New subforum?

James McMurray · February 04, 2007, 03:11:53 PM

Would it benefit the site to have a subforum in the Off Topic section dedicated solely to other forums? We get a lot of people talking about rpg.net, sjgames, the forge, and others. I think it detracts from talking about things that really matter*, and giving it its own home might help alleviate that some.

* like gay mountain lions

Zachary The First · February 04, 2007, 04:28:13 PM

I agree with James.

Gay mountain lions are important.

On the sub-forum thing, I'm ambivalent.

Consonant Dude · February 04, 2007, 04:46:12 PM

Quote from: James McMurrayWould it benefit the site to have a subforum in the Off Topic section dedicated solely to other forums? We get a lot of people talking about rpg.net, sjgames, the forge, and others. I think it detracts from talking about things that really matter*, and giving it its own home might help alleviate that some.

* like gay mountain lions

It doesn't detract from anything at all since the off-topic forum is a totally unimportant.

But even more to the point, it is unnecessary currently because threads on the first page currently have last responses that go as far as January 23rd. Do we really need to create sub-forums for barely frequented sections?

In short, all of the off-topic stuff can be handled by the current forum setup. There's just not enough traffic to warrant fragmentation.

Stumpydave · February 04, 2007, 04:50:48 PM

I think there are two many forums as it is. We could fold Pundit's own forum and the Amber forum into Off Topic and Roleplaying respectively and have a much tighter board.

So I vote no.

O'Borg · February 04, 2007, 07:56:38 PM

I'm in the No camp too.
I saw what happened at WebRPG / RPGHost which has a billion sub-forae and about a dozen posters. There are forums that go years between posts.
I also see RPG net with its One Forum To Hold Them All policy, which means anything interesting gets buried in a twenty page thread
between the time you open the Reply window and hit the Submit button.

IMO, RPGnet isnt big enough yet to demand more forums.

James McMurray · February 04, 2007, 08:09:45 PM

Sorry folks, I guess I should have used more smileys. This is a joke.

O'Borg · February 04, 2007, 08:26:27 PM

Quote from: James McMurraySorry folks, I guess I should have used more smileys. This is a joke.

Yeah, but still a worthwhile discussion

Ian Absentia · February 04, 2007, 10:38:10 PM

Conceptually, off-topic topics should be placed in successively more specific subfora in an infinite regression that renders every topic other than roleplaying absurd.

!i!

Consonant Dude · February 04, 2007, 10:52:48 PM

Quote from: James McMurraySorry folks, I guess I should have used more smileys. This is a joke.

Yeah, I knew that all along. Pfff!

Well, ok. I didn't :deflated:

RPGPundit · February 05, 2007, 01:18:56 AM

I don't plan to add any new fora anytime soon. Odds are that, if anything, I'll be more likely to close some Fora down if they have too limited a use.

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