Why no OT section?

[Coola Yagami]

Why not delete them and start all over? I assume in a month the OT section and General Discussion section will be back to having 10 pages of topics. They're still pretty popular topics.

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Why not delete them and start all over? I assume in a month the OT section and General Discussion section will be back to having 10 pages of topics. They're still pretty popular topics.

LOL, it could be that simple. But there's a lot of information already in the threads that has been very difficult to find outside of these forums (which is one primary reason why I registered on the forums), good contributory posts from inactive members, intriguing perspectives/opinions of the characters, plot, etc, and exclusive OT or general TMNT information that may have been already deleted/lost from other websites.

One example is an extensive internet search I went through in finding out if the OT had a future after the series ended. Just compiling this information was somewhat tedious, and I'm sure my single post is just the tip of the iceberg in comparison to the vast contributions from the longer residing users of these forums.

So deleting it all would be too drastic, it would be like throwing away a tremendous clutter pile of your things without even looking at it. Of course there are some ridiculous items (closed/lock threads) and mundane items (simple polls on what series was better), but also inadvertently the valuable things (as I mentioned earlier) would get tossed out as well, and could be lost forever. So the "pile" just sits there unless someone is ready to dive into the pile and starts separating...

[Coola Yagami]

Give everyone a month to save their favorite/most important/obscure OT info on their wordpad or whatever before the deletion process begins.

Really, who even looks at page 10 or even page 5 of message board topics anymore? Shredder or Krang could delete the last 20 pages-worth and noone would ever know.

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Give everyone a month to save their favorite/most important/obscure OT info on their wordpad or whatever before the deletion process begins.

Really, who even looks at page 10 or even page 5 of message board topics anymore? Shredder or Krang could delete the last 20 pages-worth and noone would ever know.

**shrug** I guess...

I wouldn't say "look back" through, but the users definitely search through the topics. Eh...whatever **shrug**

[funatic]

That's true, it likely would be a large undertaking to separate the years of threads from one another, but I don't think it would be a crucial measure to take. If an OT specific thread was started, after a couple months old OT threads in the General section would be a few pages back and eventually die off, and the ones popular enough to keep getting posts (and the stickied threads) should be easy enough to transfer to a new OT thread, right? Plus if someone wanted to search for an old OT thread but didn't know which section to look in, they could just use the "search" feature, as it accesses all threads. I don't think deletion would be necessary at all - preserve the archives! Any mods want to weigh in?

[Jester]

Maybe a tag like the B/S/T sub-forums where we can put [Fred Wolf] at the start of a thread or something like that....

[Coola Yagami]

Naw, it's time we had an official OT section done proper. The show more than earned it.

[Powder]

There's no need for it.

[Aaronardo]

Okay, to sum this up once and for all, take a look at what it says under "General TMNT Discussion".

Discuss the classic TMNT TV series and miscellaneous TMNT-related topics here.

Are we done, now?

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by ThatCollectorGuy

Okay, to sum this up once and for all, take a look at what it says under "General TMNT Discussion".



Are we done, now?

Naw. At least visually the OT deserves its own section. I'm kinda surprised it just didn't break out into own separate section when the DVDs started coming out bringing attention to it back. It's just... General Discussion is just that... General Discussion, where you should be able to discuss things that affect or crossover into all of the shows, not just the OT.