Some ideas on boards

[BaconShelf]

Either I'm an idiot or the suggestions thread was removed. So whatever.

 

Anyway, I've been thinking recently about how the amount of sub-forums there are currently just seems... Cluttered? I guess is the right term. There seems to be a lot of subs that are pretty redundant, too. So I decided to spend some time thinking about how they could be cleaned up a bit.

 

First, I'll post the list of ones to keep, as it were, then provide my reasoning below.

 

Announcements Board

News Board

General Discussion

Offbeat

Introductions and whatnot*

 

Clan Recruitment

Game Days and Invites

 

Halo 5 board

Halo: Master Chief Collection board

Halo Wars board

Other Halo Games board (Such as Spartan Series, Reach, etc)

Halo on PC discussion (Online, CE, 2V)

 

Forge and Custom Games Board

Halo Lore

Member Created Works

 

Other Franchises**

 

* - most forums I see have a thread for people to make an introductory post as opposed to a sub. But it's not like it matters

 

** - Could just be combined with general

 

First seven - don't need to explain these, really. They're pretty self-explanatory

 

Halo 5 - merging all four H5G subs would improve activity in an overarching Halo 5 thing. I'll go into more detail at the end.

MCC - There's not really much point in having subs for Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST and 4 alongside chief collection when they could merge all discussion of those games into one board

Halo Wars - Halo Wars 1 and 2 discussion. 'Nuff said

Other Games - As the odd men out, Reach, Spartan Series and even maybe the board games can all count here

PC- There's there PC Halo games, may as well count them. Of course, you could also count them under other Halo Games.

 

Lore- To discuss Expanded Universe content and story

Member Created works - Self explanatory

Forge- with so many forge sub-boards, very few see activity. Right now, there's a few forge subs, as well as ones in the Reach, 4 and 5 boards. Not really necessary, IMO. Better to put all custom game discussion.

 

Other Franchises - A place to discuss any other media franchise - game, film or novel. Really, just combining the last three boards which are all pretty useless, really.

 

Another suggestion would be to have Halo Trilogy as a sub, and Reclaimer Saga as another, or Bungie Games, 343 Games and Halo Wars.

 

Anyway, onto my activity point. A lot of boards here don't get updated (IE posted in) for days, even weeks or months at a time. I believe that this is, partially, due to being spread so thin. Merging similar boards into one would help alleviate this, by merging all discussion of a particular topic into one place. I, myself, tend not to bother looking at the multiplayer boards as I have very little interest in multiplayer. However, if I were to look down a Halo 5 board and see a multiplayer topic, I'd be more inclined to see and post in it, maybe I'm just wierd or it could help promote discussion. Or at least the illusion of activity.

 

Similar to Halo Trilogy and MCC- why not just add the Halo 1-4 boards to MCC? They are all covered by MCC, so separating the discussion seems a tad foolish, if you ask me. Which you didn't. I crashed the party by kicking down the door, shouting at your friends and eating all of the cake before I'm kicked out. No, I don't know where that was going.

 

Anyway, I hope that, should Twam or any of the mods read this and take it seriously, you consider the ideas and decide of I'm talking a load of rubbish or I'm a really smart guy who deserves a certificate.

 

Thanks for reading ^ ^

 

 

Here's another, much more streamlined idea. Though it probably wouldn't work just based off how this place works.

 

*admin stuff like general discussion*

 

General Halo Discussion - Discuss any halo related content here

Multiplayer Discussion - Discuss multiplayer stuff here

Story Discussion - Discuss Halo Lore here

Customs Discussion - Discuss forge, custom games and firefight here

 

Other Franchise Discussion - Discuss non-halo franchises

 

Probably wouldn't work

 

I hope this doesn't read like I'm trying to sound like a ****. 'Cause I'm not. I'm just not good at not reading like I am one... If that makes sense.

 

 

Or we could have 'good halo games' and then a board for Halo Reach and Halo 3 :^)

Edited August 23, 2015 by BaconShelf