Should Alberta and British Columbia have their own provincial sections?

Chadillaccc · #1 Posted **Mar 21, 2014, 8:08 PM**

Just figured since, heck, Alberta and BC both have more regular forumers than Quebec and nearly as many as Ontario, maybe we should have our own provincial sections? Not that the current way we're doing things is a problem, but maybe it would be nice to have more "province-specific" discussions in the regional section outside of the major cities.

I dunno. At least it's something to dicuss. Thoughts?

LeftCoaster · #2 Posted **Mar 21, 2014, 8:21 PM**

Meh, the provincial area barely gets any traffic as is, I'd say keep it the way it is.

Allows more western scheming anyway

Chadillaccc · #3 Posted **Mar 21, 2014, 10:30 PM**

It has been getting a lot more action lately. I've been trying to create or reactivate general interest threads like the Alberta Population Growth, Economy of Alberta, and Alberta Tier II Cities threads. You're right though, but maybe the reason it doesn't get much action is because people are worried it will turn into a competition sort of discussion or something, because the provincial sections are linked.

Calgarian · #4 Posted **Mar 21, 2014, 10:32 PM**

Leave it as is.

ue · #5 Posted **Mar 21, 2014, 10:38 PM**

The Alberta and BC forums were originally separate. Then Vancouver got SSP: Local when that was the latest craze, and after a bunch of humming and hawing, Calgary eventually got one as well. Edmonton was against the SSP: Local format but eventually gave in to just a general subforum.

Because 95% of traffic in the original provincial forums was dedicated to Vancouver-Calgary-Edmonton, when they left, these forums were kind of in shambles because hardly anyone ever visited them. At least when Calgary and Edmonton were apart of the Alberta forum, there would be more of a chance for people to check out a Red Deer discussion because there were so many more people using the same forum regularly.

So, as a way to make the dead Alberta and BC forums less dead, they were merged. Even still there is hardly anything happening in them, even with Chad's recent boosting of attention towards Alberta's "tier two" cities. The posts in Kelowna or Fort McMurray are still a drop in the bucket compared to the bigger cities, so I don't find it all that necessary.