Mount Suribachi
05-08-2004, 14:40
With all the discussion of what should & shouldn't be in the Tavern, I think it would help if more threads were moved out of there to the relevant forums. Lately there've been a few historical type threads that have lingered a day or 2 in the Tavern and weren't moved to the Monastery. There was also a game thread that wasn't moved to the Arena. As well as not being in the "right place", threads in the Monastery & Arena can linger for a week or more before dropping off the front page. A non-politics thread is lucky to last a day in the Tavern.
The Monastery in particular seems to be under-used, and it is not helped by so many historical topics being posted in the Tavern. Moving these threads to the proper place would not only put a bit more activity into the Monastery, but it might remind some patrons that it even exists http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
The same goes for the Mead Hall. IIRC one of its raison d'etre was to be a place to discuss books, movies etc as well as place to post stories. Perhaps the mods could be more pro-active in moving those kinds of Tavern topics to the Mead Hall? Especially as it could do with a little bit of help in terms of activity there.
This is not a criticism of the mods btw, I would just like to see interesting topics survive more than a few hours. The Arena in particular is a great example of how threads that linger can promote more interesting discussion. Do you think we'd have had an 8 page discussion on Morrowind if that topic had been posted in the Tavern?
Perhaps I could become a "wrong forum" nazi, much as A.Saturnus is a sig nazi?
The Monastery in particular seems to be under-used, and it is not helped by so many historical topics being posted in the Tavern. Moving these threads to the proper place would not only put a bit more activity into the Monastery, but it might remind some patrons that it even exists http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
The same goes for the Mead Hall. IIRC one of its raison d'etre was to be a place to discuss books, movies etc as well as place to post stories. Perhaps the mods could be more pro-active in moving those kinds of Tavern topics to the Mead Hall? Especially as it could do with a little bit of help in terms of activity there.
This is not a criticism of the mods btw, I would just like to see interesting topics survive more than a few hours. The Arena in particular is a great example of how threads that linger can promote more interesting discussion. Do you think we'd have had an 8 page discussion on Morrowind if that topic had been posted in the Tavern?
Perhaps I could become a "wrong forum" nazi, much as A.Saturnus is a sig nazi?