thoughts on reorganizing forums?
- Thread starter EricNoah
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ColonelHardisson
What? Me Worry?
Piratecat said:
Yeah, tell me about it. While I doubt it's the main cause, since we switched the Middle Earth d20 discussions over into the Conversions forum, we've seen it, and threads like it, move along at a glacial pace. Even traffic to the MEd20 site has almost ceased, or at least it seems to have done so, judging by the lack of submissions and comments we get. I figure that interest in the project simply faded after everyone who was interested got what they wanted from the site, but I can't help feeling that if it had remained in General it would be receiving more attention. Not a complaint, really, just an observation.
Also, some of the divisions in subject matter can get hazy when there are too many forums. For example, a thread about how much energy it would take to warm the earth's oceans by one degree was shifted over into the non-RPG fantasy/scifi forum. While I think that forum is a good idea, that particular thread seemed not to fit there, and probably would have been better off in General. But, i can see why a moderator might decide to move it there.
Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
I pretty much like everything as it is, but I can see where you are going with moving some of those forums together. the [Hivemind] does behave itself now, anyway.
I think we need to promote all the different forums a little more. there is a lot of traffic in GD, but a lot less in other forums, such as non-RPG sci-fi/fantasy. I'm sure people would post there if they could be bothered to go look at it...maybe there is something you guys can do about that?
I think we need to promote all the different forums a little more. there is a lot of traffic in GD, but a lot less in other forums, such as non-RPG sci-fi/fantasy. I'm sure people would post there if they could be bothered to go look at it...maybe there is something you guys can do about that?
EricNoah
Adventurer
Ok, things are starting to take shape here....
How about another "group" of forums, like this:
DM Toolkit Forums:
-- House Rules (the existing House Rules forum)
-- People, Places & Plots (combine the Rogues Gallery and the Plots & Places forums)
And then Conversions would be folded into one of those as well, perhaps?
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Another issue is, should the Software/Computers forum, then, be moved out of the D&D/D20 System forums group? If so, to where? I was thinking it might go well with the Non-RPG Specific forums (books/movies, art/miniatures, software/computers). Thoughts on that?
How about another "group" of forums, like this:
DM Toolkit Forums:
-- House Rules (the existing House Rules forum)
-- People, Places & Plots (combine the Rogues Gallery and the Plots & Places forums)
And then Conversions would be folded into one of those as well, perhaps?
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Another issue is, should the Software/Computers forum, then, be moved out of the D&D/D20 System forums group? If so, to where? I was thinking it might go well with the Non-RPG Specific forums (books/movies, art/miniatures, software/computers). Thoughts on that?
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
EricNoah said:
I'd be against this. House rules is one of the most active forums, and I personally really like having it up at the top next to Rules. In some sort of odd way, it celebrates the Rule 0 tendency of making the game your own.
I'm good with this. It'll mean that we move "plot" threads more aggressively, of course.
I like it!
Deedlit
First Post
Personally, I don't want either the rogues gallery forum or the conversions forum to be merged with another. The rogue's gallery is an excellent tool, and I like it's small amount of traffic, making it easy to look up the stats for PBP games on the IC board(Do you have any idea how much of a pain it would be to either bump every day or go back 20 pages to find stuff?). As for the conversions board, I fear that a merger will make conversions fall by the wayside, and besides I want Lodoss d20 to stay on the first page.
