Thread: The Walsus Club

Originally Posted by Ferret

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.

I often go there for a browse and have a look if a subject is interesting, thanks Bob.
Some threads though do need to be moved to general chat, like the Whyalla one, as it is not a snippet item but a current topic of concern for many.

Originally Posted by Eevo

i thought the walrus club was created for bobs use
i feel that most of whats posted in the walrus club is click bait. notice i said most and not all.

it would be nice if i could unsubscribe from the walrus club without blocking all of bobs posts from others thread.

Just don't open the WC threads. job done

Originally Posted by frantic

...Some threads though do need to be moved to general chat, like the Whyalla one, as it is not a snippet item but a current topic of concern for many.

Yes, that's one I had in mind.

Originally Posted by pop058

Just don't open the WC threads. job done

its unintentional and annoying, i usually click new posts, then browse through the list.
sometimes every second topic is WC.

otherwise, the title looking interesting, i open without realising its WC and click.
and it turns out to be click bait. i really hate supporting click bait.

Originally Posted by frantic

Some threads though do need to be moved to general chat, like the Whyalla one, as it is not a snippet item but a current topic of concern for many.

there is a whylla thread in general chat.
bob then went and created 3 threads in WC

There was one in general chat. It was merged with one associated with a specific link in WC and so disappeared from GC.

and the one in GC was first.
im getting the impression there is a lot of WC favoritism from mods.

No, both threads were created within hours of each other. Bob's thread was created first so on that basis the GC thread was merged into the WC thread.

So no favouritism I think but I also don't think it was the right thing to do since general chat is just that - chat / discussion. WC is just a series of links usually without any comment whatsoever from the original poster to even promote discussion.

Edit: It is actually not right to describe them as being created within hours of each other. It was more like within a month of each other. The point is the WC thread received no comments when first posted on 27/2 . The GC thread appeared on the 8/4 and received ~7 pages of comment on the day it was posted before being merged under the WC thread.