Thread: The Walsus Club

Hi,
Well for my 2/- worth, for the little real estate it occupies and the insights it has provided, my vote is to keep it.
Cheers

I like it too, I think the snippets are interesting and varied. I'd also like to see it stay.

People don't have to read it if they dont want.

I think there are bigger issues than this, like why the RRS is in with D3/4 but RRC is not in with D1.

Originally Posted by vnx205

Has the Walrus Club been running for long enough now to give an indication of how necessary it is?

Is it time to have a polite discussion about whether it is worth retaining?

I think it is worth keeping and as stated, it takes up very little (of someone else's) real estate and no one is forced to open anything in it.

I don't have particularly strong feelings about it and certainly won't lose any sleep over whether it goes or stays. I thought maybe others might have strong reasons for wanting it to go or stay and that this thread might give them an opportunity to voice their concerns or their appreciation.

While I have wondered for some time if it served a useful purpose, I was prompted to ask the question when few days ago, it seemed that about a quarter of the new posts that appeared were Walrus Club threads. I have my options set to display 30 threads per page and there seemed to be eight or ten WC threads.

As Austastar said, it doesn't occupy a lot of real estate. However that might also be an argument to dispense with it. I notice that very few of the threads prompt much in the way of responses. Furthermore the number of views many of them attract rarely reached triple figures and some don't even make double figures. Does that mean that generally people are not interested?

I have seen other forums that ban posts that contain nothing more than a link to another site with no useful contribution from the poster. I don't know the full story of why they ban them, but I thought other forum users might have some insight into the reasons.

As Slunnie said, people don't have to read them. I very rarely do and the number of views many of them attract suggests that the majority of other members generally ignore them too.

It may be true that some of the snippets are interesting, but I have no trouble seeking out or stumbling across enough interesting snippets on my own.

I didn't want it to appear that I was starting a campaign to get rid of the Walrus Club.

My posts unfortunately look a bit like that.

As I said, I don't have strong feelings and it seems that things can be left as they are and no-one will be worried.

If the space is free then it doesn't matter I guess -

but it is hard to understand :

(1) why someone would find it necessary to continually post duplicates of subjects that are otherwise well (and freely) covered on the internet generally,

and

(2) why the poster has been given his own space on aulro.com to do it on/in.

Perhaps we could think of it as aulro's community service, sort of like visiting the old folks in the nursing home, but instead we cater to old codgers with an axe to grind

- so if we can find an axe to grind I assume we'll get our individual pinniped-style clubs ?

Originally Posted by 87County

- so if we can find an axe to grind I assume we'll get our individual pinniped-style clubs ?

Send your axe to me, being a wood turner, I can get a real good edge on it.

Originally Posted by 87County

(2) why the poster has been given his own space on aulro.com to do it on/in.

Well, to be fair, anyone can start a new thread and post a link in that section. The reality is though, aside from one particular person, almost nobody ever has.

Most people use 'general chat'. In this respect I think the 'Walrus club' is redundant. Whether it remains or not I don't care, of itself it is harmless and if you don't like it, ignore it. Having a specific section where these types of posts are housed make it easy to ignore. It could be made even easier to ignore if all the threads from the Walrus club did not appears in the 'new posts' search (like current affairs) or, even better, 'new posts' was configurable so each user could select which sub forum they wanted to be shown 'new posts' from.

One suggestion for the Walrus Club though. There are occasional threads (very occasional) which have received a fair amount of interest from others. Where this happens I think they should be moved to the appropriate forum - general chat, sport etc where they are likely to get a greater coverage and so called general chat can continue. Perhaps if a thread in the Walrus club receives input from 5 or more different people it is worthy of wider coverage and gets moved.

In this way we avoid having 2 areas where chat of a general nature is taking place.