Ten Years of TV Forum (and how to fix it)

Ant · Mon 28 Mar, 2011 19.35

Even ensuring the subtitle on the generic threads are updated regularly. I've just changed the N24's presentation thread to something a bit more on-topic.

Alexia · Mon 28 Mar, 2011 19.37

I THINK THE BBC WAS STUPID TO BUILD ITS MAIN NEWS CENTRE RIGHT NEXT TO A BUSY ROAD. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN TO SUCH A HIGH PROFILE NEWS ORGANISATION. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO HATE NEWS ORGANISATIONS AND I THINK THE BBC SHOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER MOVING TO A MORE SECURE LOCATION. PERHAPS MOVE WHERE THE NEWS OUTPUT COMES FROM THE CENTRE OF THE BUILDING WHERE IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO TARGET.

Not from this week, this month, this year or even this decade. This was one of the first ever messages posted on TVF.

Bail · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 10.03

WHO WROTE THAT?!?!?!11ONE

Pete · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 12.49

Bail wrote:WHO WROTE THAT?!?!?!11ONE

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/z/14/messages/14.shtml

Someone called "TV MAD" apparently.

Ebeneezer Scrooge wrote:Do you not think that massive generic threads (even regional ones) fuel the rota talk? As I see it, there isn't a massive requirement for ongoing discussion about local news - it's not a story that develops in any way, so people start to talk about who is presenting to keep the thread going... which snowballs into the kind of threads I used to be interested in!

Yeah probably, plus I think it is rather annoying given that regional news often try some of the more daring (and thus unintentionally hilarious and shoddy) set designs and graphic ideas but we never get to see them as they're buried in a mount of drivel about which two of the four possible presenters is presenting tonight.

Pete · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 14.06

richard h wrote:Afternoon live today with Stephen Dixon at the Sky News centre and Andrew Wilson in Ajdabiya

thrilling.

Really should investigate that wiki idea. Or perhaps a custom google calendar?

Gavin Scott · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 14.50

I'm champing at the bit to write, "SO WHAT?"

Seriously - this couldn't have been anyone's idea of a forum 10 years ago. I was SO excited when TVF started, and its been with me though several jobs and a lot of life changes.

But this isn't how it was supposed to be. Its morphed into banality beyond what anyone could have spoofed.

Terrible. Just terrible.

Pete · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 15.19

Gavin Scott wrote:I'm champing at the bit to write, "SO WHAT?"

Oh me too, obv had to stop myself lest I get in trouble *again* despite the fact last time I was actually asking a genuine question, didn't realise I was going to generate several similar replies. urgh.

Gavin Scott · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 15.21

I have replied on topic.

Pete · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 15.49

Gavin Scott wrote:I have replied on topic.

What I don't get is why they use a forum when it is so inefficient. Surely a google docs version of

http://up.metropol247.co.uk/Pete/rota-example.xlsx

with the shifts changed to 24 hours and columns for where the reporters were etc would be more suited for them to indulge their tiresome and creepy hobby

Nick Harvey · Tue 29 Mar, 2011 17.23

Pete wrote:http://www.tvforum.co.uk/z/14/messages/14.shtml

It's the next post down, the one from Mich, which is somewhat prophetic.

Pete · Sun 03 Apr, 2011 20.21

dosxuk wrote: - Run a monthly challenge in The Gallery - it only needs a theme set by the admin team, and while we would end up with lots of similar mocks each month, it might provide some variation from the normal BBC News / Daybreak mocks that inhabit the place, and also allow those who are good to shine, while showing those who are crap what they need to do to improve. Winners (based on ratings at the end of the month) get a badge to display in their profile, and a title underneath their name on their posts.

Well this seems to be working rather well. I'm not used to seeing so many nice designs down there and all with thumbnails too

And thursdayiamafool is on a final warning ban. Which is nice.

Obviously, as thread starter, I shall take all the credit. Please shower me with praise.