Let’s face it, I may be painting in broad strokes here but, generally, people who are good at board games suck at sports. And people who will post about video games in forums also suck at sports. As I’m browsing the board I wince every other thread where the title includes something about baseball or FIFA or Mayweather. Honestly browsing that forum is like searching for diamonds in radioactive vomit-inducing feces. I’d rather have the forum combine board/video games and hemorrhoid stories. Can’t we let the Geeks and the Jocks sit at different tables in the lunch room?
I think the forum would need much higher traffic to justify further sub-division. Sure, if we were getting several hundreds of posts a day about games, we might have separate forums for role-players, card games, casino games, video games, board games, etc. But with current traffic, not worth it.
I don’t think we have that many topics about board games or actual baseball games…etc to really require it However I don’t agree with the notion that people good at board games suck at sports. If anyone practices at a sport, they will get good at it like anything else. Regardless if they play video or board games unless perhaps there is some kind of physical or mental disability that prevents them from being good at it.
I used to work with a guy that played D&D a lot and had an opportunity to play for the Red Sox but didn’t because of some girl he was hung up on but obviously he must have been pretty darn good at baseball to ge the offer.
More sub-forums equals more isolation, ennui and apathy.
I was a big fan of the move to separate thread games from game threads. I think this proposal is terrible. And I say that as someone whose interest in sports is mainly guilty, a feeling that I don’t want to be the sort of supercilious schmuck who is proud of ignorance about sports.
We don’t separate other forums that way. Cafe Society is food and books and movies and television and music and impressionist painting and god knows what else. That’s a far wider net than “games” is already. The solution is for you to stop wincing.
We had considerable discussion in the mod loop about this possibility when we were considering how to deal with thread games. The consensus was that we didn’t think it would be a good idea to subdivide the forum even more after splitting out thread games.
Since I’m interested in sports but not in games, I was personally in favor of a separate sports forum or subforum just so it would be easier to find sports threads. I don’t hate games threads, I just don’t have any interest in them. However, splitting out the thread games largely solved that problem. Since thread games were bumped so often, they tended to dominate the top of the page.
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Honestly browsing that forum is like searching for diamonds in radioactive vomit-inducing feces. I’d rather have the forum combine board/video games and hemorrhoid stories.
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We’re not terribly sympathetic to this argument. Everybody has threads in every forum that they could do without.
In any case, this is ridiculous. By my count, 57 threads out of 125 in the Game Room that have been active in the last month, or less than half, have anything to do with sports (including books on sports and the appearance of a football player on Jeopardy). If you are really finding that few threads, you must not be interested in most of the threads that would remain in the forum if sports was split out.
Sounds just like board/video gamers to me. 
Well i never said there weren’t a lot of diamonds.
Yes, totally unnecessary. I have zero interest in video or board games, but it is easy to ignore them. The problem with the thread games were due to their constant bumping to the top of the page and driving everything else off the front page. Other threads were getting buried, quickly.
I was always disappointed with the Game forum design.
I like puzzles, crosswords, etc. Discussing these in GQ seems quite reasonable. They fit there.
They don’t at all belong in a forum with sports.
Quite unrelated topics.
So I never read the games forums. So I’m missing out on one of my favorite topics since they are a tiny part of that forum. It’s reasonable to surmise that a lot of puzzlers avoid the forum, hence the small number of threads.
It’s reasonable to put “puzzle” game type topics in GQ, Video games in CS, and then that leaves sports … where?
See. Bad idea. Should have never been created.
Would it help if we included a trigger warning? Every day must be like a virtual swirly for you.
Thats not reasonable at all!
You like the threads, they are your favourite topic but you don’t read them because there are other topics in the same forum? People actively avoid the forum because there are sports threads there? Thats not reasonable, how do you survive in the likes of IMHO where there is a far, far greater range of topics discussed?
The forum shouldn’t have been created at all? Then your puzzle threads would still be in cafe society, *and so would the sports threads *! What exactly has changed in that regard?
Your post makes no sense.
I agree. Imagine how dumb it would be to have a single forum where you could discuss Batman, Shakespeare, Dom Perignon and Jack-in-the… oh, wait.
I.e., you completely misinterpreted it based on your own preconceptions.
But if the Game Room hadn’t been created, then sports threads would be in IMHO or MPSIMS or Cafe Society. Or GQ, like you say. And were. And that’s the same problem.
You don’t read threads you like because they are in the same forum as threads you don’t like. There does indeed seem to be an issue with preconceptions.
There weren’t many threads on puzzles when they were still in GQ. They would be even more difficult to find if they were in that forum.
The simple fact is, there aren’t a lot of threads on puzzle games. They are always going to be a small minority of threads, unless you make a forum for those alone. And that forum is going to be small and low-activity.
Puzzle games probably get more activity by being in CS, because they attract attention from people who might not visit a dedicated forum.
And that’s ultimately the goal of having broad categories with mishmashes of topics - cross-pollination of viewers to at least see the thread titles in hopes of stirring conversation, not isolating topics so people get more insulated and threads get less visibility, with the resulting drop in overall traffic and participation.
People who are neither interested in sports nor gaming? Works for me!
I don’t see any reason to break off another forum from The Game Room. Splitting off the Thread Games forum has really made The Game Room much more enjoyable, and much easier to pick out what I’m interested in.
I don’t think the board needs a multitude of mini-forums for every purpose.