Why are there no Oregon forums for cities other than Eugene and Portland? (Salem: statistics)

[rsdotson]

I suppose this is a question I should direct to an admin, but I'm not sure how to locate one and perhaps this way I can stir up some interest in other Oregon sub-forums besides Eugene and Portland.

It seems puzzling to me that not even the state capitol of Salem has a sub-forum on city-data.com, much less the other cities of Corvallis, Albany, Bend, Roseburg, or the southern cities (Medford, Grant's Pass, Ashville, etc). Apparently, there just aren't enough visitors to city-data.com to warrant any of those other sub-forums, but that surprises me.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Good question.

Maybe because when this forum was constructed those were the two cities in Oregon that mattered population wise.

I think a better structure would be Coastal Oregon, Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon, and Willamette Valley subforums with the Oregon forum as the main.

I think regional forums are better than city forums. But this is CITY-data. And there is a lot more here than just forums.

There's a lot of little towns in Oregon that are worth talking about, but don't really warrant their own forums.

In fact, using City Data alone, you could look up the stats for just about every town in Oregon.

So if you want information rather than discussion you are all set, just dare to explore.

And, if you skillfully use the "Search" function, you will probably find an answer to just about any question you could possibly ask.
It's kind of fun reading the older threads before Oregon and Portland went all wacky about five or so years ago.

City Data is a very powerful tool if you figure it all out.

[oregonbirder]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

Good question.

Maybe because when this forum was constructed those were the two cities in Oregon that mattered population wise.

I think a better structure would be Coastal Oregon, Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon, and Willamette Valley subforums with the Oregon forum as the main.

I think regional forums are better than city forums.

There's a lot of little towns in Oregon that are worth talking about, but don't really warrant their own forums.

I agree with the regional format makes much more sense

[rsdotson]

Well, I've learned something new already. While I was looking for a copy of the FAQ to re-read in case I missed something, I accidentally scrolled the main "http://www.city-data.com/forum/oregon/" down far enough to see that there is actually an "Oregon" thread -- LOL! When I would come to http://www.city-data.com/forum/oregon/ all I would see are the two subforums "Portland" and "Eugene", so I thought those were the only two choices and didn't notice all the threads below about Oregon in general, har, har!

Now to find out where the old forum threads and all the city statistics are hiding, and I'll be all set. :-)

[PNW-type-gal]

If you check the Admin Zone (click on "City Data Forum" in the upper left at the top of the page and scroll down to the very bottom of the forum lists), you'll see a lot of "why doesn't city XYZ have a separate forum when the others do?" threads. The answer, generally, is post volume - until a city starts to dominate the general state discussion threads, it doesn't get a separate forum, because it doesn't have enough traffic.

I suspect that other things play into it as well, such as number of mods available or mod interest in maintaining the threads. Really, the entire Oregon forum is pretty low traffic, compared to a lot of the state threads. You can argue that it would make more sense some other way, but that isn't how it's done and I believe we only have one mod anyway, who also has other forums to manage

[rsdotson]

Ok, thanks PNW-type-gal.