Why Is Indy Not a Separate City/Market Forum Topic?

[dfwrunner]

It's way bigger than some of those listed...what's the deal??

 

[Mid West Clubber]

This board if not based on Indy would have little traffic on just an indiana board,, we dont have enough big radio markets worth discussing aside from indy, so this is the default indy board.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

This board if not based on Indy would have little traffic on just an indiana board,, we dont have enough big radio markets worth discussing aside from indy, so this is the default indy board.

That's always been my assessment as well. Indy could stand on it's own, but Indiana would pretty much be a ghost town if they were split.

 

[fybush]

And yet there's both a Providence board and a (ghost town) Rhode Island board. Go figure... :

 

[dfwrunner]

And yet there's both a Providence board and a (ghost town) Rhode Island board. Go figure... :

It should be done regardless of ghosttowning the Indiana board...it makes Indy look bad (small potatoes which isn't the case at all) from outside Indiana (those places where Indiana isn't the center of the universe for example).

 

[justalurker]

The board is not for people outside of Indiana. Posters in Indiana and Indianapolis understand that this is the place to discuss Indy and the great state surrounding it. There is no reason to repeat the errors inflicted on other states.

Indy is in Indiana. One forum is fine.

 

[dfwrunner]

The board is not for people outside of Indiana. Posters in Indiana and Indianapolis understand that this is the place to discuss Indy and the great state surrounding it. There is no reason to repeat the errors inflicted on other states.

Indy is in Indiana. One forum is fine.

Naw, Indiana includes the Louisville market and the Cincinnati market and the Chicago market (and of course Terre Haute, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Columbus, Bloomington, South Bend, Kokomo, etc).. I think not having a better defined regional affiliation discourages site usage. It does for me anyway.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

In the end, we don't decide. That's up to the "Managing Board Editor", who is reluctant to add any new boards.

 

[MightyFrenchman]

This board if not based on Indy would have little traffic on just an indiana board,, we dont have enough big radio markets worth discussing aside from indy, so this is the default indy board.

That's always been my assessment as well. Indy could stand on it's own, but Indiana would pretty much be a ghost town if they were split.

There's a Chicago board and there's an Illinois board. The Illinois board's a ghost town. I say split the Indiana board into one for Indianapolis and one for Indiana. Northwest Indiana is "The Region", a Chicago suburb...people there root for the Chicago Bears, not the Indianapolis Colts. The Chicago Bulls, not the Indiana Pacers. Radio people there kid themselves into thinking they're working in the Chicago market. If the Indiana board ends up being a ghost town, so be it.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

The board is not for people outside of Indiana.

That's not a very hospitable statement! ;D You mean those of us who grew up in Indiana, or those of us who USED to live in Indiana are not welcome here?

I may cry.

P.S. Down here in "JAW-ga" we let damn-yankees read our Atlanta board, and our Georgia board.

 

[ChiefEngineer]

One word ---

Uniboard.

 

[justalurker]

Naw, Indiana includes the Louisville market and the Cincinnati market and the Chicago market (and of course Terre Haute, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Columbus, Bloomington, South Bend, Kokomo, etc).. I think not having a better defined regional affiliation discourages site usage. It does for me anyway.

Cinci and Chicago have their boards - some of the others you mention barely qualify for a mention let alone being called a market. Ownership and signals don't stop at the Arbitron market lines. We are one state.

The board is not for people outside of Indiana.

That's not a very hospitable statement! ;D You mean those of us who grew up in Indiana, or those of us who USED to live in Indiana are not welcome here?

Sorry, didn't mean to exclude anyone. What I was trying to covey is that the board is working ... there is no need to "fix" it by creating an Indianapolis board where people will get their pants in a wad any time a signal not heard within the 317 area code is mentioned.

 

[Flying-Dutchman]

They gave Cincinnati it's own board. Now the Ohio board is about dead.

 

[KyDXIn]

The board is not for people outside of Indiana. Posters in Indiana and Indianapolis understand that this is the place to discuss Indy and the great state surrounding it. There is no reason to repeat the errors inflicted on other states.

Indy is in Indiana. One forum is fine.

Naw, Indiana includes the Louisville market and the Cincinnati market and the Chicago market (and of course Terre Haute, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Columbus, Bloomington, South Bend, Kokomo, etc).. I think not having a better defined regional affiliation discourages site usage. It does for me anyway.

Agreed-- I actually listen to more Cincy (WLW 700) and Lexington (WVLK 590) radio stations than Indy stations here in the rolling hills of southern Indiana.

 

[dfwrunner]

They gave Cincinnati it's own board. Now the Ohio board is about dead.

Some of it may be that you have to wait so darn long for the scroll buffer to fill down to the radio states section...even at 6mbps it takes forever...with a city name at the top, it a bit quicker to access when you're going back and forth to multiple boards...think they should redesign the main board organization a bit.

 

[gr8oldies]

The Cincy board has been around a long time. Every few months someone will bitch about Dayton posts being there even though the mods have said time and time again they belong there. I don't see a reason to split Indy from the rest of the state

 

[dave73]

I remember the old radio-info, and people back then wanted a separate Indianapolis board. The people running this board then didn't feel that there were enough postings to justify a separate Indianapolis board. For the Ohio boards, a statewide Ohio board didn't generate enough postings, while Dayton/Columbus, Cincinnati, & Cleveland each had their own boards. Supposedly Michigan had little postings (despite people requesting their own state board) that any Michigan postings required posting on the national board. The people running this board then referred people to another message forum. This site now has a Michigan board, along with a Detroit board. The Wisconsin board was originally the Milwaukee board, but not a separate Wisconsin board. Since most postings then were general Wisconsin, that Milwaukee lost having their own board. Now looking at the forum that branched off from this site, that site not only has a Wisconsin board, but a separate Milwaukee board. That same forum still doesn't have a separate Indianapolis board. That forum didn't take off as planned.

I don't know what it would take for this site to consider adding a separate Indianapolis board. Most of the Indiana postings overall are Indianapolis postings. Indianapolis is becoming an upcoming big market. They're already in the top 50 markets. Fort Wayne, South Bend, NW Indiana, Terre Haute, Kokomo, & Lafayette areas don't have enough postings that they could be in Indiana forum, while Indianapolis in my opinion deserves its own board. That there is up the board managers to decide if Indianapolis deserves their own board. The bulk of the boards on this forum carried over from the old radio-info.com.

 

[mobilene]

I don't think it's that hard just to ignore the non-Indy posts here. jim

 

[justalurker]

Some of it may be that you have to wait so darn long for the scroll buffer to fill down to the radio states section...even at 6mbps it takes forever...with a city name at the top, it a bit quicker to access when you're going back and forth to multiple boards...think they should redesign the main board organization a bit.

I have separate bookmarks that go directly to the boards I have interest in. I rarely look at the forum listings.
Having an "Indianapolis" name would move the forum up, but I don't see the need for the separation from the rest of Indiana.

I don't think it's that hard just to ignore the non-Indy posts here. jim

Creating dead forums is never good. If it could be an "Indianapolis and Indiana" forum where it would be obvious that non-Indy posts are welcome (and encouraged) it would be best. But isn't that what we have in "Radio States>Indiana"?

 

[dfwrunner]

Some of it may be that you have to wait so darn long for the scroll buffer to fill down to the radio states section...even at 6mbps it takes forever...with a city name at the top, it a bit quicker to access when you're going back and forth to multiple boards...think they should redesign the main board organization a bit.

I have separate bookmarks that go directly to the boards I have interest in. I rarely look at the forum listings.
Having an "Indianapolis" name would move the forum up, but I don't see the need for the separation from the rest of Indiana.

I don't think it's that hard just to ignore the non-Indy posts here. jim

Creating dead forums is never good. If it could be an "Indianapolis and Indiana" forum where it would be obvious that non-Indy posts are welcome (and encouraged) it would be best. But isn't that what we have in "Radio States>Indiana"?

It just makes Indy look "small time"...