What about a "Forum Games and Roleplaying" subforum?

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What about a "Forum Games and Roleplaying" subforum?

Post by KittyTac » December 23rd, 2017, 4:31 am

It would be placed in the Sandbox and would host forum games like "Corrupt a wish" and roleplays. WOuld boost the forum's popularity a lot, and inevitably make more people interested in GoL. I can bring in the population of a forum I know to give it a kickstart.

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Re: What about a "Forum Games and Roleplaying" subforum?

Post by M. I. Wright » December 23rd, 2017, 2:12 pm

Hm. Forum games like Mafia or Corrupt a Wish would IMO be a wonderful addition to the Random Posts thread or the Sandbox (that is, the subforum, not the section!), but I have a feeling that role-playing activities wouldn't be much of interest to regulars in the mostly-academic spirit of the forum at large -- and therefore perhaps better-relegated to their own thread than to a subforum, if accommodated at all.
Likewise, I don't really feel that bringing in a bunch of new users to kickstart a specially-made roleplaying-slash-forum-games area would go over smoothly, because an interest in those activities would presumably translate shakily (at best) into any sort of interest in GoL, and they would likely after a month or so find themselves isolated in their participation... eventually either quitting or staying in their own bubble and effecting a weird dichotomy between the two sections of the community.
So I'm not too sure, especially with regard to how this could boost the forum's popularity in the long run. I'm aware that my own two cents, however, aren't necessarily shared by the rest of the forum, so I'll wait for somebody else to weigh in before writing it off entirely!

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Re: What about a "Forum Games and Roleplaying" subforum?

Post by AforAmpere » December 23rd, 2017, 4:01 pm

M. I. Wright wrote:Likewise, I don't really feel that bringing in a bunch of new users to kickstart a specially-made roleplaying-slash-forum-games area would go over smoothly, because an interest in those activities would presumably translate shakily (at best) into any sort of interest in GoL, and they would likely after a month or so find themselves isolated in their participation... eventually either quitting or staying in their own bubble and effecting a weird dichotomy between the two sections of the community.
I agree, I feel this would create two groups, the roleplayers, and the CA people. This might be a thing to do in some other forums, but I feel that here would not be the place to do it.
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RFC: too many "RLE pastebin" type forum threads?

Post by confocaloid » October 2nd, 2024, 7:06 pm

There are some forum threads containing multiple medium-to-large RLEs, with few or no added meaningful explanations or descriptions or comments regarding what those RLEs are about and why those RLEs were posted.

Some of those threads are mostly "incremental", in that many RLEs are minor modifications of earlier RLEs, reposted in a separate post.
Others are more or less random pastebins.
Sometimes there are attempts to add some "story" to the patterns, but the thread ends up being yet another "RLE pastebin" anyway.

Does this forum really need so many threads that are basically high-volume pastebins?

Below is an incomplete list of examples:
(note that there are also threads created by various people as "sandbox threads for themselves", which are not included below)

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3316 "RLE copy/paste thread - everyone else"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6377 "Search Results Dump"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6496 "derivative rle copy paste zone"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6670 "(game) Conduit Chain (my ver.)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6626 "(SI) Induction Coilage (game)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6516 "conways game of life roleplay"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6645 "CA empires"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6558 "Core Destruction"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3021 "Continue the infinite path!"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6717 "CGOL Roleplay (alt universe)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6711 "CGOL Roleplay 2"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6569 "CGOL Roleplay 3"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6567 "-- CGOL ROLEPLAY TWO --"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6713 "Conway & Nway Co."
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6598 "New ca realm"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5697 "Blorpus ( Game )"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6614 "Start a Colony!'
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6390 "QuadLife VS (Game)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5967 "Dueling Patterns (Game)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6068 "My Pattern is Larger (Game)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6477 "expand the spark (game)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5683 "Extend the Pattern 3(The whole message is important so please read through it and make sure you understand it)"
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6515 "glider destruction of ash"

Old related discussion:
M. I. Wright wrote:
December 23rd, 2017, 2:12 pm
Hm. Forum games like Mafia or Corrupt a Wish would IMO be a wonderful addition to the Random Posts thread or the Sandbox (that is, the subforum, not the section!), but I have a feeling that role-playing activities wouldn't be much of interest to regulars in the mostly-academic spirit of the forum at large -- and therefore perhaps better-relegated to their own thread than to a subforum, if accommodated at all.
Likewise, I don't really feel that bringing in a bunch of new users to kickstart a specially-made roleplaying-slash-forum-games area would go over smoothly, because an interest in those activities would presumably translate shakily (at best) into any sort of interest in GoL, and they would likely after a month or so find themselves isolated in their participation... eventually either quitting or staying in their own bubble and effecting a weird dichotomy between the two sections of the community.
So I'm not too sure, especially with regard to how this could boost the forum's popularity in the long run. I'm aware that my own two cents, however, aren't necessarily shared by the rest of the forum, so I'll wait for somebody else to weigh in before writing it off entirely!
AforAmpere wrote:
December 23rd, 2017, 4:01 pm
M. I. Wright wrote:Likewise, I don't really feel that bringing in a bunch of new users to kickstart a specially-made roleplaying-slash-forum-games area would go over smoothly, because an interest in those activities would presumably translate shakily (at best) into any sort of interest in GoL, and they would likely after a month or so find themselves isolated in their participation... eventually either quitting or staying in their own bubble and effecting a weird dichotomy between the two sections of the community.
I agree, I feel this would create two groups, the roleplayers, and the CA people. This might be a thing to do in some other forums, but I feel that here would not be the place to do it.
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