Housing lottery discussions (#1) (New York, York: flood, results, solution)
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There's a lot I could say Airborneguy but I'll hold my tongue for the sake of civility.
Well I respect your civility and thank you for it, but not a single poster has made a better suggestion for me to consider. I cannot be clear enough: we are not going back to the old system. I have discussed this with the moderation team and all agree after having reviewed our forum. Allowing one topic to clog up a forum does not work. As far as the admins, I am attempting to discuss a subforum with them, but that may not work out.
So give me suggestions that will work or start figuring out how to design the content of your posts here to make each question clear. It is certainly doable.
I was looking for a specific housing lottery discussion that I applied to. I've made contacts on that group and it has been helpful for all of us. I won the lottery and signed my lease 6wks ago and wanted to help others who had questions. I don't understand why they took down the forum???
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Thank you Airborneguy. As a long time member of this forum, I do feel the quality of the forum declined because of all these housing lottery threads. New members sign up for the sole purpose of just posting in these kinds of threads, not adding anything of value or substance to the rest of the forum. Nobody wants to come here and see only lottery threads on the front page. People, I get it. I know housing in NYC is expensive, heck I won a lottery apartment a few years ago as well. However, when I was going through the process, I didn't waste my time asking redundant and annoying questions over and over again on forums. Let the process happen. Let things develop. Y'all so damn impatient.
I was looking for a specific housing lottery discussion that I applied to. I've made contacts on that group and it has been helpful for all of us. I won the lottery and signed my lease 6wks ago and wanted to help others who had questions. I don't understand why they took down the forum???
Well I respect your civility and thank you for it, but not a single poster has made a better suggestion for me to consider. I cannot be clear enough: we are not going back to the old system. I have discussed this with the moderation team and all agree after having reviewed our forum. Allowing one topic to clog up a forum does not work. As far as the admins, I am attempting to discuss a subforum with them, but that may not work out.
So give me suggestions that will work or start figuring out how to design the content of your posts here to make each question clear. It is certainly doable.
The City Data Retirement forum has a link to a Health Insurance and Medicare forum. The link is very plain to see when in a list format, and the link also appears at the top of the Retirement forum. I don't know if this is considered a subforum or a separate forum, but I think that this arrangement would work very nicely for us.
It would be easy to find and self-explanatory for those looking to read and post about housing, and very easy for people to ignore if they choose to.
The City Data Retirement forum has a link to a Health Insurance and Medicare forum. The link is very plain to see when in a list format, and the link also appears at the top of the Retirement forum. I don't know if this is considered a subforum or a separate forum, but I think that this arrangement would work very nicely for us.
It would be easy to find and self-explanatory for those looking to read and post about housing, and very easy for people to ignore if they choose to.
That is exactly what I am attempting to work out with the admins. I'm hoping that this time around they see that this topic generates enough activity to warrant it's own subforum either here in NYC or in the Real Estate forum.
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