New Forum Structure Proposals

[Nowake]

Hmm, my previous post may have left you thinking about uniformity, yet my suggestions really targeted a few specific gains

The thing is, the potential member comes here because of the games. So we must ease one’s access to our resources as much as possible, one must feel one has everything at one’s fingertips when one seeks data. So if we change the names of those categories and sections we give them order and clarity, which for me are the greatest assets a forum can have, besides the community. Now that’s a good segue, since...

...on the other hand, the New Members and Off Topic categories are solely about the .Org community. Which, for better or worse, has a kind of history in many people’s heads. The customized names leave one to intuit a tradition of sorts. And that does exist. I’m sure I saw long timers describing themselves or at least they implied to be perceiving themselves as Tavern dwellers, Backroom lurkers or Monastery wonks and such. The Watchtower is pretty iconic a name as well by now. These 3-4 categories and sections have their customs and dropping them would erase that partially. To my mind, we want to keep these long-standing virtual areas and so, we may as well align the rest of the Off topic section titles to them.

And there is potential appeal in that for new members too. You stop by for the information, but if you want to stick around, you do so to be part of the community. Because really, absorbing the info about the specific Total War title you’re playing only takes a few evenings in between gaming sessions. It is one of the reasons old-timers do not post in the game sections after the first few weeks following a game’s release – not much to be said at all. So, the new chap will stay because the new chap wants to interact with Orgahs.
I think we should insert that term more often by the way. It references the both the .Org and an interjection long-timers love because members are always fascinated by what they define as old-school, it identifies a group, the group itself has a history in the larger TW community and it’s really catchy, unlike talking about TWC..ers? or .Com..ers? The latter may break some record for the worst pun ever but that’s pretty much it.

To conclude, if we’re to get this right, lets get the best of both worlds.
Oki, feedback over!

[Beskar]

You forget yourself, @Andres. I am the Org Management.

[TinCow]

As responses have been generally positive, I plan on implementing the new structure with the version including the full listing for the Forum Gaming and Off Topic sections. If you do not think this is a good idea for any reason, please speak up ASAP.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

As responses have been generally positive, I plan on implementing the new structure with the version including the full listing for the Forum Gaming and Off Topic sections. If you do not think this is a good idea for any reason, please speak up ASAP.

Overall, I like the set up - but can I make one suggestion?

Group the Frontroom and Backroom into an empty "Tavern Forum" - I think it's important to keep the two seperate from the other off topic forums.

Oh, and please, please, don't institute Beskar's suggestion for generically named off topic forums.

[TinCow]

Overall, I like the set up - but can I make one suggestion?

Group the Frontroom and Backroom into an empty "Tavern Forum" - I think it's important to keep the two seperate from the other off topic forums.

Oh, and please, please, don't institute Beskar's suggestion for generically named off topic forums.

What makes them different from the other fora? We have long since abolished all access restrictions to them, and it would certainly make more organizational sense for them to be with the other off topic, since that's exactly what they are. What other factor am I missing?

I won't be changing the off-topic forum names, as it's unnecessary in the 'long' format I will be implementing for those sections. That issue can be discussed further and independently, as it's not crucial to the new structure.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

What makes them different from the other fora? We have long since abolished all access restrictions to them, and it would certainly make more organizational sense for them to be with the other off topic, since that's exactly what they are. What other factor am I missing?

I won't be changing the off-topic forum names, as it's unnecessary in the 'long' format I will be implementing for those sections. That issue can be discussed further and independently, as it's not crucial to the new structure.

Don't you think it's fair to say that there are people who post mostly in the Frontroom or Backroom, and that those populations cross-over.

"Tavern Frontroom" looks weird - they've always gone together as a Unit and they've never suffered from being "deeper" in the forum structure.

I'm probably just showing the tendancy to keep to a habit, but if they're both part of the "Tavern" aren't they better off clearly sperated from the other fora like the Arena?

[TinCow]

The basic reorganization is now complete. Please let us know what you think of the new structure. There are plenty of areas in which further changes could be made, particularly in forum names and descriptions. Please post any improvements, complaints, issues, etc. that come to mind and please do post about additional changes you would like to see, even things that have been posted above but not implemented yet. Just because something has not been altered yet does not mean it will never be done.

[Beskar]

Oh, and please, please, don't institute Beskar's suggestion for generically named off topic forums.

It wasn't my "suggestion", it was a suggestion for the hypothetical argument for such a "suggestion" !

My suggestion is actually -CLASSIFIED INFORMATION-









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