What happened to the General Discussion Forum? - Blu-ray Forum

Elandyll · 04-21-2008, 03:32 PM

Am I having a bad trip or is that forum gone ? O.o

Sorry if this question has already been asked/ answered.

NJ_RAMS_FAN · 04-21-2008, 03:33 PM

i was also wondering this..lol.. where is it?

badboi · 04-21-2008, 03:48 PM

Only the Shadow knows.

Beta Man · 04-21-2008, 03:50 PM

all of my intelligent thoughts were stored in the General Discussion forum

xtop · 04-21-2008, 03:51 PM

maybe offtopic will finally pick up some traffic. i love offtopic

Herr Schmidt · 04-21-2008, 03:56 PM

IWas thinking the same thing.Wondering where it went lol

JJ · 04-21-2008, 04:02 PM

Phew - for a second there I thought I had been Suspended and prevented from seeing the General Discussion Forum.

NJ_RAMS_FAN · 04-21-2008, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

Phew - for a second there I thought I had been Suspended and prevented from seeing the General Discussion Forum.

me 2..

Ispoke · 04-21-2008, 04:11 PM

Seems to have been moved

Blu-Ray Technology & News

Chaka · 04-21-2008, 06:12 PM

did it get merged with something else?

Slackr89 · 04-21-2008, 08:02 PM

bah, why do they keep changing it. we need a general discussion(or at least the name means more than what it isw now). if anything merge the hardware forums into one. they arent busy enough to have them all seperated. i suggest under Home Theater have a "General Home Theater" Forum, a "Picture" Forum (for the tv's/projectors), and a "Audio" Forum (for recievers etc)

Marwin · 04-21-2008, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slackr89

bah, why do they keep changing it. we need a general discussion(or at least the name means more than what it isw now). if anything merge the hardware forums into one. they arent busy enough to have them all seperated. i suggest under Home Theater have a "General Home Theater" Forum, a "Picture" Forum (for the tv's/projectors), and a "Audio" Forum (for recievers etc)

If people would have used the General Discussion as it was intended we wouldn't have had to change it, but most of the posts in that section were posts that really should have been posted in other sections of the forum to begin with (related to movie releases, players or topics that belong in off-topic).

It would be helpful if you could give some examples of topics that you feel would fit into General Discussion that don't fit into the other sections that exist and we'll consider how to best remedy the situation.

As for merging smaller forums into bigger ones, while some of them might not be very active yet we have to look at what's best for the forum in the long term. If we were to create these "mega"-forums with a few different topics we would still need to split them some time in the future when these smaller topics become more popular and going back through all of the posts and manually sorting them into the proper sections would just take way too much work.

stockstar1138 · 04-21-2008, 08:52 PM

wickywoo got rid of it, because the GD had the discussion in it where he was horribly and adimitely wrong about MGS IV being only on a BD25, when in fact its on a BD50. He had to do this in order to preserve the fact that he is never wrong. He is like Big Brother from 1984.

Sorry wicky, im jk. but if you do know what happened to the GD Im curious to

xtop · 04-21-2008, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

wickywoo got rid of it, because the GD had the discussion in it where he was horribly and adimitely wrong about MGS IV being only on a BD25, when in fact its on a BD50. He had to do this in order to preserve the fact that he is never wrong. He is like Big Brother from 1984.

Sorry wicky, im jk. but if you do know what happened to the GD Im curious to

he was right about it being the 25gb disc not having enough room. so he wasnt all wrong

DarkClown · 04-21-2008, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beta Man

all of my intelligent thoughts were stored in the General Discussion forum

So then it was a rather short forum?

Marwin · 04-21-2008, 09:02 PM

Just to clarify, General Discussion was simply renamed to Blu-ray Technology and News, which better reflects what we originally intended to be discussed in that forum:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24

Clark Kent · 04-21-2008, 11:36 PM

I think there might be a better name for that forum than "Blu-ray Technology and News". It won't affect long term readers of the site but I doubt a newbie coming to this forum off a google search would necessarily know what that title means or misinterpret it. Maybe something like "Blu-ray News & Discussion" or something easier to understand the intent of that forum's field of interest. Just a suggestion...

nycomet · 04-21-2008, 11:51 PM

We are no longer allowed to discuss general subjects. "General" is just too obtuse a concept. Thus, we need to focus our discussion on the topics of each available forum. This will prevent confusion.

Chaka · 04-22-2008, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nycomet

We are no longer allowed to discuss general subjects. "General" is just too obtuse a concept. Thus, we need to focus our discussion on the topics of each available forum. This will prevent confusion.

your confusing me now. Stop that!

GreenScar · 04-22-2008, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

Phew - for a second there I thought I had been Suspended and prevented from seeing the General Discussion Forum.

Is that what happens?

I like the change. I would rather have the Discussion topics above the HT topics, but that's me.

04-21-2008, 03:32 PM	#1
Elandyll Blu-ray Knight Member since:Aug 2007 Location:MD Blu-ray collection:188 Trading Score:1	What happened to the General Discussion Forum? Am I having a bad trip or is that forum gone ? O.o Sorry if this question has already been asked/ answered.

04-21-2008, 03:33 PM	#2
NJ_RAMS_FAN Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Mar 2008 Location:North Jersey Home Theater Gallery:7 Blu-ray collection:369 DVD collection:21 Blu-ray reviews:7 Trading Score:103	yes i was also wondering this..lol.. where is it?

04-21-2008, 06:12 PM	#10
Chaka Special Member Member since:Jan 2008 Location:Huntington Beach, CA Blu-ray collection:254 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:11	Whoa... What happened to the General discussion forum? did it get merged with something else?

04-21-2008, 08:02 PM	#11
Slackr89 Special Member Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Edmonton, Alberta PSN: Slackr Blu-ray collection:116 Trading Score:2	bah, why do they keep changing it. we need a general discussion(or at least the name means more than what it isw now). if anything merge the hardware forums into one. they arent busy enough to have them all seperated. i suggest under Home Theater have a "General Home Theater" Forum, a "Picture" Forum (for the tv's/projectors), and a "Audio" Forum (for recievers etc) Last edited by Slackr89; 04-21-2008 at 08:06 PM.

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Ispoke Senior Member Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Cambridge Blu-ray collection:416	Seems to have been moved Blu-Ray Technology & News

04-21-2008, 08:52 PM	#13
stockstar1138 Banned Member since:Apr 2007	wickywoo got rid of it, because the GD had the discussion in it where he was horribly and adimitely wrong about MGS IV being only on a BD25, when in fact its on a BD50. He had to do this in order to preserve the fact that he is never wrong. He is like Big Brother from 1984. Sorry wicky, im jk. but if you do know what happened to the GD Im curious to

04-21-2008, 09:02 PM	#16
Marwin Developer Top contributor Member since:May 2003 Blu-ray collection:10 DVD collection:5 iTunes collection:1	Just to clarify, General Discussion was simply renamed to Blu-ray Technology and News, which better reflects what we originally intended to be discussed in that forum: https://forum.blu-ray.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24

04-21-2008, 11:36 PM	#17
Clark Kent Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Metropolis Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:184	I think there might be a better name for that forum than "Blu-ray Technology and News". It won't affect long term readers of the site but I doubt a newbie coming to this forum off a google search would necessarily know what that title means or misinterpret it. Maybe something like "Blu-ray News & Discussion" or something easier to understand the intent of that forum's field of interest. Just a suggestion...

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