I think Other Media would sustain the conversation. There are, after all, Buffy tie-in games, which I believe are part of the original thread charter, before it was repurposed as Comics and Other Stuff.
But it doesn't sustain the conversation. I don't know specifically why, but gaming discussion simply does not fluorish there, whether the charter allows for it or no.
I understand that you don't want to start a thread every time someone says "I would like to discuss hydrangeas, but my posts get lost in Natter." But I believe if there is enough interest, and enough people agreeing that they would probably be discussing a topic more if they didn't have to shoehorn it around another subject or a bevy of other subjects, than that desire should be respectfully considered.
I'm with Sean with the not understanding the reflexive anti-prolif reaction. It would be nice if there were other arguments beyond "We just don't want more threads."
I mean...we've established that people want it. We've established it's not happening elsewhere. We've established that it probably won't happen elsewhere. I think the next thing we need to do is see if enough people want it to warrant its creation based on predicted self-sustainability and amount of discussion of the thread's topic.
In other words...oy, four days of this? Is that right?
Why would gaming discussion not work in Other Media? The current thread is about 16 months old and has less than 1500 posts. That's about 3 posts a day.
I don't subscribe to Other Media, so maybe I'm missing something.
The thing is, I know there are a lot of conversations that could be had that don't happen on the board, or are hard to have in a fast-moving thread. There are enough people with enough overlapping interests that this will be the case for a huge number of topics. But that doesn't, to my mind, justify creating splinter threads for them. I think Other Media would sustain the conversation. There are, after all, Buffy tie-in games, which I believe are part of the original thread charter, before it was repurposed as Comics and Other Stuff.
Well, if we don't get a thread, I suppose Other Media would suffice, however....
How do the regular users of Other Media feel about that? Maybe they might not be as happy with that suggestion?
Obviously, I x-posted with MM.
I can say from personal experience with MM and ND that we are capable of talking about gaming until the heat death of the Universe rolls around. This is something I've found to hold true with just about every gamer I've ever met.
I won't vouch for MM and ND, but when I was an active gamer, it was very, very true of the people I hung out with.
There are, after all, Buffy tie-in games, which I believe are part of the original thread charter...
Not currently, the Buffy/Angel tie-in RPG publisher lost their license a while back...
Why would gaming discussion not work in Other Media? The current thread is about 16 months old and has less than 1500 posts. That's about 3 posts a day.
I don't subscribe to Other Media, so maybe I'm missing something.
Not to repeat myself too often, as my post came after yours, but if nothing else, it might not work because the current posters in Other Media don't necessarily want gaming talk there.
Also, what if gaming talk takes over the Other Media thread? Would we then get ejected to our own thread? Or no thread? Things like that have happened before, to bad results.
I don't see the rationale for putting it in Other Media. Is there a serious overlap of posters where that would make sense?
ETA: Also, Sean, you know I was kidding about the cooking thing, right?
Not currently, the Buffy/Angel tie-in RPG publisher lost their license a while back...
Not in print at the moment, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
I don't see the rationale for putting it in Other Media. Is there a serious overlap of posters where that would make sense?
There's a pretty large overlap, yes.
