What type of regular columns would you like to see on EN World?

[XCorvis]

This statement is not correct. News page is for news and columns.

Fair enough, you're the boss. But I come to EN World for gaming news. I have since the beginning. If I can't get to it easily, I might stop coming. If it's a choice between the news or the columns, I want the news.

I'm just saying don't post the article in its entirety in the same place you post the news. If you want to feature the article, do it as a large eye-attracting intro paragraph that clicks through into the full article, or put it on the side, or something. Don't make me scroll down three or four screens to find what I came here for in the first place.

 

[Mouseferatu]

You'd really stop coming to ENWorld because of something that takes up part of the front page less than three or four times a month?

 

[Morrus]

If I can't get to it easily, I might stop coming. If it's a choice between the news or the columns, I want the news.

Fortunately, you don't have to choose between them - you get both!

The really long ones (such as the fiction pieces) won't be there in their entirety.

 

[XCorvis]

You'd really stop coming to ENWorld because of something that takes up part of the front page less than three or four times a month?

There are other aspects of EN World I am dissatisfied with, but this is not the place for that discussion.

I checked the Eric Mona article - it was actually 6 screens for me. If every column is like that, I'm going to get fed up with it pretty quickly.

 

[XCorvis]

Fortunately, you don't have to choose between them - you get both!

The really long ones (such as the fiction pieces) won't be there in their entirety.

Well, that's a start. I guess we'll see how it goes. Thanks.

 

[Mark]

Having an excerpt or start of longer pieces with a read more link would probably be better for the purposes of gaging readership anyway.

 

[malkav666]

Not really interested in crunch. Not because I don't like it, but because unless the crunch is for a system I am playing I have zero interest in the article. That means the article is completely hit or miss. All of the other types of articles you mentioned I would probably read even if it was about a system that I was not playing.But once you pick a game system to write crunch about, it makes the article completely useless to everyone not using that system.

Of all of the things you have listed. I would probably rate opinion pieces, and serial fiction as the ones I am most interested in.

love,

malkav

 

[Nifft]

Opinion: Industry and Opinion: Gaming for me.

Preferably by insiders & experts who don't post here much.

Cheers, -- N

 

[avin]

I'm interested on edition free fluff stuff.

 

[jmucchiello]

I'd like to vote "None". The best part about ENWorld is that all posters in the forum are equal. I can read a post from a 14 year old new to D&D and the next post can be from the D&D brand manager. Stranger still, the manager could be responding to the 14 year old. Columns, and blogging in general, put a barrier between the writer and the reader. Some writers like that separation, they can go to wordpress or livejournal and make a blog, more power to them. But I don't read any industry blogs, I don't follow and industry twitters. I read messages by real folks on message boards where all are treated equally. ENWorld is a shining beacon among message boards because it has managed to maintain a civil atmosphere throughout its history. It is a port of call for gamers, storytellers, gamehackers, role-play-by-posters, amateur sociologists, industry insiders, and noobs. All alone in the night....

In any case, as long as columns do not detract from the egalitarian ways of the forums (and don't drive away any of the cliques), I can't complain. I merely voice my concern.