Oh hai thar new sub-forums

Kaiserhawk · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:13 am

Bout time we got some new sub forums

Kaiser TG · **Joined:** Tue May 27, 2008 2:46 pm **Posts:** 16

mscupcakes · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:30 am

Awesome!!

If only my fantastic art thread was moved to the appropriate section :cry:

Link · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:33 am

Point me in the right direction for any threads you want moved to the appropriate places.

mscupcakes · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:40 am

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=200&p=1654#p1654
Into Art please :razz:

JasperValentine91 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:42 am

Hehe, who came up with the descriptions for the sub forums?

They're awesome and funny.

Hey art kids, we all know how you got picked on in high school, and then cried yourself to sleep at night. Share all those angsty poems, fruit bowl paintings, Chung-Lee x Cammy fan art/fan fiction, epic wallpapers, and forum signatures here.

lol

And for the fantasy forum, i thought they meant THOSE kinda fantasies...

Link · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:45 am

I wrote all the descriptions, hopefully nobody gets offended, haha.

JasperValentine91 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:05 pm

Nice descriptions Link.

Nice. :-D

nosebleed · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:50 pm

holy shit! what a nice suprise.

KH · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:58 pm

Why so Serious? HAHA, awesome sub forum name Link!

Link · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:26 pm

KH wrote:

Why so Serious? HAHA, awesome sub forum name Link!

haha, thanks. I thought it was pretty fitting to the 'comic' theme I've been going with for forum names.

Rusty · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:44 pm

Link, why isnt there a forum dedicated to how awesome I am??

mscupcakes · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:47 pm

Rusty wrote:

Link, why isnt there a forum dedicated to how awesome I am??

If it exsisted it'd mearly be subforum of My awesomeness :razz:

I

you really Rusty

Gold-Star · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:56 am

You really need to re-integrate the video game forums (minus the stickies) or come up with a system that results in fewer divisions. The site doesn't have enough traffic yet to support that many forums and the 'Sega / Nintendo / yada' convention is going to make it really hard for people to post the right stuff in the right places.

Example: Hey, I want to talk about Final Fantasy 5...ummm...where do I post this? Is it okay to post it in Sony since that's where I first played it (anthologies) but no I might get yelled at because some people played it via emulation before that so I should post this in PC games. Then again the most recent release was on a Nintendo hand held. Or should I put it in a forum entitled 'The other stuff' and hope that it gets seen in a forum with vague reader appeal?

The new divisions are just going to make it harder to post stuff in the right spot and figure out where the people you're trying to converse with are browsing.

Videogame discussion wasn't broke it just needed less sticky.

Link · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:00 am

There isn't a good way to break it down, unless you go by Genres of games. But, everybody seems to want their 'specific series/section' sub-forum. It was a 50/50 vote between 'Major Console Companies' and 'Retro/Last Gen/Current Gen' categories.

'The Others' is pretty much meant for your multi-console spanning games that don't specifically fit anywhere. However, if you want to talk about FF5 the Snes version, put it in the Nintendo thread, want to talk about the PSX version put it in the Sony section. It's more or less built to keep things somewhat organized in terms of "I don't want to see a pile of X-Box games I don't own one and don't care." That way folks can just ignore the appropriate sub-forums if they so desire.

Gold-Star · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:05 am

Link I completely understand the spirit of the decision but it stands that the new method is just plain awkward. When you have to create an extra sub-forum because your new sub-forums are inadequate or aren't comprehensive enough already then it's time to stop and look for a simpler way to do things. More than three forums just doesn't make sense. How about: PC, Console, Retro? You pretty much cover all bases there and it's easy to figure out where your topic stands.

Link · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:07 am

Then you get into arguments over what's retro or not. The simple solution is to have a giant forum like we did, but even then, a majority of those topics require stickies if only to avoid cluttering up an already cluttered sub-forum, there were like... 3 games that didn't require a sticky at best out of all that was stickied. Even without stickies though, that sub-forum is a mess because in a single day you have two pages worth of topics to hunt through.

Gold-Star · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:14 am

Then PC / Console / Arcade would work for you. Or just one big forum again would be fine. I honestly think that if you take a chance on not stickying everything the board will get all 'free market' on you and threads will live and die in a natural way.

Anyway, I'm not trying to bust your chops or anything, Link. I know you have a lot on your plate. I just really want GH to succeed and it's no secret that audience supported endeavors like this live and die by their forums. I just think you've overcompensated for a problem that didn't really exist in the first place.

Link · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:16 am

It wasn't exactly the problem I was trying to fix. It was more so the public opinion being fulfilled. A lot of folks wanted separate sub-forums (probably because they're used to how ScrewAttack does things) and so I gave 'em seperate sub-forums. As I stated in another topic, I admin very closely with the community. I gauge interest in ideas before making any changes on my own. If people DON'T want something to change, then it's not changed, but if enough people speak up, then, change occurs.

Low Budget Jeff · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:20 am

I'm cool with it. I'm glad you decided to put the "Serious Talk" sub forum up. Some of the best discussion I've seen in a while and it's just gotten going. Hopefully everybody stays cool and nobody gets all butthurt about something.

And I see Gold Stars point on the video game sub forum, but also see Links which means there will never be a right or wrong way to organize gaming sub forums.

Anyways, cool. Only thing I would recommend is maybe changing the descriptions of the already existing forums. Like change general chatters description to something more specific. (Yeah, that makes sense...) Because some times when I have a topic idea, I'm not sure if it should go in serious, general, soapbox, or something else. Well, I guess two things. Change the name of Amazing Fantasy to something else. I had to stop to read the description to figure out what it was.

Which, totally contradicts my first point, which is an oxymoron anyways.

Ok, I'm done thinking tonight. x_x

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