Event Help Organization (read for explanation, then vote)

[starpug]

Here are the issues as I see them:

1. Having one "unofficial" (why can't you just call it the official thread) per event seems to work fine in most cases. However, there are certain downfalls to this. For one, when threads get beyond 3 pages, it seems like you're just repeating the same answers over and over. Yet expecting people to actually go through and read all 12 pages or whatever before asking a question seems ridiculous. It will never happen.

2. Having specific questions warrant new threads is also a bit crazy. It would just cause an explosion of threads in the forums. And then that topic will die and float to the back of the list, never to be seen from again. Probably causing a new thread to be created later asking the same thing.

Ideally what I would like to see would be a return of the labels for each thread (which I know is probably not going to happen). But having some way of sorting threads by event without actually creating subforums would be nice. Or again... being able to customize which events you'd like to see. So like... you sign up for the events you want, and all other events will be hidden from you, so the help forums will not be cluttered with things you don't have any interest in.

I'll stop suggesting outlandish things now.

I like it, most kids in B don't need to see the C event subforums and someone in C can choose to see the subforums of the events he was on.
That would be nice

[EastStroudsburg13]

I don't think repeating questions is that bad.

[croman74]

Or again... being able to customize which events you'd like to see. So like... you sign up for the events you want, and all other events will be hidden from you, so the help forums will not be cluttered with things you don't have any interest in.

I like that idea. That would be really cool if we could have that.

[robotman]

Or again... being able to customize which events you'd like to see. So like... you sign up for the events you want, and all other events will be hidden from you, so the help forums will not be cluttered with things you don't have any interest in.

I like that idea. That would be really cool if we could have that.

i like that too

[EastStroudsburg13]

It sounds like a good idea.

[andrewwski]

Don't care for that idea. From time to time I like to see what's being discussed in other events.

[starpug]

Don't care for that idea. From time to time I like to see what's being discussed in other events.

Then you just sign up for those events and look at what you want then sign out.

[eak227]

I'll stop suggesting outlandish things now.

You did miss that last part of my post though. While I think it's a great idea, actually being able to put it into practice would cause no end of trouble I imagine. I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be a ready made mod to just plug into the site.

[croman74]

Yeah that would probably be pretty difficult. For some reason, I just imagine the mods as people that just click a few buttons and voila! it works. Sorry for thinking so highly of you guys.

[Dark Sabre]

lol...

Yeah, I had looked for a mod to do what you guys are talking about prior to actually making the thread...found some cool stuff, but nothing that had tags you could filter by.

I'm not in favor of it because it would be inconvenient for anyone who wanted to read any/all the threads, but I could do it at a basic level using group permissions:
I could make a forum for every event.
I could make a usergroup for every event.
Only the usergroup for that event can see the forum.
Usergroups are open, so you can join and leave as you please.
When you register, you start in a usergroup that can see everything, but you can opt out of it and into your event groups.

I'm not a fan since it would mean I'd have 46 different event forums, as would the mods, coaches, and anyone who didn't opt out of them. Not optimal.

I wouldn't be at all opposed to a thread-level filtering system, I just have not seen a mod to do it yet.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewforum.php?f=81