HailMan06 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 There are two options that I can see workout: -Merge the NYC, Philly, and and PA/Upstate NY subgroups -Merge the NYC and Philly subgroups and call it the Northern Mid-Atlantic subforum, as someone earlier suggested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwarlock Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Wow this is a close vote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericjcrash Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Due to negative input from our neighbors to the south, I've changed my vote to no merger. In doing so it's now even. I enjoyed the board more when NYC and philly were together but you can already see the dissent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeS Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I like the Northeast idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Lets just merge with the southeast and call it a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 There are two options that I can see workout: -Merge the NYC, Philly, and and PA/Upstate NY subgroups -Merge the NYC and Philly subgroups and call it the Northern Mid-Atlantic subforum, as someone earlier suggested. This is a great option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooklyndude Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I do not have a problem if the Philly forum merges with nyc and nyc is still called nyc forum. Not visa versa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rclab Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 This is a great optionIs it possible to have cross forum threads? The sub forums remain as is but the Moderators could determine when a thread is cross forum worthy. A major east coast storm threat or an El Niño/Nina discussion could appear simultaneously with posters appearing in each forums thread. They may, however, go more than one hundred pages. Happy New Year To All and goodnight Ms Pamela wherever you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjay Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 I do not have a problem if the Philly forum merges with nyc and nyc is still called nyc forum. Not visa versa It would be something like NYC Metro/Philly Metro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 The Upstate NY forum consists of me basically. It's by far the deadest forum on American. I was hoping for a merger with the great lakes as we have similar weather with lake effect and all. Or even Ohio/Northwest PA/Upstate would work. We just don't have much in common with NYC to make a merger make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjay Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 The Upstate NY forum consists of me basically. I know!! We added them for you lol. Many love your LES adventures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjay Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 The Upstate NY forum consists of me basically. It's by far the deadest forum on American. You may vote bc I did not make a poll in your subforum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 You may vote bc I did not make a poll in your subforum. It would only get 1 voter. Honestly though, there was a point in summer where I was the only poster for I think 2 straight months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 You may vote bc I did not make a poll in your subforum. I would love to have more posters, but only if it makes sense. We just have completely different weather pattern than the big city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjay Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 I would love to have more posters, but only if it makes sense. We just have completely different weather pattern than the big city. I totally understand but people would contribute if it was right in front of them. I'm sure someone could absorb you and the few others from your area. Maybe the Great Lakes or NE. We'll discuss it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I totally understand but people would contribute if it was right in front of them. I'm sure someone could absorb you and the few others from your area. Maybe the Great Lakes or NE. We'll discuss it. Yeah I talked about it with our forum over the summer and also some admins. I think moving us over to the Great Lakes made the most sense. We all get lake effect and similar synoptic patterns. New England is the busiest on American and have there own thing going on, so don't think joining them would make sense. Like I said earlier maybe add Ohio/Pittsburgh to our forum? We both have very similar weather. It's really quite odd that Cleveland posters talk about lake effect affecting them and we're both affected by the same lake, but we don't post together...Same with Northwest PA. North Pittsburgh sometimes gets hit with streamers from Huron/Erie. It makes no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCG RS Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I totally understand but people would contribute if it was right in front of them. I'm sure someone could absorb you and the few others from your area. Maybe the Great Lakes or NE. We'll discuss it.For the record, I vote a merge with Philly in favor of this being the Northern MA thread. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjay Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 For the record, I vote a merge with Philly in favor of this being the Northern MA thread. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A Not bad at all. We'll see what happens.Thank you everyone for you input tonight. It's much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Not sure how merging a forum like NYC and New England would work. I know that isn't exactly what is being discussed here, but it has been floated around a few times over the last few pages. We all know these forums, at least in the East are driven by snow. If Boston is getting a Blizzard and NYC is getting a mixed bag, I doubt the discussion is going to stay on topic. If the goal is to improve discussion, I don't think that will work at all. Something like Philly NYC would make much more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjay Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 Not sure how merging a forum like NYC and New England would work. I know that isn't exactly what is being discussed here, but it has been floated around a few times over the last few pages. We all know these forums, at least in the East are driven by snow. If Boston is getting a Blizzard and NYC is getting a mixed bag, I doubt the discussion is going to stay on topic. If the goal is to improve discussion, I don't think that will work at all. Something like Philly NYC would make much more sense. Have faith in the staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mriceyman Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 As an outsider and non contributer(but benefactor) i really cant see how nyc can Be named in the same sentence as upstate and NE when it comes to weather.. We are very muchlike philly in regards to weather And i think that would be the best fit if there were to be a change at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooklyndude Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 As an outsider and non contributer(but benefactor) i really cant see how nyc can Be named in the same sentence as upstate and NE when it comes to weather.. We are very muchlike philly in regards to weather And i think that would be the best fit if there were to be a change at all.. True enough. But nyc is still close to southern new england. So I say as the poll says so far we stay as is. And all vistors are more than welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Not sure how merging a forum like NYC and New England would work. I know that isn't exactly what is being discussed here, but it has been floated around a few times over the last few pages. We all know these forums, at least in the East are driven by snow. If Boston is getting a Blizzard and NYC is getting a mixed bag, I doubt the discussion is going to stay on topic. If the goal is to improve discussion, I don't think that will work at all. Something like Philly NYC would make much more sense. You get rain while BOS to PVD get snow at least once a year. Is it such a big deal when it happens? How about when PF is frolicking in upslope while it's 45 and partly cloudy down our way? One subforum would be fewer threads overall which would be easier to moderate, which I'm assuming would be a big plus for the staff that are considering such a merger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 This forum (as a whole) is way too big for that (a complete merger b/w DCA-BOS). During a big event, the model threads would be a disaster...not to mention the obvious climo differences.....poster A would be rooting on a Miller B that misses Philly and poster B from Boston would be cheering it on.... I voted neither, like others said, if it ain't broke why fix it..... but 2nd choice would be Philly and NYC due to geographic proximity and the lack of posters in the Philly one. I hope your vote was deleted, you aren't a real member of this subforum. You live in New England, so your weather isn't anything like NYC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I hope your vote was deleted, you aren't a real member of this subforum. You live in New England, so your weather isn't anything like NYC... Technically I am. Weatherwise, I'm on the fence..... my closest reporting station is BDR which is 5 miles from my house. That reporting station is part of NYC at least when it comes to the NWS. Media also considers my county to be part of NYC-we get NY sports and are blocked from Boston sports...(NESN cannot be carried here etc) We are a bit colder/snowier than NYC proper but much less snowy that Hartford or Boston- given my locale I can really be part of 2 sub forums, so I tend to post in both for the reasons stated above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlsterCountySnowZ Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 If anything I would like to see all 4 then merged, merging with Philly only, I feel would leave out the folks in between "upstate" and the City/Jersey/Philly like us north and west burbs crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 If anything I would like to see all 4 then merged, merging with Philly only, I feel would leave out the folks in between "upstate" and the City/Jersey/Philly like us north and west burbs crewTo be fair 99% of us would probably consider your area to be upstate NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlsterCountySnowZ Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 To be fair 99% of us would probably consider your area to be upstate NY.That's what I mean, "most" city and immediate people call my area upstate, but that's geographically not even remotely accurate, if I went to the "upstate" subforum, not a single post would apply to me or my surroundings, it's All Alabany and points north and west, were in the twilight zone of subforumsI'm technically not even consider "Mid-Hudson valley" yet, that would be Kingston, new paltz etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 To be fair 99% of us would probably consider your area to be upstate NY. Yes, we know that most of you believe upstate to be anything north of the TZ bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 That's what I mean, "most" city and immediate people call my area upstate, but that's geographically not even remotely accurate, if I went to the "upstate" subforum, not a single post would apply to me or my surroundings, it's All Alabany and points north and west, were in the twilight zone of subforums I'm technically not even consider "Mid-Hudson valley" yet, that would be Kingston, new paltz etc When we first broke out into the regions we had a Hudson Valley thread in the Upstate forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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