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Stupid technology subforum verdict?
MKR
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So it looks like the forum's month trial is up some time tomorrow. Will it get the axe, or is it here to stay?
Cardboard Tube wrote: »"voting" for a separate forum outside of G&T will be considered a deliberate attempt to incur my displeasure
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Are you interested in hearing what people think about it in here? If not, you might want to lock this.
Well, that's the crucial Malkor vote decided.
I really liked it personally, and hope it stays.
This has always been an issue in G&T, as people often feel that they can get a better response out of people who work with tech all the damn time, rather than bank on someone knowledgeable passing through H/A.
I like it. We had some threads that would have been buried to page 2 in about four seconds in G&T.
Yep
Saying "yes it is a pretty rad forum, it should stay" is a bit of a poor defense. I don't know if Tube is considering it, but quality arguments will be more likely to help if he is.
Agreed. I also enjoyed the fact that while, yes, H/A is a general repository of tech questions, I'm much more inclined to read and answer tech questions in the Tech forum than brave H/A.
I only skim H/A when I'm really really really bored.
I had an active thread there and was wondering if it was bumped to anywhere? (nevermind, I found it)
I say put it back with the same name. I liked the name.
G&T's speed really is pretty nuts. I only looked in the tech forum like once myself, but assuming they're topics that're gonna keep coming up, might as well have a place for them instead of making lots of redundant ones or having to spend forever searching for old ones. And given that H/A basically looks like "Help me with my girlfriend" half the time, I can see the want for a specific tech section.
It's Tube's decision, but add me to the list of people wishing it would stay. While it was up, I read topics that I never would have noticed in G&T.
For what it's worth, I'd like to see it stay.
What's the difference if it's a subforum or a main page forum? The threads in the subforum aren't affected by the ones in G&T. They don't get buried at all.
Visibility is pretty much the only difference. Though, since Tube has expressed displeasure at the number of main forums, I doubt it has much of a chance of being anything other than a subforum, if even that.
I didn't really use the tech subforum, but if it's true that it was a H&A forum that actually answered tech questions, then I'd certainly find it useful.
I could see that. What would be great is if you named the threads "G" & "T".
I'm all for the tech thread. I brought up threads and contributed to threads that I wouldn't have in the regular G&T forum. I realize that many threads were part of the H&A genre and could have / should have been posted there, but as you notice, there were posted in the tech thread. I think if people thought that they were going to get a better answer out of the H&A thread then the Tech thread, then they would have posted to the H&A thread.
But is that a bad thing? I always felt odd posting a question about my computer next to a (no offense), "It burns when I urinate" thread. I would think that H&A would be a better place if we got rid of the tech questions. Think about it, would people be willing to ask for the big, heavy advice if their other threads keep on getting bumped by people with video card and monitor problems?
And I do have to agree that it was nice not to have to wade through the first umpteen pages of the G&T thread to see if there was any sort of non-gaming news mixed in with all the gaming stuff. I felt that "technology" that wasn't console related got shafted by getting placed in with gaming only because there was no other place to put it.
Yes, I can see a relation between video games and technology. But I feel that technology is alot broader then just video games and could use some breathing room instead of getting crushed by the 97 threads updated within the last 24 hours and 30 of those that were updated within the last hour. (I found that out by just looking at the front page at 7:30pm on a Saturday night) I don't know what the other forums are like, but if I had more time right now, I would have found out.
But right now I gtg. Did that sound high-schoolish MKR?
My only 2 cents to add here is that removing it without moving any of the threads and not posting a sticky in G&T was mighty confusing.
I was going to report it to a mod as a bug, couldn't find any online, and came here to report it as a bug.
I hope it dies, personally. Most of the threads didn't get much play and I think people who would've otherwise added to it couldn't be bothered to read two forums.
That was partially it for me too. G&T, just at first glance, seems a lot more geared towards megathreads for specific videogames/genres of videogames, and so-called "stupid technology" hardly got any time on the spotlight of the first page due to the insatiable number of posts in the former threads. Having their own section was kinda nice, and it certainly wasn't a nuisance to essentially read two forums. Or at least I didn't think so.
I would like to see the subforum stay.
Wait, fuck, gimme a do-over!