Please bring back Plots & Places Forum (merged)

[Davelozzi]

I support the merge. I always felt like it wasn't even worthwhile to post in that forum because it was so low traffic. I think it's better off in general.

 

[stevelabny]

i dont see the problem with a thread falling to page 3?

the posts are DATED.

just teach everyone to check back as far as since they were last online and subscribe to threads theyre interested in and you wont have ANY problems.

if everyone figured out how to use their computer to get this far, it shouldnt be much harder.

i wouldnt want the opinion of someone whos too lazy to look past page 1. his short attention span would probably be against any fo the games I play in.

 

[Chacal]

i dont see the problem with a thread falling to page 3?

the posts are DATED.

just teach everyone to check back as far as since they were last online and subscribe to threads theyre interested in and you wont have ANY problems.

if everyone figured out how to use their computer to get this far, it shouldnt be much harder.

i wouldnt want the opinion of someone whos too lazy to look past page 1. his short attention span would probably be against any fo the games I play in.

I'would have answered your points if I hadn't such a short attention span.
Unfortunately I just can remember your insults.

Nice contribution



Chacal

 

[der_kluge]

Maybe the solution is to make Plots & Places a subforum of General?

The other solution might be to create a PLOTS tag picture? That way, I could identify those threads easier. As it is, there isn't one.

I didn't like P&P in its own forum, because no one ever read it. And then I would read someone miss-posting a thread in General, that should have been in P&P, and would get jealous because the guy would get 50 replies in a day, and my post properly placed in P&P would linger on for hours and hours before getting even one reply.

 

[stevelabny]

I'would have answered your points if I hadn't such a short attention span.Unfortunately I just can remember your insults.Nice contribution
Chacal

Someone must be upset because he didnt see Return of the King last night.

Insults plural? I said that people who dont look beyond the first page are lazy. Other than that I was giving the average ENWorld member credit for being smart enough to find and follow threads theyre interested in. Lazy by definition is NOT an insult, just an adjective. For example, "I often dont use apostrophes because Im lazy." If you choose to view lazy as an insult, I wont finish this sentence because ANYTHING I say would be viewed as an insult. But that would still make only ONE (1) insult. So I'm at a loss. Although I do find it highly amusing that someone who is apparently so offended by my "insults" would turn around and sarcastically attack my post as a "nice contribution". Way to be consistent.

My points are perfectly valid.
Anyone who uses the "page 3" excuse IS just being lazy.
How is checking the first page of 3 different forums any different than checking the first 3 pages of one forum?
As previously stated, the average P&P thread posted in General was getting MORE responses than similar threads in P&P.
If a thread on General gets few responses its not because it got lost, its because people just werent interested in it. Because every reply bumps it back up to the top and almost every ENWorld member reads the general forum.
We've all started threads that were DOA. Its nothing to be embarassed by, and its definately not the boards fault. Not every thread is a winner. Sorry.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Here's the problem I have with seperating them again. People would post things in General that really belonged in P&P far more often than all the other similar mis-placed posts. The mods never actually moved anything to P&P, and so by default it became acceptable to post such things in General. Finally, nobody seemed to complain about the number of posts that should have been in P&P that were in General.

And as I implied with my post above, this was something that was mentioned quite a while ago - not like some of the other board movements. The time to get in on the discussion was then, not now. It's done, and it would be silly to go and re-seperate the boards. Not to mention that moving all the threads back would have to be done manually, I suppose.

At first I also thought that perhaps Morrus should have done something like a poll on the front page, or as an announcement in the forums. Then I got to thinking - if people don't bother reading Meta, the forum about the forums, then they can't be all that interested in the workings of them. Maybe this will actually get people reading the forum.

 

[Wraith Form]

I also think it's good here. Even with an own subforum, a lot of threads here were Plots&Places-worthy. I agree with the reasoning that a good chunk of posts in General are P&P, anyway, and are responsible for a lot of the flavor is this forum, as well.
My party's in a tight spot.
DM burnout.
etc.

If "a lot of the threads" in General Discussion were "P&P-worthy," isn't it a moderator's job to move them to the P&P forum? Doesn't it make more sense to separate the polls, off-topics and, uh, General Discussion from the P&P-type posts and give them their own forums to exist in?

I guess that's what's always confused me about the General Discussion forum--I often saw posts that should have been lumped in with P&P instead of staying in GD.

The first step is to make people aware of the forum and encourage them to post in the appropriate place. The second step is to have the moderators "weed out" (using their best judgement) the P&P from the GD and move the posts if they're inappropriately located. Soon, people will start to get the idea, and P&P will gain more traffic while the thread-cow that is GD will settle to a slightly more dull roar.

Don'tcha think?

 

[der_kluge]

This begs the question - if Plots and Places never existed, would people be currently complaining that plot-related threads be moved to a separate forum?

I don't think so.

 

[MerakSpielman]

The main benefit of P&P seemed to be that the players didn't go there that often, so it was a lot easier for DMs to conspire with each other in semi-secret. That's not a very good reason to bring it back, though.

 

[Creamsteak]

Ignoring General's sorta random content,

Plots and Places, Rogues Gallery, and House rules all contained similar useful information that doesn't "mesh" with the speed of General Discussion. I'd rather have seen all 3 as one single forum. Just IMHO.