Division of the pre 1900 forum?

Split in Pre 1900 Forum

  • This is a good idea

    Votes: 63 40.1%
  • Status Quo

    Votes: 65 41.4%
  • Not Sure

    Votes: 29 18.5%

  • Total voters
    157
Whoever suggested Classical should be post-prehistoric to 500 AD, I'm glaring at you for a name choice that's both terrible and inappropriate.

To be honest, if we end up with a pre-Westphalia post-Westphalia, and post-1900 forum we'll end up having the same discussion all over again, probably with the post-Westphalia bunch complaining about the billion ACW threads. People are arguing for the split for reasons of organisation and clarity, but near dead forums are one of the worst things to have on a forum and at least one community created out of a split would get screwed over like that.

The most important reason for having additional areas on a forum must always be having the activity to justify it. Pre-1900 does not have enough people to create multiple sustainable communities to my knowledge.
 
It's not as if Pre1900 was dominant enough to justify splitting.

And if people are sick of ACW threads, they should make threads on different things.
 
Personaly I would say add the first world war to this forum and move the post 2000 stuff from post-1900 to future history forum. If you realy want to split this part split it at 1815.

So either:
Pre-1920-subforum
1920-2000-subforum
2000+-subforum

or:
pre-1815-subforum
1815-1920-subforum
1920-2000-subforum
2000+-subforum

But keeping it as it is now seems fine by me.
 

Delvestius

Banned
Personaly I would say add the first world war to this forum and move the post 2000 stuff from post-1900 to future history forum. If you realy want to split this part split it at 1815.

So either:
Pre-1920-subforum
1920-2000-subforum
2000+-subforum

or:
pre-1815-subforum
1815-1920-subforum
1920-2000-subforum
2000+-subforum

But keeping it as it is now seems fine by me.

This is inefficient and it hurts to look at.
 
As i've said before, i'm starting to lean status quo, but what about a way to block threads from view - can that be done?

Of course, it would require cookies and not everyone wants to take time to log in, but if threads of one type are such a problem, maybe that would be a workable solution.
 
Personaly I would say add the first world war to this forum and move the post 2000 stuff from post-1900 to future history forum. If you realy want to split this part split it at 1815.

So either:
Pre-1920-subforum
1920-2000-subforum
2000+-subforum

or:
pre-1815-subforum
1815-1920-subforum
1920-2000-subforum
2000+-subforum

But keeping it as it is now seems fine by me.

That could work if it's shifted to 1923 (end of the Russian Civil War), but I'm leaning more towards a 'don't change' attitude myself due to lack of existing traffic. Perhaps some more research is needed though.
 
It's not as if Pre1900 was dominant enough to justify splitting.

And if people are sick of ACW threads, they should make threads on different things.

Agreed on both points. If there aren't enough threads on subjects you are interested in, then splitting the forum will not solve that.
 
As i've said before, i'm starting to lean status quo, but what about a way to block threads from view - can that be done?

Of course, it would require cookies and not everyone wants to take time to log in, but if threads of one type are such a problem, maybe that would be a workable solution.
There's an addon for Firefox that can do that.
 
If there'll be a split, let's remember that many historians speak of the "long 19th century" from 1789 to 1914.

It makes some sense. The world wars belong together, since WW2 practically was revenge for WW1. And the French revolution changed the world a lot. Or should we split at 1776?
 
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