Poll : Splitting The Network Forum Sections Into Two

[Qui Gon Jinn]

Currently if you go through each network section of the forum, each is being dominated by promotions, commission news & new program news which is drowning out any discussion affiliates may have about the network or programs within the network.

Please note this is not to discourage networks / merchants / agencies to continue posting not at all! Please continue.

What the Poll is proposing is whether you would be interested or prefer network sections to be split into two distinct areas.

One where merchants, networks & agencies can post their program details & promotions .. and the other as in the aforementioned for proper affiliate discussion pertaining to network or individual programs. Thus preventing the forum from becoming a carbon copy of the email inbox.

How forum members voted can be seen here

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/a...iscussion.html

[Frostie]

Could you have subsets of forums?

Awin -----> Discussion
-----------> Promos

buyat ----> Discussion
-----------> Promos

CJ -----> Discussion
-----------> Promos

[Julie H]

I agree with you Frostie, sounds like a plan!

[Qui Gon Jinn]

"A cunning plan" indeed Frostie

[getvisible]

sounds like a good idea to me!

[hpops]

I totally agree, discussions move so quickly now, you guys don't even get a chance to sticky them.
Obviously as a culprit of posting promotions we don't want to stop either - seems like this would please all

[drivetowin]

Totally agree - good move in my opinion.

[bapages]

I agree and simple to do with the software used.

[mattb811]

From a network point of view we would be happy with this. We feel obliged to post promotions in order to make as many affiliates as possible aware of what we are doing, however we are aware that important discussions can often get lost in the mass of marketing we need to do.

To have a central resource for promotions would make sense as everyone would know where to go, while industry/campaign discussions would have more prominence.

However I still feel that most people who access the forum regularly click on the new posts tab to see what has happened since they were last on, therefore making this debate slightly redundant?

[gadget]

Yes, yes, yes - sick and tired of wading through irrelevant promotions, especially when they get posted in every sub-section going.

What about filtering through new posts too?
Rather than go through every sub-section, I sometimes use the New Posts header.