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To be honest, I've hated every single idea suggested here, except the front site one T-nex just came up with.
Expanding it to include other "indie" games: I don't even know what an "indie game" is, and if this forum became a shared game forum I would most certainly leave, and I would think some others would too, because I don't even know what these other games are! It's very well saying we'd get more 'smart' members, but if there'd be no common ground on which to relate to them.
But I'd say the front site thing would work, the only problem is it would require masses of work. Who would decide who submits/rules one part of the site, etc?
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And to be honest, when I saw that you'd contributed to this thread, I KNEW you'd oppose absolutely everything that's been suggested, because that's what you always seem to do.
I think your fears about not having any common ground on which to relate to new members are baseless. Especially since you seem to spend the majority of your time in the Off Topic forum where we don't even talk about Oddworld. When was the last time you "related" to a new member by talking to him about Oddworld?
And don't think I'm just opposing you for the sake of it, it is my opinion that you've genuinely not thought any of this through before making your frank dismissal of our ideas.
You threatening to leave isn't going to help or slow things down any either. Since the majority seem to be in favour of some kind of radical change to really spice up the forums, I doubt that very many would leave as a result. And since the whole point is to pull in lots of new members, losing the odd couple of old members isn't really going to be much sacrifice to endure in order to really get things going again.
I think we should all approach this with a totally open mind, taking into consideration our goals (making the forums more lively, getting more members in, etc), and what methods we can use to achieve those goals (more content, more to do, more to talk about, more areas to talk in, broader range of subjects to attract more people). Consider the fact that most the zulags and areas within those zulags operate like their own little forum anyway. Now consider the fact that Off Topic is like the community congregation area for people from all those other forum areas. The more of those individual areas we have then the more people will be meeting up together in Off Topic, because it's inevitable that people will come to fill up those individual forum areas.
We have the goal here of reviving the forums, and if we don't reach that goal then the forums themselves are likely to be pronounced dead and taken down. Being all conservative, negative and dismissive will lead us to a flatline faster than you can say "Save The Whale!". And while I appreciate that those may be your opinions, we need some alternative ideas. We can't just stay how we are, because that isn't going to attract many new people. W+B barely sees any new-user action as it is.