Originally Posted by
Redundant
http://historum.com/ is an excellent example of a discussion based forum that works very well because it's a gather of experts who exchange information about certain subjects.
That's not the case for the discussion board here. I don't see it happen either.
Toribash related discussion happen everywhere all over the forums.
The replay board is (presumably, I wouldn't know since I don't check it at all) filled with people discussing replay related problems.
As long as the discussion board does not have a defined purpose it has no purpose at all, so it does not work very effectively.
How do you get an active userbase in this environment? Not at all. The target group of the game is not the target group of a reasonable and semi-intellectual platform.
This sums up my overall opinion. Points in bold being things I disagree with and where my suggestion stems from.
I'm still surprised that after so many years people still find the will in them to post in Discussion when they're aware of the general demographic.
Not that it's a bad thing at all.
I really appreciate the attempt to educate the younger player base, but surely everyone realized by now that maybe a dozen (if that much) of the people who post here are somewhat knowledgeable on the topics that are being discussed (hence this whole thread).
The subject in common that "experts" in this forum have is mainly the game itself.
[no doubt that there's people with other fields of expertise here, taking interesting degrees and etc, but do you really want to come home and continue rambling about the topics you study to an audience that won't listen? I understand if some people say yes to that and I'm all for a relaxed and comprehensive moderation and overall participation if that's the case]
Discussion about the game and its problems seems scarce on the Replay board (in a way) as it focuses more on specific critics on certain replays according to the general canons that people compare them to.
Suggestions covers it a tad bit, and some channels in IRC ramble (to an extent constructively) about the game, but considering that this is the topic most of us have in common maybe it'd make sense if we'd open this board to discussions about the game itself in my opinion.
Right now I don't find anything on the rules that go against the discussion of some aspects about the game in here, so that might be an easy way to spite a conversation where everyone is already into the topic.