Off-Topic Topics (whistles, Morris, Contra, Etc.)

[JimLucas]

Our main reason for being on concertina.net is presumably concertinas, but most of us have other interests, and we like to discuss them here, with our squeezer friends. Sometimes (whistles, e.g.) they start as explicit Topics ; other times (contra dance, or berks/birks, e.g.) they descend from quite different original topics.

 

I think it would be nice to have a Forum where such things could be expected. And for myself, if such a discussion went beyond a few posts under one of the concertina topics, I would start a new Topic in this new Forum (if it existed), posting a "final" message under the old Topic to suggest that others follow me.

 

Of course, even without a new Forum, that can be a good thing to do, to reduce the intermingling of multiple conversations in the sequence of posts under any one Topic.

[David Barnert]

I don't see why not. I voted "yes" not because I feel a need for one, but because if there were such a forum, anyone could opt not to read it. Unless the presence of such a forum seriously hogged resources needed for concertina discussions, I don't see a down side (and if that *did* happen, it would be clear that it was needed).

[Samantha]

I teetered between "No" and "Why just one". Eventually I decided on "No" because I enjoy the rambling and slightly random nature of all the posts being jumbled up. I could have voted "Why just one" as if you're going to go for it, then you might as well have several new fora (?). But then again, the way I use this site it matters not to me whether things are posted in separate forums or not - and if it helps other people then I don't mind. So deduct my "No" vote and make it a "why just one"!!

Samantha

[gwhlevy]

I voted "no". I think it should be under "Links" on the Concertina.net page as another forum.