ATTN: Where Should the Direction of Video Games Be Geared Towards? Page 2

Started by Dragon August 8th, 2014 3:34 PM
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Because we're already working on trying to reduce the number of threads made here, but we can't exactly solve the activity problem. x:
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Why are you trying to reduce the number of threads made here? I can understand that some threads are pretty pointless / don't generate discussion / whatever but that should work as a sign that the quality of thread in this section could do with addressing... but actively working against starting discussions is the total opposite of what you should be doing, surely? I don't see what reducing the amount of discussion raised here while not actively working to increase the quality of the remaining discussions achieves.
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Why are you trying to reduce the number of threads made here? I can understand that some threads are pretty pointless / don't generate discussion / whatever but that should work as a sign that the quality of thread in this section could do with addressing... but actively working against starting discussions is the total opposite of what you should be doing, surely? I don't see what reducing the amount of discussion raised here while not actively working to increase the quality of the remaining discussions achieves.
I understand the quality bit, but well, members have said that they didn't really like all of the thread making we've been doing, soooo. I'm not saying remove it completely, but, me making like, 3 threads a day, maybe pushes it too far? D:


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I understand the quality bit, but well, members have said that they didn't really like all of the thread making we've been doing, soooo. I'm not saying remove it completely, but, me making like, 3 threads a day, maybe pushes it too far? D:
I think it's really just a matter of spreading it out, because a good number of the threads made are actual good discussion points, but among them and the other active threads, as well as the frequency by which they're released, it's just too much and people just end up ignoring them or not posting at all.

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Why are you trying to reduce the number of threads made here? I can understand that some threads are pretty pointless / don't generate discussion / whatever but that should work as a sign that the quality of thread in this section could do with addressing... but actively working against starting discussions is the total opposite of what you should be doing, surely? I don't see what reducing the amount of discussion raised here while not actively working to increase the quality of the remaining discussions achieves.
It isn't that we aren't creating new discussion points. Dragon and myself are actually actively going through threads and continuing conversations in threads that could otherwise be considered dead ends, something that I personally haven't seen much go on in Video Games. It's just that over the last few months, a good majority of the thread discussion - i.e. thread creation - was coming solely from Dragon and myself. It had quickly become a "monopoly of threads" between the two of us, so to speak. After getting some feedback from our forum's regulars, we noticed that for them it was a little jarring and intimidating to see the front page with discussions by just the Moderators. Thus, all we are doing is taking a small step back and delaying some of the threads that we'd usually create so regular members can be encouraged to create their own threads; while it might not seem like it, we're actually encouraging members to start their own threads and personally, I think that has already been working pretty well in the last week or so.
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I understand the quality bit, but well, members have said that they didn't really like all of the thread making we've been doing, soooo. I'm not saying remove it completely, but, me making like, 3 threads a day, maybe pushes it too far? D:

It makes it sound like you have a strict schedule of topics you stick to posting every day, that kinda makes it sound like a chore to me. :/
Posting in VG should be fun and you should always be excited to do it. I never went into a day thinking 'I must post X amount of threads' as it ruins the fun of the board. Have the mentality of posting a thread when you think it will be really fun for the members at that moment in time, as the popularity of VG topics shifts VERY quickly. The risk you also run of posting X amount of threads a day, is it is more difficult for members to create those threads. Normally, what I did was observe the activity of the day and if it was a slow day, I would give some threads a nudge to keep activity up.

I know it has been a long time since I was VG mod... [Was going to say not as long as Klippy but he is like a bad smell; won't go away. ;)], but the way VG is run and the manner in which it is run won't change.

- These terrible [Megathread], [Challenge], [Online] things need to go. None of the threads posted seriously need these prefixes and it makes the entire section seem utterly cluttered. By nature of the thread title, it should already explain what the thread is about. Hyrule Warriors as the thread title indicates exactly what the thread is about and the needless clutter around it is...just plain ugly. Year of Gaming #7 explains EXACTLY what the thread is about without needing to be plastered with the prefix. I know others that agree with me on this feeling.

I see the [tags] have already been removed and I wonder what they were being used for. I brought in Tags for Online Games to separate and easily decipher what consoles they were on, because there were multiple game threads at that time.



-Where the heck are the real gaming events? When I was the mod, we had gaming events almost every weekend and had a very active group of people playing games like Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. It created a huge sense of community and camaraderie. There isn't much of that anymore and it's sort of disappointing as a former VG mod that the work Captain Fabio and I (not to mention other staff members like Hiroshi Sotomura and Morkula) put in to maintain the events has all but died. I'm not sure if it's because you guys don't have any consoles or games.

The BIGGEST thing about VG that HAS to be upheld are the events. I don't care if it is on a console or a flash game in your browser, these HAVE to happen regularly. At the time I was VG mod, in my later days, it was a little difficult to uphold events on my own because I was very busy with other things, but with three of you now, it should be easy. This board, I think and always have, is the most difficult to keep successful and active, due to the nature of the board.

- The negative side of Dragon (and elhero) posting so much is that there are a lot of threads by mods and very few member-generated discussions. Half the threads or more on the front page of VG are posted by a mod. This isn't an issue so long as members continue being active, but perhaps consider how many threads you, the mods, are posting versus how many threads are being posted by members. (I also recognize that members sometimes don't post as many threads as could be desired)

As I said above, I agree with Klippy's comment about member generated discussion; it has to come from them, at least 70%, or it feels like discussion is being forced upon them.

- Personally I think there are way too many stickied threads. I don't feel some of these warrant being stickied because they are hardly active enough and it makes the top of the forum seem very full. I'd rather see two-three stickied threads and an occasional fourth when warranted. Not seven.

Also, I hate a crazy amount of sticky's and always have! :( There should never be more than five, unless one is about a event, because then it doesn't count as it will only be a temp.
Maybe what I have said is just obvious and you already know about it, but having points re-enforced is never a bad thing.