SSP:Local Winnipeg

[drew]

I guess it's worth a go to see what happens... I voted yes.

[HomeInMyShoes]

I'll say no. I don't like all the splitting out because it means I see fewer threads from other places unless I'm digging through all the individual Local Sections.

[Greco Roman]

Just a question:

How did Halifax get an SSP Local before cities like Toronto or Montreal?

[Greco Roman]

So what the fuck.

Every other city in the Canadian section is getting a local section except Winnipeg?

[Lee_Haber8]

I voted no. These days there just isn't enough happening in Winnipeg. In fact, I barely check this section - most of the time I'm looking at good stuff happening in Vancouver

[The Jabroni]

Any more 'Peggers? I mean, Ottawa now has one...

[Windex]

I would vote yes, there seems to be plenty of folks from the 'Peg and there seems to be a fair number of topics about it. I'm not from Winnipeg though, so my vote doesn't really count.

[Winnipegger]

Awww, c'mon. We're gonna be the only major city that doesn't have a local...

[ScrappyPeg]

I say let's have one.

[The Jabroni]

This is going to be close. If a couple other 'Peggers are squeezed out to this topic here, then it's going to come down to just us sitting on a fence.

[1ajs]

what the hell can the none peggers votes not count?

[Andy6]

who cares who else has a "local"? We've got along quite well for the 5.5 years I've been here without one. What is the advantage supposed to be, other than that we get to prance around proclaiming that we've got this thing that we don't need?

[Boris2k7]

Originally Posted by Andy6

who cares who else has a "local"? We've got along quite well for the 5.5 years I've been here without one. What is the advantage supposed to be, other than that we get to prance around proclaiming that we've got this thing that we don't need?

Bingo

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by Andy6

If itom987 can vote, I don't see why you couldn't.

The proliferation of subforums means that very few people are able to keep up with anything outside their own city. It takes what was good about SSP and turns it upside down. Having 7 or 8 subforums for Winnipeg alone is going to fragment the discussion further. Maybe the next thing will be "SSP : Personal", where we each get our own subforum where we are the only person to post.

i agree...this entire forum is nowhere near as interesting as it used to be because it has been partitioned to death.....my participation level has dropped significantly (and i know many others have too) since the great division of the western canada section...that killed it.

the conversation is way less diverse and there are far fewer participants in every topic....there is practically no cross discussion between regions....this would only further that.

and besides, the manitoba/saskatchewan section is practically a winnipeg sub forum already...80% of the topics are winnipeg based.....why do we need a local when we already have one?

if we go to that system, you might as well shut this section down completely....when all the western provinces were together, threads used to move down quickly once the discussion was done...now they hang around forever without any change...there are threads on the first page of this sub forum that have not had a posting in more than 2 months....how does that keep our interest?

[Mike K.]

...but when we had the western Canada forum there was an equal on-going list of complaints from forumers who were unhappy with the fast thread disappearance and dominance by the larger cities. There were instances where threads were being started and they would disappear to the second page on the same day due to the activity of larger cities.

We're quick to forget such things, but nothing around here is done without its reasons.

[Archiseek]

Originally Posted by trueviking

i agree...this entire forum is nowhere near as interesting as it used to be because it has been partitioned to death.....my participation level has dropped significantly (and i know many others have too) since the great division of the western canada section...that killed it.

the conversation is way less diverse and there are far fewer participants in every topic....there is practically no cross discussion between regions....this would only further that.

and besides, the manitoba/saskatchewan section is practically a winnipeg sub forum already...80% of the topics are winnipeg based.....why do we need a local when we already have one?

if we go to that system, you might as well shut this section down completely....when all the western provinces were together, threads used to move down quickly once the discussion was done...now they hang around forever without any change...there are threads on the first page of this sub forum that have not had a posting in more than 2 months....how does that keep our interest?

agreed

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by Mike K.

...but when we had the western Canada forum there was an equal on-going list of complaints from forumers who were unhappy with the fast thread disappearance and dominance by the larger cities. There were instances where threads were being started and they would disappear to the second page on the same day due to the activity of larger cities.

We're quick to forget such things, but nothing around here is done without its reasons.

if smaller centres disappeared quickly it is because there was nobody posting in those threads....now nobody posts in them but they hang around forever...how is that better?

most people from vancouver dont care about kelowna development...i doubt they care more now that they are separate....the threads will hang around longger, but not because of increased activity in them, but because the whole forum is dead.

[Mike K.]

That wasn't the case. I'm referring to the posts made by people even from larger centres like Vancouver that never really saw the light of day because two or three dozen other threads would be answered almost immediately after the disappearing thread would be posted. We even had people from Edmonton and Calgary complaining (even though it was mostly their threads that saw a lot of attention and bumped other threads off the radar) that their own threads, even though they had answers to questions/issues, were being bumped down too far down the list.

Regardless if a thread is popular or not it shouldn't disappear simply because nobody posted within the first few hours of it appearing. That was a real big issue that had to be dealt with and I honestly can't see how disregarding those situations but praising western Canada unity makes a whole lotta sense. Either we support everyone or we favour certain groups.

[spiritedenergy]

ok i voted no but actually wanted to vote yes (if my vote count as I'm not native)