I know most of you don't like bullpoop, so I'm not going to try and be all nice about everything to try and make you feel good inside, because some of you are going to rage (well maybe not), and some of you are going to be like "whatever", no matter how I say this, so I'm just going to cut to the chase: we're going to be moving around some of the boards (if you couldn't tell by the title)
Wii, DS, Zelda, and Mario will be merged into the Nintendo Board.
NSFCD Live will be created. This will be the board to talk about the online aspects of games, and organize matches.
The Rhythm Gaming board will be merged into NSFCD Live.
Pokemon and Smash will become child boards of Nintendo. If they retain their activity over the two weeks following the childing, they'll stay Child boards.
Legacy, PC Gaming, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo will be staying as boards.
Third-Party will stay its own board for now, but the threads will be merged into the proper boards if activity doesn't improve.
Well, that's about it. Feel free to rage, give me a blowjob, praise me, whatever you want to do is fine with me. I really don't care unless it's the second one. :3
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Finally!
I've been wanting his to happen for ages, but Mack was always against it. I can see why, but I prefer it this way.
Eh. Sounds good to me. It makes sense.
Great we need this CHANGE to boost activeness...
Quote from: Tortilla on July 31, 2009, 11:15:23 AMNSFCD Live will be created. This will be the board to talk about the online aspects of games, and organize matches.
The Rhythm Gaming board will be merged into NSFCD Live.
Pokemon and Smash will become child boards of Nintendo. If they retain their activity over the two weeks following the childing, they'll stay Child boards.
Legacy, PC Gaming, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo will be staying as boards.
Third-Party will stay its own board for now, but the threads will be merged into the proper boards if activity doesn't improve.
Ah, changes I can agree with.
Quote from: Tortilla on July 31, 2009, 11:15:23 AM
Wii, DS, Zelda, and Mario will be merged into the Nintendo Board.
What the hell. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. WHAT THE F*** IS THIS. SERIOUSLY.
Since Totla forgot to mention this:
We won't make these changes until a week from now, so don't think we're doing this without giving some prior notice.
Quote from: SkyMyl on July 31, 2009, 11:41:37 AM
Ah, changes I can agree with.
What the hell. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. WHAT THE F*** IS THIS. SERIOUSLY.
I lobbied against it, but it was an overwhelming majority. D:
Here, here!
I was hoping someone would take my suggestion into consideration after Mack shot it down.
I don't see the problem. You require to go to one more page to get to the Mario board, what's so bad about that? >_>
Quote from: ThisIsU on July 31, 2009, 12:33:13 PM
I don't see the problem. You require to go to one more page to get to the Mario board, what's so bad about that? >_>
Uh no.
QuoteWii, DS, Zelda, and Mario will be merged into the Nintendo Board.
Quote from: Tsumaru on July 31, 2009, 12:32:05 PM
Here, here!
I was hoping someone would take my suggestion into consideration after Mack shot it down.
I suggested it too. Same thing.
I guess it's fine. Merging the inactive boards together would make a somewhat active board.
Quote from: Friendly Hostile on July 31, 2009, 12:35:38 PM
Uh no.
umm, yeah
QuotePokemon and Smash will become child boards of Nintendo. If they retain their activity over the two weeks following the childing, they'll stay Child boards.
Quote from: ThisIsU on July 31, 2009, 12:53:48 PM
umm, yeah
You said Mario:
Quote from: ThisIsU on July 31, 2009, 12:33:13 PM
I don't see the problem. You require to go to one more page to get to the Mario board, what's so bad about that? >_>
Yes! Pokemon will be a Child Board!
Oh, and while it is sad for the boards to be condensed, I overall feel that this transaction will be profitable to this internetforum in the future.
Damn it guys.
Smash as a child board?
Fuck.
No this idea sucks we should merge all the boards into 4 boards >:(
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vidya games
power on
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Seriously though, reaching the conclusion noted in this thread took quite a bit of debate between staff. Some initially wanted almost everything to be merged and one disagreed with doing anything.
I believe we all decided on this result because:
It does not remove the ability to chat about anything
It should not notably reduce the chat activity of any notable subjects
It merges together some boards that have similar discussion (Wii, DS, Ninty)
It makes the board index shorter and easier to navigate by... 6 boards, I think?
Brawl and Pokemon, the most popular franchises, have very specific discussions and are kept unmerged in this plan.
Zelda has very few game releases and does not have much discussion activity.
The Mario board isn't very active
By the way, about third party, we're giving it longer to evaluate its popularity. If it remains inactive, which I expect it to, the threads in it will be separated manually between Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Power On. After that, Power On will cover any game discussion that is not specific to a single company's consoles.
And to note something else, navigating to a child board does not take any more time than navigating to a main board. On the main page of the forum, which is called the board index because it lists all the boards, below each board is listed all of its child boards. The names of the child boards are clickable and take you directly to them.
Quote from: Doodle on July 31, 2009, 12:52:04 PM
I guess it's fine. Merging the inactive boards together would make a somewhat active board.
That's flawed logic. I guarantee, within 45 days virtually all prior discussion will wilt. Then, we'll have the Nintendo board in its current state. Considering I conceptualized the last board layouts (notably the creation of Nintendo - under this logic that Metroid, FE, Custom Robo, etc would continue to be discussed), I have a general idea and backing. Those items are hardly discussed anymore, yet I don't doubt for a minute if we had boards we'd get more posts. No, I'm not saying ADD ADD ADD boards. But, just watch the little discussion we have die. Just like when we killed off MSC and dumped it into Wifi. Or then dumped Wifi. Now we dump the dumpee, into another dump. Within a year we'll dump everything into Power On.
Again, I have backing when I say I know the effects of board changes like this. I've been key to all of the major ones (as in, my layouts used), and I followed the stats.
...Mack has a point.
I don't know if there's a way to do this while still keeping discussion on the boards that are being merged.
Heck, look at the Nintendo board. It's mostly Nintendo news and speculation. Nobody uses it for the "other franchises." Unless you make them child boards, discussion would just be lost.
Sounds good.
Mack, calm down. Just because we merge boards into more general areas doesn't mean it'll all snowball into one big board.
Besides, if it doesn't work, we can always just put it all back.
Quote from: Tsumaru on July 31, 2009, 07:53:22 PM
Mack, calm down. Just because we merge boards into more general areas doesn't mean it'll all snowball into one big board.
Besides, if it doesn't work, we can always just put it all back.
Yes, you certainly can. But tell me, if we merge boards to create a super board with a whopping total of 100 pages of threads - would you go through and manually redo all the necessary moves to that board? I know I sure wouldn't, and I have half of the moderation logs on the site.
And yes, these same users (much like Bluaki's joke) have often mentioned 4 boards (or even less) for the site. Which I think is an inevitable action.
D=
All the reasons why this shouldn't happen has already been said.
NSFCD is supposed to normally be Nintendo related, soon it will just be another forum with no real purpose, then it will sink down and lose more and more activity.
NSFCD will die during September of 2011.
Quote from: Rhadamanthus on July 31, 2009, 08:11:56 PM
Yes, you certainly can. But tell me, if we merge boards to create a super board with a whopping total of 100 pages of threads - would you go through and manually redo all the necessary moves to that board? I know I sure wouldn't, and I have half of the moderation logs on the site.
And yes, these same users (much like Bluaki's joke) have often mentioned 4 boards (or even less) for the site. Which I think is an inevitable action.
And while we're at it, I guess 9/11 was done by the government >_>
To be honest.
Yippee.
I don't really care how it looks to be honest xD
Quote from: JNFS2014 on August 01, 2009, 06:37:03 AM
NSFCD will die during September of 2011.
More like September 2009.
Quote from: ThisIsU on August 01, 2009, 08:27:49 AM
And while we're at it, I guess 9/11 was done by the government >_>
I really fail to see how that builds on my post. It's one thing to offer a constructive opposition, but instead you mock it. Really, if anything, that works against you. Well done.
good i hate going through all these boards rawrrrrrrrr
If anything, I want to see Mario and (even though it has low-really no activity) the Zelda board stay. Everything else can be Child Boards and such.
Quote from: MagnumSonic on August 01, 2009, 10:58:23 PM
If anything, I want to see Mario and (even though it has low-really no activity) the Zelda board stay. Everything else can be Child Boards and such.
I don't. It's too much of a pain to get there
Maybe if the warp zone was split up into 2 or more different categories.
Some of you need to lighten up.
Seriously.
Quote from: MagnumSonic on August 01, 2009, 10:58:23 PM
If anything, I want to see Mario and (even though it has low-really no activity) the Zelda board stay. Everything else can be Child Boards and such.
But Pok?mon and Smash Bros have higher activity. Besides, we're not NSider.
Whatever Administration desires, as long as I can continue to post :)
Hey look, it's been a week.
Today's Thursday. The post was made on Friday.
Quote from: Super on August 06, 2009, 04:06:58 PM
Hey look, it's been a week.
You do it.
I would but I can't.
I will be performing the overhaul in a while.