Vote for the Superhero Franchise Sub-Forums Future.

[DarkJedi]

Let your voices be heard! Or rather your votes. :)

This vote is regards to Superhero Sub Forums. Specifically, Xmen...Superman...Spiderman....Batman.

Recognizing that we do not have too large a fan base of posting for these particular forums and some of those franchises have news few and far between as the months go by, it's time for a choice of sorts.

As the Xmen franchise is pretty much done and the only news coming out of Fox these days seems to be a upcoming Wolverine spinoff.....Also, the Wolverine movie seems to be a "origin" story on that character with little to do with Xmen.

Batman has a sequel coming up, but as I say above, it's not really generating enough posts to keep it as a seperate forum. Same goes for Superman which didn't exactly have raving reviews or box office reciepts for the expectations. Spiderman's forum seems to get a post or thread every few months. :smirks:

So, here's the vote.

Should the forums be merged into the Superhero forum itself and the only subforum would be the Comic Books in Print forum?

Note: Keep in mind, in the future...if we do get enough of a fanbase of posters and enough postings in one particular category, we can always create the forum again for whatever particular franchise is getting alot of traffic.

Normally, a forum demolition wouldn't be up for voting since it would have to do with a moderator losing a forum and all controversy from that would be up to the administrators to take the heat from whatever decisions they make..

This isn't the case, though. Nobody will be losing a job, as Boki and Highsky will still be the mods over the Superhero franchises if this merger happens. It will just be the categories combined that they will be watching over instead of forum to forum to forum. Since it's not really a big deal for anyone and nobody will be losing anything in the process, I've decided to let you people decide the fate.

Sooooooooooooo....everybody has a chance for their voices to be heard. Let the votes be tallied..

Choices:

-Yes, merge them for now.
-No, don't merge them.
-Meh, I don't care..Where's the popcorn?

This poll will be closed in one week with the voting tallied.

Now, where's the popcorn?

[sickness]

Keep Batman and Spider-Man separate as these will pick up in the next 6 months or so (especially Spidey what with the new movie coming out next year... and the Dark Knight is only a year behind that). The rest should be integrated.

[Kaeos]

Bottom line is, as long as there is a thread there where the pertinant topic can be found and discussed, then it really doesn't matter. I vote to go ahead and merge them for now.

If it's not an act of (Cine) God to adjust forums at will, then go for it. From my point of view, and to kind of exho what Sickness is saying, make the most visible seperate forums those that are the hot item right now - a-la SP3 is coming, Dark Knight is coming. If there is something major going on with a specific franchise, give it a forum. Seems only logical to remove or hide those that are collecting dust.

[UNCLEagent]

I agree with sickness. The Batman one should be picking usp steam soon.... but, meh. I could just as soon go for some popcorn right about now.

[kah]

While we at it, do Lord of the Rings and Star Wars really need their own forums anymore? There's no future plans to expand on either franchise, right? And I would imagine the DVD forum could be merged with the General Movie forum.

I think maybe a poll on what new forums people would actually post in would be a better question. You should probably put it in the lounge, since that's where everyone hangs out.

[Jakester]

I think people will kill you if you try to take away the LotR forum.
I'll be pissed if you take away Bats. My mon Bats don' shiv!

[kah]

Why? There's a post every other week. There are no definite plans for a Hobbit movie. The LOTR forum could absolutely be merged with the general movie forum.

[sickness]

Or Sci-Fi & Fantasy.

[DaForce]

Or the Sci-Fi channel forum...

Although that may start up again when Battlestar Galactica re-emerges from hibernation.

[sickness]

I don't know why you'd merge LOTR with the Sci-Fi channel forum. It's film, not TV, and it ain't on the Sci-Fi channel.

[Jakester]

Hey, the LotR gang post pretty regularly. I stop in often to hit on Great Big Mansion. Don't be dissing Strider and his gang.

I agree that, back on topic, Spidey and Bats should stick around, but the others should be mothballed.

[Kaeos]

By the end of next year we're going to need an Iron Man Forum, another FF Forum, lets see who else...

How 'bout we just go with a Marvel Forum a DC Forum and a Indy Forum. That way there can be threads for any and all of the above without needing actual forums.

[DaForce]

That would actually work.

Ghost Rider come out in Feb. Then there's 30 Days of Night that comes out next year, and whole host of other optioned movies that aren't Marvel or DC.

[DaForce]

I don't know why you'd merge LOTR with the Sci-Fi channel forum. It's film, not TV, and it ain't on the Sci-Fi channel.

Oops, skipped over this post...no, I meant merging the sci-fi & fantasy forum with the Sci-Fi Channel forum. Neither one gets anywhere near the amount of posts that the Superhero Forum gets.

[sickness]

Okay. I get your meaning now. :)

[neglet]

Hey, it's not my fault people keep starting threads about sf/fantasy movies in the GMF. But since sometimes people put TV threads in the sf/f forum, and we sometimes talk about non-SFC TV shows in that forum, I don't see why not merge those two into one big sf/f entertainment forum.

ps: Don't really care what we do with the comics subforums, although agree that Spidey and Bats will be busy busy over the next two years.

[DarkJedi]

I'm not going to voice any opinions on this subject since I'm just taking the votes and the opinions down.

Just going to say/write that I recognize that Bats and Spidey have the most opportunity for more traffic. I just pointed out that even with these franchises having films in production, they still get absolutely no traffic. Spiderman's forum been dead for years really. It used to be blamed for a certain former user but that person hasn't been around for years, yet Spidey's still be a dead forum. That's all I was saying there.

What I cannot believe after catching up here is that there is only one dissenting opinion about the Lotr forum from Jakester(whos reasons seem to be he likes flirting with big red mansion )....Errr, as a LOTR fan, I didn't see this happening but I will continue taking opinions in and votes.

[neglet]

Well, I think the LOTR and 007 Forums are special cases; they seem to have their own active and exclusive clientele, so to speak, even when there isn't a movie on the horizon. That's why I think they should remain separate. People who post in the comics subforums tend to post everywhere, so I don't think it matters if they are separate or not.

[Jakester]

ODJ -- I KNOW! And the only reason I go there is to flirt with said GREAT BIG MANSION. Okay, and Strider, too.

That little clique in our community doesn't get out much, so you probably won't see much opposition from them -- simply because they don't know this thread exists, or that there is any relevance to their forum.

Shit, I don't care what you do with the superhero subforums. Just...someone, please email Romy and tell him that the Spidey forum was vapourised.

[DarkJedi]

Well, I think the LOTR and 007 Forums are special cases; they seem to have their own active and exclusive clientele, so to speak, even when there isn't a movie on the horizon. That's why I think they should remain separate. People who post in the comics subforums tend to post everywhere, so I don't think it matters if they are separate or not.

That's why I was shocked to see opinions agreeing to merge Lotr with your Sci & Fantasy forum, Negs.

I do recognize that Lotr and Star Wars isn't like 007 in the fact that the Bond franchise is never ending, always changing. But I would think these 3 forums can sustain their own forums from a community of posters dedicated soley to those 3 forums alone. I see where the peeps are saying about not enough posting on them though except for Bond. That forum will always be popular because the movies are always coming out and we got two bond freaks watching them. :lol:

Bahhh, it just caught me by surprise. Star Wars has two tv series coming out and Lotr is a franchise upon itself, though I concede everyone's points of no postings in it. It just caught me by surprise.

[DarkJedi]

That little clique in our community doesn't get out much, so you probably won't see much opposition from them -- simply because they don't know this thread exists, or that there is any relevance to their forum.

Shit, I don't care what you do with the superhero subforums. Just...someone, please email Romy and tell him that the Spidey forum was vapourised.

I do hope this changes because all forum announcements, technical help, and Cinescape Updates will be done out of this forum. This forum has always been used by Hockensmith, then Godzillanews, then Patrick, now Karl and I...as a ways to make announcements and talk shop with our community. Errrr or let you all bitch at me. :)

I emailed Romy back at the old boards about fixing his post counts, usernames, etc etc. That ship has sailed and people move on with their lives, butthead.

[Rowanberry]

I won't vote about the Superhero forums, because I never post there. Kaeos's suggestion about grouping the franchises by the publisher of the comics sounds reasonable though.

But, at least for now, the LOTR and SW forums should stay as they are. For LOTR, there's the speculation for a Hobbit movie, as well as news of one of Tolkien's other stories getting published in its total length next year. For SW, there are all the gazillions of versions that hit the market every couple of years, plus the Expanded Universe... (If they'd get merged with the SF & F forum, that could be done to the Harry Potter forum as well - it's surprisingly quiet, regarding that there are still one book and three movies on the way.)

[sickness]

Not only does SW get the DVD re-treatment every couple years now but the TV show is allegedly still on the way.

[DarkJedi]

And some of the SW books kick ass. Just wrote a review over there.

I do agree we could do with more fans and posters who visit those forums though so I can take criticism for having them exist.

[kah]

I don't care one whit about Harry Potter, but I know that those boards will be busy soon enough. I mean, look at Lost. Next week the new season starts, and then we'll have some discussion. My point about the LOTR forum is that it rarely gets posted in, and when it does, it's jokes and polls. However, having said that, I don't care. Do what you want. I agree with the Marvel/DC split in the comics forum. Or... You could put sub-forums in the General Movie forum. Comics to the Big Screen, Video Games to Big Screen, Horror, Drama, Comedy, etc, and then give the forum headings on the main page to the big stuff going on at the moment, like Batman and Spiderman, or whatever the hell else is going on that is going to be huge, like maybe Heroes? I have a feeling we're all going to have a lot to say about that show. Anyways, like I said, do what you want.

[DarkJedi]

Kahhhh, I hope your not upset over something here. I was just shocked it got brought up cause I didn't see it coming. You're totally right on the non existent posting in those forums. No bad days allowed, woman. :)

[kah]

I'm not upset. I just remember the good ole days when people actually posted instead of lurking.

[DarkJedi]

I feel ya...I remember the same...

[DarkJedi]

Now folks, when I merge these forums.....I'm going to leave Batman and Spiderman up since the majority of you said to keep them open cause they may get busy.

However, if you people do not post in em.....I'm gonna do 2 options in the very near future:

A. beat you over the head with sticks at the fact that you dont post in forums you want to keep.

B. merge those forums too..

[Kaeos]

So...no Marvel / DC / Indy huh?

where's the popcorn?

[DarkJedi]

Kaeos, let me know more about this splitting off ideas of yours. Are you meaning in idea form to split the Comic Book forum up into 3 seperate forums?

[Kaeos]

Well, no not necessarily the comic book forum, I don't really post much there so I wouldn't venture any change there. That's Sky's territory.

I had just suggested that perhaps the whole Superhero Franchises forum could be arranged according to "franchise" - a la- Marvel Movies / DC Movies / Indy Stuff.

DaForce had chimed in at one point that he thought that may be a valid idea as well. It would seem more like a road map to drive posters and lurkers alike to what they are looking for and thosse with no idea what the difference is betwen the 3 will get some edumaction.


It's not a request or complaint, just and observation and suggestion.:D

[DarkJedi]

I hear you on it, Kaeos and I think it's a superb idea if we get enough posters in there who love posting about the individual comic franchises.

For now, I'm going to leave it because I've been asked to get rid of certain forums which are non-used and get no traffic.

When our traffic boosts up in that particular subject, I will go with your ideas on splitting that forum as three categories.

[Kaeos]

You da man homey. :D

[DarkJedi]

lol

Thank you.