Poll - Dr. Dan's question - Which forums do you read?

[jmucchiello]

I gave some thought to moving it, but we'd like as much information as possible. This is good feedback.

Don't the weblogs tell you exactly which forums are popular? Postcount is not accurate but the weblog will tell you how often the forum is read. Far more accurate than self-reporting. In the poll above I didn't check D&D Rules/House Rules because I don't visit D&D Rules often and I avoid House Rules

 

[Oni]

You know what this poll tells me? Not enough people visit the Art Forum.

Go. Go now.

 

[Desdichado]

The feedback this poll doesn't give is how much you browse the other threads. It's a binary option -- I can interpret this to mean "if I ever, ever pop into a thread, even if just once a month, then I pick it" for instance. I think the responses for the other forums is actually overstated for this reason.

 

[Morrus]

Hey, you missed out the moderators' forum!

Anyway - some of the suggestions are quite good. As PC said, some of them wouldn't work (at least in my opinion).

The suggestions regarding hosted sites and forums are out of my hands. Those forums belong to the relevant hosted site webmasters, and it's entirely up to them what they do with them - they're not my forums to mess with.

I think the best suggestions made are those regarding D20 Games / D20 Modern and Plots/Places / Rogues Gallery. I don't see any benefit in relegating a forum to "sub-forum" status, though.

 

[der_kluge]

Good feedback. Not a ton of feedback, but good feedback nonetheless.

And I'm glad the moderators are taking the thread in the spirit in which it was intended.

Hypersmurf, my intent with combining rules/house rules was that often when I post a house rule, I want feedback - and who better to give feedback than those guys that already know all the core rules.

Here are the percentages from the poll (I wish the poll did this automatically)

I read all forums, all the time. 0.0%
General 97.1%
D&D Rules and/or House Rules 57.4%
D20 System & OGL Games and/or D20 Modern 38.2%
Story Hour 33.8%
Talking the Talk and/or Playing the Game and/or Fight Club 16.2%
D20 & Open Gaming Publishers and/or Open Calls & Job Vacancies 31.6%
Plots, Places and Rat Bastardly Brainstorming and/or Rogues Gallery 22.8%
Gamers Seeking Gamers 13.2%
Art Gallery, Cartography & Miniatures Painting 14.0%
Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books, Movies & TV 46.3%
Software, Computers and D&D Utilities 28.7%
Miniatures Trading and RPG Marketplace 4.4%
Hosted D&D Settings and d20 Games and/or any of the Publishing-related forums 3.7%
Meta and/or Archive 36.0%

 

[fusangite]

This poll has been very beneficial for me. I'm going to start reading the fantasy books forum now.

 

[Simplicity]

Yeah, I've got to agree that combining House Rules and Rules is just not a good idea. There's a very different mindset between creating new house rules and
following the official rules literally. Plus, I don't really want to read about
the various house rules people make for stuff. That's why I read the Rules forum and not House Rules.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the current forum breakup. Yes, some of the other forums are slower, but most of them do get read eventually.