"The Drama Zone provided a way for us to let the users vent and share their frustrations and opinions among other like minded users without bothering and harassing the majority of the users who simply wanted to discuss Cowboys-related news and information."
Sorry, but the majority of posters are not content with 20+ years of losing. I know its your forum and you can do whatever you want, but that statement is just ridiculous and out of touch. I think the majority of people are passionate fans who are sick of losing and want to express that. Trying to bury that on your site is just disingenuous.
If we wanted to bury something, it would be deleted and the users permanently banned.
The Drama Zone provided a way for us to allow it to remain on the site in a featured forum (it was the 3rd forum on the site) and still allow the main forum (Fan Zone) to be used for what most users care about which is reading and discussing the latest news and information.
We did not move all negative posts to the Drama Zone, but if they were dead-horse topics without any new information that were simply going to be back-and-forth unwinnable arguments between homers and haters of particular players, coaches, front office personnel, etc., then we moved them to the Drama Zone. That way, they could continue being discussed by those interested in them while at the same time reserving the Fan Zone for threads that most users wanted to read.
Just because fans are not happy does not mean they want to have to read through yet-another-drama-laden post complaining about something already complained about dozens of times by other users in various threads.
