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New Sub-Forums

Katie
almost 10 years

This week saw the addition of the latest subforums 'Music', 'Food and Drink' and 'Welcome to EM' with 'Off Topic' being re-implemented. These new sub-forums were put in place by Jasprar (with the consent/recommendation of other members on the mod team) in an attempt to open up the forums to appeal to a wider range of current players whilst also making it more accessible to new players who want to broaden the knowledge of the game and also make friends within the forum community who share similar interests. Although 'General Discussion' encompasses these elements, the addition of the new sub-forums makes everything feel much tidier whilst also sign-posting threads to newer players by making certain areas of discussion more prominently accessible. The previous subforums were more centered around mafia related topics with the exception of video games which proved to be a popular forum, inviting users to discuss and share opinions on a non mafia-related topic. The success of this thread highlighted that niche subforums can attract a wider community, hence why the decision was made to implement sub forums which are more interest based to make the forums more attractive to new players.

TLDR? Start here:

We are not currently looking to delete the new subforums. They are still in the stages of being tested however we are always looking to improve so constructive criticism would be much appreciated to let us know what you think. There is currently deliberation into the merging of certain subforums and also the addition of a media-related subforum so thoughts on this in particular would be extremely helpful. Whilst the deletion of the existing subforums is not priority at this point in time, ideas about how the new subforums as they exist currently could be improved are also welcome if expressed constructively.

This thread should not be about bashing the Food & Drink subforum as a result of what has been said above. It is important to remember that the aim here is to try and utilize the idea of subforums to find ways of making the forums more accessible to all whilst catering to a diverse range of interests.

Obviously the forums cannot be improved or expanded without input from the people who keep it thriving, so ideas that relate to the philosophy that was expressed in the OP are very much appreciated.

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they're ugly and there is too many pls stop
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there are reasons why people tend to avoid the forums, and its not because the subforums aren't diverse enough.
Renaldo
almost 10 years

Roshiez says

I think the welcome to EM forum is a bit unnecessary considering you could just re-create a new "Important Threads" thing and add a few extra links that make the official EM subforum a bit crowded. There's two that are currently stickied on welcome to em that should just be put into important threads and then everything would be fine. Things like mod applications and stuff should honestly be in the EM forum, I don't know why new players would be applying to moderate.


I think renaming Welcome to EM - "Important Threads" would be fine. At the same time though, a lot of the content there you want newbies to read. Even if a new player isn't applying to be moderator, they may someday aspire to mod and may want to look at what the application looks like. (this is a bit of a reach and I suppose moving it back to the main EM forum would be okay as well.)

I support the new subforums since it stops things from getting buried and allows for more variety other than "music thread" or "food thread".
Steven
almost 10 years
Look at other mafia forums like mafia scum or any other gaming based forums, you wont see a food and drink section there. You guys are moving completely in the opposite direction of what the EM forums should look like, trying to make it even more of a circlejerk and less about EM forums
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I think the welcome to EM forum is a bit unnecessary considering you could just re-create a new "Important Threads" thing and add a few extra links that make the official EM subforum a bit crowded. There's two that are currently stickied on welcome to em that should just be put into important threads and then everything would be fine. Things like mod applications and stuff should honestly be in the EM forum, I don't know why new players would be applying to moderate.
ark
almost 10 years
bad thread
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food and drink
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you should make an annoucement about this thread and the sub-forums to attract newcomers

id have a more fleshed out answer but im tired
deletedalmost 10 years
I think there's too many subforums and it takes me an extra two seconds to find the complaints which is 80% of what I'm interested in reading but besides that everythings nice

Is this constructive or what