The House of Blue

I could see where that might be a bit frustrating in a thread that wasn't already VIP, but that has to be a tiny percentage of the posts here.

We appreciate all our supporters, paying and otherwise. We want it to be a good place for all.

It was a bad move for all members. Throwing all topics into a single board requires users to go through all threads. Whereas, the segregation of boards by topics allowed you to sign on and quickly review a single topic.

No, you are not alone

I enjoyed having the separate boards. I think it will be hard to keep track all of the post when football and basketball season overlap next year.

Nope. I like it much better as well.

can probably still be improved upon, but I thik it's better than before. I do wish there was some way to know there was an all vip thread so I don't waste my time looking at it. It also sucks when there's a title like: " Possible movement from current comitt" when I see title's like this, I'm not sure if I should worry about losing someone, or be happy we might get someone else's comitt. Such is life. You get what you pay for.

I think it will all work out if all of us (myself included) work on better subject titles.

Example:

(BAD) "Whoa, is this guy crazy?"

(GOOD) "Johnny Linebacker says he's dropping UK for ITT Tech."

Little things like that can make it clear what the subjects are.

Our main concern was getting fans centralized and talking all UK sports in one place, and it's been really successful so far. It has exceeded all of our expectations.

For the most part, the feedback has been very positive following the change and I've been very happy with it. Think the quality of the conversation is much, much better now with more folks involved.

You are right... BUT we are a bit restricted by a limited character number. It's a challenge with many stories.

None of those headlines were irrelevant to the stories.

If you don't like them or don't think they're eye-catching enough or think they're corny, whatever. But none of them are irrelevant to the stories, and that's what a headline's job is. I wish we had more leeway in the discrepancy between story headlines and the message board topics that are connected to them, but we don't.

This is quite off-topic, so I won't go any further. I will add that I'm glad many of you enjoy the new format and I hope those of you that don't come around. It's something we as a staff are still very excited about.

That's not how headline writing works for feature stories. For straight news stories, yes, you use a skeleton headline. For other stories, you don't. It gives readers an idea of what to expect. All of the above headlines you mentioned were all feature stories.