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It is not bashing, it's an observation and suggestion.
These forums are grown big and now have a decent impact on mma, it is the biggest place where mma fans from all over the world discuss the sport. But it has it's flaws, major ones.
For example, Dream's placement at contenders:worldwide mma deprives the growth of interest in it. It does limit and suppress attention to Dream. When a new member open these forums he sees Heavyweights and Conterders, he sees 7,859,006 posts in "hwy" and 976,801 posts in "wwide". Anybody new or semi-new to the stuff will decide to browse the former and many wont ever click on The Contenders link. You can not talk about Fedor or Couture on what has been and still is a Main MMA board (not just a UFC board), think about it. This system helps Zuffa promotions to grow and suppress MMA's growth as a whole right now a little.
Lack of exposure for non-Zuffa promotions prevents new, semi-new people from learning what is going on in MMA world, prevents them from educating themselves and most importantly it prevents them from spreading the word about great fights and great fighters. Majority of people browsing here miss shows like elitexc just because they hear about it first when the event is already over, i've seen such posts and there is nothing good about that.
Something can be done about this. Lazy fixes - overall posts counters can be removed, hwy and contenders words can be removed, the order of appearance of forums can be changed, Worldwide MMA higher, Zuffa lower (or as a subforum), but still many, if not majority of the people will browse the board with 8000000 posts no matter what.
Hiding post counters is nothing good for message boards, they show right away how popular this place is. But something can be done about this, please consider re-evaluation of the system.
The suggestion is: make this place fighters centric in a way of renaming "Heavyweights" to the "main MMA board"__"Discuss all the UFC, WEC, DREAM, Affliction, EliteXC and free agent fighters" with a subforum for each well known promotion accessible via PPV or TV with UFC and WEC on top, that are easily seen and accessed from the very Index page (just like you see the TUF subforum right away), post-counts are there, all the fighters are there, no fighter talk is banned/sent to a "wasteland#2 - contenders" and the stickies on the main board informing in the title if the certain PPV/TV event is near would be a perfect addition. I understand, that moderators can't imply changes like that, but you can address it to the man who can do it. Thank you if you read this.
These forums are grown big and now have a decent impact on mma, it is the biggest place where mma fans from all over the world discuss the sport. But it has it's flaws, major ones.
For example, Dream's placement at contenders:worldwide mma deprives the growth of interest in it. It does limit and suppress attention to Dream. When a new member open these forums he sees Heavyweights and Conterders, he sees 7,859,006 posts in "hwy" and 976,801 posts in "wwide". Anybody new or semi-new to the stuff will decide to browse the former and many wont ever click on The Contenders link. You can not talk about Fedor or Couture on what has been and still is a Main MMA board (not just a UFC board), think about it. This system helps Zuffa promotions to grow and suppress MMA's growth as a whole right now a little.
Lack of exposure for non-Zuffa promotions prevents new, semi-new people from learning what is going on in MMA world, prevents them from educating themselves and most importantly it prevents them from spreading the word about great fights and great fighters. Majority of people browsing here miss shows like elitexc just because they hear about it first when the event is already over, i've seen such posts and there is nothing good about that.
Something can be done about this. Lazy fixes - overall posts counters can be removed, hwy and contenders words can be removed, the order of appearance of forums can be changed, Worldwide MMA higher, Zuffa lower (or as a subforum), but still many, if not majority of the people will browse the board with 8000000 posts no matter what.
Hiding post counters is nothing good for message boards, they show right away how popular this place is. But something can be done about this, please consider re-evaluation of the system.
The suggestion is: make this place fighters centric in a way of renaming "Heavyweights" to the "main MMA board"__"Discuss all the UFC, WEC, DREAM, Affliction, EliteXC and free agent fighters" with a subforum for each well known promotion accessible via PPV or TV with UFC and WEC on top, that are easily seen and accessed from the very Index page (just like you see the TUF subforum right away), post-counts are there, all the fighters are there, no fighter talk is banned/sent to a "wasteland#2 - contenders" and the stickies on the main board informing in the title if the certain PPV/TV event is near would be a perfect addition. I understand, that moderators can't imply changes like that, but you can address it to the man who can do it. Thank you if you read this.
