Game Section reorganization

My take on this is:

General
A General Gaming forum --> threads
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Platforms
PC
XBox
Playstation
Nindendo
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Handhelds
PSP
DS
Other

No problem.

Are you talking about working out all the platforms we need to have as forums? I only think we need to have the most popular platforms: No need for a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) forum these days

I'd change a couple things. I'd have it be PC Gaming/Console Gaming/and possibly Handheld Gaming.

I don't think sub-topics are necessary now.

Firstly, that thread could do with a review. Consider it, and the support it has. Anyway, here is my idea from that thread:

I'd probably add subforums to Console and Handheld with each platform. For example, me and Phukface know a lot about the PSP and could bash together a Sticky for that subforum if it existed under 'Handheld Gaming'.

So how is it looking so far?

General Gaming
PC Gaming
Console Gaming
...Playstation
...XBox
...Nindendo
Handheld Gaming
...Playstation Portable
...Nintendo DS
...Game Boy
...Other

Additions / Subtractions / multiplication?

I don't want sub-forums just so I can write a sticky 8O

Ok, we can go with

PC Gaming
Console Gaming
Handheld Gaming

My take on this

Whether we're talking forums or subforums is a technical issue. The problem is there is too many forums as it is.

I can go along with Ned's proposals, with adding to that that I would reallty want to see a General gaming section/forum. This is where you can discuss general gaming issues, and also gaming industry issues (a topic I find particularly interesting).

Whether it is useful to give each gaming platform its own forum or subforum is immaterial to me, but it is important to cluster topics according to the gaming platform they are reffering to. I don't want to read DS related topics when I'm only looking for PSP related stuf (and vice versa).

agreed

Overkill, a hot game does not need a forum. It should be a topic in the forum it's supposed to be in, the platform on which you can play the game. If it is a multi-platform game, it still makes sense to do it this way because there's always differences between the different platform implementations.

I agree with Aaron, there. Pedantic. Just leave it as it is.

Yeah, I think the best implementation would be:

General
PC Gaming
Console Gaming
Handheld Gaming

We don't have the need / traffic for sub forums going any deeper.

I vote to lose the general.

Gaming issues....So you’re saying any game issues should go under general, not the platform? Or only general issues. Hehe.

Industry issues....Then call it “Industry issues” don’t add a fork in the road, called General.

Does that mean you agree with me or not? I call it what it is, so that must be simple.

Lump the lot under general. If in the future we have the traffic to justify other sub forums then yeah why not but at the moment what's the point.

In reply to Jiffy, it's fairly rare to find an answer to a game specific problem here mainly cos my advice is do the obvious and check for a forum devoted to the game elsewhere on the net. Unless you're playing an obscure game you will find a forum and in that forum the chances are high your problem has been seen and fixed (or not) before.

Ok I agree. I think the way you have it will be 100% improvement.

You sold me on it. Leave General.

I think we've got all the feed back we're going to get here... Is it about time to reorg the section????

I second that.

I want them to change stuff so I can complain about stuff being changed.

I'll sit here and complain about young folk and television.

When are these changes going to take affect?

Well, Hurry Up! Ding dong dang it!

bump

I think BigMac said it well.

Its self explanatory and doesn’t get any simpler then that.

General
PC Gaming
Console Gaming
Handheld Gaming

I also think there are to many out dated post and some worthless ones as well. Having so many subforums adds to the clutter.

I think if things were separated by year like the old forum did it would help keep current post up top and old and useless ones to fall back in the pages. I don’t know how you move things, but I think by date would be best and having the years totally separate. Just by having only four forums would help clean up, but still I don't see any reason to have stuff posted back two years ago? Some noob might reply to it!

I agree that those 4 categories make the most sense in terms of organising the posts. You're never going to get a perfect system unless we have just one forum for games.

I'm not convinced that sub-dividing by year is necessary or helpful. A thread started in late december would be in the "old" forum maybe only a week later! Why not just let old threads die a natural death? Do n00bs really view page 47 and reply to old threads? Could you maybe lock threads which have been dormant for more than a month or two? (if this could be done automatically - it would be too much work for the mods to do it manually)

apparently not..........

Apparently you did not see yet that all new posts made in the old sub forums are being moved towards one of the 4 main forums now? I don't know why the old forums are there still but there are some technical issues with just throwing them out. I would like to close them down though but I'm just a mod. I'll do another check with Steve.

Please everyone, just post in the 4 main forums: General Discussions, PC Gaming, Console Gaming, Handheld Gaming. All the other forums will be switched off sooner or later and if it becomes too much work for me moving topics, topics are just going to get cut short when the forums are eventually closed.