[News] Changing the gaming forums

I'm using IE7 and I'm not having any tag issues. Perhaps this is with earlier versions of IE, I'm not sure.

As for the forum setup I'm not overly enjoying this either. If we were to make the area where you select "Video Gaming" off the main page the general gaming area with optional thread console tags and then seperate Forum areas for each of the indevidual consoles like the Multiplayer and RPG areas already are, this would allow acces to console specific forums off the main page while also keeping the list of the main page small and make things a little more organized for the users.

EDIT
PC, Help and Question appear to be the only tags I see boxes for, didn't notice this earlier.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Question
So what will happen to the once forum specific Sticky threads? Are these just simply going to get lost, buried amongst all the other threads or what's going to be done?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I can see what both Rock and Reaver's points are and they each have their points.

Rock: Without the tags and subforums people will more likely to participate in discussions that they might not normally seek to participate in.

Reaver: The tags and subforums is to give people the option to be more selective with the things they want to read and Discuss.

As for myself I'm still a bit sketchy on the idea. I think that more participation on the community is a good thing, however people already get frustrated when someone has a difference of opinion on a topic, imagine when you get all the fanboys of group A voicing their opinions in the threads of group B. Perhaps I'm underestimating the maturity of the community here but from what I've experianced from being on other gaming forums from gametrailers.com to GaiaOnline these things tend to not often turn out for the better.

All things aside, I think if perhaps we could order the threads in the gaming section by console a litle easier with perhaps a drop box for console selection over the tag colum instead at the bottom of the page like it is now may be the simplest fix for everyone.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I may not share Guru's frustration on the situation, however my thoughts on the new design are similar to that of Guru's. People arn'e as much complaining as they are stating an observation. I believe that Guru's frustration may simply be coming from the fact that people think that his opinion is incorrect, which simply is not possible.

I don't know if it was feedback or design ideas that people were expecting to come out of this thread, however everyone, Guru included are users and in the end are these not the people you're trying to make the community experiance better for? I'm not saying to tailor to any specific user, just take note of all the feedback, right or wrong, good or bad and try to use it to achieve an end goal instead of attacking every detail in someone's suggestion.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I know you're joking (I hope), but GOD would that be a nightmare. Suddenly things don't look so bad, nm guys things look good as they are. Keep up the good work ^^;
lol

I was speaking idiomatically.

Not that I really care, but I don't know how you think selecting the Video Game area, scrolling to the bottom of the screen to select the filter and then re-load the page to get console specific stuff is easier then simply clicking on the console specific area to begin with. However I don't think that the redesign was meant for simplicity as much as it is for getting more people to see & participate in more discussions.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?