World of Warcraft as 'parent' forum?

As a member of the Habbox Council I was requested to look into a parent forum for World of Warcraft by Kristoffur.

I did some research and found out that it was a growing community. It seemed quite lively and with 792 threads and 9410 posts.
It was also bigger than:
Books
Big Brother
Online Radios
Tourism & Holidays
Vehicle and Transport
Debates
Because of this I felt they had quite a good case for their own forum and it was put to the GM who agreed and Elkaa announced it.

I cannot see a problem in helping members who put forward a good case for something and quite honestly if the thread starter would like to put forward a case for something else that he wants and would be considered instead of complaining about a decision that is a very positive step for some members of this community and hurts nobody it would be a good thing. Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by crans

Probs cause Elkaa plays WoW ;).

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Got it in one!

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Originally Posted by Catzsy

It was also bigger than:
Books
Big Brother
Online Radios
Tourism & Holidays
Vehicle and Transport
Debates

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Some of those I can understand but you put it agains some of the forums that people don't use for some fairly obvious reasons

Books - Hardly anyone reads books, you get some people but not exactly a huge amount of them, since the average age range on habbox is probably something like 13 or 14 can you really expect a huge amount of them to read books?

Big Brother - Isn't that only on like..Twice a year or something? Not much to discuss :rolleyes:

Tourism and holidays - Not everyone on the forum goes on holiday and I highly doubt many of those that do actually post about it and even less care

Vehicle and Transport - Well same as books really, not a huge amount of 13-14 year olds are that interested in cars so you only get some of the older people talking about it and that's still not gonna lead to many discussions

Debates - That was just pointless, not everyone wants to get involved in this forum and as members we're unable to start our own debates so the thread count is obviously not gonna be very high

Not to mention quite alot of the WoW forum is spam, I'm sure if there was no spam it wouldn't have a very high post count

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Originally Posted by Neil

Some of those I can understand but you put it agains some of the forums that people don't use for some fairly obvious reasons

Books - Hardly anyone reads books, you get some people but not exactly a huge amount of them, since the average age range on habbox is probably something like 13 or 14 can you really expect a huge amount of them to read books?

Big Brother - Isn't that only on like..Twice a year or something? Not much to discuss :rolleyes:

Tourism and holidays - Not everyone on the forum goes on holiday and I highly doubt many of those that do actually post about it and even less care

Vehicle and Transport - Well same as books really, not a huge amount of 13-14 year olds are that interested in cars so you only get some of the older people talking about it and that's still not gonna lead to many discussions

Debates - That was just pointless, not everyone wants to get involved in this forum and as members we're unable to start our own debates so the thread count is obviously not gonna be very high

Not to mention quite alot of the WoW forum is spam, I'm sure if there was no spam it wouldn't have a very high post count

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But they are all parent forums at the moment so there was a good case for WOW wasn't there? I don't see why you are so upset about it. You can always request a forum to be added if you feel it is wanted by members or anything you feel would improve it :)

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Originally Posted by SmarterChild

RuneScape has it's own section and World of Warcraft is better and more populated then RuneScape. In my opinion it deserves it's own section ;)

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Here are some facts:

Currently the Runescape section has 3 people viewing it, the WoW forum has 0 peopel viewing it. And it's been like that for hours (at least when I've scrolled passed :P).

HxF love their random, pointless changes. Let them live with it. I'm still waiting for the CT catagory to go in Online Games.

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Originally Posted by Elkaa

Got it in one!

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So you made a forum to benfit yourself? :P

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

Here are some facts:

Currently the Runescape section has 3 people viewing it, the WoW forum has 0 peopel viewing it. And it's been like that for hours (at least when I've scrolled passed :P).

HxF love their random, pointless changes. Let them live with it. I'm still waiting for the CT catagory to go in Online Games.

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Well I have been there on quite a few occasions to check lately and seen between 3 and 9 on WOW and Runescape is pretty popular. Obviously it is going to be quiet on a school day :D

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Originally Posted by Catzsy

Well I have been there on quite a few occasions to check lately and seen between 3 and 9 on WOW and Runescape is pretty popular. Obviously it is going to be quiet on a school day :D

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That's besides the point :P

8 people viewing Runescape now
1 person viewing WoW

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Originally Posted by @xP

So you made a forum to benfit yourself? :P

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Somehow I get the feeling he was being sarcastic ;)

I really don't think think it's active enough to warrant a parent forum, there are only a couple of posts there per day, that's if there are any. I think there is more case for a COD forum or flight simulator forum to be made parent forums, because they are easily active enough to warrant the move.

But I don't see the harm in giving WoW it's own forum, so I say it doesn't matter tbh.

Being an active poster in those forums I can tell you that we churn out quite a few posts in that forum a day. And things have been picking up lately. And also, if WoW is an online game; thus it should have a place in the online games section, then runescape which is also an online game should be in the online games section too. However Neil, t isn't because it's popular and now the WoW forum is getting popular so the WoW forum has the same deal.