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Can we just combine them into a single thread? Otherwise, we'll have about 150 different threads by the time August rolls around that essentially talk about the same thing.

There's another forum I'm on that allows users to create a poll. I'm not sure if that's possible here or not. If so it would be interesting to see a tally of votes on a player rather than reading through pages of commentary. Although that usually is interesting.

BD Sullivan wrote:Can we just combine them into a single thread? Otherwise, we'll have about 150 different threads by the time August rolls around that essentially talk about the same thing.

HOF discussions have always been part of our forums. The difference is that on the old forum we used to have numerous unique thread topics based on our collective research (and people took the time to use the search function -it actually worked on the old forum- and 'bump' old threads back to the first page when there was more relevant info to add) and those were mixed in with the typical football fan discussions, such as "is so and so a HOF'er?" ...

Just looks different now. At least that's part of the reason they stand out.

Not to be disagreeable but I prefer them as individual threads.
If the topic doesn't warrant discussion the thread will drop off the first page soon enough.
And it makes it much easier to find some bit of information you might recall.

And yeah, polls would be so cool here.

How does everyone else feel about this? I don't want there to be a problem on this board with me making different threads for each of these potential HOFers.

We cannot create polls with this software.

I do not have a problem with separate threads for each candidate. I think that it would be too difficult to follow if we had multiple people discussed in the same thread. Just my opinion.

Ken... How about this?... Have a fourth category at the main forum screen called "Historical Player Discussion" or something like that? With each sub-forum within being a different player. It seems like specific player discussion would be easier to find that way.

I generally don't pay much attention to the Canton or Nays and the Who's Better threads so the less of them there are the better.

I'm tired of the media created obsession with the HoF and hearing the much overused term "future hall of famer".

ChrisBabcock wrote:Ken... How about this?... Have a fourth category at the main forum screen called "Historical Player Discussion" or something like that? With each sub-forum within being a different player. It seems like specific player discussion would be easier to find that way.

I probably wouldn't have a fourth category, since discussion of the players is still "Football Talk." However, I might be able to create a sub-forum under "Football Talk" where we would have individual threads for each player. Of course, that is assuming we have enough interest from everyone to do something like that here. Sound like a good compromise?

JohnH19 wrote:I generally don't pay much attention to the Canton or Nays and the Who's Better threads so the less of them there are the better.

I'm tired of the media created obsession with the HoF and hearing the much overused term "future hall of famer".

I am not quite there yet, but I may someday join you in the Hall of Fame Fatigue Club.