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In the Ideas forum, with a nice "I don't intend to use this idea" in your post. Or "I AM going to use this idea" in a post if you do plan on using it.

I think that we should run merging Creative by the people first and do that. I'll post up a topic in Feedback.

Idk moose... I'm failing to see the logic as why we should keep ideas and graveyard seperate. Ideas seems to be a rather stupid forum. "So I got this map idea... you kill things and lol." I'll have to take a harder look at the ideas forum though.

Team should die. I think. Maybe.

I don't know about teams, as I'm thinking it might be useful to have a space to advertise/organize people for map or mod productions separate from the project threads themselves.

Ideas and graveyard should definitely be combined, though. Call it the Junkyard forum.

I kinda like the "Junkyard". In my mind right now, I see ideas being a forum where you can post ideas for maps for other people to take, that's basically it
Graveyard is just one step above that... an idea for a map that actually took some form, but posted for other people to take.

In that mindset, they are basically the same forum.

The next step is map in production and then released map (which you have seperate for ums and together for melee... (and that's 98% logical).


Ideas, as in... theory... would go in "Concepts and Innovation". Right?

Case closed on this?

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As far as Teams... hmmm... something can be done if it needs to be kept in some way, I'm sure of it.

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If we merge creative, in v5 I think I'll go with my idea for topic tags, pending feedback from you guys. The idea behind it is to categorize topics... such as, when creating a topic in creative, you can have a tag like: Writting- or Music-.
I'm not sure if I exactly like it myself. But like, in the assistance forums, a tag can be added outside the topic like Solved- so it doesn't actually become part of the topic... or in feedback Bug Report- or Feedback-.

Also, considering the merge, topic quality needs to be taken a step up.

Well they are both highly inactive... ESPECIALLY the graveyard. No active topics what-so-ever. People can still throw pre-production topics in this forum, why not, it's not like anyone uses it for other reasons. I'm sure a fitting name could be thought of for "Help me with my idea / Here's my idea, take it / Here's my map, take it". We could just call it Ideas... because something uncompleted is just that, just an idea. It's up to the next person to finish the generalized idea, I'm sure if I picked up a map, I would craft it to my own likings instead of follow 100% what the orginial author intended. Either graveyard gets combined or it gets deleted.

We don't even have much support for merging the Creative Forums. I think that we should focus more on the best organization, not mashing stuff together simply because we've decided that there are "too many" forums. We ended up with "too many" forums because these topics needed to be seperated due to people's varying interests. Because there were a lot of different topics in one place that splitting it off made it easy. Because people looking for one thing would no longer have to sift through tons of unrelated posts to find one that's related (my reluctance to get rid of Modding General Discussion, to lump together mapping and modding, combining those Creative forums, or Ideas & Graveyard). That isn't a bad thing.

I don't really think that it's good to have modding and mapping concepts lumped together.

Team is weak, yes, but it's used by the people who need it. Somewhere to collaberate is important, and I don't really know what other forum to put that in.

Graveyard and Team should be subforums of Editing, I want MGD to stay, but you seem to generally disagree with me.

Probably. Nobody is going to suddenly wander into editing. Only the people who use it will it.

Graveyard was a subforum until a week or two ago. I thought it being a forum would get more attention, which obviously isn't true. It can go back to being a subforum.

I think it's logical graveyard and ideas can be merged...
But can we (or I) justify merging graveyard, ideas, and general editing?


Now, outside of the box, one idea would be to split the forum's main groups (Website, UMS, Melee, Mods, General Editing, Other) into seperate pages. Seperate pages as in AJAX pages... as in not loading the entire page, but just the forums under the main groups. This would allow: bigger descriptions, bigger link text, more main forums without making it look hideously cluttered. In such a system, we could split creative into main forums as it wouldn't add an extra 5 forums in a huge list, it'll add 5 forums in a smaller list.

[Website] - [UMS] - [etc...] - [[[Other]]]
~~~Random(or something) Thoughts~~~
-Misc
-Light
~~~Logical Reasoning~~~
-Technical
-Serious
-Games
~~~Creative Thinking~~~
-Art
-Music
-Writing
-Movies

"Other" being selected in this ajax setup.

Edited... read my addition dtbk (don't want you to miss it ).

That's a good idea (box link).

Anyone else on the thought of a split forum page?
And clicking to reach a new forum section... would it make that much of a difference compared to endless scrolling to get to the "other" section?

I'm hoping the load would be instant... just as fast as the shoutbox can refresh.

The server has been pretty damn good lately, if you ask me.