thoughts on reorganizing forums?

[Piratecat]

There won't be any OT forum. That's not up for discussion; the occasional OT post can live in General Discussion.

Rules and House Rules should absolutely stay separate.

Until volume mandates otherwise, I think d20 Modern should stay in d20 Games.

d20 Publishers is its own, vibrant forum, and I think it should stay this way. Having specific access to so many publishers in one forum is one of the things that makes EN World special.

Our big concern for combining Plots & Places with Rogue's Gallery is that in order for P&P to work, it has to have more traffic. When we combine them, we'll be a lot more dilligent about moving "how do I do this in my campaign?" and " give me ideas" threads into this forum.

I would like to see D&D Software become Software and Computers, allowing for a little more variety.

Finally, I'd be okay combining Conversions into General Discussion. It gets almost no traffic.

 

[thalmin]

I like the idea of a seperate forum for earlier editions. There are many people still playing these, and they need a good place to share ideas. Placing such discussions in the General forum would lead to confusion, plus the posts would be lost there.

By all means keep Rules and House Rules seperate. They each generate a lot of traffic and serve different purposes.

It may be worth considering a d20 Modern forum. Interest seems high on the consumer level. We should all know better in a week or so, and I don't think we are going to see any of these board changes this weekend anyway.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Is traffic a bigger concideration then functionality when it comes to organisation of the forums? Or are they of equal importance?

 

[Piratecat]

Got an example?

The general rule of thumb is that high forum traffic is good. Forums are only split off when there is a specific need for them. Thus, when enough threads of a specific type are being generated AND the people who like them are hollering that they disappear off the first page too quickly, a new forum might be created.

The plots forum fails in this regard; not enough traffic = not enough good ideas = no incentive to post there.

 

[Umbran]

Is traffic a bigger concideration then functionality when it comes to organisation of the forums? Or are they of equal importance?

From my observation, the two are not entirely separate. A forum with too little traffic does not function - it serves no real purpose if too few people read and post to it.

 

[Blood Jester]

...Finally, I'd be okay combining Conversions into General Discussion. It gets almost no traffic.

Maybe putting Conversions into House Rules instead? Seems to fit better (they are 'non-official' rules, so to speak) and they would not face the same flood of posts burying them as quickly and completely.

Just a thought.

 

[Telgian]

well, it seems the "planar" forum could possibly be wiped without bothering many folks.
--alsih2o

Given a choice in the matter, I would prefer it moved to somewhere like "Hosted D&D Settings and d20 Games" than just being "wiped".

But then, I am a tad biased.

Telgian.

 

[Jeph]

Maybe putting Conversions into House Rules instead? Seems to fit better (they are 'non-official' rules, so to speak) and they would not face the same flood of posts burying them as quickly and completely.

Just a thought.

I strongly agree. House is much more similar to Conversions than General is.

 

[garyh]

Here's a thought on Rogues Gallery...

You could have the RG stay as the home for IC and Story Hour game and fold "show off" and "critique this" PCs into Plots and Places, renaming that as maybe a "DM Toolkit." Might get more traffic for the DM area...

 

[Jeph]

. . . since we're on the topic of reorganizing things, could you nix the sarcastic smiley? I don't think I've ever seen it not used in flames or posts that have been mistaken as flames. It really has negative karma, IHMO. All the other smileys serve to keep the discussion lighthearted and let others know that you're joking. When a rolleyes pops up, the first thing that you think is, 'he thinks that my ideas/opinions are a pile of crap,' weather the source of said smiley actually did or not.

And please, Buttercup and Dragongirl, we have too few female members already. Don't drive each other off. And don't use that goddamn smiley.