Help Us Improve Our Section

[jeddy1989]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Glad to see St. John's moving forward with a subforum structure.

The more I think of it, Moncton isn't ready yet. We have a lot of building activity in the metro area, but we don't have the concentration of big projects that you guys have. We have a fairly large number of SSP members from metro Moncton, but a lot of them are not tremendously active, posting only 2-3 times per week. You guys on the other hand have over a half dozen really active members and the growth of the SSP membership in the St. John's area has really been accelerating over the last several months. I would wager that the posting activity in St. John's now is starting to rival Halifax.

In short, St. John's is ready but Moncton isn't. Good luck to you guys!

thanks for your support you're always a welcome friend on the st. john's threads

I can't wait to see what the Halifax crew think when they see St. John's at the top of the page next to Halifax lol!

[SignalHillHiker]

My guess is they'll think:

"Huh? Oh, cool, there's another Atlantic Canada local!"

Then they'll click on it and think:

"WTF? Where's all the subforums?"

[MonctonRad]

A question:

Do you guys think that all the Newfoundland threads should be grouped with the St. John's subforum, or do you think that the non St. John's threads, like for Corner Brook and for the Lower Churchill Falls project should remain in the broader Atlantic Canadian section?

My vote would be for the latter. The former course of action would be more akin to establishing an entirely separate Newfoundland section and would I think result in less contact between the Maritime and Newfoundland forumers.

Thoughts?

[SignalHillHiker]

I agree with you, MonctonRad.

This site seems to be organized by geographic region and then city. So having an Atlantic Canada section, and within that only having sections for specific cities (NOT provinces), fits with the overall site and, in my opinion, would be the best decision.

Halifax has a full Local and they still have Nova Scotia threads in the overall Atlantic Canada section. We shouldn't be any different.

[PoscStudent]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

A question:

Do you guys think that all the Newfoundland threads should be grouped with the St. John's subforum, or do you think that the non St. John's threads, like for Corner Brook and for the Lower Churchill Falls project should remain in the broader Atlantic Canadian section?

My vote would be for the latter. The former course of action would be more akin to establishing an entirely separate Newfoundland section and would I think result in less contact between the Maritime and Newfoundland forumers.

Thoughts?

Agreed.

[jeddy1989]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

My guess is they'll think:

"Huh? Oh, cool, there's another Atlantic Canada local!"

Then they'll click on it and think:

"WTF? Where's all the subforums?"

I disagree, many cities do not have full locals, It is a very confusing set up

cities that just have a sub-forum for example are Edmonton, Montreal, Quebec city..

Also a few provinces are bunched together like Manitoba and Saskatchewan and none of their cities have sub forums of any kind

[SignalHillHiker]

Yeah, that's odd. Winnipeg could definitely use its own section.

[jeddy1989]

also I do agree that the threads pertaining to the entire province should be outside the sub thread. even though a few of them are really only visited by the St. John's people

[Townie709]

I agree with keeping the Newfoundland threads that aren't related to St. John's in the Atlantic Section as well. It will give us reason to visit

Also, just wondering when we will see this implemented. Are we talking days, weeks, or months ?

[Copes]

Sorry for my inactivity lately guys, home for the holidays means very little time to be on here. Great news though. Looks like when I get back from my trip, the face of St. John's at SSP will have expanded considerably. :o

As for mods, Signal strikes me as the obvious choice, as he is probably the most recognizable member. He's a name any new member can remember easily, and he is certainly our most prominent outside of the Newfoundland discussion.

I second Jeddy and/or Architype for the 2nd position. Both would be excellent.

Congrats guys, happy to hear it.

[SignalHillHiker]

O.K., I'll throw my hat in the ring.

[Townie709]

Yeehaw! You'll be a great mod

[Mike K.]

I have now created the sub-forum. Please let me know if there are any threads that should have been moved that have not yet been moved and I'll get on it.

Gread feedback about mods. The question was raised about modding, and generally speaking anyone who spends time on the forum every day and has a good grasp of what is "trolling" instead of legitimate content is a great fit. Having experience with moderating a forum in the past is helpful but not necessary.

Great list of candidates so far If there are one or two forumers who accept nominations please re-iterate in this thread (I see SignalHillHiker has done so already).

[SignalHillHiker]

Looks great, Mike, THANK YOU! We will try our best to make a go of this and really grow this section.

One thing: not sure if the St-Pierre thread should be in this section.

[Mike K.]

No problem.

Is St-Pierre a suburb of St. John's? If so it can definitely be moved here.

[Townie709]

Haha nope, St.Pierre is not even a part of Canada! It is one of two small islands located off the south coast of Newfoundland that belong to France! Other than that minor error, the sub-forum looks great! Thanks so much mike!! We will do our best to grow our section

[SignalHillHiker]

I'd say move it to the general Atlantic Canada section. It's a part of France but just off the south coast of Newfoundland.

[Mike K.]

Ah, gotcha. The thread has now been moved.

[Architype]

These threads could be moved to the St.John's section:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=154541

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=140422

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141090

[jeddy1989]

i'll throw my hat in too