Is it time to re-integrate the specific games sub-forums?

[enrious]

Then I don't think there's much more to be done, in terms of game-specific forums.

 

[Lanefan]

OK, I've found a way to do this. We can merge the threads just fine (and they leave nifty redirects behind).

It's a little tricky, because it if it involves a news item we have to change the posting time/date of the news item to ensure that the news item becomes the first post in the newly merged thread - otherwise we'll have random posts appearing as news items on the front page. This would be bad.

I have tried it with the WoTC layoff threads. Let me know what you think.

Would it be possible to do it in reverse such that trying to post to a discussion that is tied to a news article auto-redirects you to a thread in General (or wherever it would be most relevant)? That way it's easy to find the discussion from both directions: the article itself, or wandering through the forums.

Lanefan

 

[Morrus]

Would it be possible to do it in reverse such that trying to post to a discussion that is tied to a news article auto-redirects you to a thread in General (or wherever it would be most relevant)? That way it's easy to find the discussion from both directions: the article itself, or wandering through the forums.

Lanefan

I'm not even going to pretend to understand that. No, you can't redirect both to each other. You end up nowhere!

 

[enrious]

Any thought of moving the Legacy > Conversions sub-forum into a full forum?

Seems like there's more than just pre 4e/Pathfinder conversions discussed in there already.

 

[Morrus]

Any thought of moving the Legacy > Conversions sub-forum into a full forum?

The first page of that forum goes back to March. That puts it very much on the "endangered species" list, not a promotion list. The conversions can probably go in the relevant system forum.

 

[SteveC]

For my $.02 worth, I'd definitely suggest not merging the different forums for versions of D&D. The problem, I'd say, is that too many folks would be involved with discussions that don't relate to their gaming experience, and would end up responding "you shouldn't have this problem, and wouldn't if you weren't using your <bad> edition."

That honestly shouldn't be an issue: currently, I don't look at all in the forums for games I don't play, but I do look in the general forum. Essentially I consider that the Casablanca of forums, where you discuss general roleplaying concepts in an edition free manner, and don't come down on anyone's playstyle. I think that works quite well to discuss general concepts that carry over from edition to edition.

I don't think folks are ready to discuss 4E without venom, I really don't.