[News] Changing the gaming forums

The only objections I have to this higher-level "genre tag" system is:

1. I can optimistically trust newbies to tag a thread as SONY / MICROSOFT / NINTENDO, but not add on the specific "puzzle/action" or "action/dating" or "music/rpg" etc... This would result in a lot of moderator action, properly tagging game threads when people don't label the different genres correctly.

2. Where would these tags appear? If they're on the main forum listing for the threads, the tags would be incredibly cluttered. You'd be seeing SONY / RPG / ACTION images for a single thread. I'd much prefer a single SONY icon.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Miles

So I think we'll end up doing something like this.

Video Gaming with following tags:
360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PC, DS, PSP, Arcade, Multiplatform, classic, general gaming

I included PS2 since it still has a decent flow of games coming out on it. The original xbox and the gamecube are pretty much dead now and could be considered classic. We'll have a Online gaming subforum for planning meets, sharing friends codes, xbox live stuff, MMORPG meets, etc. We'll also give the RPG section its own subforum due to popular demand.

What do you guys think?

(we could include xbox, gba, and gamecube tags too if you want)

This sounds excellent. I'm all ready for our new frontier of tags!

There's nowhere I can't reach.