Requesting new forum: Coral. attn: Admins

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Myka

That's just silly. I mean, it's all "aquarium keeping", so why don't we get rid of all the forums and just have "aquarium forum". "Reef" is the whole she-bang...dosing, corals, fish, live rock, lighting, etc. There are lots of coral specific questions getting asked all the time.

On the other hand, I don't know why anyone would be "against" making a separate forum. In the end, even if it rarely got used, what's the big deal? Doesn't really matter much. Although I think it would get used plenty.

my point is where does the sub-diving end?....we're gonna start to look like reef central

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by fishytime

my point is where does the sub-diving end?....we're gonna start to look like reef central

That, and what benefit does it offer? Most people look at new posts, and then it doesn't matter what forum exists or not. I hardly even notice what forum I'm reading most of the time.

[Reef Puffer]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

That, and what benefit does it offer? Most people look at new posts, and then it doesn't matter what forum exists or not. I hardly even notice what forum I'm reading most of the time.

agreed. i have troubles finding how to post in general never mind finding the right forum to put it in....
not against adding more tho either...

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

That, and what benefit does it offer? Most people look at new posts, and then it doesn't matter what forum exists or not. I hardly even notice what forum I'm reading most of the time.

Yup, me too. I hit " new posts " and read.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by fishytime

my point is where does the sub-diving end?....we're gonna start to look like reef central

That would be great! I mean the traffic would be awesome. RC has so many sub forums because they have sooooo many posts in a day that most people want to be able to sort through the threads they are interested in, and skip the ones they aren't. It would be nice to do the same here.

[Enigma]

I typically only check the forums that I'm interested in, so a coral forum would work well for me. It would also make searching previous posts for corals a little easier.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Myka

That would be great! I mean the traffic would be awesome. RC has so many sub forums because they have sooooo many posts in a day that most people want to be able to sort through the threads they are interested in, and skip the ones they aren't. It would be nice to do the same here.

I honestly hope we dont end up like RC.....if canreef ends up being a stuck up, holier than thou, you have to have 10000 posts or a 2000g tank for anyone to answer your questions and your post is buried in a day type forum, it will loose its appeal to me.......... Titus would like it if were like RC, but not I

[Myka]

Originally Posted by fishytime

I honestly hope we dont end up like RC.....if canreef ends up being a stuck up, holier than thou, you have to have 10000 posts or a 2000g tank for anyone to answer your questions and your post is buried in a day type forum, it will loose its appeal to me.......... Titus would like it if were like RC, but not I

I guess if that's the way you want to see it. If there were 1000 active tank journals on CanReef you could bet that only the biggest, most awesome journals would get replies. Even here on CanReef there are few replies on newbie tank journal threads.

Back to the subject though, I don't think adding another forum to CanReef would be anywhere near Reef Central category.

[Snaz]

To those that responded "I only look at the new threads anyway." I completely understand, that is in fact how I primarily read Canreef but how about the new visitors? Reef Forum has 21K+ posts while the next biggest forum "Pictures" has 3K posts and the average is 1500 for the rest of the forums. I think some division is needed. I have a new interest in SPS and I would LOVE to browse the SPS posts easily but I can't.

Last night I scrapped the last 100 reef posts dating back to mid July and did some quick stats. According to my sample the most talked about topic in Reef forum is corals/anemones at 19% of total posts. Water chemistry was second at 14% and ID was 12%.

I think Reef forum is too bloated and needs to be divided. To those that worry we will become RC need not fret. RC's problems like anything that is community built is the community. Being Canadian and being cool we have a great community here at Canreef and regardless of how our posts are divided that will not change.

Here are my stats to those interested.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...kRKVU1NNEV3b0E

Cheers,
Keith.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Myka

That would be great! I mean the traffic would be awesome. RC has so many sub forums because they have sooooo many posts in a day that most people want to be able to sort through the threads they are interested in, and skip the ones they aren't. It would be nice to do the same here.

And there in is the problem. I have been on RC since its beginning. Love the board but its all the posting in the local forums, that I dislike. And many of the best threads are in those local forums.

Thats one thing we do not want here, but as for a sub forum for corals in the reefing forum,
I think its a waste of time on a smaller board myself, but have no problem with it. Like others said, does no harm so fine in my view.