The Cafe and The Pub

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Flying_Monkey

Recyclist
Location
Odawa
I'm sure I'm not the only one whose now getting confused about what belongs in the Cafe and what in the Pub (sorry, The Crank Arms) these days. Is political comment now okay in the Cafe, and word games in the Pub? (At least with P&L, what it said on the door was self-explanatory...)

Perhaps a moderator or two can do some moving of threads and/or explain what goes where and why with the new sub-forums? Or is it just now a free-for-all?
 

Noodley

Guest
Seems fine to me, I cannot see any threads which indicate there is a problem or a general confusion.
 

Speicher

Vice Admiral
Moderator
I deliberately put the "Geography" thread in the Pub. This was to allow for more adult humour than might usually be expected in the Cafe. I wanted to avoid parents on this forum being asked for the location of the "Inner Hebrides", for instance.
 

Rhythm Thief

Legendary Member
Location
Ross on Wye
Not noticed a problem myself ... in fact, I usually neither know nor care where threads are posted since I use the "view new content" button almost exclusively. If it really bothers you, well ... it probably shouldn't.
 
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Flying_Monkey

Flying_Monkey

Recyclist
Location
Odawa
I'm not 'bothered', just asking the question since this is the place to ask such questions. It does seem to me that there is potentially very little to distinguish the Pub and the Cafe, that's all - take the thread about Book Clubs in the Pub, and then there's an argumentative thread about the Oslo attacks and Amy Winehouse's death (I'm not talking about Dayvo's personal one here) in the Cafe - just for example. There are threads about beer in both with nothing to distinguish them - is the beer thread in the Cafe somehow 'family friendly' and the one in the Pub not? Hardly.

If RT's approach is to be followed, we needn't bother having separate forum areas at all - and that might not be a bad thing, many forums do it this way. But if you want to start threads rather than just respond to the then the View New Content button is hardly going to help and you do need some sense of where things belong.

I can't see that this is that tricky to understand...
 

Norm

Guest
I'm not 'bothered'
You do seem to be, though.

If RT's approach is to be followed, we needn't bother having separate forum areas at all - and that might not be a bad thing, many forums do it this way.
This one would certainly get my vote.

If we can get past the "I'm not bothered" thing, because you were bothered enough to start the thread and then respond, why is it important to you?

I can't see that this is that tricky to understand...
I thought that you were the one who was confused.
 

Noodley

Guest
Unlike some of the other replies, I feel there is a need to distinguish and took time to look through the threads in the Pub and Cafe to see if I could identify a 'problem' and I got the feeling that in general the threads reflected people knew the difference between cafe and pub threads...there will always be some cross-over between Cafe and Pub and I think it would be a bit laborious to discuss the finer nuances of thread topics and their content for every thread started.
 

MacB

Lover of things that come in 3's
This is a support and feedback thread, so far there have been 8 people responding, including myself, as one of the respondees was Admin, was there a need for as many mods to wade in as well? is there not a one voice for threads in this area of the forum?
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
Perhaps the pub could have opening times like real pubs
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And the occasional after-hours lock-in
 

Noodley

Guest
Perhaps a moderator or two can do some moving of threads and/or explain what goes where and why with the new sub-forums?

MacB, I think Mods replying might have been in response to FMs OP...as you can see from the responses there is not a 'one voice' Mod view on matters.
 
I don't see a problem. Cafe has had contentious threads in it sometimes, sometimes they were moved on to P&l, perhaps they might also need to be moved into The Crank sometimes but it's still early days, it's still forming and evolving.
 
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Flying_Monkey

Flying_Monkey

Recyclist
Location
Odawa
If we can get past the "I'm not bothered" thing, because you were bothered enough to start the thread and then respond, why is it important to you?

Norm, you're being rather childish. I am simply raising a minor issue in the place where it is appropriate to do so. If you disagree with me, just say so politely and give some reasons - other people have (whether moderators or not), and I respect their their perspectives, whether I agree or disagree. So if you don't have anything sensible to say, perhaps you should restrain the urge to launch personal attacks or question other people's good faith.
 
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