To summarize, I'm looking for a place on the forums where discussion about Dominion can take place without the added noise of scout jokes, or other off-topic posts.
If you don't want to see those off-topic posts, that's fine and reasonable. You could scroll on past them. Maybe you could find ignore list software that works with these forums; a browser plug-in. Ignore lists would be great.
If you don't want me to see those off-topic posts, well, I am so strongly against that. Cover your ears for yourself! It's just so... unfriendly... to want something not to exist that other people are enjoying but which you don't.
Are ignore lists even possible? I don't want to ignore people, I would want to ignore posts. Ignoring people seems counterproductive.
I have to read a post before I know whether or not it's off-topic. After reading 10 off-topic posts in a row it gets very tiring. It really doesn't seem like too much for me to ask for there to be one place where these off-topic posts aren't. I'm not preventing anyone else from posting them or reading them, I'd just rather they do it somewhere else. It's like people don't want me to be able to have a serious discussion about Dominion because they post off-topic stuff, so there's this other place for that.
Clearly what I'm asking for is too much, but I genuinely don't understand why. They can have their place where they make their jokes, I have my place where I can have my quiet discussion. Nobody is forcing anybody to post in either, they just exist for different purposes. If nobody likes my place, then fine, nobody likes it and we don't have to have it.
BGG is more heavily moderated than here. You could try posting a thread for Dominion discussion there. See what happens. It's easy; I've posted threads there myself. Despite werothedisdainful's dismissal, there are for sure good players on both reddit and BGG. Including some people you know from here.
Whether or not I do this doesn't have much to do with what I'm suggesting here. Are you suggesting things for me other than F.DS because you just want me to leave and you feel bad? I don't get it. I don't see what my relationship with F.DS has to do with any of this stuff. I stated the reasons why I want to continue posting here, those are the reasons. Am I missing something?
Meh. I don't sympathize at all. Stef doesn't owe you his serious posts; Ozle doesn't owe you his lack of serious posts. If there's a thread you aren't enjoying, you can ignore just that thread too. If you're worried about missing insightful Ozle posts, ignore via the scroll wheel rather than an ignore list.
Umm, so you suggested ignore lists, but now since ignore lists aren't perfect we don't want them anymore. I'm really confused.
So imagine that, I started a thread with a goal of coming up with what a more moderated subboard would look like here and we haven't talked about that in quite some time. I'd really like to pull the discussion back to that so we can have a poll and stop speculating about the results of it before it even exists, but there's been like two pages of other stuff in between. How many people are going to make it this far into the thread to give useful feedback? How many people will read the first page, see that the conversation has gone in a different direction that they aren't interested in, and stop reading? If only there were a way to split this other discussion into a separate thread so everything was more organized.
Like, should I start a new thread here? Posting about what the poll needs to look like seems entirely senseless to me. The kind of people who would actually have helpful feedback have stopped reading by this point. I started this thread so that one day I wouldn't have to deal with exactly what this thread has become.
Anyways, I know this isn't good, but here's what I'm thinking for the poll:
Question: would you participate in a more moderated sub-board on F.DS?
1. Yes, I would probably post in it.
2. I would probably read it, and maybe I would post in it.
3. I would probably read it, but it's unlikely that I would post in it.
4. I probably wouldn't read it, but I think it's a good idea to have one.
5. I don't know whether or not I would read or post in it.
6. I don't want anything to do with it, but it's fine with me if it exists.
7. I think it's a bad idea because nobody will read or post in it and it will just die.
8. I think it's a bad idea for some other reason (explain in comments).
I don't like this for a few reasons. First, options 5 and 6 seem very similar to just not responding, but that's probably OK. Is there a way to require an explanation for option 8? I don't want people to have to jump through hoops just to vote for a thing, but at the same time if there's an actual legitimate reason for 8 then I want to know about it -- it seems to me that the existence of this thing couldn't possibly harm anyone (it should be easy to ignore) but if there's something I'm missing then that seems really important.
And the big problem for me is the actual question: to someone who doesn't read this thread, what does that question even mean? I could give a short description of that in the OP but I don't know what that short description would look like. Without an adequate description, I feel like most people would just pick answer 5, which is not a terribly useful answer; it just means the poll wasn't good enough.
If this was the poll, I'd look for a decent number of responses between answers 1-4.
There have been a few ideas presented but instead of talking about the merits of each one we've gone on this tangent. I guess I can try and summarize the ideas that seem like they have the most traction?
1. Separate subforum with moderators (who are not Adam, I am no longer willing to do this) who move or delete posts that don't belong.
2. Adding moderators to an existing board (Articles? This wasn't really made clear) who move or delete posts that don't belong.
3. Somehow improve the use of the [serious] tag. This one doesn't seem fleshed out to me, I don't quite understand how this would work.