Why Are The 'clubs' Being Closed?

[Matthew Lee Newell]

so the clubs arnt good for the members to have personal discussion? share interests within the club post so that they dont have to use up the rest of the forum.
i agree there is the rights and wrongs to having the clubs, however by keeping the clubs is harming who, what, and why?
Dave you also said that the oddball club should be there because those fish are harder to get information on..... im sure the World Wide Web has all the information for people,
clubs arent such a bad idea, it just seems that they have to be spoken about with the mods and come to an understanding

 

[cheesy feet]

Lol have people forgotten the forums are divided.
The clubs are just taking the activity off the forums, when there is no need to have them.You would probably get more diverse answers in the forums anyway, as I, for one, don't bother with any clubs.
Just because someone posts lots in one of the clubs it doesn't mean they're knowleadgeable.
The rest of the forum should be used, I don't know why you don't think you can't talk the same in open forums, are you forgetting the clubs are in the forums..

 

[Buddyboy67]

Organised clubs , accepted by the forum on specialist fish could be beneficial...however it seems that everyone wants to start a club now to feel important or popular, which is down rite foolish....
I'm sure the forum will accept "genuine clubs" in favour of these latest silly fad clubs popping up. Personally i think these are the reason the established clubs are now suffering the same fate...can't remove one without removing the rest !!
As said above..the forum is already broken down into sub sections for the relevant species so to have a live bearer club, when the section is already there is stupid !,,only an example and not picking on that club in particular before anyone gets annoyed.

 

[kribensis12]

I think that everybody should calm it down a little bit. Saying that "said" club isn't really going to help. They didn't close them just because they werent informative( not saying they aren't ) , but I would assume they closed them because of off-topic chat, and I suspect that people will start making topics for all color morphs and everything. Like " black angelfish club " " black with a little white angelfish club " ect. I personally think that the clubs should stay, as long as they stay under control, but that dicision isn't up to me, it's up to the mod's, and ultimatley Tolak and William.

 

[cheesy feet]

What are the established clubs exactly?
Tbh I think an oscar and severum club are completely pointless, in no way are they specialist fish.It would be better if it were just a pin for members pics of them, as that's what half the clubs seem to be, that's all what I've added to the 'severum club'
Undecided on the channa's.

 

[Inchworm]

...to my understanding, there is a catfish section, so no 'club' needed, there is a live bearer section, so no 'club' needed, there is a new world cichlid section, so no 'oscar club' needed.
when you go into 'oddball' and 'predatory' fish, this is less specific, but instead of a 'club' i think it would be easier for the mods just to create and open sub-forums more specific to the species becoming more popular, like snakeheads, arowana etc.

Thank you all for your input. It will help us understand the situation better if we hear your opinions on the subject. The idea of starting some more specific subforums is not out of the question. I, for one, would like to hear more about this. Do you think there is enough interest in these fish to warrant it?

 

[cheesy feet]

I think that everybody should calm it down a little bit. Saying that "said" club isn't really going to help. They didn't close them just because they werent informative( not saying they aren't ) , but I would assume they closed them because of off-topic chat, and I suspect that people will start making topics for all color morphs and everything. Like " black angelfish club " " black with a little white angelfish club " ect. I personally think that the clubs should stay, as long as they stay under control, but that dicision isn't up to me, it's up to the mod's, and ultimatley Tolak and William.

I think that's the point, they've already gone out of control.
What I find silly is some clubs are actually the exact name of the forum...Eliminates the point, if there was any.

 

[The young one]

what so your saying the oscar and severum clubs are pointless? Even though they have the most information on them out of all the other clubs, and if you ask a question on there you will always get a knowledgable response.#

Doesn't sound pointless to me...

 

[cheesy feet]

...to my understanding, there is a catfish section, so no 'club' needed, there is a live bearer section, so no 'club' needed, there is a new world cichlid section, so no 'oscar club' needed.
when you go into 'oddball' and 'predatory' fish, this is less specific, but instead of a 'club' i think it would be easier for the mods just to create and open sub-forums more specific to the species becoming more popular, like snakeheads, arowana etc.

Thank you all for your input. It will help us understand the situation better if we hear your opinions on the subject. The idea of starting some more specific subforums is not out of the question. I, for one, would like to hear more about this. Do you think there is enough interest in these fish to warrant it?

I definitely do not think there should be more sub forums.It would just lessen the traffic making the forum appear slow.
How many people on here keep arowana's?
10-15 at max?
Doesn't warrant another forum.

 

[Buddyboy67]

...to my understanding, there is a catfish section, so no 'club' needed, there is a live bearer section, so no 'club' needed, there is a new world cichlid section, so no 'oscar club' needed.
when you go into 'oddball' and 'predatory' fish, this is less specific, but instead of a 'club' i think it would be easier for the mods just to create and open sub-forums more specific to the species becoming more popular, like snakeheads, arowana etc.

Thank you all for your input. It will help us understand the situation better if we hear your opinions on the subject. The idea of starting some more specific subforums is not out of the question. I, for one, would like to hear more about this. Do you think there is enough interest in these fish to warrant it?

This is a sensible and reasoned approach from inchworm...stops cliques being formed and the forum being destroyed from the inside out !!

 

[Curiosity101]

I don't think more sub-forums for specific species is a particularly good idea (Going by how little most are currently used anyways).

I think a 'Fish Club' board would be perfect though. Perhaps then split that board into something like 'Species Related' and 'General'
Ofc they'd all have to be directly about fish. But perhaps someone would want to start a 'reefing' (not sure if that's the right term?) for people who go out catching wild marine fish...
Technically that wouldn't be species related but it is clearly fish related.
Another example would be the 'Friday Fryday club' that would be more 'general' than 'species related'

 

[Spishkey]

i like the idea of sub forums for the more unusual fish

 

[cheesy feet]

what so your saying the oscar and severum clubs are pointless? Even though they have the most information on them out of all the other clubs, and if you ask a question on there you will always get a knowledgable response.#

Doesn't sound pointless to me...

Does to me..
The forum itself has the information anyway, and general information is in the fish species index.
As said they're not specialist fish...It's not rocket science to keep them.You would get the same information and same answers from the forum if the clubs didn't exist.Having in one way the advantage that if you needed to you could search for what you're looking for, instead of sifting through 60 pages of chat, and pictures.
There's articles which you could probably dig up which would deserve a pin much more.

 

[kizno1]

I don't think more sub-forums for specific species is a particularly good idea (Going by how little most are currently used anyways).

I think a 'Fish Club' board would be perfect though. Perhaps then split that board into something like 'Species Related' and 'General'
Ofc they'd all have to be directly about like. But perhaps someone would want to stay a 'reefing' (not sure if that's the right term?) for people who go out catching wild marine fish...
Technically that wouldn't be species related but it is clearly fish related.
Another example would be the 'Friday Fryday club' that would be more 'general' than 'species related'

i think that would be a better idea than closing them

 

[The young one]

If it's not rocket science to keep them why are there always threads asking about them?