[News] Changing the gaming forums

I'm pro-merging. I thik everyone saw my large post about this on SB. I still hope this means that the gaming forums will be cleaned up rather significantly though. No more "What's your favorite emulator" or things like this. (That should be in the Wii thread).

But perhaps, as expanding on something DarkComet said, how about we put an online megathread as a sticky or something. Not just Live tags. Not just friend codes, not just PSN names. Something incorporating all that. I dunno if we'd need a seperate forum for organizing games, you could either start a thread or ask in a game's official thread or whatnot.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I am confused. Most of the people who advocate keeping the forums split seem to think that our gaming section is active enough that there's enough activity to make finding specific threads difficult. Even merged, you probably won't even have to dive one page to find the thread you're looking for, if it's recent.

Going Sony tags might give you 5 or 6 active threads, while Sony-->Action like BM is saying for Genres would give you what? A God of War 2 thread?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

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.

Couldn't agree more with this. Plus, it brings up all sorts of problems with things that are hard to classify, like a thread on Katamari or something. Someone might search "puzzler" while someone else searches "action", or something.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Guru

I don't really see how it's encouraging more or better conversation.

Except, y'know, wrong.

I asked Lukage about this, and he has told me that in regards to the Bioshock thread he posted in, that he would either not have seen it at all or not seen it for several weeks (depending on it's location), if the gaming boards weren't centralized like this. That's a prime example of what I was talking about before. More users see more threads more often that they wouldn't have before and we get more discussion.

The rest of your complaints/issues are all opinion so I won't bother addressing them.

I will agree that the icons are too big at this point and should be shrunk. Other than that, I'm in love with this.

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

I'm citing just one quick example. I'm relatively certain this won't be the only instance of this ever happening.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Omi-Cron Kenobi

What is the problem here Guru?

This I don't understand either. His organization he moans about is still ONE CLICK AWAY.

Although I must admit, Guru's doing a damn good job of making a case for keeping the forums split. I don't want people like him in any of the threads I participate in. I wouldn't have to read his shit if it got funneled away into a subforum.

I do like RR's idea though. It'll probably please even the laziest of whiney assholes. Win-win.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Guru

I was told there would be buttons along the top of the forum to filter. Right now there aren't, and I already have to scroll around to find what I want to see. What if there are no threads about topics I'm interested in? Extra clicking, scrolling, searching.

It was never any less convenient to use the drop-down menu to scroll through the forums. This is just a different way of doing things, that has no obvious benefits, and the ones you guys are inventing for me are completely bullshit. Better conversation? More exposure? Riiight. No matter how they come across something, people aren't going to read what they don't want to read. Do you see where I'm coming from? If people weren't seeing threads before, it's because they were either stupid or lazy. I'm not afraid to admit that I'm lazy. I don't like a clunkier interface than is necessary for me to see what I want to see. But my opinion is not the majority, so c'est la vie.

I don't have a huge issue with the way the filters are set up so long as they're more accessible and less ugly. Do I prefer the other way? Yeah. Will I deal? Yeah. But quit telling me that it's for some greater good of the forum. It's just different. Plain and simple. It benefits people that have more video game systems than one because THEY are too lazy to change forums on the old system. But the conversation and exposure arguments are complete and utter garbage, and you all know it.

I've already brought forth one example of my ideas bearing fruit with the Lukage example. Dark Nation is another. I asked him if he would have seen and posted in the thread about the modded 360s being banned from Live in the old system, and he said no.

These may be just a few small examples, but I'm sure there's other ones that I haven't asked either. If you wanna call this bullshit, fine. I figure it's working. Maybe not on the scale I thought it would, but it's still working.

You have yet to provide evidence that disproves my arguments and shows how it's "complete and utter garbage". Other than "I want the old way back so you're full of shit". I know this has little to do with anything, but I'm sick of your shit and you calling me wrong on this. This Cain-like behaviour is embarassing.

Anywho, thanks for the update, Acer. Much <3

How ya doing, buddy?

I've already explained the Cain reference. The showing up out of nowhere and being pretty demanding thing was what I was refering to, not the him being stubborn thing, and I already told Guru in a PM I retract the statement.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?