[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Also, the forums are about as clogged as the spills are. Yeah, there is a lot of excess and unnecessary chatting in the spill, but it’s the exact same in the forums. Threads are constantly derailed, and good topics are wasted in the most ridiculous and childish internet arguments by people who seem to never get along. This is why I usually post in the BOI, my training log, a few other training logs, and not much else.[/quote]
You are wise.
Although the article forum was always of higher quality then the rest of the forums IMO. Also, the article forums could be moderated a bit more than the rest of the forums (however, I wouldn’t be against more moderation of the rest of the forums.)
At least integration to one of the proxy services so you can upload pics from an iPhone.
All that is missing for that is a couple of more lines of javascript and telling the iPhone users what picture load app they need like Picup or Quickpic.
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Lol I do see what you’re saying. There are easy ways of navigating the spill, but I agree that it should be a bit easier to sift through so you don’t have to KNOW how to navigate through it. If I come home form a long day and just want to find something gold from CT, I scroll down and look for his name in gold. Better yet (and easy) do a “Control F” and type in his name, or anything else that you want to find in there. Pretty easy to do, but I agree, it could be better arranged.
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If I do that I might find a good answer. But I have to look through bullshit, bullshit, BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIN CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDDYYYYYYYYYYYYY, bullshit to find it. When he did the “Thibs training questions” threads I could just scroll through until I saw his name and read a great response to a VISIBLE question.
In the forums, avatars instantly let me see posts made by prominent or big posters. I can quickly pick out the posts that I can learn a lot from. That’s very hard in the spills.
[quote]Kairiki wrote:
2) Livespill is amazing as a communication tool on the site and I like how this allows the author and the reader a more personal touch.
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I can’t think of a better way to take useful conversation/information and make it completely unavailable to anyone not directly following the spill or trying to reference it later.[/quote]
Precisely. It is THE most worthless part of the whole site. I have no clue why it’s here.[/quote]
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Also, the forums are about as clogged as the spills are. Yeah, there is a lot of excess and unnecessary chatting in the spill, but it’s the exact same in the forums. Threads are constantly derailed, and good topics are wasted in the most ridiculous and childish internet arguments by people who seem to never get along. This is why I usually post in the BOI, my training log, a few other training logs, and not much else.[/quote]
The difference is that even if the forums are cluttered, the information is searchable later. Great tips on triceps or diet are lost in the spills. In the forums, even if a thread is completely derailed, the information can be found later.
Someone can not sign on for a month and if they are looking for a certain piece of information that was given that month, they can likely find it in a search that turns up forum results. In terms of the spills, that information is practically lost in the noise and to my knowledge doesn’t turn up in searches.
A spill is almost impossible to do that if you miss a day and it’s impractical/painful at best if you miss even half a day.
[quote]2busy wrote:
Mobile App for Android and iPhone
At least integration to one of the proxy services so you can upload pics from an iPhone.
All that is missing for that is a couple of more lines of javascript and telling the iPhone users what picture load app they need like Picup or Quickpic.[/quote]
There are other fitness/BB sites with better integration with iOS and Android applications, makes it so much easier to reply and read threads.
Also who’s responsible for marketing Biotest outside of the Americas? Is it a performance based job?
[quote]So What wrote:
I like the site design, it feels like I’m playing Warcraft 3 again which is pretty eye-pleasingly cool.
A spill from CT here n there that is visible to all wouldn’t hurt though.[/quote]
I used to love the spills from CT. Especially the “My Training This Week”. I would love it if he had a log somewhere that didn’t get bombarded with hundreds of comments. It’s not because I want to know what he’s doing or if there are any secrets to learn. I’m just nerdy and would like to follow his day to day sessions lol.
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Also, the forums are about as clogged as the spills are. Yeah, there is a lot of excess and unnecessary chatting in the spill, but it’s the exact same in the forums. Threads are constantly derailed, and good topics are wasted in the most ridiculous and childish internet arguments by people who seem to never get along. This is why I usually post in the BOI, my training log, a few other training logs, and not much else.[/quote]
The difference is that even if the forums are cluttered, the information is searchable later. Great tips on triceps or diet are lost in the spills. In the forums, even if a thread is completely derailed, the information can be found later.
Someone can not sign on for a month and if they are looking for a certain piece of information that was given that month, they can likely find it in a search that turns up forum results. In terms of the spills, that information is practically lost in the noise and to my knowledge doesn’t turn up in searches.
A spill is almost impossible to do that if you miss a day and it’s impractical/painful at best if you miss even half a day.[/quote]
I completely agree. I think the spill and forums are both useful in their own ways. The spills now seem to be more of an online chat room than anything. I do enjoy posting in there but I honestly only try to when I think I have something useful to say or to report a successful training session. Now it’s gotten to the point where people post youtube videos for a good lol that are completely irrelevant and inconvenient to anything in there.
[quote]kakno wrote:
When he did the “Thibs training questions” threads I could just scroll through until I saw his name and read a great response to a VISIBLE question.
In the forums, avatars instantly let me see posts made by prominent or big posters. I can quickly pick out the posts that I can learn a lot from. That’s very hard in the spills.[/quote]
[quote]kakno wrote:
Wouldn’t mind harder moderation to keep discussions civil and on topic.[/quote]
You can’t expect the mods to keep every conversation and discussion civil on the site. It’s not their job to babysit. There is so much action it is just not possible. And I for one enjoy the occasional meme that pokes fun at a newb poster or something similar. How would the mods decide if something is worth deleting or not? There is a difference between completely trolling and derailing a thread, and dropping a harmless meme for the lulz.
One thing is for sure . . . . we can all do without RV.
[quote]kakno wrote:
Wouldn’t mind harder moderation to keep discussions civil and on topic.[/quote]
You can’t expect the mods to keep every conversation and discussion civil on the site. It’s not their job to babysit. There is so much action it is just not possible. And I for one enjoy the occasional meme that pokes fun at a newb poster or something similar. How would the mods decide if something is worth deleting or not? There is a difference between completely trolling and derailing a thread, and dropping a harmless meme for the lulz.
One thing is for sure . . . . we can all do without RV.[/quote]
