Should Traditional Games be a Top Level Forum? This poll is closed. |
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Yes. It would benefit the place. | 222 | 80.73% | |
No. Why gently caress up a good thing? | 27 | 9.82% | |
No opinion. Just being a looky loo. | 26 | 9.45% | |
Total: | 275 votes |
i'm against it because none must see my posting shame, and being buried in the subforum of a subforum hides it
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# ? May 29, 2021 15:58 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:04 |
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Yes. My bad posts about D&D deserve at least as much Respect as the bad posts in D&D.
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# ? May 29, 2021 16:15 |
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I'm okay with it being top level. It's small but it is kind of hidden off. I don't see it causing explosive growth, but it was always an awkward fit nested among all the video game forums.New Super Metis posted:ok so the reason you guys need to be a top level forum is that as it stands currently I, as a games IK, inexplicably have powers in here despite having zero connection to the community, and for the last half hour i have been battling the urge to edit the poll results because i think it would be funny It does feel a bit strange to have an amicable reallocation of forums and not a dramatic years-long civil war among numerous competing web factions...
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# ? May 29, 2021 16:24 |
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As the TGR IK I think Trad Games being a top level forum is good, and I don't think there's a super compelling need to further segment TGR as anything other than a subforum under Trad Games right now. Getting a link to TGR on the forums index would be a nice little win and might drive some more traffic to games and CYOAs currently in progress, which is good in my book.
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# ? May 29, 2021 17:20 |
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I don't really see any reason to. I've gotten the impression that most of the "make xxx a top level forum" cries were about moderation drama and I'm not aware of any going on between games and traditional games. On the other hand I don't really see any reason not to do it either.
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# ? May 29, 2021 22:17 |
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can we go back to being a sub subforum?
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# ? May 30, 2021 01:54 |
The Moon Monster posted:I don't really see any reason to. I've gotten the impression that most of the "make xxx a top level forum" cries were about moderation drama and I'm not aware of any going on between games and traditional games. On the other hand I don't really see any reason not to do it either. Nobody had a plan for any of this poo poo. I'm sure even Jeffrey now only has plans in the sense of 'what happens if I get hit by a bus' or 'hey, maybe I should have functional backups'
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# ? May 30, 2021 05:40 |
I run the discord for the Games Room CYOA community and it is legitimately one of the most awesome, chill and positive goon communities I've ever had the pleasure to be a part of. The membership is upward of three hundred people but the active core is probably half that, and that's just the people who joined the server, there are also posters who contribute but don't do discord for one reason or another so it's pretty active. There's some concern about being a TLF bringing disruptive elements because we'd be more exposed but I also think that exposure could attract new creatives and people who never even knew we existed. I think it sits in a weird halfway space between its ties to RPGs and the more booklike writing format so it just got crammed in tradgames because it didn't really fit anywhere else. Hexenritter fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 30, 2021 |
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# ? May 30, 2021 06:34 |
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Nessus posted:I suspect that TG ended up under Games due to the infathomable pill-addled will of the former regime, possibly because "it's a subtype of games, therefore," I truly have no idea if this post is serious or a parody of someone who is angry about traditional games being subforum.
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# ? May 30, 2021 13:23 |
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Nessus posted:I suspect that TG ended up under Games due to the infathomable pill-addled will of the former regime, possibly because "it's a subtype of games, therefore," After miniature threads, Magic the Gathering discussion, and Mafia games were moved to Trad Games in 2007, eventually the Trad Games Discussion sub subforum (!!) was created under the Trad Games/future Game Room. In 2012 somebody noticed this and also that TG had no moderator for the last decade, so they switched it around and gave TG their first moderator since 2005. So basically, nobody planned anything, it all evolved out of the need to banish nerds from GBS and promptly forgetting about them. Considering TG was mostly self-moderated for most of its existence, I think it's cool that Tad Games has this very unique culture that you don't see elsewhere on the internet.
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# ? May 30, 2021 21:28 |
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wheres the mods, the poll is over!
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# ? May 31, 2021 02:15 |
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Plutonis posted:wheres the mods, the poll is over! If you try to do back end stuff on weekends or holidays the ghost of radium he left in the code deletes the database and that's frowned upon I guess? I'll have it done by mid-week, baring any emergency bullshit I'll let you know about.
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# ? May 31, 2021 18:16 |
No butt stuff on Saturdays, got it
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# ? May 31, 2021 22:06 |
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:It'll make the link bigger and easier to click so I am for it. This is basically it for me yeah. The shallowest possible reason, but hey.
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# ? May 31, 2021 22:33 |
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Gosh I went camping for the long weekend and I come back and all my wildest dreams are coming true! Well OK not exactly a wild dream but I do think TG isn't a subcategory of (video) games, and I also think TGR deserves to be visible in the forums list (as do all forums on SA IMO). This was an idea raised in the mods forum many months ago and I'm pleased to see that the priority list for admins has gotten down to a point where it's up for action. e. also I'm gonna sticky this poll
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 05:07 |
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It's done. I put it right below Ask/Tell, but thanks to how it works, it may take some time to move up the list. (Seriously you cant just slot it where you want it, you have to play the 'click one at a time' game) If someone can make a Forum Tag to match the others I'd appreciate it.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 17:55 |
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We won. We're troops now.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:01 |
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Another QCS success story
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:04 |
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Athanatos posted:If someone can make a Forum Tag to match the others I'd appreciate it. We already have one?
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:27 |
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Athanatos posted:If someone can make a Forum Tag to match the others I'd appreciate it. Do you have any idea what font was used to make the others? Seems easiest to just reuse the first frame of with "TG" as the text, which I can slap together as long as I know the font.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:33 |
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Athanatos posted:If someone can make a Forum Tag to match the others I'd appreciate it.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:47 |
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Athanatos posted:It's done. also can we promote leperflesh to also mod TGR.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:55 |
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I took a quick terrible stab in photoshop but this is awful don't use it: The idea was to add six pips to the square on the left, and go for a yellowish gold color since that seems to be the least-used color among the other forums tags, although the comedy goldmine is a bright yellow (even though it's the goldmine) so I went for a bit more muted? Obviously the blurry gold patch in the middle needs to be blended but I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to pixel art. e. I'm already TGR's mod, because of the inheritance model, even if my name isn't listed. A mod of a forum is automatically a mod of all of its subforums.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:55 |
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Leperflesh posted:I took a quick terrible stab in photoshop but this is awful don't use it:
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:56 |
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Leperflesh posted:I took a quick terrible stab in photoshop but this is awful don't use it:
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 18:56 |
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actually i changed my mind lets go back for now and think about this a little longer
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 19:47 |
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pog boyfriend posted:actually i changed my mind lets go back for now and think about this a little longer The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 19:49 |
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Leperflesh posted:I took a quick terrible stab in photoshop but this is awful don't use it: Feel like there'd be room to make the pips a little larger if it was a 5.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 19:50 |
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how about something like this (card table green). i don't know what the right font is though
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 21:02 |
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or, no meeple and the dice show 2 3 4 for the forum id
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 21:06 |
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Lemon-Lime posted:Do you have any idea what font was used to make the others? Not a clue. Tag requirements are that it looks the same as the others or a little bird sends me angry messages and fixes it anyway. So...Copy what the other ones look like but changing the one square to a dice would probably be fine. It has to be .gif format...but not animated.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 21:13 |
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Testing what this looks like
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 21:16 |
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The three-dice one is a bit plain, I think the one with the meeple works better.
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 21:53 |
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What do those boxes on the left of most of the forum tags signify, anyway? Is there an original reason for them, and the right-justified text?
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 23:07 |
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Athanatos posted:Testing what this looks like I made a new one, just made the 2-3-4 pattern with successively smaller and rolling dice?
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# ? Jun 1, 2021 23:33 |
Leperflesh posted:I made a new one, just made the 2-3-4 pattern with successively smaller and rolling dice? I dig it.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 00:31 |
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ninja edit: I am a dumbass
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 00:45 |
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Leperflesh posted:I took a quick terrible stab in photoshop but this is awful don't use it: Mouseover text for this icon is "dare you enter our magical realm."
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 00:45 |
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Roll 1D6 to post.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 00:57 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:04 |
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Leperflesh posted:I made a new one, just made the 2-3-4 pattern with successively smaller and rolling dice? honestly im not against revamping all of them. it's been the same images for what feels like 10 years now.
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# ? Jun 2, 2021 07:01 |