Forum Structure for Next Olympics?

[powderjunkie]

I'm probably in the minority, but i watch pretty much everything on replay, so wading into the forums is a spoiler risk. And posting about less prominent events seems pointless as it gets lost in the wash pretty quickly.

So what if we had an ongoing thread for each grouping of events:

Curling
Short Track
Long Track
Ski Racing (Alpine + Ski Cross)
Freestyle Skiing (new school + moguls + aerials)
Snowboarding (freestyle and racing)
Figure Skating
Sliding
Nordic Stuff (biathlon + XC + Jumping + SkiMo)
Women's Hockey General
Men's Hockey General (will get duplicated in main forum and that's fine)


But I'd hate to lose CofR's amazing summaries if he's still willing to do them, so maybe they could continue as more of a GDT lead up thread that tries to stay spoiler free? It would be a good way to point out events that are worth a watch without giving away the results.

[McG]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

I'm probably in the minority, but i watch pretty much everything on replay, so wading into the forums is a spoiler risk. And posting about less prominent events seems pointless as it gets lost in the wash pretty quickly.

So what if we had an ongoing thread for each grouping of events:

Curling
Short Track
Long Track
Ski Racing (Alpine + Ski Cross)
Freestyle Skiing (new school + moguls + aerials)
Snowboarding (freestyle and racing)
Figure Skating
Sliding
Nordic Stuff (biathlon + XC + Jumping + SkiMo)
Women's Hockey General
Men's Hockey General (will get duplicated in main forum and that's fine)


But I'd hate to lose CofR's amazing summaries if he's still willing to do them, so maybe they could continue as more of a GDT lead up thread that tries to stay spoiler free? It would be a good way to point out events that are worth a watch without giving away the results.

We’ve got 4 years of planning!

What about the summer Olympics in 2 years?

[CofR]

I like the idea of sport specific threads for sure, maybe designated threads for bigger high profile games and events? I think it would definitely be easy to do for Winter Games but there's just so many more sports and events in the summer that it could get tough, it could definitely still be done though.

Keeping a spoiler free place available to communicate is a good idea!

[Arsenal14]

I enjoy the current daily threads as I often find out about some event that wasn't on my radar at all that has a Canadian doing something interesting. I do understand the spoiler concerns though.

[Lubicon]

Have all the threads hosted solely in the Olympic forum. I didn't like having the hockey thread (s) over in the FOI section.

[Bill Bumface]

I think this forum should be a sibling of the "other sports" forum, inside the "Main Forums" section. I can never find this bloody thing and forget that it's here.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Have all the threads hosted solely in the Olympic forum. I didn't like having the hockey thread (s) over in the FOI section.

I enjoyed not having the typical negativity game threads devolve into in the Olympic section.

It would be good to have this sub forum under other sports.

Maybe daily schedules thread separate from daily discussion, so people could make use CofR fabulous event schedule and not see spoilers. Like post it twice. A schedule only and then daily schedule plus discussion threads

Was fun, as always. There is no need for AI when we have CofR