Moving forum sections around.

I think the new layout/organization makes sense.

Pins
-SS General Discussion
-SS Repair
-EM General Discussion
-EM Repair
-For Sale
-Wanted

I don't think that there is enough topics to warrant this much of a breakout.

Just my
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I like the new various repair forums in a folder together. I collect vids, pins, and EMs the pin and EM sections seemed like second class citizens...

A member double posted a question about a pseudo-pinball machine (Hyperball) and he already has answers in the repair forum but no feedback in the general pinball forum. I think this speeks to the forum wanting the repair sections seperated from the general discussion sections.
 
Can we please stop messing with the forums?

2 sections:

1 for Pinheads
1 for Video Games / Arcade Games

Subsections should be left the way they were:

1. General
2. Tech
3. For Sale
4. Wanted
5. Off Topic

What problem are you trying to solve that you need to change all the sections and move them around?
 
I'm not making any more changes for at least a few days, as mentioned earlier in this thread. If more changes are made, the idea is not to do too many at one time.

It's probably time for this thread to die a natural death...

Again, every one has a different idea as to what is ideal, and to what was before...

There were not 5 subsections under pinball before...

Can we please stop messing with the forums?

2 sections:

1 for Pinheads
1 for Video Games / Arcade Games

Subsections should be left the way they were:

1. General
2. Tech
3. For Sale
4. Wanted
5. Off Topic

What problem are you trying to solve that you need to change all the sections and move them around?
 
I think the pinball tech questions should stay mixed in with the general pinball discussions. The quantity of posts just don't make sense to break in to sub-catagories. I can see all of a couple - few days info on 1 screen, it would be more cumbersome to navigate around to different areas.
I agree with the sub-catagories for lots of posts, like video. It helps to sort for what I'm interested in at the time. Tech questions there would be overrun and not answered, after a few hours they would be buried under pages of info and just lost.

Jerry
 
For now pinball threads are slow enough that mixing the tech in with the general discussion helps keep the forum a bit more active. I'd be fine having just one pinball section for now. If activity picks up a lot, then I'd be in favor of splitting the sections into discussion and repair.
 
I am of the mindset that any forum that doesn't get frequent traffic is not worth having, because people will end up posting in a higher traffic forum even if it's not the "right" forum just to make sure people see the thread.

My suggestion that I haven't seen made yet, and perhaps it is related to the cabinet repair section but is more broad than that. A "restoration" forum to document a machine's restoration. BYOAC has that and I think it's a great thing. Aside from covering emulation much better than KLOV, I think that forum is the big thing that BYOAC has over KLOV.
 
The new grouping of the categories and additions seem illogical and excessive. They should be kept separated, like they were originally, and along the following line...

Arcades
-General Discussion
-Repair
-For Sale
-Wanted

Pins
-SS General Discussion
-SS Repair
-EM General Discussion
-EM Repair
-For Sale
-Wanted

Misc
-Chat about anything
- jokes
-whatever other non-arcade related topics here

If you are worried about having to dig thru 10k+ posts then use the search functionality. Does there really need to be a separate forum for arcade related news or "interesting online auctions"???

Too much clutter. Use the K.I.S.S principle... Keep it Simple, Stupid!!!

my 2 cents...

- Mike
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the changes are confusing as hell i like the above mentioned format
 
Anyone notice that the topic headers are being ignored in the tech sections? Making changes is useless if people don't bother to post in the appropriate sections.
 
If something is in the wrong section, click the 'report post' button. in the comment box stated where you think the thread belongs, and the moderators will look at it.

Anyone notice that the topic headers are being ignored in the tech sections? Making changes is useless if people don't bother to post in the appropriate sections.
 
If something is in the wrong section, click the 'report post' button. in the comment box stated where you think the thread belongs, and the moderators will look at it.

I almost did that the other day, but the pop-up said to only do it if it was a really bad post*...? :confused: So it can be more 'casual'?



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I haven't opined on this yet, so here are my thoughts. (I know I'm late to the party.)

I think 4 top level headings would be good, no more - Video, Pinball, (Electro)Mechanical, & Chat About Anything. *MAYBE* a Marketplace at the top level. The front page seems very cluttered now. Scrolling is bad. Trees are good...if they're not too deep.

I *really* want the video and pinball stuff separated. That's important to me. I'm a vid guy and I don't care for the mixing. (And if I were a pin guy, or an EM specialist, I certainly wouldn't want to wade through all the video crap before seeing a nice relevant thread!)

For the subsections, I'd like to keep it simple. Something like what's below. I fleshed out the video section, but I leave the others to those with more experience there.

Video Game Forum
-- General Discussion
-- Technical Help and Repair
---- General Help
---- PCB/Electrical Repair
---- Cabinet Repair
---- Monitor Repair
-- Marketplace (move this to the top level and combine with pins, EMs, skills, etc?)
---- For Sale/Auction/Trade
---- Want to Buy/Trade
Pinball Forum
-- (etc)
Electro-Mechanical Forum
-- (etc)
General Marketplace (??)
-- Items For Sale/Auction/Trade
-- Items Wanted

That gives a 3-deep tree with only a few choices at each level. Not too bad for the slow readers like me. Or those with bad eyesight. Like anyone who's done too much tech work in their life. :)

I'm not entirely happy with it. I really like having Monitors as a separate section. And it would be nice to have cabinet topics separated from the electrical stuff. But then the list starts to get too long. And you still really need a General Help section. I do think you need to separate For Sale vs. Wanted in the Marketplace. But maybe Marketplace needs to be at the top level? Then it might be nice to combine all the machine types into one section...to grab more eyeballs == potential buyers/sellers. But still have separate FS/WTB sections. Clearly I need to think some more.

Tags could be useful, but I need to play with those to get a firmer grasp. I'm also playing with the idea of authoring a FAQ for using the Tech Help forum. That's a *big* maybe. (Only for how to get help -- not the repair FAQ itself!!)
 
My suggestion:

MAIN FORUM NAME: Video Games
SUB FORUMS: General Arcade Discussion, General Repair, Monitor Repair, Parts For Sale, Parts Wanted

MAIN FORUM NAME: Pinball Machines
SUB FORUMS: General Pinball Discussion, Pinball Repair, Pinball Parts For Sale/Wanted (no need to separate these two with the traffic we have here for pins)

MAIN FORUM NAME: Other Machines
SUB FORUMS: Music/Jukebox, EM Games, Etc.

MAIN FORUM NAME: Real Life Topics (or whatever you want to call it)
SUB FORUMS: Chat About Almost Anything, etc....etc....etc...

I'd love to see the VID sub forums all grouped together... the PIN sub forums all grouped together, etc...
 
I'd like to see a subforum dedicated to klov member hi-score threads. The subforum could contain threads such as "Asteroid Deluxe high scores", "spy hunter high scores", "donkey kong hi scores" etc.

Tom
 
I haven't been around since May...and I HATE this new format.

All the pinball parts, machines, videogames, video game parts all in one section? Sucks

I liked it when parts were seperate from working machines....but it is what it is...a confusing mish mash.
 
I am not sure that they need to be separated by EM and SS, just because it gets to be too much to look through. But me personally I like both, so I would just look through them all. Mainly I do not want to have to sift through all the video stuff to read Pinball stuff.
 
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