dgtziea
November 10, 2016, 5:10am
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To add to the discussion, here’s a handful of posts from another thread earlier during the comp, on the topic.
dgtziea:
I think I agree with reasie that having game specific discussion threads might make sense in addition to the individual reviewer threads. Although adding ~60 threads might be a bit much, so maybe… groups of four per thread might make sense?
That way, if there are people that aren’t going to play as many games, or who only want to say a couple sentences, or who only want to comment or discuss something about a specific game, they can still chime in.
Is anyone else interested in this? Or have reasons against it?
catacalypto:
My instinct is against this for several reasons. If it’s done with individual threads, lack of coverage might feel more pointed for an author who has one page of posts in their thread, vs. one who has five pages of thoughts. If games are grouped together in units, and a heated discussion or debate sparks up over one of the games, people might have to wade through a bunch of comments to participate in a discussion about another game, and it could get complex quick. Plus, having one reviewer’s thoughts in one place gives me a sense of consistency about what they like and what they look for, and thus it’s easier for me to tell if they don’t like something I’d like, or vice versa. But I welcome other thoughts.
aschultz:
The idea of one thread per game is neat, but yeah, there’d be a lot of clogging.
And it might be duplicating efforts bit, because IFWiki does conglomerate reviews by game, so we have that resource if we want it.
A thread with just one post that links to all the entries would also be doable. The only problem is that only the person writing the post could edit it.
However, the author forum has had (for a few years) a spreadsheet of which authors reviewed which games, so maybe we could have the same thing here. It’s a bit of work to get started, but once it is, it seems to run smoothly. Any author from 2015 or 2014 could copy/paste the formatting.
And I like a lot of what dfabulich wrote here: [url]IF Archive Hugo Downloads ]
I’m wondering if per-game threads would be more welcoming than just having reviewer threads, especially to newer members, and if that might lead to more people contributing their thoughts as well.