Should we have a Stringing Forum?

ok. i have created the "stringing techiques" forum.

still not sure where is the dividing line between that and equipment forum.

a lot of thread talks about 1-2 more lbs on the cross string, is that stringing techinques or just equipment/performance related?
 
kwun said:
ok. i have created the "stringing techiques" forum.

still not sure where is the dividing line between that and equipment forum.

a lot of thread talks about 1-2 more lbs on the cross string, is that stringing techinques or just equipment/performance related?
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Thankyou.
I'm happy to help moving the threads if you want.


if it is "should I string the crosses at 2lb more than mains"
it is stringing

if it is "how does the racquet perform with strings at that tension"
it is equip[ment

if in doubt, either
stick em in stringing and we'll sort it out later
or
post a list of the thread numbers and we'll have a look
 
Neil Nicholls said:
if it is "should I string the crosses at 2lb more than mains"
it is stringing

if it is "how does the racquet perform with strings at that tension"
it is equip[ment
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what if it is :

"will the racket perform better if i string 2lbs more in the cross?"

;)
 
kwun said:
what if it is :

"will the racket perform better if i string 2lbs more in the cross?"

;)
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Can we not put that one in the "try it and see" forum?

Can I start a campaign for a try it and see forum :p
 
Dill said:
Can we not put that one in the "try it and see" forum?

Can I start a campaign for a try it and see forum :p
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i will make you the moderator for that one, and i will see your blood vessel burst one by one.... ;)
 
I say we shove everything and anything to do with strings, tension, etc. into the new stringing forum. All the rest of the equipment can remain in Equipment. That way it will offload and isolate a lot of confusion into one place haha. Eventually the stringing forum will have a bunch of stickies for common questions involving tension and stringing too.
 
timeless said:
I say we shove everything and anything to do with strings, tension, etc. into the new stringing forum.
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Nooooooooo.....

I didn't want stuff like "is BG-65Ti better than BG-65" in there
 
timeless said:
I say we shove everything and anything to do with strings, tension, etc. into the new stringing forum. All the rest of the equipment can remain in Equipment. That way it will offload and isolate a lot of confusion into one place haha. Eventually the stringing forum will have a bunch of stickies for common questions involving tension and stringing too.
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there is too much overlap between string and racket. it will be hard to set the division. i have spent enough thoughts trying to figure out the string / stringing division.

i was actually considering spliting up the Equpment forum into small ones. but after a lot thoughts, i just cannot figure out a way to split it. two that are potential are:

split by type of equipment:

- Clothing Forum
- Racket/String/Grip
- General Equipment

split by question type:

- Equipment recommendation
- General Equipment

neither of which are very good division.
 
To someone who doesn't know, who better to ask than a stringer? You can't just take the good and without the bad. As enticing as it may seem, it's not fair to the Equipment forum to leave whatever crap you don't want to deal with in there hahaha :p.

Eventually I would think a sticky outlining the characteristics of the popular strings would be in order as well. Their strengths and weaknesses etc. so that people can clearly see for themselves which is "better" without asking about it.
 
timeless said:
To someone who doesn't know, who better to ask than a stringer? You can't just take the good and without the bad. As enticing as it may seem, it's not fair to the Equipment forum to leave whatever crap you don't want to deal with in there hahaha :p.

Eventually I would think a sticky outlining the characteristics of the popular strings would be in order as well. Their strengths and weaknesses etc. so that people can clearly see for themselves which is "better" without asking about it.
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i agree with both. i think stringers among us should also frequent the Equipment Forum and answer string related questions in there as well.

as for the string characteristic, what we need to do is to create a badminton knowledge base for all badminton topics. we have tons of expertise here in BC and we can do a lot to benefit others. the string characteristics and even stringing techniques knowledge should be covered.
 
I think the boundaries between stringing and strings, racquets, and grips are quite clear. The only problems being if someone were to ask something like, "Which strings would go best for this racquet?"

I suggests FAQs in each forum outlining the common questions etc. and a notice at the top of each forum stating that all readers must read it because any posts containing questions already covered in the FAQ will be ignored and deleted. That's what all the major hardware/software forums these days do. There's just no way around it, otherwise you'll be holding the hands of every other new user.

Kwun, I was actually thinking an expansion of the Equipment forum would be nice too but didn't want to push it since I thought there seemed to be so much resistance already regarding a new stringing forum. However, since you brought it up how about:

Equipment:
- Raquets & Grips
- Strings & Stringing
- All Others (Clothes, Shoes, etc.)

That should keep it relatively simple until further need for expansion arises. I'm guessing the average amount of threads and activity in each forum would be about even in the above arrangement. Just my opinion of course, I'm sure you have a better idea of which topics get the most hits on.
 
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You posted before I finished my own! But yes an online encarta-like knowledge base would be the optimal solution. Then the forums will hopefully be left to new discussions. Might get kinda slow in the forums after awhile tho! :p
 
timeless said:
You posted before I finished my own! But yes an online encarta-like knowledge base would be the optimal solution. Then the forums will hopefully be left to new discussions. Might get kinda slow in the forums after awhile tho! :p
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hopefully the knowledge base will not stifle any discussions but instead provides a higher level/standard of basic knowledge and thus stimulates even more thoughtful discussions in the forum.

the difficulty is that assembling such a knowledge base isn't going to be a simple task. we need the input and contribution from the community of BC experts, and organize the knowledge in such a way that is accessible. the idea i have is to set up a Wiki site for badminton. a wiki is a software that allows each member edit pages of a website and adds/modifies entries to the knowledge base as they deem appropriate. it works for a larger base of contributors like the website www.wikipedia.org and i am trying to learn to use the software and see how much is needed to adapt it to BadmintonCentral.

if it is successful though, it will be a huge contribution to the badminton community in general.
 
sorry that i gave the impression i don't want to create forums.

the main criteria i have always used when deciding on a new forum is whether the new forum justifies enough traffic. the reason i uses this criteria is that we don't want to end up with a forum that only have a post every few days.

the Equipment Forum certainly do have enough traffic as it is the most active forum and what we need is to come up with a good division.
 
timeless said:
The only problems being if someone were to ask something like, "Which strings would go best for this racquet?"
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That too would go in the "try it and see" forum :p

I like this Kwun, oooooohh the power :D
 
I like the new "sub-forum" outlook very much. Must have been a lot of hard work to pull the thread together. Thank you.

Can we try on having equipment for more sub forum like
1 Rackets
2 Strings
3 Shoes
4 Others

I think the readability will be much higher, especially for newbies who might not be very familiar with the search.
 
redkingjoe said:
I like the new "sub-forum" outlook very much. Must have been a lot of hard work to pull the thread together. Thank you.

Can we try on having equipment for more sub forum like
1 Rackets
2 Strings
3 Shoes
4 Others

I think the readability will be much higher, especially for newbies who might not be very familiar with the search.
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Then I don't know where the thread should belong to if there is a thread like:
"What string should I use with my MP100?", or
"What racket perform the best with BG65?":rolleyes:

I still think keeping everything in the equipment forum is the best way :)
 
i somewhat agree with bluejeff, strings and rackets are too tightly related (no pun intended... :p) , it will be hard to split them.

but i believe clothing isn't tightly coupled to anything else so i have splitted the clothing thread into their own forum. and then i re-organized the front page a little bit so equipment now gets its own section in the front page.

furthermore, i have grouped the "professsional forum" along with JR/TL's forums.

as a result, we have these major sections with sub forums:

* professional
* tournament
* general/techniques/places to play (ie. things to do with "playing")
* equipment (including marketplace)
* lounge (intro/chit-chat)

i think this division is more clean than before.
 
shoes sub forum

Kwun,
Could you please give shoes a sub-forum too? Shoes, in my humble opinion, is too important in sports. I've personally seen many a person got permanent damage due to inappropiate shoes.

Thank you so much for turning your passion into hardwork to cherish this Forum for the good of the Badder

red
 
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