Too many forums

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:10 pm

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.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:10 pm

Emmzee's going to love you.

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 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:53 pm

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 · Post by **Kazer0** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 12:37 am

Dogbreath wrote:Emmzee's going to love you. 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.

read my suggestion in the other topic about lit and music. Game Exchange is useless, delete it (And the only forum I moderate alone), Forum Games can go (Bye to 1/2 of zz8s posts), Forum suggestions and Forum errors could be merged.

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:04 pm

Forum games should stay because it is very popular!

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:18 pm

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 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:39 pm

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

Post by **Wally** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:37 pm

Tony_Montana wrote:Forum games should stay because it is very popular!

I agree with you there tony,

Game Trading isnt that popular couldnt we redirect those people who want to trade games to ebay or somewhere like that?

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:26 am

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

Association game was a was an excuse to let you spam our boards without pissing us off.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:58 pm

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

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:06 pm

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 · Post by **johpower** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:07 am

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.

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:10 pm

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

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:19 pm

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 · Post by **Interon** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:13 pm

Doesn't matter to me.

Core_12 · Post by **Core_12** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:38 am

I think it's pointless to divide the site suggestions to categories. Just "site suggestions" is nice, not a forum for every site. You know, not Dosgames.com suggestion, Dosgamesarchive suggestions and Dosgamesonline suggestion. Why not put them together?

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 10:25 am

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 11:55 am

Um, they're kept apart to avoid confusion... do you know how many times people would post saying "you should do so and so to your site" and then not mention *which* one? Many people visiting here never take the time to figure out that we're more than one site and so would think that "site suggestions" belongs to whatever site they came from.

Finally, it's simply easier for the respective admins here to not have to wade through *3 the amount of posts just to find the suggestions for their sites. The topics aren't discriminatory per site.

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:16 pm