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Eric the Red

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Been thinking about this for a while. How do you guys feel about locking all individual players who have signed with the Huskers and continue all discussion in the main forum?

In an attempt to keep the main forum as fresh as possible...which is needed to keep people coming back.

 
I'm not sure. It's kind of nice to be able to post a quick note about how a guy is doing in practice or something like that - before the really get playing time.

I've noticed there isn't nearly as much traffic in the main forum lately but I would guess the traffic in the Recruiting forum will start to dry up pretty quickly now. And perhaps that will have more people move back into the main forum.

Maybe give it a couple days and see how it goes?

 
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Eric, I tend to agree with Mavric on this. My worry is that it will detract from the Recruiting forum and not bolster the main forum that much. And as the season approaches, we'll have to again condition the members to post recruiting info in the Recruiting forum.

 
AR Husker Fan said:
Eric, I tend to agree with Mavric on this. My worry is that it will detract from the Recruiting forum and not bolster the main forum that much. And as the season approaches, we'll have to again condition the members to post recruiting info in the Recruiting forum.
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My thinking was once they have signed on the dotted line they are Huskers and thus needs to be in the Main forum.....they are no longer recruits.

 
On the topic of keeping the main forum fresh, I posted a couple videos about the CB3 in there. Not really football related other than being in East Stadium but I thought every little bit helps. If someone thinks it should go somewhere else, feel free to move it.

 
I don't think this makes sense, Eric. We can allow (and encourage) discussion of post-NSD recruits in the main forum, but the threads can remain open for minor updates, at least.

 
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I don't think this makes sense, Eric. We can allow (and encourage) discussion of post-NSD recruits in the main forum, but the threads can remain open for minor updates, at least.
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I don't think it's going to make a huge difference at all but views, hits are way down.......and again so is revenue. I'm just trying something new.

 
I guess I don't think that limiting options is the solution for more traffic.

I think it has a lot more to do with the type of "discussion" going on.

 
I guess I'll bump this as there has been a lot of discussion among the members.

There have been a lot who've said they don't like it. The biggest complaint seems to be that the history about the recruit will be quickly lost in the main forum so it's not really practical to keep a thread going about them because if it's a couple weeks between news (or longer) it gets really hard to find their thread. They you remember something being talked about but you can't go back and find the details unless you savvy with the search tool.

There seems to be quite a bit more traffic in the main forum than there was at this time last year. I think it will hold in there nicely as the situation has obviously changed. Also, we're a little more focused on creating new threads for discussion now.

Can I propose a compromise? At the risk of channeling our previous coach, can we leave the Recruiting Forum threads open until they play in a game or something like that? I see the point about them being on the team so they are Huskers now but guys who aren't playing don't get much traffic from more casual fans.

 
I think we should leave the thread open in recruiting and then maybe also make a thread in the football forum and link the recruiting thread in there as well. That covers your casual fan and your diehard recruiting guru as well. It doesn't make sense to lock the thread completely in the recruiting forum to me.

 
If we wanted to have a single thread pinned in the main forum, I would keep the OP updated with the current commits and would also create new posts with big news - commits, visits, etc.

 
My preference would be to always leave those threads open, and to simply encourage more thread creation (and maybe participate in some) in the football forum for big news. Gradually as they become Huskers people will naturally start to post news stories about them in Husker football.

 
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