Logisti,

IMHO, Ghost Hunter Academy (GHA) shouldn't even be considered in the genera of paranormal investigative programing. This is more of an MTV Real World meets Survivor on crack. The show seems to feed more on the drama of the cadets then it does on actually finding of paranormal evidence.

So that this comment does not go into moderation, I am posting a link in the First Episode forum thread which gives the latest from the Syfy PR machine regarding the "ratings" for the premier episode.

If there is to be no writeup it might just be best to continue the discussion in the First Episode section under GHA in the forums rather than having a second discussion here….? Food-for-thought

Sad thing with this show is , they hold the cadets to a much stricter guidline than even TAPs follows. We should comment on this show, because this show it is purely ridiculous.
"Why are you both sitting together when you investigate a small area" dah that what TAPs has been doing forever ( Kris and Amy)!!
"That's dust not an orb"….Hey Steve G haven't you showed Jason and Grant a few orbs yourself?!?
Can't wait to see how our "pros" teach our cadets…

I vote to keep it in the forums.

P.S. I still don't understand why there is a side blog and a forum. I find the forums easier to navigate and am more familiar with that format from other web sites. Blog+forum just seems to produce multiple topics of the same thing. This could all be easily done in a forum only type format. Couldn't it?

@Learjet…I agree completely, the multiple formats seem to have caused quite a share of duplicate threads, backs and forths etc.

A "first post" in the forum can be reserved for a write up if one is eventually done, and we could proceed from there. I also find the forums much easier to navigate, reply to, etc I've never had problems posting there, but in the comments section I've had posts disappear or go into moderation for no apparent reason.

In the forums it is much easier to quote in reply which is very helpful so that people can tell what you are responding to. I've often seen in the comments where someone will respond with a few line statement to a comment possibly even on a previous page and I have NO idea what the comment is in reference to. That happens sometimes in the forums, too, but at least there is a means to avoid that there.

@learjet -

One major problem I see is that the forum posts don't appear to be indexed by whatever search engine they use here. It would also help prevent duplicates if there were a "recent posts" type listing of the forum posts.

The searching _is_ a problem, although I can count on one hand the number of times I've used the site-search. I almost always go to google and do a search like

site:www.skepticalviewer.com flour

which works very well…perhaps that could even be incorporated into the site and use the google search here rather than whatever is currently being used?

There _is_ a recent posts listing at the bottom of the forums, perhaps that can be used or expanded upon?

The "recent posts" I would like to see for the forum is like it's done for the blog – a short listing of the most recent topics. The individual posts is great, and I don't want to lose that, but a most recent forum topics might cut out some duplication ( assuming the topics get titled with something that makes it obvious what it's refering to )

Good idea on incorporating that google search – Oh great powers that be … can you make this appear for us ?

"assuming the topics get titled with something that makes it obvious what it's refering to"

Yes…please, oh, please, can we not have any more threads titled "10/21/2009"

I think if the number of "recents" is expanded (perhaps collapse the upper categories into the "super category" to save room on the page instead of listing all the sub-topics under TV Shows etc?)

When viewing posts, I look almost exclusively at the "Most Recent" list rather than going into each sub-forum "manually"