[News] Changing the gaming forums

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 he 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)

I think this sounds good. The PC forum was so dead that I think it will help to include PC threads in with the console threads. I think adding genre tags is a bit much - I know that for myself I pretty much know the genre of the games being discussed before I click on the thread but maybe that's just me spending too much time on the 'net researching games.

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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!

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

Sounds like a good enough layout, although rather than a generic "multiplatform" moniker, maybe be able to set multiple tags for each system the game is coming out for. It would make filtering easier, so that if you want to see all the upcoming games for a specific system, you don't miss any by unchecking multiplatform which may include games coming out for that system. Otherwise it seems like there'd be a pretty large amount of games with the multiplatform tag, and it would also be somewhat confusing when a game goes multiplatform later on and the tag would need to be changed.

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How about cool little bouncy console icons instead of the ugly text tags?

Because the text tags on SB were quite uglimous.

or non-bouncy ones.

I was speaking idiomatically.

No separation of any kind required. If you have a brain, you will simply combine them all into one Gaming Forum.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I kind of liked having each section separated. Specifically the Nintendo section. I don't mean for this to come off as an attack against people who post in the N section, but it is no secret that some of the N fanboys have, in the past, behaved very zealously about N, and have had a history of getting very upset whenever someone made a post that was not glowing in praise of N. This is why I basically avoid the N section. While it is simple to say to just avoid the threads that are related to N in the big, new combined gaming forum, not everyone would be able to adhere to a self imposed avoidance policy.

And a point of fact is that in the past, the N forum was moderated differently than the other gaming forums, in such a way that the zealous N fanboys were more or less protected. I'm sorry, but N fanboys clash pretty violently even with people who are console neutral.

I propose creating an N subforum. If you want to, just say that because N's goal is to create new and innovative ways of gaming, they should be held separate from more "traditional" forms of gaming.

FELIPE NO

Jesus, group them together already.

I've wanted that for months now.

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I'm up for tags as long as (I've only stated this like 5 times already but here I go again) the ability to click the tags to sort them is implemented. :O

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New rule thread done.

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The new tags are fugly.

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

The current ones are only placeholders until the final ones are complete. (in a week or two) Its either those or just plain text.

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They're temporary tags, dude. =/

I was speaking idiomatically.

Wow, it's amazing how much shorter the root of the forum looks with all of the game threads condensed into a single sub-forum. I think it looks nice, I'll probably see quite a few threads I would've missed otherwise this way. And maybe I'm just missing something, but is there/will there be a way to filter multiple tags at once instead of being limited to either seeing all the tags or only seeing one?

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something is messed up with the tables or whatever in the light set.

Just thought you should know~

FELIPE NO

Updated the lite set template.

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

Mission complete! You may now return home, blah.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Thanks, I'll leave the future template updates in your hands <3

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Haha WOW this is different, but welcome. I sat there for a while looking for Sony Scape...

Looks good, guys. Great job.

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

Is there any way to set an auto-filter for stuff like "everything except for Nintendo and Microsoft"?

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I agree with RR, we need fanboy buttons.



I was speaking idiomatically.

Its pretty cool that you can just click the console icon and it puts those type of threads on top.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I think you should have a designated Console War Thread. It gets a lot of people fired up and passionate and provides an unlimited amount of hilarity for everyone else.

FELIPE NO

I can't say that i'm happy with this at all. I was perfectly happy with the way it was before. Everyone went to his own place and did his thing without bothering others.

I'll need time to adjust to this. =/

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Yeah I'm not really a fan of this setup either (but everyone said I just didn't know better). I don't really see how it's encouraging more or better conversation. I don't feel like it's easier to navigate, since we had those little dropdown menus before that were plenty easy (in fact, i feel like they were easier to use).

And I know they're placeholder, but the icons suck. I'd rather they were just text at this point. I hope that the new icons are smaller -- I don't like having all that garbage over to the left of every thread. It makes the forums feel off-kilter compared to the rest of GFF. It's not balanced. I like balance.

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I don't like it either... the forum are way more confusing for me now... and it doesn't look very appealing to me...

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