"Gathering" Forum Section Suggestion

[onestruecolors]

I don't usually post on these forums, but lately I've been thinking that there should be some type of "get together" section on these forums (unless I have just seemed to skip over it for the past few months...) I find my self pondering, as I am sure many others are wondering, how many cubers are around the area and having the desire to interact some of these people, yet without the hassle and wait of waiting for a competition to come into the area.

 

[Bryan]

I think the WCA competition section works fine for that. There are so few unofficial gatherings that I don't think it would conflict that much. If it grows, you could always split that forum, or just have it be a WCA Competition and Gathering forum.

Also, if you want to find other people, you should really put your location in your profile so that people will be able to see where you are. If you're in the US or Canada, you can sign-up on CubingUSA.com and find others near you.

 

[Kit Clement]

I actually like the idea of having a split forum for Official/Unofficial meetings, as it is very misleading as to where get-togethers should be posted, and it would keep the WCA forum less cluttered.

 

[TemurAmir]

Just sign up for CubingUsa

 

[onestruecolors]

Well, CubingUSA does help somewhat, and thank you for pointing that out to me, but if someone were be interesting in organizing something, where would it go? It doesn't involve any of the physical aspects of the cube, so not in that area, it wouldn't be a competition so it wouldn't really fit in there. The only place it would seem relevant, for myself at the least, would be the Off Topic forum, and, personally I usually just check there to read about how some one injured themselves while cubing, or to read up people discussing the existential relationship between a person and their cube.

I think that even a sub forum in the off topic will create a little direction for someone, rather than someone being dissuaded because there doesn't seem an appropriate section for it.

 

[Bryan]

I actually like the idea of having a split forum for Official/Unofficial meetings, as it is very misleading as to where get-togethers should be posted, and it would keep the WCA forum less cluttered.

If there were hundreds of them, sure. But I don't think there will be. If you have them in the same place as the WCA competition area, then perhaps these potential meetups will grow into competitions.

If you want to ignore them, just ignore them. I'm sure people ignore many of the threads in the WCA forum that don't apply to them.

 

[Kit Clement]

True, but it's still not very clear as to where these topics should be posted. If I were a new user that wanted to post a thread about a cube meeting that wasn't WCA sanctioned, my first guess would to be post it in the Off-Topic before the WCA Competitions forum.