Conquests, Software/*NIX and Peripherals forums update...

[System7]

This is exactly what the forum needs.

The "Conquests" of thinkpads, watermellons, lawnmowers, cellular phones, netbooks, XBox 49607687960s, and scrap pc's can be moved elsewhere.

I just conquested a pen. Its amazing. Wow. Black Ink. Ball Point. Wao.

-end rant.

I do think a separate "Acquisitions" forum as a sub forum of the lounge is a good idea to vent out about the above. In general, the move change should had occurred from the start. But, we should be more tolerable of Early G3 and before, its now getting quite old as well. They are the 040s of the current day.

 

[macgeek417]

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10216&start=0

 

[MrMacPlus]

Another sub-forum called "Acquisitions" could serve all other purposes, such as buying a Windows Laptop at retail price, or getting a new car, etc.

I agree, though it doesn't need to be a sub-forum. It could be a completely new forum in the Community Connections.

 

[Bunsen]

I agree with Mike and System7 wholeheartedly. Buying a new iPlague retail at the Apple Store is not a "Conquest"

 

[Cory5412]

I agree with Mike and System7 wholeheartedly. Buying a new iPlague retail at the Apple Store is not a "Conquest"

Almost more importantly, do we care? If you think we do, then post it in the lounge, if you don't think we do, then don't post. I didn't post about having gotten my T400, or the T42p, or even my X24, or my SunRay thin client (although that last one would make an interesting lounge topic.)

In the other thread, I suggested that some more of us should start our own blogs for posts about new thinkpads/watermelons/telephones/catching-the-plague etc.

 

[luddite]

I didn't post about having gotten my T400, or the T42p, or even my X24, or my SunRay thin client

Until now...

 

[Cory5412]

I've mentioned them casually before, (or even very vehemently, as with threads/discussions about why Apple's laptops are no longer professional computers.)

My big point there was that a lot of people post in the conquests forum on a very dailybasis, using it almost like a blog, when it's really not.

My thought about the conquests forum are that it's almost more like an inventory than a blog.

 

[II2II]

For the most part, I view the conquests forum as a place where guys boast about the stuff they have. And quite often it is mundane stuff, even if it is a 68k Mac. Quite frankly, I could care less if you just saved an LC. An LC is a boring machine. A boring machine that was probably made in the millions, just to satiate the Mac-lust of schools in the 1990s. Now if you save a copy of A/UX or an AWS, that's interesting. That stuff is rare after all. If you found an LC that came from an interesting place, talk about it too. Like if it came from a university lab and still had the NI data acquisition card in it.

Then again, I guess that sort of thing is subjective. Sometimes just finding a manual or a boxed set of common software is interesting since most of that stuff seems to have been broken up.

 

[Temetka]

I've spoken with cory about this and my feeling is the lounge is doomed to needless clutter because the topics about winPC's and intel macs will fill it up when we want to talk about other topics such as cars, women, that cool new scifi movie and so on.

I kind of feel that the 68kMLA has lost it's focus in the last few years, almost going down the road of the now almost useless lowend mac.

The site is called 68kMLA, not PPCMLA, not WinMLA, and so on.

We should either have a sub-forum for the useless junk or simply not discuss Windows troubleshooting and Intel Macs here. There are about 1000 other places on the web for those topics but very few for the discussion of Quadra Feets or AWS boxen.

Instead of expanding, can we return to our roots?

 

[~tl]

I've spoken with cory about this and my feeling is the lounge is doomed to needless clutter because the topics about winPC's and intel macs will fill it up when we want to talk about other topics such as cars, women, that cool new scifi movie and so on.
I kind of feel that the 68kMLA has lost it's focus in the last few years, almost going down the road of the now almost useless lowend mac.

The site is called 68kMLA, not PPCMLA, not WinMLA, and so on.

We should either have a sub-forum for the useless junk or simply not discuss Windows troubleshooting and Intel Macs here. There are about 1000 other places on the web for those topics but very few for the discussion of Quadra Feets or AWS boxen.

Instead of expanding, can we return to our roots?

This is exactly the reasons we made these changes. One side effect of this is that Lounge will become more cluttered, however hopefully this will be countered by the rest of the forums being less cluttered and they are the forums that makes the MLA unique (or at least semi-unique). As you say, there are plenty of other places to discuss Windows and Intel Macs, so we don't plan on adding another forum for them. Since the Lounge is for everything "off-topic" we're not going to start locking Win/Intel topics, but we would encourage users not to post them [] ]'>

 

[Temetka]

My thoughts exactly Tom!

Great minds and all that.

 

[luddite]

Is it possible to (on a per-user basis) exclude the Lounge from showing up when you click "View new posts"? That would at least give the impression, for those who care, that the 68KMLA is still focused mostly on 68K Macs.

 

[MacJunky]

Is it possible to (on a per-user basis) exclude the Lounge from showing up when you click "View new posts"? That would at least give the impression, for those who care, that the 68KMLA is still focused mostly on 68K Macs.

That is a good idea.I support it.

 

[Osgeld]

as do I, but I dont think phpbb supports it, maybe via plugin (or hack)

 

[Dog Cow]

Is it possible to (on a per-user basis) exclude the Lounge from showing up when you click "View new posts"? That would at least give the impression, for those who care, that the 68KMLA is still focused mostly on 68K Macs.

That is a good idea.I support it.

Yeah, put this in the loop which outputs topics:

if ($user->data['ignore_lounge'] == 1 && $forum_id == 2)
{
      continue;
}

It would be up to tl, of course. We mere mortals can't do a thing about it.

 

[Mike Richardson]

"The Lounge" is the off-topic area of this forum. If you look at a lot of other narrowly-focused forums, their equivalent off-topic areas are also quite popular.

http://www.silvercreator.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl (General Discussion)

http://www.gamemakersgarage.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi (Trash Talk)

http://forums.macrumors.com/ (Community Discussion)

If you only want to discuss 68K Macs, that's fine, but The Lounge represents an important part of the forum.

 

[II2II]

Mike: I think some people are saying that they don't want to participate in the Lounge, so they don't want to see it coming up when they click on "view new posts" under their own account. Noone else needs to be affected by their own personal decision because it is their own personal decision.

 

[luddite]

If you only want to discuss 68K Macs, that's fine, but The Lounge represents an important part of the forum.

That's really the point... for those who want to limit their participation to 68K topics, some way of filtering a new message search would accomplish that without affecting anyone else.

Whether or not the Lounge (or any other sub forum) is important is up to the individual member.

 

[Dog Cow]

Take a look at your profile (or anyone else's) for the "Most active forum" stat. It's The Lounge for a lot of people, (un)fortunately. :-/

 

[Unknown_K]

36% of my posts are in the lounge, and I don't start topics there (or rarely).