Not going to happen i'm afraid. We have enough forums and subforums.
Games sub-forum
- Thread starter Edgar Allan Pillow
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I think it should happen, it would be a great way of bridging the gap between newbies and mains posters if they could integrate prior to promotion.
Surely they can do that now in the Match Day and soon in the Footy forums ?
Not a big fan of games forum but can see what brews is getting at, if say newbies with 4 or more likes have access they could participate in drafts and other sort of stuff. Already the case that they can post in matchday and a limited number of posts in football forum but guess no limit on posts for those with 4+ likes in games forum like brewlio's suggesting could result in some new posters getting to know mains posters better and vice versa and result in less hostility when the newbie eventually gets promoted.
On the flip side, only being able to participate in those games after promotion could act as a motivational device for newbs to earn promotion. The more you give to the newbs, the less reason they have to work at promotion.
Those on 4 or more likes usually get promoted in the end. Get what you're saying though, maybe raise it to 6-7 with a post limit. There are quite a few newbies who just play countless drafts with no chance of promotion or even bothering getting to 4 likes. It'd give them a target to work towards I guess
Drafts in the football forum is insanely annoying. I don't care about your fantasy football drafts. It belongs in entertainment or general.
Not really entertainment or general to be honest. Football forum is most suited for them outside of a hypothetical games sub forum despite how much they annoy some people (I just ignore them, no skin off my nose).
I don't get the impression there will be any more sub forums in the future. If anything there may be some that need to be reduced.
I think it'd work well.
Can you guys start with the Football Forum and the Manchester United Forum?
Only one needs to go, really (FCUM). Rest are fine IMO. Apart from United and football forum needing to be set on fire.
They're full of sub-standard shite though.They aren't subforums.
Yeah, always found strange the FCUM forum. Because:
1) It is a subforum of an another team.
2) It is populated by the same three posters.
1) It is a subforum of an another team.
2) It is populated by the same three posters.
It is weird, maybe we should have a subform of Manchester City and the 3 fans that go to their games too.
How about a Spurs sub-forum, only accessible to banned members. Then we can just send the two members who belong there...
Seriously guys, wasting your time. We've discussed extra forums before, it's not a path Niall wants to go down. I agree with him.
United forum - all things related to united (unless it's ex players who are still playing)
Football forum - all other footie teams and general footie
Other sports - self explanatory
Entertainment - musiv, film/tv, gaming and books
Current events - wanker competition
General - everything else
United forum - all things related to united (unless it's ex players who are still playing)
Football forum - all other footie teams and general footie
Other sports - self explanatory
Entertainment - musiv, film/tv, gaming and books
Current events - wanker competition
General - everything else
Wanker competition
Hmm, would that be a sport?Wanker competition
Might be, if someone is paying you to win.
It'd definitely be a spurt.
I'm not in favour of adding more forums. A sub-forum is definitely not going to happen, they don't work as they're too hidden away.
Are there really enough threads to justify a separate forum for these game discussions? I'm thinking no.
Are there really enough threads to justify a separate forum for these game discussions? I'm thinking no.
There's always some kind of draft running, a WW game once in a month. Add the fantasy football updates, score prediction thread and mooted resistance addition. I'd say you are looking at about 10 threads a month at best. There will be some lean months, but 10 a month is the best case scenario. I'm not sure if that's enough, but a separate forum may help increase traffic to this sub forum. Alternatively, it may reduce the activity on the football forums. As brewlio said, maybe it'll make sense for newbies to be given access as it will merge the game threads in all forums and introduce newbies early to the main posters and help them to blend more easily.
I'm not sure how it will work out in the end, but the idea has legs to at least give it a good consideration.
theres not enough traffic to justify it
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High-Level Sport: A 'real-time' structured physical game involving where players use their bodies to affect the result.
Includes: Football, Athletics, Wrestling.
Doesn't Include:
Jogging; not structured, and not a game.
Stacking shelves; not structured and not a game.
Chess; Not physical, not in real time, and doesn't use the players bodies to affect the result.
Console gaming; not physical, and doesn't use the players bodies to affect the result.
Sport: A fun activity
"He's a good sport". "That was good sport".
Includes: Football, Athletics, Wrestling.
Doesn't Include:
Jogging; not structured, and not a game.
Stacking shelves; not structured and not a game.
Chess; Not physical, not in real time, and doesn't use the players bodies to affect the result.
Console gaming; not physical, and doesn't use the players bodies to affect the result.
Sport: A fun activity
"He's a good sport". "That was good sport".
Considering a few are one time threads and it's spread over 40 days, 15 a month? What do you think?
I think it's a moot point comparing to FCuM as the forum was already created in the past and it's such an one off event in the club's history, but this is one of the better ideas in my opinion. I don't understand/know how traffic between forum works, so there would be legitimate reasons why this is a non starter, but if this sub forum is open to all (newbies and mains) then it definitely could attract more posters as it may be searchable from internetz and may drive up sign ups.
Niall would argue that he wants football posters to signup not more drafter types. This is after all a footie forum
Fair enough. I'm not trying to convince Niall or anyone else to have a sub forum created. I just think it seems an idea that reeks of common sense and which could be considered for further discussions, without having to dismiss it out of the hand just because it was previously done and didn't work.
I'm actually in favour of the games forum. Seeing all the games on the boards I'd say they'll be enough threads for sure, and I like the idea of noobs being granted access when they've hit a certain amount of likes.
15 a month is barely anything. Not to mention half those threads have only 15-50 replies and drop off the page quickly, and on top of that they're split between 3 forums. So you're seeing 5 a month in a specific forum. It's nothing, just scroll past it or don't open it. It shouldn't impact on anybodies lives.
I think it's a potentially decent idea between the drafts and WW, with the potential to maybe add to more games as it goes, but I also think things work fine in the current format. I don't see what people's problem is with the threads being in respective forums - you don't have to go into them if they don't interest you, and they don't clog up that much space.
I just realized I haven't noticed the existence of that sub-forum for years. Wtf- Status