Charlie Noodles
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Since we're airing opinions, I'll chip in that I, for one, found it very distracting and, yes, detracting. I came to the Lounge a couple years ago and stuck on because it was the only place people were discussing how things worked "back then," how people did stuff back then, etc. I want to learn. It's become a real chore in the last year to six months to wade through the laundry list of newly-updated threads that are only peripherally related to the vintage idea.Rufus said:So why the need to curtail obviously well used and liked features that were not detracting from the site?
Sunny said:It's become a real chore in the last year to six months to wade through the laundry list of newly-updated threads that are only peripherally related to the vintage idea...
Are you referring to threads that serve the intention of the Lounge?Slim Portly said:As is the case with many (most?) of the threads on this forum.
Slim Portly said:...
I beseech those in power to revisit this subject in light of the input of those most affected by the recent decisions.
Feraud said:Are you referring to threads that serve the intention of the Lounge?
scotrace said:We are a vintage-oriented forum. Always have been. The rest sprouted, some took root, but at the core, we're about pleats and martinis and William Powell.
I loathe mission statements almost as much as I loathe windy, pointless meetings. The day MK kicks around those two words, I think I'll have to hang up my Stetson.
Hemingway Jones said:At this crossroads, we decided to get back to our core mission: as a vintage forum, which is the reason we all came here in the first place.
Future posts to threads outside of our scope will be discouraged as will threads that are better suited to blogs and social networks. That is how it is.
******************Rufus said:As I mentioned, all the more sociable threads were in the OB, not the Vintage categories... so all the categorised threads, (clothes, history, radio etc) were all readily accessible and uncluttered.
One of the pleasures of FL is the simple layout, and the ease you can find things (Thanks again to the Bartenders for their tireless work).
I don't think the various threads were dreadfully distracting if you were looking for 'vintage only' threads (The very off topic were obviously deleted very promptly!)
Not that I'm calling for this being turned into a social based forum, but I liked the balance.
Personally I feel we've lost something in this transition. Oh well... On to new pastures...
Call me old-fashioned, too, but that's precisely how I like it. Many times the poll/get-to-know threads seem just like a laundry list, with everyone showing up with their opinions. I've done it.Miss Neecerie said:Tidbits about each other used to be revealed in due time, via threads on other topics. Someone would mention -why- they liked a particular thing, or how they found out about a certain vintage thingamajig....and that is how folks got to slowly find the people they liked best and wanted to get to know more about, even in just an online context.
Contrast that with lots of polls about personal likes and dislikes and many more 'get to know each other' threads...including quite a few aimed toward finding a partner....its much more of an 'in your face' forced socialisation, if you will.
Call me old fashioned, but I would prefer to become enamored of people (in a platonic as well as any other context) by slowly having things to like about them, be revealed. Much more fun and sense of mystery then reading continually about all the things someone -wants- me to know...I would rather read the 'info that slips between the cracks of their defence mechanisms' then the front they put on so they can find new freinds or a gf/bf or whatever.
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I really wish you would stop misrepresenting the policies of the Fedora Lounge and creating an "Us versus Them" mentality.Darhling said:How sad is it, that it has come to this that people are afraid to voice their opinions because they are afraid to get banned. Is that what any forum would be proud of?