it will make everybody happy to be able to create threads at will

Except for the anti-proliferationistas.

being prevented from creating threads at will is making most people unhappy now.

Except for the anti-proliferationistas.

Me? I'd like to see a good-faith attempt at some serious gaming talk. If that fails, but in a way that indicates its own haven is warranted, then let's discuss thread. This all seems very previous to me.

It may have been noted in passing that conversation didn't get rolling, but how about now, when you know people want to talk about it--can it take root somewhere without freaking out the denizens (and in fact, perhaps enriching them)? Why not see that first? What could it hurt?

It may have been noted in passing that conversation didn't get rolling, but how about now, when you know people want to talk about it--can it take root somewhere without freaking out the denizens (and in fact, perhaps enriching them)? Why not see that first? What could it hurt?

I'd be willing to give it a shot. I'm pretty sure the kind of conversation we're thinking of wouldn't work in a general thread like Natter or Bitches (especially Bitches), but in a low-volume more focused thread, sure, let's see what happens. (Other Media's been proposed most often. I think it's an odd fish there, games aren't communication media, but I'm not much concerned for category precision anyway.)

Having said that, repurposing another thread to include discussion of matters gamey will obviously also have an impact on the people already using that thread. So I guess we should get reactions from the Other Media bods?

Having said that, of course, I don't do much in the way of board games, or pen and paper RPGs or game systems, and I don't have much time on the board anymore, so I doubt I'd be very active in the thread anyway (though I might finally convince my husband to join the board).

I would like to make it clear that, though MY personal conversation preference would probably be about tabletop pen-and-paper RPGs I intended the thread for ALL gaming topics...board games, video games, MMORPGs, LARP...what have you.

(MM, insent to your profile addy.)

(backflung)

And we are back to cross pollination vs. spoilerphobic.

Sigh.

I am so weary of this discussion.

ND and Bev, forgive me if this comes across as snarky, because I don't mean it that way: if this discussion, and the same old the arguments coming up, makes you weary and makes you sigh, then why are participating? You don't have to participate in something that clearly makes you unhappy.

A question for ita and/or anyone else involved with the tech side of the board: What are the tech consequences of thread proliferation? I intend that as a serious question because I don't know enough tech to have a clue. (And I suspect this has been explained before, and likely even because I asked -- apologies for poor memory.)

(Also, Sean and anyone else whose temperature got raised yesterday -- If I said anything yesterday that contributed to the problem, my apologies. My sole intention was to figure out the nature of the issue and possible resolutions that could satisfy everyone.)

I'm pretty sure the kind of conversation we're thinking of wouldn't work in a general thread like Natter or Bitches (especially Bitches)

Eh, people talk about that damn baseball crap anywhere. Including Bitches.

And baseball conversation? Pretty similar to gaming talk, only less interesting to me personally, on account of me having a fondness for gaming and an utter lack of one for baseball.

Oh, that's right, the spoiler thing is an issue too. I guess my position here would be that unlike the various media we follow here, games don't actually generate spoilers themselves, so I don't think it'd be appropriate for a games thread to open any potentially spoilerphobic users to the risk of spoilage in other stuff. Which doesn't negate my comfort with ita's suggestion, but may suggest against certain threads as being suitable places for experimentation.

Eh, people talk about that damn baseball crap anywhere. Including Bitches.

It doesn't feel the same to me, largely because (pro) baseball is something we watch, or at least Hec watches, and gaming is something we do and to some extent create. Closer, possibly, to Hec posting about Emmett's baseball than to posting about the A's, or whomever they are. Though I think the board as a whole is more interested in Emmett's baseballing than they are in my gaming, and would feel a lot more out of place to continue a discussion of, say, an RPG setting someone's working on after someone else has posted about (e.g.) a serious medical or workplace situation.

Of course, I could be wrong. But I do think ita's suggestion would need to be implemented in a low-volume thread to work out.

I am so weary of this discussion.

ND and Bev, forgive me if this comes across as snarky, because I don't mean it that way: if this discussion, and the same old the arguments coming up, makes you weary and makes you sigh, then why are participating? You don't have to participate in something that clearly makes you unhappy.

What we need is a Lightbulbs TiVo.

"Oh, here we go, fast forward....proliferation (boop beep boop boop)...spoilers...(boop beep boop boop)...cross-pollination...(boop beep boop boop)...social structure...(boop beep boop boop)...ah! Voting! Yeah, baby, pass me a beer!"

What we need is a Lightbulbs TiVo.

I second this. Make it so.

List of things to create:

Transporter

Time Machine

Death Ray

Lightbulbs TiVo (see: Time Machine for possible cross-applications)

Cyborg Zombie Ninja Army of Doom

Sandwich Machine