Removal of the runescape section

[Calvin]

The etc. would include RuneScape in his example.

I wasn't really bothered about the Runescape forum, just the way the two forums were on the index. But if anything, I guess I'd be pro Runescape as I saw a few people posting in the achievements threads, not as often as other forums but it wasn't dead IMO, and there's other forums that are much less active than that one.

I guess Runescape is similar to the writing/other entertainment forum as they're not as active as the other forums on here but they both have small communities which use it often. I think perhaps there should be a sub-forum for Runescape under console/computer gaming, I'm not too sure about Minecraft because I swear the only posts I used to see there were people asking if anybody actually goes on the HxF Server anymore and I don't think I've ever visited the WoW forum lol.

@scottish;

[scottish]

I wasn't really bothered about the Runescape forum, just the way the two forums were on the index. But if anything, I guess I'd be pro Runescape as I saw a few people posting in the achievements threads, not as often as other forums but it wasn't dead IMO, and there's other forums that are much less active than that one.

I guess Runescape is similar to the writing/other entertainment forum as they're not as active as the other forums on here but they both have small communities which use it often. I think perhaps there should be a sub-forum for Runescape under console/computer gaming, I'm not too sure about Minecraft because I swear the only posts I used to see there were people asking if anybody actually goes on the HxF Server anymore and I don't think I've ever visited the WoW forum lol.

@scottish;

No need for a subforum as you can just fix by runescape prefix which is essentially the rs forum

but yeah minecraft had 1 active thread this year which was the hxf server, never looked at how many posts but the thread wasn't big so couldn't have been many, WoW had a few threads more than minecraft but still inactive.

[Calvin]

No need for a subforum as you can just fix by runescape prefix which is essentially the rs forum

but yeah minecraft had 1 active thread this year which was the hxf server, never looked at how many posts but the thread wasn't big so couldn't have been many, WoW had a few threads more than minecraft but still inactive.

True. I've never really paid much attention to the gaming forums so I'm not too sure on the amount of posts, just trying to remember off the top of my head. I'm just thinking about the small communities that do exist there, especially the Runescape ones as they've been moved back and forth a few times.

[Kyle]

There wasn't really a need to remove the section and its subforums completely regardless of how many posts it has had in recent months, you wouldn't see this happen to other forums! Runescape is one of those games that people will sporadically quit and then rejoin a couple of weeks/months later and if you had actually been around in the past, you would realise that the RS section always had certain points of the year that large groups of people would (re)join and start posting a lot more. The last quarter of 2012, for example.

First you introduce these unsightly new userbars that nobody asked for, then you go ahead and make a decision to removing a section of the forum that has proven to draw people to post on the forum in the past. Your time as forum manager isn't shaping up to be very good at all, is it? Please, next time you decide to do something, ask what the community thinks first.

[Kyle]

I'd prefer if you quoted my post to explain your (flawed) reasoning rather than -repping me @Chris;. Reading through this thread I see you keep claiming this particular decision to have been 'thoroughly discussed' but when I glance at the feedback thread I see half of the posts taken up by the same person posting his proposal for a new forum structure and next to no discussion on the actual problem here that is these hideous prefixes that have replaced the subforum system that worked so much better - and was so much less messy!

People should have spoke up when they had the chance then. It's all good and well saying you don't like something but if you chose not to give your opinion at the time then thats your own fault..

I find this statement quite laughable. Expecting people to be online for a set 1-2 week period when a decision is being discussed or else not being allowed to contribute to the discussion on the change whatsoever is quite silly. Personally, I wasn't online but those that were probably didn't even realise that you'd replace the previous system without so much as asking what those outside of the feedback forum actually thought about it. Yes, you discussed it in feedback, but did you discuss it with people that actually use(d) those forums? I don't believe so.

There will always be people who disagree with changes and thats fine, but they'll just have to get over it and move on.

This appears to epitomize your management style. "Don't like what I've done? Too bad". So no, me disagreeing with a decision you've made (or more accurately - ALL decisions you make) isn't necessarily good enough reasoning for calling you a bad manager but the fact that you're only prepared to listen to a small selection of the entire community on an issue and then claim that those that didn't have a chance to get their say don't matter sort of is.

A largely unnecessary change that will serve to do nothing more than kill the gaming forums even more. You could at least properly differentiate between online gaming, computer gaming and "other gaming".

[Kardan]

I'd prefer if you quoted my post to explain your (flawed) reasoning rather than -repping me @Chris;. Reading through this thread I see you keep claiming this particular decision to have been 'thoroughly discussed' but when I glance at the feedback thread I see half of the posts taken up by the same person posting his proposal for a new forum structure and next to no discussion on the actual problem here that is these hideous prefixes that have replaced the subforum system that worked so much better - and was so much less messy!



I find this statement quite laughable. Expecting people to be online for a set 1-2 week period when a decision is being discussed or else not being allowed to contribute to the discussion on the change whatsoever is quite silly. Personally, I wasn't online but those that were probably didn't even realise that you'd replace the previous system without so much as asking what those outside of the feedback forum actually thought about it. Yes, you discussed it in feedback, but did you discuss it with people that actually use(d) those forums? I don't believe so.



This appears to epitomize your management style. "Don't like what I've done? Too bad". So no, me disagreeing with a decision you've made (or more accurately - ALL decisions you make) isn't necessarily good enough reasoning for calling you a bad manager but the fact that you're only prepared to listen to a small selection of the entire community on an issue and then claim that those that didn't have a chance to get their say don't matter sort of is.

A largely unnecessary change that will serve to do nothing more than kill the gaming forums even more. You could at least properly differentiate between online gaming, computer gaming and "other gaming".

Don't worry, I'm getting the same. I get warned for some posts, and I ask which rule I've broken (because the fact is, I've not broken any rules), and all I get it is a wishy washy answer where they don't actually explain the rule break and all I get told is "I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of answering your questions anymore."

Ah well, at least we can all be ignored together as a nice family.

[MONEYMAGIC]

I didn't use it a lot, but I thought it was handy having it on the main forum instead of going into other parts to find it, as I often just scroll down to the Habbo section, no nothing there and then scroll to the Runescape forum see what threads were there.

[scottish]

I didn't use it a lot, but I thought it was handy having it on the main forum instead of going into other parts to find it, as I often just scroll down to the Habbo section, no nothing there and then scroll to the Runescape forum see what threads were there.

scrolls down to 'other games' now

[MONEYMAGIC]

scrolls down to 'other games' now

But if it's not a Runescape thread on the main forum page, that means I'll have to click as well! Hahaha, just kidding Even I'm not that lazy Thanks

[dunke]

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