Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Hey, maybe this has been suggested in the past and maybe it would just to be to hard to code, but I was wondering if their was a way to have gender specific message boards. I'm thinking a message board for just guys to talk about issues such as dating and such would be really good. Yes, we have no way to varify the gender of a specific user, so you may have users who put down the wrong gender just to read the other message board, but I think for the most part, people are honest on here. What do people think of this suggestion?
Probably not bad. After all, that is how it is in real life. Sometimes it is good to talk about issues with people from the same gender.
That's a fucking stupid idea. Why not have tall people only message boards to so they can talk about how to oppress the migits?
i like the idea, but you basically said the problem. people'll change their gender just to see the other board. How do we verify that one?
Unless you force each user to fill out a gender form and lock it from being changed, then this is technicly not feasible. Jared I also agree with you, and if you want all female and/or male avenues, there are other places to go.
password the board.
if you're not that gender, you can't get in.
and yes, roman battle mask. i don't see the point really
I think there are topics for gays and straights in the "let's talk" board, and I guess they work on the honor system. If you want to post something for just one gender, simply specify that fact in your initial post. You can't stop the rest of us from reading it, but at least you've tried.
Thanks.
Bob
God forgive me, for I'm about to sin, and agree with Jared. lol
this is a fucking stupid idea. why is it in a world where we long to be accepted as a part of society, that we then get people suggesting some form of separation. If you want to talk with other guys only, then pqn them, that's what the feature is there for.
next, they'll be wanting a board for people of different races, and ethnic backgrounds...*sighs*
i wouldn't go as far as to say it was fucking stupid. i think sometimes it is good for guys to talk to other guys and for us girls to have our girly talks and maybe a bitch. however, it is impractical. as it has already been said, if we start separating the genders, then we will need other separate boards for lesbians, gay men and bisexual people. then we will have to have one board for each race, nationality and religion. where does it stop!
And don't forget a special board for the employed vs. unemployed, midgets vs. tall people, people who hate Mondays vs. people who love Mondays...etc.
I agree with the general consensus on this topic. Impractical and unnecessary.
There's people who love mondays?
Yeah. I'm sure it's a nice idea, but it just seems.... pointless. If you must exclude people from the conversation, well, there's private QN's and anonamous grafiti boards and you all have IM anyway. And if you're clever about the board topic, you could get a pretty decent gender barrier right there. EG, if you called your thread, Girls Only, Pillow-fights and underwear, you might have some interlopers. On the other hand, call it Tampons and PMS ventage, and you're probably quite safe. /end stupid generalisation
Erin, that's not true, I'm sure there was a board way back about periods or some such, and I ended up posting more frequently than the female who created the topic. lol
Erin, it's a funny but very true generalization without people like Kev who just have to contribute to such topics, Lol hahaha
To those who said this was a "fucking stupid idea," take it easy. Isn't the Zone, and this board in particular, a place where we can post ideas and discuss them? I'd hope we could do so without jumping down posters' throats.
I don't think this is a stupid idea, but I do think it's impractical and unwise for a site like the Zone. As others have said, it could lead to all kinds of unnecessary division. I do agree that guys need other guys to talk to, and girls need other girls. However, find a friend on here, and discuss it privately. Set up your own all guy or all-girl pow-wow off the site.
Kev, I remember that topic by sexygurl86. It was hillarious the way you kept it going for weeks, maybe longer.
I forgot to say this earlier; if you want gender specific discussions, why not start a skype or phone conference with other people of your gender on the zone. Or go on vt and enter a room that no one else is currently using and ask those you want to talk to to join you. I really don't like the idea of boards just for one gender or the other.
yeh, even have a gender ventrilo chat room though of course that's a stupid idea as anyone can go in. unless, as someone suggested for a gender-specific board, it's password protected, Lol now, that would be interesting. girls get a password thrown at them when they join the site, and guys, the same, Lol hahaha