Originally posted by: Bhaskar.T
Come on.... lets get positive. Make constructive posts. Give ideas regarding how to make te section active....... but yes in the boundaries of RULES OF India Forums..... they are not our own rules mind you...
Since you bring up rules... May I point out that no where in the rules does it say that we must solely discuss the show in every section. The rules clearly state that we are to avoid using harassing language that offends or attacks members. The rules do not state that we can't express our opinions and have them please all. The rules do not state that we can't have threads where fans of a particular person may not discuss anything concerning the person. The rules do not state that we can't "chat" in individual sections. They merely state that we cannot spam in any section - and the definition spamming is clearly laid out in the rules.
The very things that made this section a fun place to come to have been passed on to a different section. A bit of "outsourcing" if you will. While it may make things more convenient if fan clubs and chatting are delegated to different areas, they also serve to break up the community that had developed here. We all came to this section because we were interested in SRGMP. This section provided a small community within IF where we were comfortable to talk, chat, discuss, debate, etc.. With the loss of those little things that made this section a convenient place to gather with friends we'd made here, the section has lost a large population of members.
It was easy to find the Vinit or HR or Nihira fan club here. It was easy to locate that particular chat thread here. It was easy to find and get involved in a certain discussion here. But with the scattering of these elements into the "fan club" section and the "chat club" section ... we were opened up to a larger community of people who we didn't necesarily know or have a connection with. It became harder to stay involved in huge fan clubs where every other comment was made by a person we had never heard of. It became hard to chat with people we didn't know yet.
Having read through the past 12 pages, I get the feeling things are going to remain much the same here. Like Surji and Varshadi, I very rarely visit this section. I am having a hard time understanding why it is possible for other sections to maintain chatty threads, have fan clubs and be able to talk about the characters in various serials, but it has been too dificult for the SRGMP section to continue to have that.
I realize most of this message has been more along the lines of "what's wrong" and not "what can be done to make this place fun again" ... but if you have read through carefully, you will realize the solution doesn't lie in creating something new, but retaining the old and bettering it - as I had said in my last post in this thread.