Proliferation of Threads on Same Topic (Martial/Magic, Fighters, etc.)

[Cadence]

How many active threads does a topic need before it gets its own sub-forum? I'm not saying we should move all of these Fighter vs. Wizard threads over to their own forum...but...well actually yes, I am saying that.

(And I'm hardly blameless; remember that I'm the guy who created roughly thirty-five thousand "5E Survivor" threads before finally passing that torch.)

I'm hearing "Survivor: Fighter/Caster Balance Threads."

 

[Umbran]

How many active threads does a topic need before it gets its own sub-forum?

There is no rule. Sub forums happen when Morrus feels like it is appropriate.

"OMG, one guy made four threads today!" is not an emergency that calls for immediate forum restructure.

 

[Evaniel]

I'm hearing "Survivor: Fighter/Caster Balance Threads."

 

[MichaelSomething]

There is no rule. Sub forums happen when Morrus feels like it is appropriate.

"OMG, one guy made four threads today!" is not an emergency that calls for immediate forum restructure.

Would you rather have one big topic that generates a dozen reports and/or bans?

 

[Umbran]

Would you rather have one big topic that generates a dozen reports and/or bans?

As if.

Here we are on Monday, and there's only 2 threads on the topic in the top 25 in the D&D forum.
They only generated 6 reports, four of them about one chucklehead, one other about how many threads one person set up.

So, as far as issues go... it wasn't one.

 

[bloodtide]

Well, as a Thread Maker, I can say it's bad when you make a thread to talk about a subject...and then some posters come in and just highjack the thread with jargon.

It's just as bad as when a person makes a thread and Only wants to talk about one very specific thing....and refuses anything else.

 

[Tonguez]

Yeah it gets a bit silly at times, but if the guvnor Morrus is okay with it and the mods havent closed the ‘extras’ down then I figure no harm done

 

[MichaelSomething]

They only generated 6 reports, four of them about one chucklehead, one other about how many threads one person set up.

So, as far as issues go... it wasn't one.

Well I'm the person who threw up several threads; so I guess I should explain myself.

While everyone in a group may have the same overall goal, there can be vast disagreement on how to achieve it. What can work for one person can be a trainwreck for another. So instead of developing any single idea further, we get a bunch of sub groups mired with infighting. I figured if each sub group was separated into their own + threads; they could improve their ideas without getting dragged into another argument over preferences.

I guess it worked; a little

 

[Staffan]

The easiest way to stop this thread proliferation would be if WotC would just buff fighters.

No! They should nerf casters!

Pathfinder 2 is that way.

 

[Lanefan]

Here we are on Monday, and there's only 2 threads on the topic in the top 25 in the D&D forum.
They only generated 6 reports, four of them about one chucklehead, one other about how many threads one person set up.

Which does raise an idle-curiosity question for me: roughly how many reports in total (other than simple spam alerts) do you lot get in the average day?