DOS Games Discussion

Dopefish · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: Too many forums

It seems there are too many forums, considering the lack of activity in all of them.
Forum games, literature, and music could all be grouped into General off-topic. It's not like it's overflowing with posts.

Dogbreath · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject:

Emmzee's going to love you. Wink

Forum Games is kept aside on purpose to keep stupid games from cluttering up the legitimate discussions. Actually, I've been considering deleting it as it serves no real perpose-the only reason I don't is if I do sooner or later people are going to start posting games in the OT forum... again. Literature and Music don't get very many replies, true, but I think they get enough to warrent it's existence.

For other forums, do we really need a Game Exchange forum? It doesn't seem to serve it's purpose very well.

lakerzz8 · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

I was thinking this too there are too many forums, maybe make some of them invisible groups for people who actually want to post there, like forum games, only about 5 people post there and none right now

Kazer0 · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 12:37 am Post subject:

lakerzz8 · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:

Forum games should stay because it is very popular!

Dopefish · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject:

Can you define "very popular"? I wouldn't call a forum with a total of 16 theads, only four with replies less than a month old, "very popular". I would call it "vastly unpopular" or "black hole of the internet".
It's not like General Off-topic would be flooded with forum games.

I like the idea of General and Media forums, but all of the current media forums and general forum are so dead that lumping them together would at least make it seem like there's more activity.

lakerzz8 · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

before the association game was deleted it had 1000 posts so add 1000 to the total post count buddy

Wally*Won_Kenobie · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:

Kazer0 · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:26 am Post subject:

Dogbreath · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject:

True. Forum Games serves no real purpose other than keeping the annoying games OUT of OT.

lakerzz8 · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject:

i dont see trading games serving any purpose either, and a message board is supposed to be fun if you remove it you will be removing fun

johpower · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:07 am Post subject:

I don't mind the forum count. Info the world over lies dormant, only to be hot beans at some future date. DOS Games is about games info and all that goes with it. Trading games seems a part, even if a bit slow now.

Is there some sort of big wish to see alot of action on these "slow" topics? If so, the thing is to attract more forum viewers and members (a subject I've hit before about the buried forum link on the home page). Are there any stats on who's new and posting? I haven't seen many new names myself. But we will need to control our flames more to keep them here, at least in the places the newbees use most. Maybe a thicker skin and a little wisdom by all is a better idiom? If anything that's a bigger problem by far. Ashamed

Interon · Guest

Yeah! Get rid of the Game Exchange forum (unless someone really truly wants to keep it)! Shit-Eating Grin

Dogbreath · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject:

Actually, some people seem to have made actual exchanges via GEF so it'll stay for now.

JohPower: Interestingly enough, the two subjects that attract most of the new users here is finding old games and getting old games to work-that includes me.

Interon · Guest

Doesn't matter to me.