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Bad Mojo
Join Date: 2009-05-01 Member: 67317Members
Join Date: 2009-05-01 Member: 67317Members
<div class="IPBDescription">to reduce the clutter of threads</div>Since 1.0 came out, there have been a lot of new players creating threads and many threads that might have seen more discussion get pushed off the front page, never to be heard from again. Additionally, the Ideas and Suggestions section seems mostly indistinguishable from the General Discussion section. They both are more or less a constant strea of threads describing things that people think should be fixed/changed/improved in the game...
I think it would help to organize and keep track of threads better if there were more sections with narrower scopes of discussion, so that ideas don't get pushed out of the spotlight by the influx of new threads.
Maybe something like:
<b><u>General</u></b>
--- General Discussion
--- <b><!--coloro:#00FFFF--><span style="color:#00FFFF"><!--/coloro-->MARINES<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--></b>
-- Commander Discussion
-- Marine Discussion
--- <!--coloro:#FFA500--><span style="color:#FFA500"><!--/coloro--><b>KHARAA</b><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
-- Khammander Discussion
-- Gorge Discussion
-- Skulk Discussion
-- Lerk Discussion
-- Fade Discussion
-- Onos Discussion
This way it will be easier to find topics that already exist concerning what you may be considering posting about. Right now the hot topic is OP Armories...a month ago it was Alien scaling, last week it was Gorges are useless, etc...but those thread fall away if not constantly replied to and are forgotten as people move with what is trending. And if a topic is "hot" enough, the original post is detailed and well thought out, and the thread can stay civil, the threads could be webbed in each of those sections to even further reduce the amount of repostings we've been seeing.
I think it would help to organize and keep track of threads better if there were more sections with narrower scopes of discussion, so that ideas don't get pushed out of the spotlight by the influx of new threads.
Maybe something like:
<b><u>General</u></b>
--- General Discussion
--- <b><!--coloro:#00FFFF--><span style="color:#00FFFF"><!--/coloro-->MARINES<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--></b>
-- Commander Discussion
-- Marine Discussion
--- <!--coloro:#FFA500--><span style="color:#FFA500"><!--/coloro--><b>KHARAA</b><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
-- Khammander Discussion
-- Gorge Discussion
-- Skulk Discussion
-- Lerk Discussion
-- Fade Discussion
-- Onos Discussion
This way it will be easier to find topics that already exist concerning what you may be considering posting about. Right now the hot topic is OP Armories...a month ago it was Alien scaling, last week it was Gorges are useless, etc...but those thread fall away if not constantly replied to and are forgotten as people move with what is trending. And if a topic is "hot" enough, the original post is detailed and well thought out, and the thread can stay civil, the threads could be webbed in each of those sections to even further reduce the amount of repostings we've been seeing.
Comments
I think the fact that threads that have been responded to "Today" stretch all the way to page four. And it's evident that once a thread falls off the first page, it's dead 95% of the time.
Please consider refining the forum structure.