[News] Changing the gaming forums

I think I'd like this the best:

General (need to have this for things that don't fit elsewhere)
Consoles+Handhelds+Console/Handheld Online Gaming (tagged forum)
PC+MMOs+PC Online Gaming
Non-Online RPG

That's really all you need.

I do agree that if we're going to do tags by console/handheld, they need to be filterable. And I like the idea of a second layer of genre tags, similarly filterable.

And I like keeping RPG in its own forum since we have a large section of the community that is exclusively interested in RPG...the tone in those threads are always completely different from the other gaming threads.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

There are too many games that fill multiple genres, and if we were to separate them into the most logical groupings, we'd have like 20 forums.

That's why I like adding tags for genres, and being able to check multiple tags for certain games. So you can mark a game like Actraiser as an action and a sim game.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I guess I shouldn't have said second "layer", like they were on top of each other. But a second group. So you can search for Sony or you can search for Action or Sony and Action. Think Newegg Power Search. There's a logical grouping (the 4 categories) but you can get whatever categories you want. You could even get rid of the RPG forum with that.

And when you do specific searches like that, you won't miss stuff that fell off the first page that you might want to remember. And we could have it so each user can save certain search types so every time they log in they could always look at Sony+Action and DS separately.

(I've been designing new user interfaces for my product at work so I'm thinking way too big probably.)

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My thought was to the right of the "(Started on ______)" text. Just a list of the tags that represent the game.

My argument about the moderator thing is that we don't really have enough to do as it is. And if the gaming forums stay dead, it won't be hard to tag new threads. We get fewer than 10 new threads a day in the gaming forums currently.

It's just a thought, it's a lot of work and probably not feasible, but I'm a dreamer. :P

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I'm hoping better icons will fix it for us. I imagined being able to look at a glance and see the threads I wanted, but the icons are just too awful to be able to do that. Maybe with good ones it will look nice.

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Hey, did Acer say something?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?