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Re: [Killietalk] Kill Killietalk
Wright,
As you said the hard part would be getting enough people to volunteer time.
I agree these are needed, but I also understand that you only need so many
people to a certain amount of traffic. As for spam posts there has been
great advances made in prevention of spam bots. Invision power boards is IMO
the top board out there. If you want to see it run on a large scale
www.turtleforum.com or on a small scale www.dallaskillifish.com . The turtle
forum is the largest single active membership of its nature out there. It
gets so much traffic it requires a dedicated server and is managed by a
staff of around 20 volunteers. I don't' see the AKA coming close to this
kind of volume. I too used to post on killies.com. As with all groups,
individual activity levels come and go. Where most groups fail with forums
is they don't keep up with who has time and who does not. People get bored
and leave. I believe killitalk has 2 moderators. Please, if I am wrong
correct me. A forum with the traffic that killitalk on average generates
wouldn't take anymore than that.
-----Original Message-----
From: jason stone [mailto:jasonstone at gmail_com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:25 PM
To: killitalk at xolesfishies_com
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Kill Killietalk
Kent:
Do you have a recommendation of a forum that works well for phones?
To my knowledge, none of them do that well.
My email is more of an FYI for me than an argument. While I too am in
IT for a tech company and manage many mailing lists, I am only a
consumer of forums for work and pleasure.
-jason
On 6/10/09, Kent Hunsuckle <killitalk at xolesfishies_com> wrote:
> OK,
> AS one who manages more than my share of forums I have to way in. I don't
> care what killitalk does, I will endure the email format if I have to,
but
> honestly I delete over 90% of it. If you think forums are hard to manage
and
> follow, then you are looking at one of the many weak forum engines. There
> are some excellent forums out there that are easy to follow and organize.
> The one the AKA is currently using isn't bad, but there is room for
> improvement. You want to see a pain in the, well you get it, then try
> looking through past killitalk topics. I would personally rather not and
> just do something more reasonable like smacking myself in the toe with a
> hammer. If you honestly want something easy to follow individual topics
on,
> and be able to look up past topics on, then killitalk is not your friend.
> Yahoo groups and the like are dying. Good forums are putting them under.
> Now, I know that I am going to get poo pooed on this, but that's ok. I'm
> used to it. It happens most of the time when I reply here. I usually have
no
> idea what I am talking about, even though it may fall into my career
field
> or one of my particular fields of experience. But such is the manner of
> killitalk. OK, let the flames begin.
>
>
> Kent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org] On
> Behalf Of Anubias Design
>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:13 AM
> To: killifish discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Kill Killietalk
>
> I second John's opinion. Frankly, I view forums as the bane of my
> existence. It takes way too much time to follow what is going on in the
> various forums. The KT format, just like the Yahoo Groups format, allows
a
> much simpler, faster means of keeping current with everything under
> discussion. It's very easy to delete messages with subject lines that
don't
> interest you or when a thread devolves into mudslinging or otherwise
becomes
> a waste of the reader's time. I would hate to see KT disappear only to
be
> replaced by a forum that I wouldn't have time to peruse.
> Mark
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 6/10/09, John Wubbolt <BigJohnW at webtv_net> wrote:
>
>
> From: John Wubbolt <BigJohnW at webtv_net>
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Kill Killietalk
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 9:30 AM
>
>
> Well i for one dont want killietalk to go to a forum type existance. I
> actually prefer this type of messages. Yes there are alot of messages
> that i dont want to read and its MY choice to delete them, im not going
> to complain about them, nor about the off topic discussions, nor the
> lonely hearts club stuff, nor the product evaluations stuff, nor the
> live foods stuff, nor the where can i find something stuff. Ive
> learned alot about other aspects of the killie hobby because of things
> ive read here on a daily basis that if this was a forum i would have
> skipped over and just ignored. Listening to recent discussions on what
> digital camera's are better then others is so valuable to me.
>
> So as far as Im concerned, keep Killietalk just as it is and has been
> for years.!!! If you dont like this system, choose to use the delete
> button. No one says you have read all topics.
>
> John Wubbolt
>
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