BR324: combine srs and irl land / VOAT for your top favorite boards please

[snoorkel]

. . . . . . . Final Thoughts . . . . . . .

[don't let's]

no comment

[Mando Pandango]

final thoughts

keep , merge dreams and irl

[Kalahari Inkantation]

final thoughts

keep , merge dreams and irl

i agree with this

[snoorkel]

But that's pointless

[PLEASEHELP1991]

put up a poll asking boyagers what five core boards they would like to keep

[Mando Pandango]

I feel like serious discussion needs to stay as its own thing though. It may not get a lot of posts but I feel like it needs to be there to discuss things that are... serious.

I also see zero correlation between and IRL.

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

but, couldn't discussion be implemented as a child forum under IRL board?

[snoorkel]

I feel like serious discussion needs to stay as its own thing though. It may not get a lot of posts but I feel like it needs to be there to discuss things that are... serious.

I also see zero correlation between sr s and IRL.

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.

We don't have to, that's the point. Many of us post 'serious' replies intended for 'serious' discussion all over the forum, so the board's theme seems a little obsolete... it's basically just politics/religion/morality and other traditionally argument worthy topics, which imo is kind of a stupid distinction to make for a board's discussion theme.

If we combined it into an all-encompassing Offline Discussion board, we could encourage 'serious' (or just semi-serious, not asking for anything) discussion of all things 'real life', including serious debate topics.

For example, some threads from IRL Land:

same sex cuddling
tattoos
what drugs have you tried (experiences)?
things about your looks that you hate

Although these aren't really for argumentative discussion (which shouldn't be the point of 'serious discussion' anyway), why can't they be labeled alongside Serious Discussion topics as slightly more 'serious' than things we post in the Throwdown Showdown, and invite suitably semi-serious discussion?

Again, the idea isn't just to drop/consolidate boards, it's to reform a few vaguely-purposed boards into a more clear and useful theme: Offline Discussion.

Ye? Wouldn't it be fun? Another board that might actually get new discussions every day?

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Yeah, that's why I think it'd be cool to turn IRL Land into 'semi-serious discussion' with Serious Discussion and Sleep/Dreams topics dumped into it. It would be a board to talk about real life like real life (because that's fun, right?), instead of this stupid board no one uses where the only idea is to post clichéd "serious" topics.

Does this only make sense to me?  

but, couldn't discussion be implemented as a child forum under IRL board?

This is viable, but I'd prefer to merge them all, because again what's really the point of that? The idea is to spur new activity, not just make the board structure more efficient.

[Mando Pandango]

remind me how this would spur activity again because i'm honestly not following

[snoorkel]

remind me how this would spur activity again because i'm honestly not following

Instead of having IRL Land, where people only post about photos, clothes, and health; and Serious Discussion, where people only post clichéd "serious" topics, we could have a slightly more general board, still with a serious connotation, inviting all sorts of general 'real life' topics (topics that aren't quite blithe enough to fit in the throwdown showdown to disappear after a few days).


Alternatively, we could merge Sleep/Dreams and IRL Land and keep Serious, but only if Serious can be reborn into a board with real rules that's actually serious... which I'm skeptical about because no one would use it. But if we would use it, then it'd be great.

put up a poll asking boyagers what five core boards they would like to keep

I'm doing this, not to decide this but just for knowledge.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

https://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,2681.0.html no one reads the rules in serious discussion because lawlz wrote them rofl
the rules must be revised

[snoorkel]

Ok, I have considered this more deeply and formed a new plan. I will propose it later today. Meanwhile please vote

[don't let's]

https://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,2681.0.html no one reads the rules in serious discussion because lawlz wrote them rofl
the rules must be revised

To be fair, no rules on Boyah are actually enforced anymore, except maybe the member impersonation rule. But everything else is pretty much violated on a daily basis by everybody.

[Hippopo]

I have this strange feeling that if you were to merge the two, there would cease to be "serious discussion."

I wouldn't be heartbroken since I don't post there anyways.  BUT I'm guessing there won't be an increase in activity, so I'm not sure if this will accomplish anything.