls and cast their vote. Not everyone who voted posted, but hey, that's the point of polls. You get your opinion out there without having to say anything. Most polls were about your favorite [x], which was something that people in the fanfic forum and GD had an opinion of and wanted to weigh in on. Aside from some select users, a good portion of the fanfic forum users don't go to GD.Quote:
That's their choice. Let's put it this way: If they mostly lurk fanfics, and you claim they wouldn't go to GD, why would they go to Polls?
People who lurk tend to look at the forums and the topics, just not post in them.
Not much different from the TM Anime/Games/Merchandise/Doujin forum in that regard. Though admittedly Anime/Games/Merchandise/Doujin's activity booms are usually longer lasting.Quote:
This cures that part, but it doesn't get around the fact that most of the time the Polls forum sits there and sucks on dust till the next thing that makes it wake up for a blip before going back to sleep
Best toss those Doujin Projects/Events & Gatherings then too, eh?Quote:
To be honest, it's why I'd thought about removing even the Forum Votes forum as well - hardly ever used.