Malf on 12/11/2015 at 08:37
Quote Posted by icemann
I personally prefer this thread over the other one. I wouldn't call 300 and somethin pages that many.
Yeah, there's a movie thread over on (
http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5818) Quake3World (still going strong!) that's at 349 pages and 12,184 replies, and that has no problems. The posts-per-page over there is 35 compared to 25 here.
icemann on 12/11/2015 at 09:05
Exactly. I've seen threads with pages into the thousands elsewhere.
Sulphur on 12/11/2015 at 09:26
Not the point in question, gentlemen. Semantically, it doesn't make a difference whether we post here or there; we could have a single thread to host all our ramblings until the end of time. The new thread's being proposed for the sake of being easier to index and look through, plus to at least keep things neat/fresh on a yearly basis.
Shadowcat on 12/11/2015 at 09:59
No megathread(s) in which people continually post their thoughts on the ever-changing games they are playing over time will ever be easy to look though. Personally I think these threads are a total disaster for any kind of subsequent viewing purposes. There are many games which have been discussed in this forum where basically all of the discussion is buried and scattered inside these threads of doom. Having the megathread at all is bad enough to my mind, and splitting them means that you can't even search the megathread in an attempt to find something, because now the discussions get scattered across more than one of those!
A small effort up front to post game-specific threads would provide something with lasting value, where ongoing (and on-topic) discussion of a game can coherently grow over time as people play it and post about it. These behemoths have almost none of that ongoing value.
(Again, just my opinion; I know some of you see it differently. But if you do happen to find yourself agreeing, try posting some separate threads from time to time to discuss something that you're playing right now, instead of just talking about it here...)
Thirith on 12/11/2015 at 10:40
I'm a proponent of mega threads, but I do think their purpose differs from topic-specific threads, and for discussing the development or release of an interesting new game I'd always go for an individual thread.
For me, the "Now what are you playing?" thread is the equivalent of ongoing chat about a general topic. It's broad but not deep, but as a result it's also much more dynamic and associative. Like conversations over a beer or glass of wine, ideally such threads are not permanent repositories of deep thought, but they are part of the social grease that keeps a place talking. Frankly, without the more general threads I'd probably be lurking here at best, because few specific threads feel like actual living conversations - but once I'm here, I'm also more likely to join both specific and general conversations.
WingedKagouti on 12/11/2015 at 13:58
To me this thread is useful to see what other people are playing and finding fun or not, this in turn helps me decide whether a game would be interesting to me depending on what I know of those people's taste in games. I wouldn't do it if I had to go through several different threads to see who liked what, especially for smaller titles that might not warrant discussion beyond "I played this and it is/isn't fun to me".
Renault on 12/11/2015 at 15:57
The Thief forums may have something to say about that. But over here, I don't see why we can't have both a megathread that summarizes what people are playing, and then also have threads dedicated to the games that have a lot of general interest.
Thirith on 12/11/2015 at 16:18
Quote Posted by Abysmal
GenGaming is all that's left of TTLG, I'd hate to see it thrown away via megathreads.
I'd hate to see it thrown away because there's practically no activity any more. Would there be more activity in other, game-specific threads without this one? Perhaps, but I doubt it.
Shadowcat on 13/11/2015 at 10:51
Quote Posted by Thirith
I'd hate to see it thrown away because there's practically no activity any more. Would there be more activity in other, game-specific threads without this one? Perhaps, but I doubt it.
I don't know either. I do know that my last post in
this thread was my first since March 2012, and that I think I could count on one hand the number of times I've even looked at the thread in the intervening years. I'm not super active in the forums nowadays, but I'm
vastly more active outside of the megathread than I am inside it. I don't know whether megathread proponents presume that everyone is reading it, but it's certainly not the case.
