Any thougts on the formatt change?

A few months ago Slab changed the formatt too allow only fishing reports were allowed on the page with all other comment to be posted on the other "off topic" page.
I feel like we lost that good feeling the page had when people were free to post about the grand kids graduation, birth of a child, death in the family, whatever.

It seems to me that something is not there anymore and I don't see as many posts as before( even including the off topic items) .

I understand the thinking behind the move, it is Slab's page.
I'm just looking for feed back. Am I the only one that feels out of the loop on what's going on in SC people's lives?
I follow the North Carolina board and the Michigan board while there, and have found the South Carolina board the friendliest, most welcoming board. It felt like family
Many thoughts?
Mthook

It seems to me that most of the regular folks that used to post regularly about their fishing trips either stopped fishing or stopped sharing their trips with the rest of us???? I think that they are still fishing, but they don't want to share their trips with us. I always enjoy reading their posts.

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A lot of the State pages have been slow. It is getting to be fall and fishing should pick up.
Post and activity seem to be contagious. I have found it gets people to talking. Sometimes a hey how is everyone doing post gets things moving also

I don’t remember making a specific change. We always had a SC primary forum and an off topic forum. We encourage ot to take place on the ot forum but it’s not a rule. And sometimes we’ll move something to ot if we feel it better belongs there. But it’s all grass roots. As long as it’s family friendly we’re cool if you post pretty much anywhere you want.

And yep, it has been slow. Summer is always slow. But they starting to bite now for sure, and it’ll pick up.


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Slab, thanks for the reply and clearification.
I'm looking forward to the catching and reading about others successes
Grady

We like pictures. There are many that can’t fish and just want to see pics. Post pics. Please. Don’t even need a report. But report would be nice too, but not necessary. Just saying.


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I wasn’t a fan of the off topic change but it isn’t my rodeo. 2 cents

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Originally Posted by Lloakley930

I wasn’t a fan of the off topic change but it isn’t my rodeo. 2 cents

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Do not know what change you speak of.....SC has always had a off topic sub forum. It's just like it's always been. But overall posting all over the boards has slowed down some....it always does Sept- Oct. It will pick up soon.

I guess you all are right. Looks like last December we added the Off Topic forum (Stump Hunter has a sticky here about it). Other states have had OT forums for a long time, many years. I just figured we had added it here years ago. But in any case, there's no strict rules of use about it. I'm a Floridian, and I know the Florida OT forum does not get a lot of activity, not like the main Florida forum at all. So it's your preference. Post where you like. Heck, if you all really don't want the SC OT forum, we can actually get rid of it. Grass roots is what we're all about. And family friendly of course.

Come to think about it the change came about the time Ofishlbizzess took over as moderator , he must be to blame.
He was feeling the high power of his new office
I vote we go back to the way it was .
That is all

Mthook I am with you. Off topic to me would be anything besides the 4 f's. Faith Family friends and fishing. Prayer request pics of fishing family reunions meeting others and such. Talking about fixing my car and such would be off topic.

Faith Family friends fishing should be always on topic.

For awhile I tried moving EVERYTHING that wasnt fishing related to the off topic. I know Stumphunter was trying to do the same. But by doing that it appeared that people started slacking off on their posts so I noticed some "off topic" threads werent getting moved so I slacked off too. And so far we havent received any posts of folks complaining like beforehand so as long as it continues running smooth like it has for the past few months I wont be moving any more threads. That is, as long as it's acceptable by Slab. I know we all want this to be a family friendly site and all the folks here on the SC boards seems like family so lets just keep on keeping on!;):)

The only problem I had was there were a couple times some fishing trips for the weekend were discussed in the Off Topic forum. Since I never look there, I almost missed a couple. I understand the reason for an Off topic forum but it should be for non fishing stuff.

The nc page started moving everything to the off topic and I hate it. I want to look at one spot and see everything. It isn't like you have to wade through 50 post to find a fishing report. I am here as much for the other stuff as the reports.

Guys sorry for the late reply as I'm having some medical problems that keeps me away at times .
Like Butch I have just about stopped moving any post from the main page to the OT page. Unless the thread is really of topic I won't move them so I am asking all members to help us Mods keep the main SC page clean of the OT post. Family and Friendly post have always been the main goal for Crappie.com and the SC page and it's a rarity to have to delete a post or thread on our pages. Slab is the boss and it comes down to his decisions but I think we need to keep the OT page for those threads that at time needs to be moved.
I know fishing post have been slow but they always are throughout the summer months. I look forward to seeing that change soon. Some of our base members that have been around for a while are no longer with us anymore and we do need the younger guys and girls to pick up where the older members left off and keep Crappie.com going for many years to come.


Thanks to all our members,
Stump

Just don't turn it into a Happy Birthday thread like NC board is already! :twocents

So, after watching this thread for a while, I think the conclusion is, we leave the SC OT forum here for just things like "happy birthday threads". And even after having said that, even if one pops up on the regular SC forum, there's really no need to move happy birthday type threads unless it becomes obnoxious on the regular SC forum. Sound like a plan?

Sounds good [emoji106][emoji106]

I'm good with what ever you suggest. USA FLAG

Thanks. It did get a little old going to the OT forum and seeing fishing related topics, but not necessarily fishing reports.

Slab, thanks for the adjustment, I'm traveling full time so only my only contact with home is CDC . I do check the State I'm in often, but find the SC board the friendliest of them all.