I want this. Now.

NOOOOW!

What about one for forum games like Mafia?

That could go in the offtopic section as it wouldn't have anything to do with Gog or regular gaming, I guess.

i think this is a better idea, all topics not related to gaming could be inside the off topic

I definitely support the idea of a handful on non-game-specific sub-forums. Hell, I'd personally dig a Linux sub-forum to round up all the little tidbits of info regarding running certain games, while we asking for things. :)

Just put several new forums in there. Including one for forum games / competitions as well. The news posts definitely need their own forum.

damn a 10 month necro

As a less reputable member of the forum, I say yes!

That's my thought. We don't need 20 subfora, however spltting it into General Games, Off topic and possibly Religon/politics and such. Wouldn't be unreasonable.

Right now there are tons of posts in General that are of limited appeal and just spam up the only discussion forum, but there really isn't any where else for them to go. So, you get the dozens of "what game is this" threads and the other threads which are legitimate, but ill placed in such a busy forum.

But, more seriously, I think we should string people up by their thumbs that necro posts.

You can't split a forum without hurting the community, that much is guaranteed. The question is, is this forum big enough for such a split to be necessary? I personally don't think it is right now, but if it continues to grow it will eventually be necessary. For now, having news posts in it's own section will be enough.

I wouldn't mind things being more organized.

Well, it would be neat, BUT, i have general discussion pin-tabbed, and it's neat to have it all in one place, I rarely look at the game specific forums because of that. So, if such a separation would take place, i'd probably pin tab the game discussion forum, and completely forget about the off topic one.

I've done worse. :-P It's my own thread in this case, sooooo ... I dunno, actually.

Sure you can, a lot of the BS posts that aren't of any interest to me are already making it harder for me to see the ones that are actually of interest. Splitting off a non-Games subforum would pretty much solve the problem without any trouble.

If people are too lazy to go to the other subforum, that's a pretty good indication of what value they place on those posts in the first place.

Sure, if you have dozens of subfora that gets ridiculous, but all this begging the question about splits is just absurd.
Yeah, but the flip side is that you get tons of motion quickly burying topics which are of general interest under a flood of those stupid "When will game X" get here and various off topic nonsense that should really have it's own subforum

It's come up and people suggest that I'm being unreasonable because clearly a forum without a proper search where everybody does their posting in one specific subforum isn't hard to keep track of.

But yeah, all this BS of everything being posted in the same forum needs to stop.

Old thread, but the point should still be discussed.

The increase in traffic and growing number of spam/crap/egotrip/politic/begging and especially pro/anti DRM tirades necessitate the move to a forums with the main forum split up.

People say the community might be split up, but the increased snippiness and arguments (not civil discussions, but arguments) can lead to worse happening.

The container is close to overflowing, better to pour it into smaller containers then risk the overflow that can create one hell of a mess.