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no

It's such a clear-cut definable thing and there's quite a few of them and people are pretty polarized as to the subject that I think that'd be a good thing, or couldn't hurt.

What, for the three or four sports-related threads that are started each day?

the only people who complain about it are Moaning Mertles who should be ignored at every opportunity. Actually, if we could get a "Moaning Mertle" board that would be just dandy

it's a pain having to switch between boards particularly for us tiny window browsers(I may be the only one).

do a trial one
and see how many threads are started

If you don't want to read them, just don't open the threads.

Give it a shot.

because I would get confused where to post my "DiS Football" threads.

Unless I can get my own Social Sports board, obviously.

ie everyone just posts that stuff on either of the 2 main boards anyway.

Because it would be one more board to be flicking between. As it is, i no longer check the announcements, your music, etc. boards, which seems a shame.

There's no reason for Sports not to be on the social board.

it's quite a mixed reaction, perhaps i'll wait to see how our tagging goes and see if we can get a set of things people can tag social board threads with going and then people can view things by subjects.

main reason for suggesting it is that the daily threads often double up on busier days when people miss the thread started previously, etc

Because, on a dedicated sports board, instead of 3 generic "football/tennis/rugby thread"s, you'll have hundreds and hundreds of zero and one repliers. It'll be far more discordant and harder to follow.

The way these boards work (and the big advantage of them) with the indented replying system means it's easy to have 4 or 5 concurrent conversations within one thread.

DiS really shouldn't have more forums than it absolutely needs to. It'll just end up segregating the 'community' into people that like sports and people that don't.

Is this because a few huge bores have a problem with there being more than one sports thread a day? In that case should we not have an Emo Board, a Films Board, a Moral Outrage Board, a Lunch Board, a LOLCat Board, a Wire Board & a What To Do In London Board?

Don't be so silly. It's a social board on a music website. If people were constantly talking about sport on the music forum then sure, but give over. Anyone for this can be taken as an idiot.

If you put up a sports board then you may as well put religion and politics boards as well.

I presume because a moderator particularly likes football and rugby. It's stupid. Why not sticky a "book recommendations" thread or something like that that gets asked all the time?

The tennis threads have had way more posts than either the confederations cup or the rugby one, but don't get stickied. I don't think any of them should, personally. It's totally unnecessary because it's not that hard to look through the first page for another football, tennis or rugby thread and just post in that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5hDFHu8a4w

discussing sports is a social activity

well, it's a good album. It does have 'i want a new drug' which was at the centre of a law suit against Ray Parker Jr who was accused of plagiarizing the song for his 1984 hit 'Ghostbusters. The case was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Intersting stuff, but maybe not worthy of a whole board.
I much prefer 'Fore!' as it contains the hits 'Hip to be Square' and 'Stuck with you'.

the seperation of music and everything else, it's nice and simple switching between the two.

it's better to have a couple of active boards than a load who all barely crawl along because of over specialisation. it becomes too cluttered and too much of a chore navigating between multiple boards, especially if there's some lively discussions going on.

thanks

1) Slippery slope to every possible topic area having its own board.

2) I don't think the board gets clogged up with sports threads, there's not that much non-football chat on here and everything else goes into the one football thread a day.

3) The social board is a great mix of stuff... Monpot talking about cooking, KiK photoing his lunch, Creaky's apocalyptic predictions, et cetera.

4) If you're not interested in it, don't read it, don't moan about it.

Get it the fuck away from everything else.

I'm amazed anyone thinks it needs it - social's not exactly flooded with sport as it is, and of late those of us with an interest have largely kept the number of threads well under control.

It's notable that other than ehwhat, not a single person in here's come up with a reason (that I agree with or otherwise) for splitting it.

also enjoy sport, cooking, moaning. A dedicated board to sport wouldn't that just move Dis toward being a general message board site, the way it is with one non music related board is great and set this place apart in my opinion.

No change thanks Sean.

I also don't think we need a Festivals board either. Cheers.

this is a music website

and to be fair an agony aunt board would be more used than a football board lol

Cheers.

that's a no

that's a no

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCLs0jv_Efk