With Robbie's rebuild on its way I have been thinking about the forum , and have an idea for a radical reorganization of the site .hear me out
We should have five forums
1 Reffing Basics - your first thirty games
In this forum we keep it simple. It's practical advice for people at the start of the journey . We talk about what happens 90% of the time, not what happens 1% we give the conventional majority view, not the minority or esoteric the forum is a constructive useful guide to making the most of your first thirty game
2 reffing grassroots rugby
In this forum we discuss how to ref and manage the community game. The game we all know and love, the game where we don't have stadium clock or TMO, we probably don't have AR . The palyers are amateur, of varying skill levels and go to work on Monday, they play for fun. How do we make sure they, and we, have the best game of rugby we can
3 reffing youth rugby
For the special challenges of reffing kids, and handling the parents.
4 reffing the professional game
This is where we discuss what we see on TV, where we analyse TMO footage . We talk about reffing professional athletes using WR guideline and latest rules. Did they did they get it right ?
5 the laws forum
This is for geeks .here we discuss law changes , weird scenarios and what did the law makers really mean by that . Here we work out exactly how many angels docdance on a pinm Law Reference please?
Each forum would use the same set of prefix lables (scrum tackle mail etc) to help find stuff and you can then easily track the same topic in different forums
In today's world we don't need forums organiaed by topic, Google and labels does that. instead we have forums dedicated to different audiences and different styles of discourse.
I think this would make RR a much more useful and indeed harmonious site
What do you think ?
We should have five forums
1 Reffing Basics - your first thirty games
In this forum we keep it simple. It's practical advice for people at the start of the journey . We talk about what happens 90% of the time, not what happens 1% we give the conventional majority view, not the minority or esoteric the forum is a constructive useful guide to making the most of your first thirty game
2 reffing grassroots rugby
In this forum we discuss how to ref and manage the community game. The game we all know and love, the game where we don't have stadium clock or TMO, we probably don't have AR . The palyers are amateur, of varying skill levels and go to work on Monday, they play for fun. How do we make sure they, and we, have the best game of rugby we can
3 reffing youth rugby
For the special challenges of reffing kids, and handling the parents.
4 reffing the professional game
This is where we discuss what we see on TV, where we analyse TMO footage . We talk about reffing professional athletes using WR guideline and latest rules. Did they did they get it right ?
5 the laws forum
This is for geeks .here we discuss law changes , weird scenarios and what did the law makers really mean by that . Here we work out exactly how many angels docdance on a pinm Law Reference please?
Each forum would use the same set of prefix lables (scrum tackle mail etc) to help find stuff and you can then easily track the same topic in different forums
In today's world we don't need forums organiaed by topic, Google and labels does that. instead we have forums dedicated to different audiences and different styles of discourse.
I think this would make RR a much more useful and indeed harmonious site
What do you think ?