# Game Threads in The Game Room **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 17, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775 "2014-09-17T23:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/141 "2014-09-22T13:56:09Z")
A new forum isn’t going to happen. For all practical purposes, we do NOT have an administrator for these Boards, except for dire situations and emergencies (e.g., the boards failing to work at all.) Anything less is cosmetic, and at the present time, we have no way of handling. Yes, it’s a dreadful way to handle a business (with no backup for the single administrator); yes, it’s inconsiderate of members; yes, it’s a strain on moderators; but it’s the way the Chicago Sun-Times has chosen to run these boards. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/142 "2014-09-22T14:15:31Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > A new forum isn’t going to happen. So then what is going to happen? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/143 "2014-09-22T14:51:57Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > A new forum isn’t going to happen. > > For all practical purposes, we do NOT have an administrator for these Boards, except for dire situations and emergencies (e.g., the boards failing to work at all.) Anything less is cosmetic, and at the present time, we have no way of handling. Yes, it’s a dreadful way to handle a business (with no backup for the single administrator); yes, it’s inconsiderate of members; yes, it’s a strain on moderators; but it’s the way the Chicago Sun-Times has chosen to run these boards. So what happens if this guy Jerry decides to walk away from his job tomorrow? What is the contingency for that? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/144 "2014-09-22T15:05:57Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > This is a parody, right? Yes, of this: > [@General Questions under spam attack](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-questions-under-spam-attack/699195/15): > > This is a really nasty sound bite that is totally untrue. That’s like saying that it easy to clean a turkey carcass, because it’s simple to pull the giblet bag out of the cavity. > > First, having turned on the computer, opened internet explorer, logged into the SDMB, selected GQ and identifed a spam thread, copied the name of the spammer no, it’s not ‘easy’. > > But let’s start with the need to read the thread to ensure they aren’t general questions and are spam, then signing into the Admin section of the boards with username and password, then clicking through menus to the place where spammers are identified (it’s not like they do it every day and so can zip right to it), then waiting while the $\*#@(ing thing loads up, then delrting the thead (that’s the step that you think is easy but you’re wrong), typing in the spammer name, checking that there are no typos, then hitting the SEND button, then waiting while it works ('cause these Boards ain’t whatcha call speedy) and then checking that it did what was wanted. > > No, it’s not rocket surgery, but it’s nowhere close to easy. And they are swamped, totally and utterly. It’s time that they don’t have. > > Heck, just telling them that it is “easy,” is more complicated than I can fathom. Don’t you dare look at the time stamps! ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/145 "2014-09-22T16:54:28Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > A new forum isn’t going to happen. > > For all practical purposes, we do NOT have an administrator for these Boards, except for dire situations and emergencies (e.g., the boards failing to work at all.) Anything less is cosmetic, and at the present time, we have no way of handling. Yes, it’s a dreadful way to handle a business (with no backup for the single administrator); yes, it’s inconsiderate of members; yes, it’s a strain on moderators; but it’s the way the Chicago Sun-Times has chosen to run these boards. With all due respect to the staff here at the SDMB, you’re getting hosed by the _Chicago Sun-Times_. Feel free to thank the publication after I have left the room. There is a problem in _ **The Game Room** _, although it’s admittedly nowhere near a catastrophic problem. It is, for the most part, a minor to middling aggravation for those very few of us that would like to use that particular forum for something other than Game Threads. The current proposed ‘fix’ is clearly designed to circumvent the absentee administrator, and shifts the (again admittedly) minor burden of a clumsy remedy onto us lowly participants. So please, managerial staff at the _Chicago Sun-Times_, return administrative rights to someone on the SDMB staff with the will to actually operate and maintain this message board. I nominate anybody but whomever is not quite doing it now. Whoever. Whichever. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/146 "2014-09-22T18:41:46Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > A new forum isn’t going to happen. > > For all practical purposes, we do NOT have an administrator for these Boards, except for dire situations and emergencies (e.g., the boards failing to work at all.) Anything less is cosmetic, and at the present time, we have no way of handling. Yes, it’s a dreadful way to handle a business (with no backup for the single administrator); yes, it’s inconsiderate of members; yes, it’s a strain on moderators; but it’s the way the Chicago Sun-Times has chosen to run these boards. Whatevs… ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/147 "2014-09-22T19:02:45Z")
Right before my last apartment building went into foreclosure, the writing was all over the wall that things were heading down the drain with the company that owned it. They stopped answering phone calls, emails bounced back, and most telling of all - the people that normally kept the grounds of the building maintained just stopped doing so. They either quit or just didn’t give a shit, or maybe there was just one guy - maybe even named Jerry - that had to take care of it, and he didn’t have the time or the inclination to do so. I guess what I’m saying is that I’ve been through this before. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/148 "2014-09-22T21:45:56Z")
> [@orangeapples](#): > > So please, managerial staff at the _Chicago Sun-Times_, return administrative rights to someone on the SDMB staff with the will to actually operate and maintain this message board. I nominate anybody but whomever is not quite doing it now. No one with any power is going to see this. It’s sad, I agree, but we’re batting our heads against a brick wall here. Screaming in the dungeon, and the castle is empty. > [@](#): > > I guess what I’m saying is that I’ve been through this before. The newspaper business is pretty much in the toilet, on account of the internet and iPhones and all that. They’ve got bigger issues than worrying about a Message Board. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/149 "2014-09-22T22:25:51Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > The newspaper business is pretty much in the toilet, on account of the internet and iPhones and all that. They’ve got bigger issues than worrying about a Message Board. Then maybe they should sell it. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/150 "2014-09-22T22:59:14Z")
If that’s the case than why do the mods here take their duties so seriously? If the owners don’t give a shit about this place why should anybody else? Would be like the manager of a Blockbuster Video in 2013 worrying about whether or not the New Releases are in alphabetical order. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/151 "2014-09-22T23:19:11Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > If that’s the case than why do the mods here take their duties so seriously? If the owners don’t give a shit about this place why should anybody else? > > Would be like the manager of a Blockbuster Video in 2013 worrying about whether or not the New Releases are in alphabetical order. The manager of the Blockbuster can still have professional pride and try to do his best. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/152 "2014-09-23T00:09:57Z")
The OP of this thread was about a new game forum. As **Dex** has said a few times above, the mods have talked about it at length again over the last few days. And, like last time, the opinions were not unanimous. There were good points made by all sides and many different suggestions, but–in the end–it was decided that a new forum is still just not needed at this point. Now since that issue has been asked about and decided on, I’m going to close this thread, because it’s starting to go off track. If you want to discuss the boards and staff as a whole (something this thread was starting to turn into), that’s fine, but please make a new thread about it. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/153 "2014-09-29T11:48:43Z")
LATE NOTE: We have started a policy of labeling game-threads (on a purely voluntary basis) to see if that helps. The idea is that those who WANT game-threads can find them more easily, and those who DON’T want more game-threads can eyeball over them without having to read the whole title to decide. There’s a thread in The Game Room sticky at top to get input on whether this is helpful. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775/154 "2014-09-29T13:39:56Z")
It should be noted that the mod staff is NOT going to mark your threads for you – you need to mark them as you make them. And not just GAME – though it was my understanding it’s not a problem finding game threads – if you indicate the content of your thread in a way that is consistent like, say [SPORTS] then you can do a Google search for those threads and get them all at once. Then you can subscribe to the threads you want to follow and you’re good to go. Good luck to all following their passions in The Game Room. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-threads-in-the-game-room/698775.md?page=7)