So What Is This Forum For?

 

Everyone wants their thread to be in the PML - but we cannot have that - as Mike said, the PML is for Prog Music discussions (hence my Airplane quote) - it will get too crowded and threads become buried very quickly, so while it may at first look attractive to have your pet topic in the PML, it could have longer life and a higher number of replies in a less busy lounge.

 

Here's one we prepared earlier.

 

 

From an admin perpective, some people think they should be exempted from these guidlines, and should simply open threads wherever they want. There is also a perception that some threads are more important than others.

 

We also get spammers and people looking to promote themselves or their band. They think the use of the word "prog" somewhere in their post gets them around the guidelines.

 

We have the various sub-sections in an effort to help threads to last longer. If we get a dozen new threads in the Prog Music Lounge every day, interesting ones soon get swallowed up and disappear.

 

The high activity in the forum tends to indicate that its structure works well. We're always open to suggestions for improvement though. Bottom line is, if you don't want your thread moved give a lttle though to the correct section for it in the first place.

Well, only the PML... and Prog Polls Lounge, Prog Interviews and Prog Blogs...

 

I would have thought that most regular Forum posters (and lurkers) would be using the Forum home page or the New Posts page to monitor for new posts, not the PA Front Page. I would imagine putting top PML topics on the PA Front Page is more for attracting casual visitors into the Forum than for die-hard forumettes. If just being on the PA Front Page was the be all and end all of posting then everyone would be writing Prog Blogs instead of random JFF posts.