Breaking up the Lavender Room

[axlsix3]

Religion
Politics
Sports
Pop Culture

That should cover about 95% of it.

[Yeeper]

@gofigure

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Also I know this is their sandbox and can obviously make whatever decisions they like, but I want to know what will constitute the inappropriate topics. I mean hell I feel like this forum has done very well self-moderating and collectively we come down on the REALLY bad shit like Duffy’s wild end of the line rant, Trump getting shot (at), etc.

I liked that the LR and Slowtwitch used to be an easy and mindless escape and way to converse/learn/connect.

Our self moderating needs emphasizing. Also, I don’t have the internet savvy to find a corner bar that has served my social interaction needs as well as this room.

Can’t say it any better.

[gofigure]

@axlsix3

Religion
Politics
Sports
Pop Culture

That should cover about 95% of it.

sign me up. Pop culture is above my paygrade. I’ll throw in some references to 60’s Hippie culture.

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[axlsix3]

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They are not going to create a whole sub forum for Windy.

[slowguy]

@axlsix3

Religion
Politics
Sports
Pop Culture

That should cover about 95% of it.

Well, except for:

-threads about hard times (family illness, deaths, etc)
-threads about non-political current events
-threads about cool stuff someone read in a study or on another website (i.e. black holes or the newest breakthrough in medicine)
-threads about New Year’s resolutions
-threads about the new guitar you bought this week
-threads about what we’re cooking/drinking tonight or what alcohol we prefer
-threads about GIFs
-threads about the NYT games we do daily to waste 5mins at work

and of course

-threads about how Valentine’s Day is a Satanic monstrosity that contributes to the global subjugation of gullible males to the untold horrors of romantic relationships with the Earth-bound demonesses that still haunt this festering plane of existence

[gofigure]

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[slowguy]

@gofigure

What’s a reddit?

It’s what happens to a normal it if you leave it outside without sunscreen.

[Dr_Tigerchik]

I’m not disappointed as much as I am sad. The thing about this place is the whole is greater than the sum of any one part. We just kinda skip threads we’re not interested in.

I don’t understand what you mean about the “endurance community.” There’s another forum for that type of support.

My weekend threads appear to be of value to others; my “resolutions” thread is of major value to me at least.

Can I have a category called Tigerchik’s Lavender Room for weekend threads and the resolutions stuff? I need this specifically to be called Tigerchik’s Lavender Room.

[Yeeper]

@slowguy

@gofigure

@ironclm

the things that are of value to its community members.

And who is deciding what these things of value are? Did I miss a survey?

You and all the rest of us!

Unfortunately, I suspect this will go roughly like the shift to the new forum architecture went. Not a lot of prior communication, brief mention of minor updates, and then wholesale change. ST has already gone from 4-5 Forums to 15. Maybe there was overwhelming call for this striation that I missed.

We’ll have to wait to see what happens. I hope the new management hasn’t decided that this forum, which has provided value to current and former endurance athletes for 20ish years by allowing them a place to talk about the other stuff that goes on in life (including politics, religion, family, music, art, movies, etc) just needs to go altogether. However, the entire site seems to be taking on a much more corporatized feel, and I doubt the clubhouse environment of the LR will survive. That would be too bad. I think they’ll lose a fair amount of people if that’s their plan.

“But hopefully we can all manage to share a single space…well a single space plus the LR. We’ve always resisted calls for hyper-specific sub-forums. Hopefully our longevity is at least partial confirmation that a singular forum is better than silos.”

~ Moderator 2024 after the women’s room was axed.

[Dr_Tigerchik]

thank you for putting my NY resolutions thread in there.
That thread REALLY helps me.

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@gofigure

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[Dr_Tigerchik]

I see your post edit, B&P, and I love you for it

[slowguy]

@Yeeper

“But hopefully we can all manage to share a single space…well a single space plus the LR. We’ve always resisted calls for hyper-specific sub-forums. Hopefully our longevity is at least partial confirmation that a singular forum is better than silos.”

~ Moderator 2024 after the women’s room was axed.

“How many colors are there? That’s how many individual forums we should have.”

~ New Management 2024 after the forum redesign.

[Yeeper]

@slowguy

@Yeeper

“But hopefully we can all manage to share a single space…well a single space plus the LR. We’ve always resisted calls for hyper-specific sub-forums. Hopefully our longevity is at least partial confirmation that a singular forum is better than silos.”

~ Moderator 2024 after the women’s room was axed.

“How many colors are there? That’s how many individual forums we should have.”

~ New Management 2024 after the forum redesign.

Should just rename this place the Crayola Box

[Dr_Tigerchik]

I guess I assumed if the LR is getting broken up, one of our new subforums will be a womens forum

[axlsix3]

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@slowguy

@Yeeper

“But hopefully we can all manage to share a single space…well a single space plus the LR. We’ve always resisted calls for hyper-specific sub-forums. Hopefully our longevity is at least partial confirmation that a singular forum is better than silos.”

~ Moderator 2024 after the women’s room was axed.

“How many colors are there? That’s how many individual forums we should have.”

~ New Management 2024 after the forum redesign.

Should just rename this place the Crayola Box

That’s just gay.

[ironclm]

@axlsix3

Religion
Politics
Sports
Pop Culture

That should cover about 95% of it.

It’s a decent start.

I would add:

Entertainment and arts (this is where Wordle and our reading threads would go)
Food and drink
Current events that are not politics
Relationships/Advice (slowguy’s Valentine’s Day rant could go here and this could encompass any kind of asking for advice, personal or house stuff or whatever)

[Yeeper]

@axlsix3

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@slowguy

@Yeeper

“But hopefully we can all manage to share a single space…well a single space plus the LR. We’ve always resisted calls for hyper-specific sub-forums. Hopefully our longevity is at least partial confirmation that a singular forum is better than silos.”

~ Moderator 2024 after the women’s room was axed.

“How many colors are there? That’s how many individual forums we should have.”

~ New Management 2024 after the forum redesign.

Should just rename this place the Crayola Box

That’s just gay.

Cmon, where’s your pride in this place?

[zed707]

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Honestly I think that’s too many. I hope they don’t break the LR up into a bunch of sub-forums that end up dying on the vine.

There have been a significant number of members that have already said they’re leaving. I say focus on survival first.