What's with all these new boards?

[Kingston]

I don't like change, dammit.

 

[Jasede]

I don't like change, dammit.

 

[Gnidrologist]

Yeah, it seems a bit overdone. Soon we'll have a board for every single rpg title, a standalone board for ''Fallout3 sucks'' talk and general discussion will be split into furry drama/moviez/metal/multi headed dicks etc. sub divisions.
Simplicity is the key.

 

[JarlFrank]

I don't like change, dammit.

Thirded.

At least put General Discussion back up, so it's above the General Gaming boards which are barely used anyways. I'm used to having it below General RPG Discussion.

The RPG Design subforum is good, though. But we could actually just fuse the General Gaming and GD back into one category again.

 

[Schauman]

Next-Gen I guess, needs more bloom though along subliminal messages.

rpg codex > This is your God

 

[Ausir]

I don't like change, dammit.

Then don't vote for Obama.

Anyway, the only new board is RPG Design. General Gaming is Simulation Gaming renamed, since a board that covers Freelancer, Railroad Tycoon and The Sims could just as well cover all games. And having Game Help in the same category as other gaming forums and separating General Discussion into its own category makes more sense than the previous arrangement.

My initial proposal was to actually reduce the number of boards by folding Strategy Gaming and Adventure Gaming into General Gaming as well.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

We need more sections! Where can I discuss comic books? We need a comic book section! Where can I discuss my favorite TV-shows? We need a TV-show section! Where can I put my half-baked LP-threads? We need a half-baked LP section! Make it happen! Chop chop!

That said, I didn't even notice anything until I saw this thread so I guess I wouldn't have used the new sections anyway.

 

[sheek]

The Design forum is OK and justifiable I guess, the Gaming one is just dumb.

What you're doing is just encouraging people to come here for things other than RPG News and Discussion... I think RPGs should be the focus and heart of this site and I always thought General Discussion is just there to hopefully get as much of the off topic and emo crap out legitimate threads, but ideally would''t exist at all.

Over the last two years (but especially the last six months) I've felt the RPGCodex slowly turning into a 'Community' Forum and I don't like it.

 

[Texas Red]

Over the last two years (but especially the last six months) I've felt the RPGCodex slowly turning into a 'Community' Forum and I don't like it.

Can't you and Jasede go through a single Site Feedback thread without turning it in to a decline whine fest? I understand if some semi lurker would complain about this, yet you 2 spam lulz as much as anyone.

 

[Jasede]

There's no need to use the word "lulz" every second post. This goes to DraQ too. Also, your post might show a lack of judgment - either on my part or on yours. On yours because I believe sheek might consider me a part of the decline and on mine because this assessment might be a mistake on my part.

I will say, however, that I liked this more when we had very nice and - this is important to me - nostalgic RPG discussions nearly daily.

 

[Helton]

My initial proposal was to actually reduce the number of boards by folding Strategy Gaming and Adventure Gaming into General Gaming as well.

I agree with this. Lately I want to post about Civilization 4, but the Strategy forums always feel dirty for some reason.

 

[Brother None]

Gemeral?

 

[thesheeep]

Over the last two years (but especially the last six months) I've felt the RPGCodex slowly turning into a 'Community' Forum and I don't like it.

The RPGCodex IS a community, like it or not.
I sure do.

 

[sheek]

Over the last two years (but especially the last six months) I've felt the RPGCodex slowly turning into a 'Community' Forum and I don't like it.

Can't you and Jasede go through a single Site Feedback thread without turning it in to a decline whine fest? I understand if some semi lurker would complain about this, yet you 2 spam lulz as much as anyone.

Good point, I do do that but it's true.

Jasede I don't know if you're the problem but I do know that until about a year ago I had no idea you were a furry or what a furry was. Your blatantly attention whoring behavior is actually quite recent, maybe it was through boredom due to a lack of interesting threads. Or I just never noticed.

What Helton said, many of these off topic forums can be merged.

 

[Jasede]

I am trying to be less of an attention whore now, but I will still post furry pictures in terrible threads - as I did since I joine - because there is nothing else to do with terrible threads. I feel more mellow now than a while ago. This is, after all, the internet, nothing more.

 

[Vault Dweller]

My 2 cents:

The new forum is a good idea because the General RPG forum is garbage now. Andhaira is one of the reasons. Every time I see an idiotic new thread I think "Andhaira" and so far I haven't been wrong.

The forum separation dealio says "Ok, we've failed to bring order, reason, and intelligence to the General RPG forum", so we'll abandon it and make a new one. We've already lost the General forum when its threads were removed from the front page. I think it would make more sense to fix the rather obvious problems than to start again, basically.

Throw out all idiotic threads, retire the "best thread evar" thread already, and delete every new thread that fails to meet whatever IQ standards you'll decide on.

 

[Jasede]

delete every new thread that fails to meet whatever IQ standards you'll decide on.

I would love to see this, but I am aware the management will likely not agree with this because it seems "uncodexian". At least in my limited understanding. Maybe, however, if one only applies this to RPG-themed threads?

 

[JarlFrank]

My 2 cents:

The new forum is a good idea because the General RPG forum is garbage now. Andhaira is one of the reasons. Every time I see an idiotic new thread I think "Andhaira" and so far I haven't been wrong.

The forum separation dealio says "Ok, we've failed to bring order, reason, and intelligence to the General RPG forum", so we'll abandon it and make a new one. We've already lost the General forum when its threads were removed from the front page. I think it would make more sense to fix the rather obvious problems than to start again, basically.

Throw out all idiotic threads, retire the "best thread evar" thread already, and delete every new thread that fails to meet whatever IQ standards you'll decide on.

Well, your system works pretty well on the Iron Tower studios which I check from time to time [some great RPG theory discussions there], but I doubt if it would work here on the Codex.

The new subforum is great, though, I love discussing RPG design theory, and a whole forum just for this... HEAVAN.

 

[Vault Dweller]

@ Jasede: "Surrendering" forums is even more "uncodexian":

You also realise that all General RPG has left in it now is WH40k porn and "Let's Play" threads.

Apart from that, it's okay. I guess.

Perhaps the change is highlighting another problem altogether as a side benefit then.

 

[Jasede]

A good point.

edit: however, maybe you misunderstood. Instead of the split into Discussion and Design, I would prefer a strict IQ moderation in the Dicussion board. I believe a long time ago that was how things were, though the moderation consisted of established posters flaming bad posters to hell and back if they dared to spill their RPG ignorance. We have far too many posters now that know very little about RPGs.

I am rambling, aplogies.

 

[Otingocni]

Reinstate the Vault Dweller, let the Codex rise away from the stinking pit, and surrender all this ineffectual power play.

 

[Vault Dweller]

...but I doubt if it would work here on the Codex.

Why not? I mean, do we really need such insightful discussions as:

World of Xeen: How to take screnshots

Dark Messiah: WHy did you like it?

What could Bethesda do to make Fallout 3 a worthy sequel?

Would you purchase a single player World of Warcraft crpg?

How to keep turn-based rpg komabt from becoming boring?

Who has the Baldurs Gate 3 liscense/Who SHOULD have it?

Etc

Even Warden feels comfortable enough to start new threads: "Roleplaying" bla bla bla.

Now tell me what would someone think when he/she clicks on the General RPG link and sees all that crap? Once we were known for the quality of our discussions. I don't think that's the case anymore.

 

[Vault Dweller]

edit: however, maybe you misunderstood. Instead of the split into Discussion and Design, I would prefer a strict IQ moderation in the Dicussion board.

That's what I said.

 

[cardtrick]

The forum separation dealio says "Ok, we've failed to bring order, reason, and intelligence to the General RPG forum", so we'll abandon it and make a new one. We've already lost the General forum when its threads were removed from the front page. I think it would make more sense to fix the rather obvious problems than to start again, basically.

That's a little harsh, though. Maybe you disagree, but at the very least I enjoy the Let's Play threads in the General RPG forums. In fact, I only reliably read newsposts/threads, Synaesthesia and SoW posts, and Let's Play threads. Most of the rest is crap that I'll only browse through if I'm awfully bored or in the mood for lulz. (Speaking of which, this forum would be greatly improved if the word lulz was banned.)

I used to think eliminating General Discussion from the front page was a good idea. But now that so many front page threads are retarded (and yes, it is in large part Andhaira's fault), I actually feel like the GD threads are more interesting/entertaining. When neither is insightful, funny is better than boring.

Anyway, I do think adding the RPG Design forum was a step in the right direction as long as people start posting interesting things there. For the time being, I certainly prefer the ITS RPG Design forum, which so far has had a much higher standard of discussion than the modern Codex, but I think that's destined to go to the dogs as AoD gets closer to release and becomes more widely known. It's already gathered some pretty dumb posters, and I don't see that trend stopping. Even though ITS is more moderated than the Codex, there's not much you can do to moderate away stupidity, and any game getting posted about at mainstream sites is going to get some dumb posters.

I just realized this rambling post has no point whatsoever, and I'm not sure that I can even be bothered to finish it. Maybe what we should do is eliminate all of the

 

[Jasede]

@VD: Yes. It may come as a surprise, but I was agreeing with you.