The future of the golf forum

[RDW]

Folks,

For those of you that have not already heard, Hero is stepping down as Founder of the site and I am taking over running the forum. I'm sure most of you probably haven't heard of me, mainly because I have almost exclusively posted in the rugby forum over the years! I am really keen to promote and better the entire forum however so I'm wanting to hear from you.

I'm keen to hear your opinions on the golf forum - you can bring up anything but these are my key questions:

- How are the numbers looking on this section
- Do you need more mods?
- Do you have any ideas of things that can be done to improve the forum?

Thanks,

RDW (Ross)

[Davie]

Definitely more mods .. not to moderate as such - we are fairly self-policing and don't really like it when an unknown mod comes in and lays the law down when they don't really know the people involved.

However it does need someone to control the stickies better - some of them have been there for two years now!

[McLaren]

Hi RDW and well done on the promotion. The golf board really needs some more posters if that is something you can help with. We have a good core of posters but at this point we could really do with an injection of new voices.

[kwinigolfer]

Numbers? Dwindling

Mods? I think navy does a great job. A quick pm is invariably sufficient to bring stickies up to date. The heavy-handed approach in the early years of 606v2 was most unwelcome.

Ideas? Difficult. Interest ebbs and flows, though this is typically a slow time of year. Majors, games, a good controversy always stimulate interest but there are very few new posters and older ones fade away. (Looking at the footie and cricket boards, that seems to apply there as well, though perhaps the cricketers sustain day-to-day chat a little better.)

[super_realist]

Trouble with golf is that for most of the season it's very boring, so we talk about other things.

[McLaren]

Trouble with golf is that for most of the season it's very boring, so we talk about other things.

Fixed.

[McLaren]

Maybe I am biased but this golf board is the only UK golf board worth participating in. In quite times I have tried out places like golf monthly and the chat is dire. Thankfully this golf board isn't too mainstream clubhousey.

[LadyPutt]

As far as I’m concerned, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it - so I don’t think this board needs anything doing to it, except perhaps encourage a few more female posters as Plunky and I do get a bit lonely sometimes

[super_realist]

As far as I’m concerned, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it - so I don’t think this board needs anything doing to it, except perhaps encourage a few more female posters as Plunky and I do get a bit lonely sometimes

That's an analogy for golf in general LP, not just this board. In fact women are under represented in virtually every sport.

[Davie]

The "stickies" still haven't been sorted out

[kwinigolfer]

The "stickies" still haven't been sorted out

!!

[Davie]

[RDW]

Hi folks - thanks for your comments. I was deliberately planning on leaving this a few days to let the conversation flow but have ended up leaving it longer than planned - been a busy week - so apologies for that. I'll digest this over the weekend and come back with some responses

p.s. I got rid of the very old stickies - let me know if you want rid of anything else.

[Roller_Coaster]

If there is anything to get people in that'd be good, numbers seem to be thinning (unless the stats on views indicate it may only be posting that's falling off). I'm guessing GDPR prevents a "come back and see us" to posters that may have fallen away or become inactive and forgotten?

More modding I don't think is required here, but maybe have a read of the "anything goes" thread as that is probably going to have the most contentious posting in (as long as Navy doesn't think that's a request for an audit of his role, not my intent). I'd guess that you'd agree that what we have modwise seems to be light enough touch and appropriately "steer"-y rather than "reprimand"-y when intervention is applied.

More old stickies please, gee I miss them

[GPB]

Thanks for the "sticky management"

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