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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 19:49:27
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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I'm sad to see the Warmachine/Hordes area consolidated, but that probably has more to do with the excellent forum Privateer Press manages then anything else. Also, all the haters of WM/H post over at 4Chan and a few other places. Who knew that some people hated WM/H so much?
Separating WFB and AoS was probably a good thing. Still lots of anger and hate floating out there...
I did notice one weird thing to me: Why does Gangfight Games get its own Forum? Is it due to the traffic for it's one and only game that no one has really heard of (I saw it in 2015 at Templecon I think? And they had like next to nothing to sell, a small demo, and no OP for it?). I haven't seen this game advertised much, though I know one of the guys working on it (and we only discussed it in passing one time...). Anyways, just seemed odd to me.
I really dislike lumping all the other sci-fi games into one forum. Will just make it hard to follow the games I like when it's clustered in with all the rest. No, I really don't have a suggestion to fix that besides making a bunch more sub-forums. All I know is that I'm going to be irked when I'm trying to have a conversation about STAW and random X person is going to post "Is this game still a thing? I thought it died out a long time ago..." or "You should play a better flight path system game- X-Wing!". Having it's own separate forum kept the riffraff out, if you know what I mean. Now, people will feel more inclined to read a thread about a game they may or may not like when it's in the same forum as a game they follow. Could be a good thing, could be a bad thing. /shrug
Glad there are active moderators who monitor the traffic of the site and not afraid to review/reorganize things every once in a while.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 19:56:25
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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I think, on the more cosmopolitan sub fora, perhaps a keen encouragement to adopt a [NAMEOFGAME] preface to thread titles will help people scanning for specific games?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 20:19:00
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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legoburner wrote:
timd wrote:Any chance of being able to collapse whole sections to a single line using a collapse arrow/icon? I don't read Warhammer Fantasy, Warmachine/Hordes and Infinity so it would be nice to collapse these sections so as to not have to scroll through them to get to Other Games.
Tim
Well 2 of the three of those are no longer an issue!
True, but collapse arrows would still be nice for the big ones: Painting, 40K and AoS.
Tim
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 20:23:57
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Three Color Minimum
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@Squig I don't keep up on FB what are the best pages/groups?
Seems like mantic fans on this site(those of us left) are being scattered.
If KOW can do well enough here for its own subforum then maybe give DZI and WP a chance to be released before breaking up the mantic community? As a mantic fan I'd rather mantic games were segmented from other games just in general. The way it stands now mantic games will be using three tags in just sci-fi misc. Seems really messy and short-sighted to me.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 20:26:35
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Looks good so far, more structured and, in general, it is a nice reaching out to users and their interests. Would it be possible to add a "Collapse" function to the forums? So that you could "hide" all forums you don't want to see? It would further reinforce the structured look and helps focussing on what you really want to read. Keep up the good work, Lego! :*
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 20:29:58
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Joined the Military for Authentic Experience
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I'm pretty happy with the reorganisation, and I appreciate all the work you guys do.
Dakka is the best moderated and administrated site I have ever been on.
Need to renew the old DCM one of these days.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 20:30:41
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Tamwulf wrote:I did notice one weird thing to me: Why does Gangfight Games get its own Forum? Is it due to the traffic for it's one and only game that no one has really heard of (I saw it in 2015 at Templecon I think? And they had like next to nothing to sell, a small demo, and no OP for it?). I haven't seen this game advertised much, though I know one of the guys working on it (and we only discussed it in passing one time...). Anyways, just seemed odd to me.
Dakka has a deal with Gangfight Games to host their official forums.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 20:37:26
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps
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Will any of the 40k boards be getting condensed/merged as part of this?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 20:58:54
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Expendable Defender Destroid Rookie
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Yay for reorganization!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 21:04:13
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Stubborn Prosecutor
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yakface wrote:
they most certainly do not follow the famous Field of Dreams mantra 'if you build it they will come.' We've seen time and time again that simply adding a new forum doesn't instantly spark discussion on that topic.
Yes but taking away a forum and shoving it in a random hole is a good way to kill any activity the site may have. Seriously the STAW forum was not hurting anyone. When we were kicked out of the X-wing thread and shoved in mis games we almost lost all of our contributors. Condensing multiple forums for one game into a few is one thing, but eliminating a forum all together is just wrong. Mis games is where games go to die.
RiTides wrote:I'm really excited for this! Thanks for the thorough explanation, yak 
Tough to be excited when your forum is nuked and sent to a hole never to be seen again.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 21:04:28
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Making Stuff
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Das_Ubermike wrote:I don't suppose there's a chance that someone will finally do the sane thing and split up the Painting forums by specific periods like Warseer has done, i.e. Imperium, Xenos, Fantasy, Historical.
Nope, not happening, at least for now.
It may have worked for Warseer, (I don't know, I stopped visiting over there years ago) but splitting P&M has to be done judiciously as it can very, very easily just fragment everything, leaving less popular genres with little to no attention. Having everything lumped in together increases the chances of casual browsers checking different stuff out, rather than just sticking to their one favourite or comfortable genre.
Having said that, the P&M Blogs section does move very quickly and can be hard to keep up with, so this may be something that we'll want to look into down the track. Automatically Appended Next Post: Mr. S Baldrick wrote:Yes but taking away a forum and shoving it in a random hole is a good way to kill any activity the site may have. Seriously the STAW forum was not hurting anyone. When we were kicked out of the X-wing thread and shoved in mis games we almost lost all of our contributors. Condensing multiple forums for one game into a few is one thing, but eliminating a forum all together is just wrong. Mis games is where games go to die. .
Ultimately, having multiple sub-forums sitting in the directory with little to no traffic is not desirable, and it doesn't really encourage newcomers to post... they look at the front page, notice that there's been one post in the last three weeks, and move on.
Consolidating with other games is the next best thing... the alternative is to just nuke it altogether. If a particular game in the Misc section gets enough discussion that it starts to look like it could support its own section again, then that can be revisited... So, ultimately, it's up to you. If you want a game to have its own section, you need to help keep the discussion on that game active.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 21:09:13
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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insaniak wrote:
Having said that, the P&M Blogs section does move very quickly and can be hard to keep up with, so this may be something that we'll want to look into down the track.
As someone who took an extended break and is just now trying to catch up on all the P&M blogs he subscribed to over the years, as well as find new ones relevant to my games of choice, this would be excellent.
Looking forward to seeing how the current changes pan out.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 21:11:43
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Thermo-Optical Hac Tao
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The Age of Sigmar forum descriptions all still say they include legacy WFB chat btw.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 21:23:12
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Stubborn Prosecutor
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insaniak wrote:
Ultimately, having multiple sub-forums sitting in the directory with little to no traffic is not desirable, and it doesn't really encourage newcomers to post... they look at the front page, notice that there's been one post in the last three weeks, and move on.
Ah no, everyone posting it the STAW forum these days except for me and Meangreenstompa came after we crawled out of mis. games the last time.
insaniak wrote:
So, ultimately, it's up to you. If you want a game to have its own section, you need to help keep the discussion on that game active.
That is a cop out, toe the line answer. We did that once already and now you guys are throwing us back into the hole. Mis games is where threads go to die. 5 mins after you post a thread is is shot half way down the page for 20 "hey anyone still play X game" thread.
Sure we didn't have a X-Wing level traffic but we had regular contributors, we kept things peaceful and people knew where to go to find us. What's the point of generating more traffic if you guys will just take away the forum again the next time?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 21:26:24
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Das_Ubermike wrote:I don't suppose there's a chance that someone will finally do the sane thing and split up the Painting forums by specific periods like Warseer has done, i.e. Imperium, Xenos, Fantasy, Historical.
I second this.
It's just a big mess ATM and impossible to search for anything. If there at least were tags, it could work to have every kind of painting log mixed together. But there aren't.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:00:55
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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ImAGeek wrote:The Age of Sigmar forum descriptions all still say they include legacy WFB chat btw.
We are still working on that! Mr. S Baldrick wrote: insaniak wrote:So, ultimately, it's up to you. If you want a game to have its own section, you need to help keep the discussion on that game active.
That is a cop out, toe the line answer. We did that once already and now you guys are throwing us back into the hole.
Just going to post the contents of a PM I just wrote to another STAW fan since we're having the discussion ITT: Manchu wrote:First, I understand your disappointment. Nobody wants to have their favorite section reabsorbed into another board. But separating Attack Wing content into its own forum was an experiment from the beginning, not a promise that Dakka Dakka would always have a separate board for this game. Furthermore, the board was not originally intended to be only about Star trek but also about D&D Attack Wing and Heroclix. No discussion ever developed around those other two games. And discussion of Star Trek Attack Wing has slowed to a tiny trickle over the last year. We counted less than seven active threads per fortnight. The results of the experiment are pretty clear: the separate board did not attract enough new users to significantly boost discussion of any of the WizKids games over time. Therefore, we decided to fold those discussions back into Misc Miniatures.
The corollary is of course that everyone would like to have a separate board for their favorite game, regardless of volume of discussion. Most games don't even get the chance to see if it will work. Volume of discussion was not our only consideration. Regarding Gangfight Games, for example, Dakka Dakka has been hosting the official Gangfight Games Forum; so this site is the primary one for discussion Gangfight Games. This is obviously not true of, for example, Attack Wing.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:20:45
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Stubborn Prosecutor
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Manchu wrote:
The results of the experiment are pretty clear: the separate board did not attract enough new users to significantly boost discussion of any of the WizKids games over time. Therefore, we decided to fold those discussions back into Misc Miniatures. The corollary is of course that everyone would like to have a separate board for their favorite game, regardless of volume of discussion. Most games don't even get the chance to see if it will work.
Volume of discussion was not our only consideration. Regarding Gangfight Games, for example, Dakka Dakka has been hosting the official Gangfight Games Forum; so this site is the primary one for discussion Gangfight Games. This is obviously not true of, for example, Attack Wing.
So right there you are just saying that because it the amount of traffic bothered you guys, we lose out subforum. It didn't hurt anyone, but will hurt the discussion and annoy the actual users is threads being derailed by non players or lost into oblivion.
You guys have a very arbitrary way of deciding these things. Before you guys said it wasn't about the number of posts or threads but quality, no you guys are on quantity, so which is it. Or does it just boil down to the fact that no MODS of Admins are into STAW so you guys don't care.
In regards to Gangfight, that just shows that if a MOD/Admin has an interest in it, it will get past the arbitrary magic post count to have a subforum.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:27:46
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Dankhold Troggoth
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Mr. S Baldrick, I also was asked about this by another user and wanted to copy my message here:
I was actually the one who compiled the use data of our various subforums, and unfortunately, the STAW forum was simply not active enough to keep, and it has had some time to become established.
It's not just STAW - Infinity got consolidated to a single forum, Warmachine as well, and those are Big games. We have found that more traffic and discussion is great for the health of the forum and of any particular game system, too. Why not just start tagging your threads [STAW] and discuss them in the Misc SciFi forum? We specifically split this forum off so something like STAW could have a home there, rather than having just a single Misc forum.
I know this probably isn't what you wanted to hear... but there really wasn't an argument to be made for keeping STAW based on usage. I think it is awesome that you guys talk about it here, and hope you'll be able to continue in tagged threads in the Misc SciFi forum.
If you want to talk about it further just reply here - although note I'm about to drive to AdeptiCon so might be delayed replying!
I really think you could keep discussion of STAW going - just tag the threads, and you've got the Misc SciFi Forum (which, as noted above, STAW was originally intended to share a forum with a few other games, anyway - they just never materialized!).
I hope you'll stick it out - this certainly wasn't targetted. A number of mods play Warmachine as their main game (myself, malfred, AgeOfEgos, Waaagh_Gonads) but it was never in question that we could consolidate Warmachine down to a single forum. The same goes for Infinity. Both of these games will, hopefully, continue to be discussed thoroughly on Dakka - they just didn't need so many separate forums for that discussion to happen! For STAW, discussion just has to take place in the Misc SciFi Forum.
Other Mod favorites that got consolidated - Malifaux into Misc Other Games, and Battlefront into WW1 - Present Historicals. More folks posting will be better for all these games, it's never good for a game to have an empty / "dead" subforum, even if it's got its name on top of it. Let's give it a chance and see how it goes!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:28:35
Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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No, the deciding factor for Gangfight was not mod/admin interest but rather the fact that Dakka Dakka hosts the official forum. To my knowledge, WizKids never approached Dakka Dakka to host the official forum for any product line. As to Attack Wing, it's true (as far as I know) that no mod or admin currently plays it or argued to keep it separate. I don't think there is any proof that the former caused the latter. Even now, the only argument for keeping it separate seems to be because it has been separate in the past, which is necessarily a bad argument considering it was separated out precisely to see whether doing so would help drive discussion ... and it didn't. Let me give you a counterexample: One of my favorite games is Bolt Action by Warlord Games but as you can see there is no separate forum for it, nor has there every been one. Or from the other direction, there used to be a separate Flames of War forum and one of the site's owners has been pretty big into that game -- and yet that forum has now been folded into another one.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:33:00
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Joined the Military for Authentic Experience
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Definitely think these are some changes for the better. Realise it's a hard choice for a lot of it, and the distinctions are not always clear.
Only change I would make is putting Infinity/Star Wars + others section above the GW legacy games. You've got to go with the times and fashions, man!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:34:04
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Fixture of Dakka
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Mr. S Baldrick wrote: Manchu wrote:
The results of the experiment are pretty clear: the separate board did not attract enough new users to significantly boost discussion of any of the WizKids games over time. Therefore, we decided to fold those discussions back into Misc Miniatures.
The corollary is of course that everyone would like to have a separate board for their favorite game, regardless of volume of discussion. Most games don't even get the chance to see if it will work.
Volume of discussion was not our only consideration. Regarding Gangfight Games, for example, Dakka Dakka has been hosting the official Gangfight Games Forum; so this site is the primary one for discussion Gangfight Games. This is obviously not true of, for example, Attack Wing.
So right there you are just saying that because it the amount of traffic bothered you guys, we lose out subforum. It didn't hurt anyone, but will hurt the discussion and annoy the actual users is threads being derailed by non players or lost into oblivion.
You guys have a very arbitrary way of deciding these things. Before you guys said it wasn't about the number of posts or threads but quality, no you guys are on quantity, so which is it. Or does it just boil down to the fact that no MODS of Admins are into STAW so you guys don't care.
In regards to Gangfight, that just shows that if a MOD/Admin has an interest in it, it will get past the arbitrary magic post count to have a subforum.
The producer of Gangfight specifically asked Dakkadakka to host their official forums- essentially they asked for a seperate subforum for their own game, just as On the Lamb used to have their official forums here(iirc).
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:38:10
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Pacific wrote:Only change I would make is putting Infinity/Star Wars + others section above the GW legacy games. You've got to go with the times and fashions, man! 
Well that would certainly have been my (personal) preference  but from a site layout point of view, having the GW ones right after AoS (which is going down to 3 subforums, just in the process of being done!) makes the most sense.
But yeah, I really love talking about non- GW games and I'm hoping this will give those sections of the site a spark! In analyzing forum activity (since someone asked earlier) the 40K sections are simply red-hot. The general sections and painting & modeling are, too! Some of the other game subforums were alright, but many were struggling - and I think part of that was just being split into so many different sections. Warmachine is a great example - PP has their own forum for asking, and getting very fast official answers to, rules questions. So, that wasn't a forum that could sustain any traffic here, and just having the single Warmachine forum will hopefully get even more folks talking about the game on Dakka since discussion won't be so divided up.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:47:12
Subject: Re:Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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insaniak wrote:Das_Ubermike wrote:I don't suppose there's a chance that someone will finally do the sane thing and split up the Painting forums by specific periods like Warseer has done, i.e. Imperium, Xenos, Fantasy, Historical.
Nope, not happening, at least for now.
It may have worked for Warseer, (I don't know, I stopped visiting over there years ago) but splitting P&M has to be done judiciously as it can very, very easily just fragment everything, leaving less popular genres with little to no attention. Having everything lumped in together increases the chances of casual browsers checking different stuff out, rather than just sticking to their one favourite or comfortable genre.
Having said that, the P&M Blogs section does move very quickly and can be hard to keep up with, so this may be something that we'll want to look into down the track.
I would add that there are painters and modellers (including yours truly) who post photos of minis, and projects, from a variety of genres. I'd rather they be able to post all their work in one thread. What may work for Warseer's monoculture may not work here. I know that I will not bother to maintain separate threads for projects of differing genres which I undertake, or for each genre of minis I paint. Perhaps a separate P&M forum-- a 'Safe Spot', if you will-- for those who only want to see things from the H-H-H-Hobby? Or make the rest of us tag our threads with trigger warnings?
P&M blogs do move quickly. (One can drop off the top of the front page is less than 12 hours.) Something like a 'view recent threads' section for it? Also, a way to see how many have subscribed to a given thread would be nice.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 22:57:35
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Any chance the Off Topic board can be flipped with the Board Games, Roleplaying Games & Card Games on the list of forums?
Currently Off Topic is nestled between Game Design and Board Games, Roleplaying Games & Card Games, but since Off Topic has nothing to do with gaming surely it belongs next to Nuts & Bolts more than Game Design?
In case I am not being clear when I look at the More Dakka section of forums the order is:
Dakka Polls
Dakka Fiction
Forum Games
Video Games
Game Design
Off Topic
Board Games, Roleplaying Games & Card Games
Nuts & Bolts
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/29 23:02:55
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Yes indeed, good spot!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/30 00:24:02
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I notice that "Gangfight Games” is the only topic under the “Official Games Forums” header. Would it make sense to put MEdge there as well?
I’d also like the ability to claps categories if possible, there are a number of sections I don’t visit.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/30 01:44:07
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Fixture of Dakka
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Will there be an echo chamber sub forum?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/30 07:59:36
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RiTides wrote: Pacific wrote:Only change I would make is putting Infinity/Star Wars + others section above the GW legacy games. You've got to go with the times and fashions, man! 
Well that would certainly have been my (personal) preference  but from a site layout point of view, having the GW ones right after AoS (which is going down to 3 subforums, just in the process of being done!) makes the most sense.
There's no reason for GW to be right at the top. It might boost discussion for other games if the Misc stuff was further up.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2016/03/30 08:59:48
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Stubborn Prosecutor
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Manchu wrote:No, the deciding factor for Gangfight was not mod/admin interest but rather the fact that Dakka Dakka hosts the official forum. To my knowledge, WizKids never approached Dakka Dakka to host the official forum for any product line.
Someone must have an interest in it otherwise you guys would throw down the arbitrary gauntlet of “thread activity” on it. Why does it make a difference if the company asks for the forum? Are they paying for the space?
Manchu wrote:
Let me give you a counterexample: One of my favorite games is Bolt Action by Warlord Games but as you can see there is no separate forum for it, nor has there every been one. Or from the other direction, there used to be a separate Flames of War forum and one of the site's owners has been pretty big into that game -- and yet that forum has now been folded into another one.
That is a terrible counter point. There is no reason to take away any games active subform just because you guys don’t like the level of activity. Yeah sure if something sits for over a year with nothing going on that is one thing, If you guys gave a game a subforum there is no reason to take it away as long as people are being polite an using it.
RiTides wrote:It's not just STAW - Infinity got consolidated to a single forum, Warmachine as well, and those are Big games.
STAW is bigger than you think. Still selling in the top 5 above Infinity and AoS
( http://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/33912/top-5-non-collectible-miniature-games-fall-2015)
RiTides wrote:
I know this probably isn't what you wanted to hear... but there really wasn't an argument to be made for keeping STAW based on usage. I think it is awesome that you guys talk about it here, and hope you'll be able to continue in tagged threads in the Misc SciFi forum.
There is an argument to be made. The separate subforum didn’t hurt anyone, it didn’t bog down the site and there was regular activity. This decision to eliminate useful forums equates to nothing more than moving the furniture around for nothing more than the sake of it.
RiTides wrote:
I really think you could keep discussion of STAW going - just tag the threads, and you've got the Misc SciFi Forum
It’s going to be rather difficult as threads get lost amongst people drudging up 20 year old games and people that think just because they can sculpt they should make a kickstarter.
RiTides wrote:
it was never in question that we could consolidate Warmachine down to a single forum.
Consolidate is one thing, but out right elimination is completely different. Did you guys ever consider taking to the users before you come up with these ideas?
What is the point in putting the work into trying to build up a forum just to have it all thrown up in the air when you guys don't like the number of links on the page. We did that once and you guys pull this BS on us. Small games ebb and flow with activity. It’s not like 40K. All I have to say is Mantic and WH 9th fans, watch you backs, you may log in one day and find yourselves shunted down to misc games because the MODS think there are too many links.
As it is the bulk of the STAW treads are in mis games and the most recent are in mis Scifi games. So now we have to check two different subforums. Now we have to try and build it up again amongs all the dakka fodder and "please help my kickstarter" threads. Even if we do get traffic going again, we will be right back here next year when you guys decide that "mis. games and mis Scifi games don't have enough activity... lets consolidate them"  .
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Subject: Dakka forum reorganization incoming!
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Calculating Commissar
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I've only just realised you meant Star Trek Attack Wing :(
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