Does the OCUK forum need any new sections?

SexyGreyFox said:
There's a reason they were split because we weren't allowed to talk about US Shows that other people couldn't get their hands on.
I suggested a US TV Shows sub forum and my wish was granted.
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SexyGreyFox said:
It was because and still is because the majority of us in this country shouldn't be getting our hands on those US TV Series.
I or somebody else said it's not fair because some of us do have genuine reasons for watching them so the Mods said OK, discuss these shows but don't say how you've been able to watch them and those should still be the rules.
At one time the normal forum had loads of Series we can watch in Britain being discussed and the US one had those that were hard to get but you're right, they've all gone in the US one now.
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Yeah i could understand that being a thing in the past, but certainly less of a thing nowadays. Besides, there's no reason they can't follow the same rules as things like sporting events and use spoiler tags. I think the user needs to take a bit of responsibility and not seek to read/post in a thread for a show they haven't yet watched if they don't want to accidentally come across any spoilers.
 
Semple said:
Yeah i could understand that being a thing in the past, but certainly less of a thing nowadays. Besides, there's no reason they can't follow the same rules as things like sporting events and use spoiler tags. I think the user needs to take a bit of responsibility and not seek to read/post in a thread for a show they haven't yet watched if they don't want to accidentally come across any spoilers.
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But it wasn't about spoilers it was about gaining access to content not available in the UK...
 
LuckyBenski said:
But it wasn't about spoilers it was about gaining access to content not available in the UK...
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That's why i said i could understand 10 years ago when subscription services weren't such a big thing. But nowadays what's available in the US is now available in the UK on legitimate subscription services.
 
Semple said:
That's why i said i could understand 10 years ago when subscription services weren't such a big thing. But nowadays what's available in the US is now available in the UK on legitimate subscription services.
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The 100 season 7 isnt.

Cant find the DVD version either.

No full show finale for Brits.

Imagine if they pull of the same with The Expanse at the end of this year.

I will riot.
 
Don't know if anyone else agrees but i think it would be nice to have a section for selling exercise equipment considering how much surplus gear there must be from lockdown?
 
Fusion said:
Finance would be good. At the minute, whenever we have a thread on investing it seems to try and address multiple topics at once- a student loan thread ends up talking about mortgages, mortgage threads turn into talk of trading accounts, and so on.

Money is relevant to all. I’m sure it could be a useful resource, especially with stickies etc.
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Agreed, I've wanted something like this for a while. When they introduced Careers and Home&Garden forums it kind of helped, but whilst I'm interested in discussing the housing market, mortgages etc, a lot of the stuff in H&G isn't of interest to me. If there was a 'Personal Finance' forum, I'd probably spend a lot of time in there.

The hardware forums could do with a rejig to compress it down a bit, as mentioned Optical Storage doesn't need it's own wasteland, move it in GH and people will likely get more help. Last post was over 6 weeks ago, only 10 threads have had posts this year.
Similarly Printers has had no posts for 10 days, nearly all the threads have under ten replies.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say it's only worth having a tech subforum when you will get enough traffic from people reading threads who can help people with questions and problems. When a forum has so little content, it sort of becomes a vicious circle where nobody is posting there because nobody is reading there because nobody is posting there...

Over the years, most of the changes have been for the better - splitting out football and other sports, splitting out PC games and Console games, careers subforum these were all good moves it just took a bit of persuading to get them implemented.
 
A conspiracy theory/alternate reality section for the "Trump-Russia collusion, election fraud didn't happen even though we spent 2016-2020 crying about it, January 6th insurrection, Hunter Biden laptop is fake, COVID didn't leak from a Wuhan Lab" crowd.

Then again Speaker's Corner probably has it covered.
 
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HangTime said:
Agreed, I've wanted something like this for a while. When they introduced Careers and Home&Garden forums it kind of helped, but whilst I'm interested in discussing the housing market, mortgages etc, a lot of the stuff in H&G isn't of interest to me. If there was a 'Personal Finance' forum, I'd probably spend a lot of time in there.

The hardware forums could do with a rejig to compress it down a bit, as mentioned Optical Storage doesn't need it's own wasteland, move it in GH and people will likely get more help. Last post was over 6 weeks ago, only 10 threads have had posts this year.
Similarly Printers has had no posts for 10 days, nearly all the threads have under ten replies.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say it's only worth having a tech subforum when you will get enough traffic from people reading threads who can help people with questions and problems. When a forum has so little content, it sort of becomes a vicious circle where nobody is posting there because nobody is reading there because nobody is posting there...

Over the years, most of the changes have been for the better - splitting out football and other sports, splitting out PC games and Console games, careers subforum these were all good moves it just took a bit of persuading to get them implemented.
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All good points, that's why i've suggested a smart home sub section in H&G. Every few threads posted there has some relation to smart home tech, it's handy if you're searching for something that's not generalised to H&G.
 
HangTime said:
The hardware forums could do with a rejig to compress it down a bit, as mentioned Optical Storage doesn't need it's own wasteland, move it in GH and people will likely get more help. Last post was over 6 weeks ago, only 10 threads have had posts this year.
Similarly Printers has had no posts for 10 days, nearly all the threads have under ten replies.
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I completely agree :)
 
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