topic Re: Gamers Forum in Community Chat

Gamers Forum

occasionalrain — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:31:17 GMT

Has the Gamers Forum been eliminated?

I've been seeing gamer threads showing up here.

Re: Gamers Forum

proudlyfromNJ — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:33:05 GMT

@occasionalrain It's still there. I look at it every once in a while.

Re: Gamers Forum

Kachina624 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:52:27 GMT

@occasionalrain I saw those threads and wondered why the mods didn't direct them to the game's forum.

Re: Gamers Forum

chickenbutt — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:54:17 GMT

Not that I'm interested, for the most part, but I have wondered why they started hiding the games forum since this last board change several years ago.

Why should it need to be hidden, unless you ask to be 'let in'?

Re: Gamers Forum

Kachina624 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:14:04 GMT

@chickenbutt I think it was popular demand. It started to dominate the boards and really didn't relate to anything else on them.

Re: Gamers Forum

chickenbutt — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:22:25 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@chickenbutt I think it was popular demand. It started to dominate the boards and really didn't relate to anything else on them.

Thanks for the info. I guess I was mistaken in that I thought the games forum was just a totally separate sub-forum comprised of just the game threads.

I don't see why they can't do that. Oh, I keep forgetting that this software is not exactly current.

Re: Gamers Forum

occasionalrain — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:29:33 GMT

At the time, this thread was called Viewpoints, I believe, and the gamer threads took over crowding out other topics so the Gamer Forum was established.

I have no idea why it's hidden now.

Re: Gamers Forum

Mz iMac — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:45:23 GMT

I assume that the game forum is hidden to prevent threadjacking w/non-gaming postings.

Re: Gamers Forum

Cakers3 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:48:54 GMT

It is true that some years ago this forum was flooded with games. Before that the flooding was from craft threads-mostly about scrapbooking when the Q used to have shows on that topic.

I'm not sure what really makes a "game", though.

From my memory the games were more about naming things by letters of the alphabet, and such.

Or the game might be some trivia.

Threads asking about your favorite movie, for example, isn't a game, to me; although that should be under TV/Movies forum.

Asking posters about a favorite thing isn't a game so some of the threads here are ok.

I also have no idea why a poster needs to be let into the Games Forum by a mod, though.