Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Tidy Up Time !

Taylor McIntyre · 2012-05-15 01:49:44

I want to 'Sticky' Hardy & Johnson, but am concerned that we have a lot of stickys already.

Anybody with any strong feelings on this?

Otherwise I'll just demote things as I see fit to make room & keep us looking tidy !

Current Stickys (in no particular order):

Groovin' at the I Spot - by Jimbo
Ivy League style for today by Moose Maclennan
St. Louis Ivy by ThatGuy
The Ivy League Style: The Boom Years. by Terry Lean
Newton Street Vintage: An Online Campus Shop by The Thin Repp
For Sale - by Jimbo
The Ivy League Shop @ Etsy -- NEW STUFF by TheIvyLeagueShop
TYPHOID_JONES: Vintage American Clothier by Typhoid_Jones
Ivy Exchange by Andy_B
Easier Way To Load Forum Photos by Film Noir Buff
Horace's Classic Traditional American Style Archive - by Jimbo

It's your forum so please feel free to say how you want it.

Thanks -

Taylor McIntyre · 2012-05-15 01:51:36

I think the amount of traffic a thread gets as well as its importance to the character of the forum should be the considerations for a Sticky. Maybe ?

Goodyear welt · 2012-05-15 14:35:20

Its starting to look a bit like an online market place up there Jim...maybe.

Liam Mac · 2012-05-15 15:12:33

Maybe....

Maybe lump the shops together? ... maybe.

Typhoid_Jones · 2012-05-15 16:23:46

Would it be possible to merge the "For Sale" and "Exchange" threads? They are very closely related and I have seen a few things that ended up getting cross-posted and merging the two would still pretty much serve the same purpose as maintaining two separate threads. Either way, just my .02. Thanks! -M-

Madras_Seersucker · 2012-05-16 00:22:52

Liam Mac wrote:
Maybe....

Maybe lump the shops together? ... maybe.

Good idea then one can search in 1 place so to speak

Taylor McIntyre · 2012-05-16 01:23:47

Madras_Seersucker wrote:
Liam Mac wrote:
Maybe....

Maybe lump the shops together? ... maybe.
Good idea then one can search in 1 place so to speak

You would still need to enter each site separately so you still wouldn't have a one stop shop. Each shop being a separate business, I would think the owners would rather keep them distinct to preserve the identity of their brands.

Taylor McIntyre · 2012-05-16 01:25:13

Typhoid_Jones wrote:
Would it be possible to merge the "For Sale" and "Exchange" threads? They are very closely related and I have seen a few things that ended up getting cross-posted and merging the two would still pretty much serve the same purpose as maintaining two separate threads. Either way, just my .02. Thanks! -M-

I lack the wit to merge them I'm afraid. But I would also question them both being stickys at this point.

Taylor McIntyre · 2012-05-16 01:28:28

Goodyear welt wrote:
Its starting to look a bit like an online market place up there Jim...maybe.

That's an aspect I actually rather like - Supporting our wider community even though we ourselves are non-commercial here. Far more shops get turned down than get accepted here. ThatGuy has just been through this process with me & I hope would vouch for the fact that we're picky !

Taylor McIntyre · 2012-05-16 01:40:19

Good input by all - Thank you. I think I know what I want to do now - Merely de-sticky certain threads & add H&J. The old threads will still be here, but once de-stickied they will slowly sink with lack of traffic. 'Search' will pull them back up though.

Only very minor changes.

I'll keep the things that give us our character - Certain threads define the forum pretty much. I'll also keep the shops. A blogroll would be nice here, but Rob's 'The Roll Call' on Facebook has that perfectly covered better than we ever could.

The forum format imposes certain limitations on us. It's just working within those to the best effect that's the trick.

An old idea was to have a forum blog - A blog that you would write yourselves with each member submitting anything they wanted. Someone would then edit & 'publish'. But now so many people blog in their own right and I'm pushing the idea of the 'Guest Contributor' it seems a little redundant now.

Thanks again.

Best -

Taylor McIntyre · 2012-05-16 01:52:21

Another old idea was promoting members posting up mini-essays on the forum as well as discussion points. Nothing as slick as the front page essays here on FNB, but just loger than a forum post yet shorter than an article items. That might still be a nice one to add to the forum. Little blog length musings.

From there if anybody catches the writing bug they could graduate to the front page if they wanted. People forget we also have Ivy on the front page here too.

I've a 'Guest Reviewer' from the US joining us soon with an informed critique of some new Brooks shirts. I'd quite like to see more of that kind of thing here as well.

All ideas to play with...

Cheers -

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