What's with the cliques?

[Dinkeldog]

Eluvan, it's simple human nature. The boards are huge (trust me, I know) and it's impossible to keep up with all of it. So people with limited time hit the topics they're most interested in. Then people tend to develop relationships with people that they talk to more. So if someone rarely talks to someone else, then the relationship is stunted in comparison to a relationship with someone they communicate with several times a day.

Just thought it was a good question, got me thinking, and I thought maybe I'd putout a serious post. For once. Um, mostly.

 

[EricNoah]

You'd think a guy like me might have visited all forums all the time even in "my day" -- but it wasn't the case. I have never, for instance, read Piratecat's (or anyone else's) Story Hour. I also almost never go into the Rules forum or the House Rules forum. I don't know why, it's just not my thing. Maybe it's just too much to keep up with. That's one of the effects (good or bad) of chopping a forum up into sections, though -- people will stick with the topics that interest them.

 

[Zappo]

I basically can't keep up with everything. So, I only check what I'm most interested in. I'd like to follow a few more forums, but I'm spending too much time on enworld already.

 

[RangerWickett]

Yeah, the Daemonforge forums can get pretty cliquish, but you know, with all the posts going on, it's hard to just jump right in.

Aside from E.N. Publishing obviously (I work for them, for those who don't know), I personally favor General and Storyhour, followed by Sci-fi, Publishers, and House Rules. The third tier is Rules, Computers, and Off-Topic, then finally everything else. I used to hit the d20 system games forum more, but I'm just not seeing as much there as I'd like to of the games I'm interested in.

Still, I think I spend more than enough time online. In fact, I'm off to write something . . .

. . . for the Ceramic DM competition. Good luck to you, Eluvan.

 

[Xath]

I spend most of my time in General, Talking the Talk, Off Topic, and Story Hour. I occasionally check other boards, like right now, but I don't usually have the time.

 

[Morrus]

My "must visit" forums are General, Sci-fi, Meta and Publishers. House Rules and Rules are a bit behind that. I have to admit that I've never spent much time in the Story Hour forum, but I keep meaning to - people are always recommending great Story Hours to me.

 

[James Heard]

Normally I stick with the Art forums (because hey, that's what I do), the Media forum or whatever it's called (television and movies, I can't keep up so it's nice to leech off those that do), and Meta even though I don't post much (becuase it's nice to feel like you're informed even if you're not). This is my second forum stop actually though, so by the time I'm here I don't feel a pressing need to communicate much anyways. ENWorld is so big someone else usually says anything worth saying anways, why just chime in with "me too"?

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

We, the united masses of the People's Glorious Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books, Movies and TV Forum will purge the oppressed proletariat of the insidious influence of the Creature Catalog boyars! To the barricades! To revolution! Hail, hail Marx and Lenin!

 

[Hand of Evil]

There be lurkers...it is not that we are not there, just that you can't see us. Bahaaahaaaahaaaaahaaaa

 

[Desdichado]

We, the united masses of the People's Glorious Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books, Movies and TV Forum will purge the oppressed proletariat of the insidious influence of the Creature Catalog boyars! To the barricades! To revolution! Hail, hail Marx and Lenin!

TW, you rock!