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Originally Posted by benvui
Does anyone else think it is time for Moncton to get it's on forum like Halifax and St. John's? I'm finding it harder and harder to find the threads I want and not to mention anyone else looking for a thread other than a Moncton one must be getting frustrated as they keep dropping off the page. I don't know if at this point it would be possible or not, but I thought I would float the idea to make things a little easier for everyone.
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I understand your frustrations
benvui.
We had this discussion several years ago.
SignalHillHiker had joined SSP several months before and had re-energized the
St John's thread. When that section became more active, he began to agitate for a St. John's sub forum just like the forum that already existed for Halifax. Since the
Moncton thread had also been pretty active for a number of years, we began to look at doing something similar for our city too.
The site administrators were only somewhat lukewarm in their support. They didn't like the idea of compartmentalizing the site too much. They felt this stifled interactions between forumers from different cities. They actually had a point. Most Halifax forumers tend to ignore the broader Atlantic Canada section, while within the Atlantic Canada section, contributors from Freddy, Saint John and Moncton will often interact and make comments on threads from other cities in the province.
If you look at SSP in general, there are only eleven cities in Canada which have their own sub forum. St. John's is by far the smallest of these. It's the 20th largest CMA in Canada. Moncton is the 29th largest CMA in the country. This makes it hard to justify a sub forum for us.
The SSP section that most closely parallels the Atlantic Canada section is the Manitoba/Saskatchewan section. If you look at that section, it is composed of a jumble of threads mostly from Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Regina. Yes, even Winnipeg doesn't have it's own sub forum and it's a city of over 800,000.
I think as long as we are diligent about the rules and preface each new thread with [Moncton], [Fredericton], [Saint John] or whatever other regional appellation is appropriate, we can probably keep things straight.
The only suggestion I might make would be to make the major threads from each city a "sticky" so that they stay at the top of the listing of threads and never fall off the page. For Moncton, I would include all of the "neighbourhood" threads and the "retail" thread in this category. The project specific threads, like for MH35 or the events centre on the other hand would be allowed to float down the list depending on their popularity. This might be a fair compromise.
It would be interesting to get a mods opinion on this -
Myles, Greg???
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