Gamers' Lounge poll

[Mino]

We need to:

• Cut out most of the AC boards. Seriously, they are far too specialized, and some of them do not even make sense. One for each game should work. The specialized forums such as trading and visiting are no longer needed. Also, for my sake, remove the mention of the AC anime flick from Japan from the description. No one in their right mind gives a *censored.2.0* about that.
• Make Animal Crossing into a forum, not a category. Radical, I know. The main part of the forum can be for Animal Crossing in general, and each of the three games can have their own sections. If there is a way to better present sub-forums than links in the forum description, here is the best place to do it.
• Figure out a common ground between the Brewster's and Off-Topic sections. There is no need for these two forums to be separate, and the only distinction I see between them is that in Brewster's I don't feel so bad for making posts that consist entirely of this guy: :gyroiddance: Brewster's is the direct successor to "the spam site" of days long past, and it's about time we got rid of pointless threads, instead of encouraging them. Also, we need a good name for this, and please don't make it AC-related (I vote Caf

 

[Mino]

The complete layout would be something like this:

• The Bell Tree HQ
  • Announcements
  • The Bell Tree HQ
  • TBT Marketplace
• The Bell Tree
  • Animal Crossing
    • Animal Crossing: City Folk
    • Animal Crossing: Wild World
    • Animal Crossing for the GameCube
  • Gamers' Lounge
    • Nintendo
    • Xbox
    • PlayStation
    • Computer Gaming
    • Older Nintendo
  • Off-Topic
  • Creativity Alive! (Loooool old name for The Museum.)

 

[Horus]

Holy crap Mino, you sure put a lot of thought into TBT.

 

[Mino]

Holy crap Mino, you sure put a lot of thought into TBT.

I'm scared of going to bed, you see.

 

[Horus]

Holy crap Mino, you sure put a lot of thought into TBT.

I'm scared of going to bed, you see.

I understand completely.

 

[Marcus]

The complete layout would be something like this:

• The Bell Tree HQ
  • Announcements
  • The Bell Tree HQ
  • TBT Marketplace
• The Bell Tree
  • Animal Crossing
    • Animal Crossing: City Folk
    • Animal Crossing: Wild World
    • Animal Crossing for the GameCube
  • Gamers' Lounge
    • Nintendo
    • Xbox
    • PlayStation
    • Computer Gaming
    • Older Nintendo
  • Off-Topic

 

[Marcus]

Couldn't agree more with Mino, but I think we should still have a Museum topic, seeing as a lot of people do use that.
Merging Off-Topic and B's Caf

 

[Ciaran]

The complete layout would be something like this:

• The Bell Tree HQ
  • Announcements
  • The Bell Tree HQ
  • TBT Marketplace
• The Bell Tree
  • Animal Crossing
    • Animal Crossing: City Folk
    • Animal Crossing: Wild World
    • Animal Crossing for the GameCube
  • Gamers' Lounge
    • Nintendo
    • Xbox
    • PlayStation
    • Computer Gaming
    • Older Nintendo
  • Off-Topic

 

[Ciaran]

Ehh....

Is of me or i'd the quote system not working??

I went into edit mode to see what was up and the bit I had written was still there but it won't show up...

 

[Marcus]

Ehh....

Is of me or i'd the quote system not working??

I went into edit mode to see what was up and the bit I had written was still there but it won't show up...

Happened to me too, must being something with those bullet points he did or something, or maybe the whole system is just not working.

 

[Ciaran]

Ehh....

Is of me or i'd the quote system not working??

I went into edit mode to see what was up and the bit I had written was still there but it won't show up...

Happened to me too, must being something with those bullet points he did or something, or maybe the whole system is just not working.

This discussion is a testament againt that.

 

[Sporge27]

Meh, I disagree about removing brewster's and the forum games... I like Brewsers and some people do enjoy the game area, I have on occasion

 

[Horus]

Meh, I disagree about removing brewster's and the forum games... I like Brewsers and some people do enjoy the game area, I have on occasion

The definition of Off-Topic and Brewsters is the same thing except you gain posts on one and don't on the other...

 

[Sporge27]

I'd say the tone is different. Yes one is more for spam. But off topic I see as a place for more serious discussion. Talk about things that are actually happening in Off Topic, while the cafe is just for randomness sake, and I like that.

 

[Jas0n]

Mino's idea is nice, but I think there are quite a few things missing, and especially if you're merging Off-Topic and Brewster's, they are different things, despite the fact some people get confused.

If I was making the forums, it'd go something like this:

• The Bell Tree HQ
  • Announcements
  • The Bell Tree HQ
  • TBT Marketplace
  • Introduce Yourself
• Animal Crossing
  • Animal Crossing
  • Animal Crossing: Wild World
  • Animal Crossing: City Folk <small>(Maybe add a sub-forum for The Gate still)</small>
• Gamers' Lounge
  • General Gaming Discussion
  • Nintendo
  • Xbox
  • PlayStation
  • PC Gaming
• Off-Topic
  • The Museum
  • Movies & TV
  • Music
  • Forum Games <small>(If you remove this people will just put it elsewhere anyway.)</small>
  • Real-World News
  • Rants
  • Brewster's Cafe <small>(The same spam section as today, with no post count)</small>

If you sort it out like this everything has much more defined place. Off-Topic being a section with forums for specific areas makes it much easier to depict what goes in Off-Topic and what goes in the spam section, and the same goes for Gamers' Lounge.

I added a General Gaming Discussion section for things like E3 which do not fit in the specific console forums, and removed older Nintendo as that can either be a sub-forum in Nintendo, or it can be merged into the same thing.

I moved Introduce Yourself out of The Bell Tree HQ to make it more visible for new users.

For the people who will complain about it being annoying to find topics, learn to use the "New Posts" and "Search" buttons at the top of the forum.

 

[Tyler.]

I really like Jason's idea. I think it'd make the Bell Tree seem new and fresh, and everything will feel more organized.

 

[Micah]

I don't really like the idea of a Rants board, or the idea of merging Off Topic and Brewsters.

I would, however, like to see an Entertainment board in general for movies, music, books, and other things like that.

 

[Jas0n]

I don't really like the idea of a Rants board, or the idea of merging Off Topic and Brewsters.

I would, however, like to see an Entertainment board in general for movies, music, books, and other things like that.

The idea behind the rants board isn't for debates and arguments, but for general things that people currently post in Off-Topic, like this for example.

Either an entertainment board or separate ones would work, whatever Jeremy prefers ;P

 

[[Nook]]

I don't really like the idea of a Rants board, or the idea of merging Off Topic and Brewsters.

I would, however, like to see an Entertainment board in general for movies, music, books, and other things like that.

A rants board is exactly what this forum needs. It will help people express their feelings, describe unlucky events, calm down, make people more serious, and help the majority of TBT, generally.

A petition for a Rants Board, anyone?

 

[Tyler.]

,Jun 5 2010, 11:35:50 AM]

I don't really like the idea of a Rants board, or the idea of merging Off Topic and Brewsters.

I would, however, like to see an Entertainment board in general for movies, music, books, and other things like that.

A rants board is exactly what this forum needs. It will help people express their feelings, describe unlucky events, calm down, make people more serious, and help the majority of TBT , generally.

A petition for a Rants Board, anyone?

I say we petition for Jason's whole board design.