Proposal for the new section: Best of/Quick Backgrounders... please read, need feedback!

[MikeWB]

Hi guys,

The most popular page on our site, Brandon's 9/11 "All the proof in the world", is now up to incredible 68,000+ views! This is, by far, the most popular thread we have.

I think we need more of those.

We already have a bunch of short "Who runs..." pages. These cut to the point and tell people who's behind it.. who's behind SPLC, Goldman, CFR,..., what their agenda is and what they're about. Page about Alex Jones and his past are of this type and also popular.

But the issue is that those pages are all over the site and they're buried deep in the sea of threads and no one sees them! New users are the ones who should see them, quickly read them and get to the similar level of knowledge that we have.

These types of pages need to be highlighted in a separate section. Therefore, I propose we create a new section that will only have the links to these pages. These pages need to be quickly accessible to all. One solution is to pin those threads but then the forum would have too many pinned threads. A separate section is a much better solution.

New section will only have "THE BEST of the BEST" in it and have the most important threads in it. From what we've seen so far, people prefer SHORT explanations of issues that bring them up to speed as to what's going on and points them in a direction where they can find more. The key is to have SHORT essays that SUMMARIZE the issues. Brandon's 9/11 page is en example of that (but it's long because the issue is super-important and the number of culprits and issues is huge).

By looking at TiU, we have way, way too many threads on a single issue. The way we all work right now, when we find a new news story, we make a new thread for it. That sucks because it splits the discussion into too many threads and you can't easily find the info (we have an issue with search because index is so big due to a ton of threads that we have). This is the reason why so many of our threads can't break 50 views... they just float off the 1st page too quickly and the discussion ends. A better way would be to have a single thread for a new event that breaks. For example, look at how many "Poland airplane crash" threads we have... those should be in a single thread so you can see all the issues.

Going forward, I think we'd be more effective if:

1) we tried to combine multiple threads about the same issue into a single thread.
2) created short posts that are quotes from few stories about the issue so they SUMMARIZE the issue for people who are new to the issue. No one wants to read a 15 page thread full of 2000+ word articles just so they understand the issue... posting these huge articles without a short explanation somewhere is just  a giant waste of our time.
3) have a separate section that highlights those "explainer" threads.

Thoughts?

[MonkeySeeMonkeyDo]

yea good idea. What i generally like to do to make things more interesting is add many pictures to my articles to entertain people a little bit and it makes it more fun to read.

[MikeWB]

yea good idea. What i generally like to do to make things more interesting is add many pictures to my articles to entertain people a little bit and it makes it more fun to read.

Completely agree! That ALL THE PROOF page wouldn't be even half as effective if it were all text. Pictures and videos add so much more to it. Pics + YT vids complement issues and make them a lot more accessible to a lot of people.

[Whaler]

Mike, great idea. I think it should be implemented immediately.  

I agree,

This material should be easily read and understood by a 10th grader. pictures, videos, audio(with embedded player if available), colors and big bold headlines are essential.

It really needs to be dumbed down and presented as if we are showing a power point presentation to children and elderly people. We need to wake up the 'folks'. Should be like we have 3 hours to wake people up and this section is the only information you can present to people.