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

[Tonguez]

I'd also suggest that the General Monster and Homebrew Monster forums be sperated out from the other Hosted forums (and imho not be considered 'hosted forums') simply because they are both generic and more popular than the other hosted forums (which I never visit)

 

[d4]

i like all of your suggestions, die kluge. i rarely (if ever) get out of General, d20 System, and d20 Modern. maybe if there were less fora to browse, i'd be more inclined to visit others.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

[snip]-combine "Talking the Talk" and "Playing the Game" and "Fight Club" into just "online games and discussions". Seems like to me, and I could be way out of line here, but if I'm "playing a game", I've got to go into a different forum to talk about it. And "Fight Club" only has two active threads, so moving that into the same forum isn't exactly going to clog it up any.

Now, I don't know about Fight Club, but I think that merging Talking the Talk and Playing the Game would be an unmitigated disaster. There are so many games going on already, and then double that by having the OOC threads in there, you wouldn't be able to find anything. And how the heck would you recruit effectively? You'd be off the first page in minutes with both sets of threads in one forum! Tracking the games you're in would be a nightmare. So I'm firmly in the "no way should this happen" camp.

 

[Hypersmurf]

- combine "D&D Rules" and "House Rules". Why is there a delineation? Seems like if you visit one, you are likely to visit the other anyway.

You take that back!

-Hyp.

Edit - and I'm not gonna vote as long as they're both the same option on the poll!

 

[Mistwell]

Combining Rules and House Rules sounds like a horrible idea. I don't care what house rules people come up with very much. I do care what interpretations of the rules as written people come up with, because those are the rules my DM is using.

 

[Agamon]

I like it the way it is. If you're interested in something, you can scan the appropriate forum. If not, it doesn't bog down the forums you are interested in.

 

[jdavis]

I find it funny there is some resistance to leaving General, once I started hitting other forums I found I hardly ever come back to the jumbled mess that is General (I got to this thread by the link in the thread in Meta ). It seems really funny to me that people don't like to post in other forums because nobody would read it there, and people don't go to other forums because nobody post there, sort of a catch 22 isn't it.

Combining some of the forums would make some things easier but many of them were split off for a reason to start with. I'd really hate to see forums merged back in with General as it just moves to fast and most people never go back past one or two pages in general, threads that seem to have very long lifespans (like in Plots and Places) may get more replies but they would last hours instead of months and would be hard to ever find or revive. Things in general tend to burn out in a day or so, many in hours and then they disappear into the wasteland that is pages 3+. That could happen to a lesser extint in merging other forums too, the faster one would just drown out the slower one.

 

[JoeBlank]

General, Rules, Books/Movies/TV, and Meta for me, on a daily basis.

Story Hour occasionally, mostly for the postings related to the game in which I play. (Just not enough time to keep up with all the other fanstastic Story Hours.)

Other forums I only visit if I am seeking out a particular topic.

I can see where some merging of forums makes sense, if some of them see very little traffic, but I agree with the objections to merging Rules with House Rules.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Hey! I was looking for this thread last night and somehow lost it?


I am very interested to see the results.

 

[jmucchiello]

- combine "D&D Rules" and "House Rules". Why is there a delineation? Seems like if you visit one, you are likely to visit the other anyway.

I visit Rules but I )try to) avoid House Rules so I don't accidently borrow someone's house rule i my own writing.

- combine "Open Calls & Job Vacancies" with "D20 & Open Gaming Publishers" The publishers are the ones with job vacancies, and anyone looking for open calls is probably already keeping track of what the publishers are doing, so these could be combined.

I do believe there was a thread on Publishers asking for this to be a separate thread. I never read Open Calls and don't want them on Publishers.

-All of the publishing forums could be rolled into one. "The Planar Cosmography: Netbook of the Planes" (which hasn't seen any activity in a long time), "Creature Catalog Forums", "e-Publishing", "Conversions" and "E.N. Publishing".

First, these forums need different moderators. Second, e-Publishing is about electronic publishing of all types and has nothing to do with Netbooks, ENPublishing, Converting or Creatures.