Sentinel947 1205 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Not trying to start anything, but why is this sub forum ridiculously more active than the rest of the sub forums on this website? Link to post Share on other sites
moosetracker 132 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Because unless there is a real juicy scandalous scouting stories or battles, alot of the other threads can get one or two comments from each poster, even if another poster have a difference of opinion, your happy making your suggestions and letting the OP decide.. But, only occasionally does it get you so riled you get bull headed and roll up your sleeves to fight about the differences of opinion.. Sometimes it will, and we can get rolling with it.. Like uniforms and Advancement can get some rolling, .. In the summer, except for some summer camp incidents we don't get so many juicy stories.. Things usually pick up some in the Fall through Spring months. (This message has been edited by moosetracker) Link to post Share on other sites
Sentinel947 1205 Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 Thank you. I'm majoring in Political Science, so I can appreciate a debate on politics, ethics and morality and delight in the subjects, but I was surprised that Scouting topics are receiving such little love in comparison. Link to post Share on other sites
Twocubdad 665 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I don't know.... The record longest thread -- some 30 pages -- was about whether or not a Scout should be awarded his Eagle. Link to post Share on other sites
moosetracker 132 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 True twoCub, but that is part of Advancement (which means it will hook a debate), and if it is the one I am thinking about there was some juicy story going on with it, that got people either rooting for the scout, or or arguing we are getting a one sided story and then finding possibilities why the Adult leaders might be in the right.. Also I believe the OP, didn't state a case and dash off, but came back to the post and would stir the pot with updates all the time. I stated uniforms, advancements and juicy or scandalous stories, but I will admidt it is just a quick list, where I am sure there are many other things other people can add to the list with.. (ex.. new policies that are either limiting us more, or changing what we know and love will get long threads on for example our new little red wagon age safety policy..) Link to post Share on other sites
Callooh! Callay!1428010939 28 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 "Not trying to start anything, but why is this sub forum ridiculously more active than the rest of the sub forums on this website?" By what measure is it ridiculously more active? It's not only not ridiculously more active, it's not even the most active as of sometime the evening of Monday 23 July 2012, judging by either of the most obvious and logical measures we could use. When was the analysis on which the OP question is based conducted? And what were the criteria measured? And what is the definition of "ridiculously more active than the rest of the sub forums?" Empirical methods and structured analysis have been out of fashion in some political science circles. If your profs aren't pushing empiricism and structured analysis, you may nevertheless find them handy. As of this writing, this sub forum ranks third by number of topics with Cub Scouts in 2nd place with about 50% more topics and Open Discussion being by far the most active by number of topics with well over three times as many topics as this sub forum: Open Discussion - Program 6867 Cub Scouts 2916 Issues & Politics 1916 Advancement Resources 1775 Uniforms 1414 Camping & High Adventure 1401 Wood Badge and adult leader training 995 New to the Forum? 840 Working with Kids 681 Summer Camp 634 The Patrol Method 621 Venturing Program 578 Council Relations 481 Order of the Arrow 438 Patch Trading Central 321 Unit Fundraising 284 Scouting History 278 Girl Scouting 218 Scouting the Web 176 New to Scouting? 145 Scoutmaster Minutes 142 Scouting Around the World 114 Scouter announcement 76 And if we use number of posts to gauge activity, this sub forum not only is not ridiculously more active than all others, it's not the most active at all. It is in second place and the topic in first place has about 50% more posts: Open Discussion - Program 96471 Issues & Politics 64818 Cub Scouts 33599 Advancement Resources 32156 Uniforms 24350 Camping & High Adventure 16817 Wood Badge and adult leader training 15116 The Patrol Method 10657 Working with Kids 9716 Summer Camp 7511 Council Relations 7275 Order of the Arrow 6433 Venturing Program 5304 New to the Forum? 4578 Unit Fundraising 3917 Scouting History 1843 New to Scouting? 1836 Girl Scouting 1711 Patch Trading Central 1216 Scouter announcement 1160 Scouting the Web 1133 Scouting Around the World 616 Scoutmaster Minutes 612 The analysis above does not take into account total number of words or average post length or other measures we might want to examine; perhaps you'd like to take that on. Another interesting idea would be to do a "scrape" of all posts and then do some tag cloud type looks at the whole forum and at individual sub forums as a means of visualizing relative popularity of different subject areas - that's a little toward the fuzzy side but could be interesting and informative. As for why this forum is popular and some others aren't... it could be that within some subject areas there is greater agreement and therefore less to discuss. (This message has been edited by Callooh! Callay!) Link to post Share on other sites
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