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showa58taro wrote:
Tiggnutz wrote:I would do away with all the movie specific forums and make them more general like Vampire, Zombie, slasher, Creature features, and so on. How many threads are we expecting in a Phantasm or Texas Chainsaw Massacre forum? Everything related to each would fill out one thread. I think it would appeal more to new visitors if there were not so many barren forums in the most important section the Horror section.
That was my point about revisiting these in November and removing non-starters. It looks odd to me to have tons of not often used subsections.
All of those would make good threads in a more general themed forum.
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HMF Movie forum topics
Friday the 13th had 268 topics, 7,524 posts
NOES had 148 topics, 5,284 posts
Halloween had 174 topics, 5,890 posts
Evil Dead had 74 topics, 2,100 posts
Hellraiser had 102 topics, 2,336 posts
TCSM had 37 topics, 1,120 posts

HMF General themed forums
Creature Features had 60 topics, 1,029 posts
Knee-High Bastards had 67 topics, 1,014 posts
Shock Cinema had 69 topics, 1,348 posts
Zombies had 204 topics, 3,184 posts
Classic Horror had 42 topics, 1,671 posts
Sci-Fi Horror had 73 topics, 964 posts
Slashers had 225 topics, 5,328 posts
Supernatural Horror had 97 topics, 1,683
Vampires and Werewolves had 76 topics, 2,741 posts
Asian Horror had 68 topics, 748 posts
Italian Horror had 46 topics, 634 posts




There were six forums for Major Horror Franchises. F13, NOES, Hallowee, Hellraiser, Evil Dead and TCSM. All 6 combined exceeded activity of all of the 11 general themed forums combined. I will never vote to have them removed.
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But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
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showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
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Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
Exactly mate, exactly.
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showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
Exactly mate, exactly.
Exactly what? We had nothing in OG HMF, and turned it into something. Over that decade-plus span, the movie themed forums severely outnumbered the general themed forums in activity. No reason to change that now.
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Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
Exactly mate, exactly.
Exactly what? We had nothing in OG HMF, and turned it into something. Over that decade-plus span, the movie themed forums severely outnumbered the general themed forums in activity. No reason to change that now.
Yes but we already made those from scratch once.
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showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
Exactly mate, exactly.
Exactly what? We had nothing in OG HMF, and turned it into something. Over that decade-plus span, the movie themed forums severely outnumbered the general themed forums in activity. No reason to change that now.
Yes but we already made those from scratch once.
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And? We had to make HMF 2 from scratch...
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showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
Exactly mate, exactly.
Exactly what? We had nothing in OG HMF, and turned it into something. Over that decade-plus span, the movie themed forums severely outnumbered the general themed forums in activity. No reason to change that now.
Yes but we already made those from scratch once.
and we had to move. everything had to be made from scratch again. i'm not sure i get what you're trying at?
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HMF Movie Themed Forums
6 boards, 803 topics, 24,254 posts

HMF General Themed Forums
11 boards, 827 topics, 21,344

No reason to get rid of the movie themed forums when they more than double the output of activity.
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HMF General themed forums
Creature Features had 60 topics, 1,029 posts
Knee-High Bastards had 67 topics, 1,014 posts
Shock Cinema had 69 topics, 1,348 posts
Zombies had 204 topics, 3,184 posts
Classic Horror had 42 topics, 1,671 posts
Sci-Fi Horror had 73 topics, 964 posts
Slashers had 225 topics, 5,328 posts
Supernatural Horror had 97 topics, 1,683
Vampires and Werewolves had 76 topics, 2,741 posts
Asian Horror had 68 topics, 748 posts
Italian Horror had 46 topics, 634 posts


Well maybe add the ones above we don't have already. More of a better visual thing I think.
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I would vote for that.
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Jason wrote:I would vote for that.
Groovy
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zombie wrote:
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
Exactly mate, exactly.
Exactly what? We had nothing in OG HMF, and turned it into something. Over that decade-plus span, the movie themed forums severely outnumbered the general themed forums in activity. No reason to change that now.
Yes but we already made those from scratch once.
and we had to move. everything had to be made from scratch again. i'm not sure i get what you're trying at?
We aren’t going to have pages of Jason X, NOES 3, TCM 2 or other discussions. Because whilst the board is gone, our discussion has been had and nobody cares about those anymore. So whilst it was true they were active back in the day they won’t be now, not with this group here.
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showa58taro wrote:
zombie wrote:
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:
showa58taro wrote:But we have already established we don’t have those anymore.
We didn't have those when we first started OG HMF either.
Exactly mate, exactly.
Exactly what? We had nothing in OG HMF, and turned it into something. Over that decade-plus span, the movie themed forums severely outnumbered the general themed forums in activity. No reason to change that now.
Yes but we already made those from scratch once.
and we had to move. everything had to be made from scratch again. i'm not sure i get what you're trying at?
We aren’t going to have pages of Jason X, NOES 3, TCM 2 or other discussions. Because whilst the board is gone, our discussion has been had and nobody cares about those anymore. So whilst it was true they were active back in the day they won’t be now, not with this group here.
that's a fair point. but i would prefer the board to be primarily horror, in whatever way that ended up as, rather than scrapping it because it may not get the activity that it once did.
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Going the route you're going is now bringing the discussion back to horrormoviefans.com vs. news&politicsfans.com.
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We want people to stay for horror not politics. I'm also fine discussing old shit with new people as long as its horror related.
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Tiggnutz wrote:We want people to stay for horror not politics. I'm also fine discussing old shit with new people as long as its horror related.
New people is the real Problem. In that we don’t get many.
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showa58taro wrote:...nobody cares about those anymore.
Sacrilege! I may not have anything new to add to discussions on them, but I will never stop caring about them.
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Slaughterhouserock wrote:
showa58taro wrote:...nobody cares about those anymore.
Sacrilege! I may not have anything new to add to discussions on them, but I will never stop caring about them.
Poorly chosen words. Cares to discuss them.
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