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<blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5477666" data-attributes="member: 18253">Start some &quot;game&quot; topics. Almost any thread gets traction and you might encourage others to post like minded topics. Ruleset specific stuff probably ought to go into the relevant forum though.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One thing about the &quot;game&quot; topics, a lot of time they are hard to reply to:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">They pertain to a system I've never played or no longer play</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The poster is asking for something that requires a lot more of his game context than is either posted or I'm willing to read (yes, it's a difficult balancing act)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">THe post is about some particular situation, creature or item that doesn't interest me.</li>
</ul>I suspect many posters react the way I do. The more specific topics have a narrower audience. Topics about game theory can apply across the board. Edition flame wars have their own separate appeal, at least to a very vocal subset on the boards <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp;One thing to bear in mind is that most of the volume on this board comes from a fairly small set of posters who don't seem to like posting on the topics you are pulling for. Put another way, I wouldn't judge the success of a topic by the amount of pages it generates. I tend to ignore the threads that immediately grow to 4+ pages anyway as those usually are a small group arguing with each other who won't spend any time answering a new voice in the thread unless it's something outrageous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Haltherrion, post: 5477666, member: 18253"] Start some "game" topics. Almost any thread gets traction and you might encourage others to post like minded topics. Ruleset specific stuff probably ought to go into the relevant forum though. One thing about the "game" topics, a lot of time they are hard to reply to: [LIST] [*]They pertain to a system I've never played or no longer play [*]The poster is asking for something that requires a lot more of his game context than is either posted or I'm willing to read (yes, it's a difficult balancing act) [*]THe post is about some particular situation, creature or item that doesn't interest me. [/LIST]I suspect many posters react the way I do. The more specific topics have a narrower audience. Topics about game theory can apply across the board. Edition flame wars have their own separate appeal, at least to a very vocal subset on the boards :) One thing to bear in mind is that most of the volume on this board comes from a fairly small set of posters who don't seem to like posting on the topics you are pulling for. Put another way, I wouldn't judge the success of a topic by the amount of pages it generates. I tend to ignore the threads that immediately grow to 4+ pages anyway as those usually are a small group arguing with each other who won't spend any time answering a new voice in the thread unless it's something outrageous. [/QUOTE]

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