I hope subforums for singular lolcows aren't going to be a thing of the past - Because I just find it funny.

[Kulee Baba]

Not criticizing Null for simplifying the forum, it makes sense to reduce bloat. And when a Great Lolcow does taper off well it warrants them not having a subforum. With that said I just think it's so amusing to see the front of Kiwifarms and that a lolcow has merited so much discussion that they've warranted their own Subforum. If I were a Lolcow I would take that as a badge of honor. It's like in the Mortal Kombat games how you have "Elder Gods" and characters can rank up to Elder God, these are Elder Cows.

And now we only have 3 Elder Cows; Chris Chan, Darksyde Phil, and Ethan Ralph. For certain Chris Chan must always have a subforum, the other two could be dropped when the time comes. I just hope this recent merging isn't a sign that Null wants to stay away from singular focused subforums.

Prior Elder Cows like Tommy Tooter, Nick Fuentes, Brianna Wu, Jonathan Yaniv. These rapscallions have a special place in the forums lore and the internet at large. And because they were given such special designation I'm certain every user on this site knows of them. The same cannot be said for hundreds of lolcows on this forum. So I'm just saying if there's a lolcow who is producing an insane amount of content then they warrant their own forum. Even if it's only up for a few months they've earned it by being so fascinating to witness.

EDIT: For the retired boards you can find them archived in the Spergatory. IMO that's a board that's very easy to ignore. https://kiwifarms.st/forums/spergatory.9/

 

[glow]

BossmanJack grows more and more powerful with each passing day - insha'allah, he shall achieve critical mass and have his own board next year.

 

[Null]

Boards have fallen out of favor with me for a few reasons.

1) People like having one thread to check. It simplifies things.
2) Very few people remain consistent for years while retaining the same userbase.
3) Shuttering a dead board is weird because it's sort of like, what do you do with the content? There's no good answers.

Ralph is really the best example of a person board because he has his own ambient space where other people are at and there's frequent crossover between them.

 

[R00T]

Most cows don’t have the prolific nature those people do, and the standard for what is a cow has changed. Tooter being the example. Yes he’s a major cow, but I’m the modern age does he have the draw to deserve a subforum? His streams drew what? Less than 50 people? A lot of the people who followed him with dedication no longer post. It just doesn’t make sense to keep them front and center. Chantal never had a subforum and she potentially quadruples the content Tooter put out in a month in a week. Maybe when the forum was smaller it makes sense but nowadays it’s not as sensible.

The other hand… stuff like DSP has so much other stuff going on: the detractors, the bankruptcy, the wife, losing a tire… if you were to keep it to one thread it would be so bloated and incomprehensible when attempting to follow.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

1) People like having one thread to check. It simplifies things.

I dunno. Sometimes threads move so fast it is virtually impossible to keep up; IIRC the Byuu thread was like that for a while. It seemed like every post I made was buried under the dreaded alarm clock. In those cases where the autistic spergery persists for days or even weeks, IMO a whole sub-forum seems reasonable.

 

[Ken Barlow]

DSP has so much other stuff going on: the detractors, the bankruptcy, the wife, losing a tire

Yeah. No.

 

[Blaster]

I dunno. Sometimes threads move so fast it is virtually impossible to keep up

1) People like having one thread to check. It simplifies things.

I've always felt that there needs to be a way to summarize the events of a thread in a way that's even broader than than the highlights.
i.e. thread story arcs and subplots.
Some way to organize a coherent timeline of events relating to a person that would allow you to get up to speed on who a person is, and what they've done in a relatively short amount of time. More detail than the thread OP, but less detail than reading each individual highlight.
It could also make it easier to scan back through a thread for information or improve forum search.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Most cows don’t have the prolific nature those people do, and the standard for what is a cow has changed. Tooter being the example. Yes he’s a major cow, but I’m the modern age does he have the draw to deserve a subforum? His streams drew what? Less than 50 people? A lot of the people who followed him with dedication no longer post. It just doesn’t make sense to keep them front and center. Chantal never had a subforum and she potentially quadruples the content Tooter put out in a month in a week. Maybe when the forum was smaller it makes sense but nowadays it’s not as sensible.

The other hand… stuff like DSP has so much other stuff going on: the detractors, the bankruptcy, the wife, losing a tire… if you were to keep it to one thread it would be so bloated and incomprehensible when attempting to follow.

In my view it's less the amount of content the cow milks out (fatrick being an eternal fountain of milk) but how the users interact. There's no group of cow watchers that only want to read about fatricks pepperoni, so there's no real need for a separate thread; and since no separate thread, no separate forum.

Ethan is perhaps the most perfect example of this - as certain of his interactions are amusing to different subsets (I frequented a few of the threads, ignored others).

I wonder if the admins can "force highlight" a post, because if they could (and even if they can't/don't) an enterprising forum reporter can simply post "state of the cow" posts every month or so as summaries (which is what the MATI thread, and the community happenigs thread, kind of becomes).

 

[shinto minto]

Isn't that what lolcow.wiki was about? Giving more factual overviews on cows, separate from the spergs in the threads.

I wonder if the admins can "force highlight" a post, because if they could (and even if they can't/don't) an enterprising forum reporter can simply post "state of the cow" posts every month or so as summaries (which is what the MATI thread, and the community happenigs thread, kind of becomes).

I also like this idea. Something like a mini community-happenings.

 

[Johnny Salami]

ngl if I was a lolcow and went from a thread to a subforum (even if it was 90% a-logs) I'd probably become Amish