Is the Forum Dead?

mayor_bombolini
June 11, 2008, 08:55 PM posted in General Discussion

Seems pretty sleepy over there.  Looks like it was a great resource at one time.  Lot's of good info and advice. 

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henning
June 12, 2008, 04:28 AM

It was the vortex of the Community. Now it fell asleep as everybody gathers here. There is just no way to follow more than one or two CPod community channels. I recently weeded out about 30 spam entries so it doesn't look all too worn off.

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duesseldorfer
June 12, 2008, 06:47 PM

It's a pity that the CP forum is so "asleep". It has much better forum features.

The forum system here is not very powerful: e.g. no possibility to see the new posts since the last visit, no search, etc.

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light487
June 12, 2008, 08:22 PM

I still login 5 or 6 times a day to the forums and help Bazz with the admin side of things. I answer questions every now and then when I am capable of it. You're right that it is currently being underutilised though.

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duesseldorfer
June 13, 2008, 06:47 AM

light487:

thanks for your efforts.

Lets hope that more users will participate:

http://forum.chinesepod.com/

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changye
June 13, 2008, 08:14 AM

I wonder how many of Cp poddies know where the link to the forum is. It is, to say the least, not so noticeable.

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mayor_bombolini
June 14, 2008, 12:34 AM

Seems like CPOD has no guidelines on what goes on a lesson comment.   Some of the commentary would fit better in a forum.


I'd vote for keeping the lesson comments on the lesson topic and directly related material.


If there's a separate idea, it might be time for a new thread?

Then again, do what you want to do, you will anyway...in fact, I think I'll go blog something over on the Tiananmen lesson.