thread-organization frustration

[The Man]

Rampala Quistis:

I've started reading the Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross forums, and have only played Chrono Trigger. Since then, I've gotten spoiled for Chrono Cross so many times without warning that I've, on multiple occasions, considered not reading that forum at all anymore. If the games are put together in the same forum, then spoilers abound. People say, "Oh, it's the Chrono Trigger AND CROSS forum, so I don't have to mention which of my spoilers are Cross spoilers." Well, guess what? Some people only read that forum for the one game that they've played. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't realize that, or they simply don't care. As a result, people like me get spoiled without wanting to. So you see what happens when games are combined.

Unfortunately, a lot of people also don't realize that a spoiler tag exists, either. I really think word for that needs to get out more. That it's the subject of an announcement right now is at least good, but that's not likely to last for long, and a lot of people, sadly, ignore the annoucements or don't even notice them.

I personally like being able to see which games have updates. Also, I posted a SD3 thread in General Squaresoft and it got buried within a day. I doubt anyone's going to respond to it now. I know there are people who've played Holy Sword Legend 3 (or Seiken Densetsu 3, Secret of Mana 2... woteva), but I, for one, don't like digging through fifteen pages of threads to get to the Holy Sword Legend threads, and I know that I have more patience and more time on my hands than most EoFFers do, so I still think something needs to be done. As Master Vivi said, they are great games. And I've reason to believe that more people have probably played at least one of them than the Xeno games, though I could be completely wrong about that.

RaNdOm:

I have no idea what you mean by "FF1-6 should have only one forum and FF7-11 should have another." Do you have any idea how immense that would be? That, if anything, would be way more off-putting to newbies than the current structure of organization. They'd be undergoing sensory overload every time they checked into these fora. Hell, even I, who have been a member for more than a month and have already contributed well over 750 posts, would find it overloading, and I'd have no clue which games were being talked about at the moment in any forum.

We might need more fora, but we certainly don't need less of them. That's the only combination I can justify right now is if the Writer's Corner and Artist's Gallery get merged; that might boost the traffic to both.

Peace
The Man