Elegab, Shikaruna, Cronic, BxH have all been under the "Japan Toys" section for a long time and have been fine. People whine, love, cheer lead, hate and it's been fine. How would getting rid of the subdivision and adding RxH, Secret Base and Gargamel under the same Japan Toys section affect anything? And why would people have to go to other forums to discuss those toys? That makes no sense to me.
Seriously, I don't think it matters to have it all in one thread. I think it comes down to the search engine. For the Japan thread, it will put all brands an equal treatment and hot topics will always be on top. That said though, without better search functions, it won't be as easy for new collectors coming into the scene to search for brand related threads (or know what there is to search for). Easing into the scene will be harder - its hard enough for newbies in SB already. Possibly have a search section where each of the threads are tagged to specific brands, so when searching you can tag to fields as a drop down menu. Tagging seems to be the way nowadays but not sure if this forum engine can cater for that. When you create a new thread you need to specify what brand it belongs to so that it can categorize easier in the search engine and be displayed better when you do look for brand sensitive queries.
Imagine all the forums, living life in peace. You may call me a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Someday we'll go to Monster Island, where the kaiju live as one.
But why not just search via topic versus post and pull up a list of threads. One can easily scroll through and find what is relevant. Yes? No? search.php?keywords=gargamel&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=titleonly&sk=t&sd=d&sr=topics&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search or a bit wider: search.php?keywords=gargamel&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=topics&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
Maybe? With the sub sections it works well since there is no need to search (for RxH, Garg and SB). Without these sections in the future, just by looking at your search results from your two links search results mainly fall into wanted, trade and show collection threads. I still think with tagging and having a drop down of brand list before posting a new thread would help in the search engine. I am thinking of the same functionalities like Flickr with tagging which is very helpful.
Please read my other posts in this thread for an elaboration of my thoughts. (I'd rather not retype them.) OK, this is my last post on the topic. No sense carrying on since the decision has been made.
Well things are still the same so maybe Glenn is having second thoughts. Either way I'm really ok with it. Just PLEASE do something about the banner
no it's definitely changing. i imagine there is quite a bit of prep work beforehand. i'd like to see the board take a one day hiatus while it happens actually. it's nice to go outside and play sometimes.
That depends where you live Ed! Right now I'm looking out my window in Buffalo and we have blizzard white out conditions. Now if I were back in the Bahamas.....
Is that you mom When you're at work all day and just browse SB in your downtime, you can't go outside anyway.
To be honest we are trying to change it but it is a little more involved than I had hoped. It use to be super easy with phpbb 2.0, now not so much. It will probably happen over the weekend.
