LalehForWD
Active member
Is it time to remove the ESC XXXX - Song, Artist, NF Discussions-subforum and the country ESC threads?
During the little bit over a year since I join the forum, the number of active posters in this section can be counted on one hand, sometimes up to ten perhaps. None of which have any mutual interests. I think 90% of the forum members never even read the threads, fewer care to post anything and if they do it's often a quick short comment of which no reply is expected. Most of the threads are stone dead and the rest is of pretty low quality. My impression is that not even during NF high season and Eurovision week are there much interests.
Therefore I think it's pretty pointless to keep them and rather rude to those who put an effort and tries to shake some life in the threads. It's just not going to happen - the reasons behind are incomprehensible to me.
Then we got the discussion section, at the moment Emmelie's Empire which used to be Loreen's Loft. I assume the idea with this model is to have each event or idea as it's own thread and people post comments about the topic - reddit style. However, the threads tends to be duplicates of pretty much the same recurrent topics over and over again. 49% is about EBU corruption and 49% is about cheating in voting, effectively thread spamming where any interesting topic gets buried.
Why not dedicated sticky threads where all the conspiracy theories can dwell and prosper?
For newcomers it isn't very clear that discussions should be carried out in another section. Although I'm slow, it took me a couple of months to figure that out. It also dramatically drains the country threads of any relevant discussions and tend to spread them out.
I've been thinking of ideas around this since last summer and I've come up with 2 ideas that would satisfy my personal presence.
During the little bit over a year since I join the forum, the number of active posters in this section can be counted on one hand, sometimes up to ten perhaps. None of which have any mutual interests. I think 90% of the forum members never even read the threads, fewer care to post anything and if they do it's often a quick short comment of which no reply is expected. Most of the threads are stone dead and the rest is of pretty low quality. My impression is that not even during NF high season and Eurovision week are there much interests.
Therefore I think it's pretty pointless to keep them and rather rude to those who put an effort and tries to shake some life in the threads. It's just not going to happen - the reasons behind are incomprehensible to me.
Then we got the discussion section, at the moment Emmelie's Empire which used to be Loreen's Loft. I assume the idea with this model is to have each event or idea as it's own thread and people post comments about the topic - reddit style. However, the threads tends to be duplicates of pretty much the same recurrent topics over and over again. 49% is about EBU corruption and 49% is about cheating in voting, effectively thread spamming where any interesting topic gets buried.
Why not dedicated sticky threads where all the conspiracy theories can dwell and prosper?
For newcomers it isn't very clear that discussions should be carried out in another section. Although I'm slow, it took me a couple of months to figure that out. It also dramatically drains the country threads of any relevant discussions and tend to spread them out.
I've been thinking of ideas around this since last summer and I've come up with 2 ideas that would satisfy my personal presence.
all ESC sections allow various discussions and it's easier to find threads / topics because of sections like ESC XXXX - Song, Artist, NF Discussions or any other one 
