Can we get a seperate forum for edition chest pounding?

[JoeGKushner]

I know everyone has their favorite edition.

I'd rather not keep seeing similiar threads about how X is so great and Y is so great.

Can we just give these people a forum so they can do their thing and get it off their chest how awesome their game is?

Or how about a permanent ban on edition wars?

 

[Fifth Element]

I think this belongs in the Meta forum?

But saying "I think X edition is great" is not an edition war. Though such a thread does tend to attract those who enjoy starting edition wars.

 

[Filcher]

The trouble is, IMHO, there is reasonable, valuable discussion to be had about edition differences. (Even minus the chest pounding.) There are objective distinctions that are cool, regardless of your favorite edition.

Discussions like this:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=237823

would be impossible if there was a ban on discussing different editions in the same thread. It is just a shame that they always devolve into character attacks.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I think this belongs in the Meta forum?

Indeed.

-Hyp.
(Moderator)

 

[Jasperak]

I know everyone has their favorite edition.

I'd rather not keep seeing similiar threads about how X is so great and Y is so great.

Can we just give these people a forum so they can do their thing and get it off their chest how awesome their game is?

Or how about a permanent ban on edition wars?

@Joe: You have been here as long as I have... really are we allowed to have any discussion on the various merits of any game or edition? As it stands now we cannot bad mouth an edition we don't like, but now you would ask us to not talk up an edition we do like? What is the point of discussion then?

 

[racoffin]

The trouble is, IMHO, there is reasonable, valuable discussion to be had about edition differences. (Even minus the chest pounding.) There are objective distinctions that are cool, regardless of your favorite edition.

Discussions like this:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=237823

would be impossible if there was a ban on discussing different editions in the same thread. It is just a shame that they always devolve into character attacks.

It is a shame that the discussions seem to devolve into the RPG equivilent of which superhero can beat up whom or the like. Perhaps instead of people immediately reaching for the keyboard when they see someone post a pro or con statement about any edition or game, they can take a step back and realize that everyone can have an opinion, even one you think is wrong. And you don't even have to call them on it.

Back when I was modding a few text-based games, we called it 'Asking the Player to Grow Up'. People don't want the heavy handed moderation (if that exists, which is still a question), then perhaps they should police themselves a bit better. Who knows, maybe we can have civil discussions and less folks booted from threads if that takes place.

 

[Doug McCrae]

It is a shame that the discussions seem to devolve into the RPG equivilent of which superhero can beat up whom or the like.

I say that Dr. Yes, the robotic version of Egg Fu from Metal Men Vol I #20, could beat both Null the Living Darkness and any one of the Red Ghost's Super-Apes.

 

[JoeGKushner]

@Joe: You have been here as long as I have... really are we allowed to have any discussion on the various merits of any game or edition? As it stands now we cannot bad mouth an edition we don't like, but now you would ask us to not talk up an edition we do like? What is the point of discussion then?

Perhaps I'm not making myself clear.

I have no problem going, "Man, Mutants & Masterminds is great!" But with things the way they are now, do we really need to see variants of "Man, 4e Showed me that 3.5 sucked!" "4e is so great that all other editions are for the feebleminded!" etc... It's not a matter of only talking up one game, it's talking it up at the expense of the other.