- Jun 8, 2003
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Keeping the transfer discussion thread on-topic is becoming more and more of an issue and dealing with the inevitable PMs from people who lose their access is almost a full-time job.
We think things work well as they are but we're considering if the effort is worth it.
An alternative we're considering is where to have two threads running:
A "Transfer Discussion Thread" to replace the ITK Discussion Thread.
This would be a more relaxed version of the current discussion thread. We still don't want it full of twitter crap but we won't heavily police it so it'll be more free-flowing but also very much discussing the latest news. The player threads will still exist for more general discussion of the players and we'll shepherd people into those as necessary. We'll encourage people to use the Spam rating to self-moderate it a bit.
A "Transfer News Ticker" as a new (locked) thread.
This will be locked and we'll need to recruit a few people who'll have permission to post into it. The idea is that any ITK goes in here (i.e. every blue post) as well as anything considered real news (e.g. tweets/articles from Ally or other respected journos/sources). This should be the place to catch up quickly on what's been said recently.
We've tried similar to the above before and it didn't really work but that was years ago and things have changed since then so it might be worth revisiting.
As we've found before, whichever way we do it, people will complain so we thought the fairest way to gauge opinion was to put it to a vote. Depending on how tight the result is, we might not necessarily go with the winner and might need to think up a 3rd option to satisfy more people.
We think things work well as they are but we're considering if the effort is worth it.
An alternative we're considering is where to have two threads running:
A "Transfer Discussion Thread" to replace the ITK Discussion Thread.
This would be a more relaxed version of the current discussion thread. We still don't want it full of twitter crap but we won't heavily police it so it'll be more free-flowing but also very much discussing the latest news. The player threads will still exist for more general discussion of the players and we'll shepherd people into those as necessary. We'll encourage people to use the Spam rating to self-moderate it a bit.
A "Transfer News Ticker" as a new (locked) thread.
This will be locked and we'll need to recruit a few people who'll have permission to post into it. The idea is that any ITK goes in here (i.e. every blue post) as well as anything considered real news (e.g. tweets/articles from Ally or other respected journos/sources). This should be the place to catch up quickly on what's been said recently.
We've tried similar to the above before and it didn't really work but that was years ago and things have changed since then so it might be worth revisiting.
As we've found before, whichever way we do it, people will complain so we thought the fairest way to gauge opinion was to put it to a vote. Depending on how tight the result is, we might not necessarily go with the winner and might need to think up a 3rd option to satisfy more people.
