Misunderstanding of "Popular Threads"-forum?

[Radiant]

Isn't the point of having both OYS and RAT that one is for members seeking a team, and the other is form teams seeking members? Supply and demand, basically.

[RickJ]

It was moved, I'd imagine, on the back of the discussion about cleaning up RaT. Having both seemed a bit redundant, so one had to go - and instead of deleting it entirely and losing all the active offers, it was moved somewhere it would still be visible, but not visible enough to compete with RaT. That's my interpretation, anyway. The tone of the discussion (when I read it, at least) sounded like RaT should be the one to 'go', but what the heck.

I don't know that I stayed with that discussion to it's conclusion or if I am thinking about another related one;  but what I remember is that we were talking about having a proper want ads kind of thing rather than forum threads.  The idea was that old ads would be automatically deleted after some period of time. 

I'd say just perodically start new OYS and RAT threads and lock the old ones.  IMHO that's all thats needed to keep them a bit more tidy.  A clever PHP person could probably even automate the process.

Radiant is right that they are complimentary to each other.   

[Stupot]

I think the Popular forum is a good idea... imagine if none of those threads had been moved there.  The general and other fourms would be cluttered with with all of everybody's favourite polls and topics and new topics would sinks straight onto page 2 with barely 20 views.  Best to stick all the popular ones in their own room and give new ones a chance to grow and shine and eventually become captain of the football team.