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<blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 5265167" data-attributes="member: 4682">Word of caution.WotC had the out of print settings off in separate forums for . . . years and years. Some of those forums fostered their own little community for fans and they generated a bunch of traffic.Then the forum administrators got it in their heads that they needed to make certain forums look like they had more traffic, so they dumped every solitary of print setting forum into a single über forum for all out of print settings.The result was a worse-case scenario. Not only was more traffic not generated in the consolidated forum, but the majority of the traffic left for good finding more hospitable environs elsewhere, particularly The Piazza.I'll admit that I've let some of those thoughts about General not having that much traffic creep in to my mind. I guess I'm not that open to wandering around other new forums that have popped up, especially when some days clicking on a link seems to take longer and longer for the page to get loaded.&nbsp; I just want to stay where I'm familiar if it's going to be sloggish getting around elsewhere . . . <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm&nbsp; &nbsp; :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="AdmundfortGeographer, post: 5265167, member: 4682"] Word of caution. WotC had the out of print settings off in separate forums for . . . years and years. Some of those forums fostered their own little community for fans and they generated a bunch of traffic. Then the forum administrators got it in their heads that they needed to make certain forums look like they had more traffic, so they dumped every solitary of print setting forum into a single über forum for all out of print settings. The result was a worse-case scenario. Not only was more traffic [B]not[/B] generated in the consolidated forum, but the majority of the traffic left for good finding more hospitable environs elsewhere, particularly The Piazza. I'll admit that I've let some of those thoughts about General not having that much traffic creep in to my mind. I guess I'm not that open to wandering around other new forums that have popped up, especially when some days clicking on a link seems to take longer and longer for the page to get loaded. I just want to stay where I'm familiar if it's going to be sloggish getting around elsewhere . . . :erm: [/QUOTE]

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