Re: Should the Sony A Mount and this forum be combined?
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tbcass wrote:
Jody Bruchon wrote:
Personally, I don't think so. Better to have a separate area for discussing separate cameras. Sony acquired the A-mount but Sony A-mount cameras are not Minolta cameras. All that merging will do is make it unnecessarily harder to find information. I came here because someone gave me a Maxxum 5D. It would be so much worse browsing the forum if it was slam full of Sony posts too. The logic for merging the two boards would also apply to just merging every camera board into one giant board--as would the logic against.
While what you are saying may seem logical the fact is hardly anybody posts in either forum anymore. Combining the two would at least increase the traffic to a greater number than each one separately. Your fear of the forum being full of Sony posts is unfounded because the number of people posting in a combined forum would still be extremely small. The Sony Forum sees 5 or fewer posts a week while this forum sees even fewer. You alone have posted more in one day than the whole KM forum does in an average month. Add to that both cameras use the same lenses and much of the same tech. The early Sony DSLRs were 100% KM tech.
In conclusion, your reason for not combining the 2 forums doesn't wash because even combined there would be very few posts
No, my logic is perfectly fine. These forums are not just for post traffic, they're for reference as well. The rate of new posts is frankly irrelevant. Also, merging forums will potentially break external search indexes that make finding the information through general search engines easier. This is a classic case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." The case for merging needs to be compelling and significant and no one has presented any rationale for a merge with positives that outweigh the huge negatives.
As for the fear of Sony posts...uh, you do know what MERGING means...right? The entire forum post back catalog will be flooded with Sony body and other irrelevant Sony posts.