I agree that this should be where the division goes, but I think it work out just as well to tag GAME THREAD to the front of threads that deal with Mafia, Feud and other board games.
I got flamed. That’s OK, I can take it.
My point, and I failed to make this clear, is that in my opinion the discussion of physically contested events has little or no relation to discussion of what people are trying to do in a virtual game world.
An analogy (and I’ll probably somehow get flamed for this) is that the sports pages of a newspaper don’t cover bridge, chess, spelling bees, the crossword puzzle and Dungeons and Dragons although the newspaper may give coverage to those things in other sections. Yet, they are all “games.”
I’m fully aware that there are a lot of sports forums out there. The problem is that they are too often populated by total retards who have trouble writing a sentence and who think spell check is for rocket surgeons.
I like the SD Boards because the level of discussion tends to be better than average. Even the Pit is fairly civil in an entertaining way. Maybe the interest in sports among Dopers isn’t enough to carry a separate forum. But then, maybe it could develop.
It was just an idea.
Actually, I think there’s a LOT of overlap between discussions of *participating *in physically contested events and discussions of *participating *in virtual game worlds. It’s the threads about the passive experience of being a sports *spectator *that are out of place. Maybe all spectator threads should be relocated to Cafe Society with the other passive forms of entertainment … .
Chess, crossword and spelling bee championships have all been featured on ESPN.
My newspaper has the bridge column and the crossword in the Sports section. Magic: the Gathering has been shown on ESPN2.
Do Fantasy Football threads go in Sports, or Games?
And poker. Jesus Christ they cover a lot of poker.
ADAA Dodge Ball Open on ESPN 8 - The Ocho.
Newspapers have been so scaled down that they will probably start to put wedding announcements in the Sports section. But then, when I think about it, that’s probably where they belong . . . right in with the coverage of mixed martial arts.
Okay, that was funny.
But really, these forums are okay as they are.
The Game Room is really a catchall for all kinds of games/sports but it was intended to be that way too. All of them together get more traffic than they would split out separately and with the rise of people accessing the Dope on more and different (and sometimes smaller) devices we don’t need to be subdividing the forum screens and making them more difficult to access/read.
And the charm of MPSIMS – what makes it truly what it is – is that there are very profound and very fluffy and very serious and totally humorous and everything in between, all in that area, all side by side. It’s what makes it MPSIMS to begin with. It’s a big part of our history, it’s the beating heart of this board in a lot of ways, it’s our humanity. It’s who we are.
I’ve been here only a year or so but I had a hard time finding the sports discussion. The description of the Game Room says "For games and sports of all sorts, including video games, board games, party games, role-playing games, cards, and puzzles". Which does contain the word “sports,” but then follows it up with a list of stuff that I don’t consider anything of the sort. Since I have no interest in any of the rest of it, I never went in there for months. It was not obvious to me as a new user that “The Game Room” was where that kind of stuff was. It wasn’t a huge deal; I have a plethora of other sites for my Red Sox fix and that’s not what I come here for. But when I finally realized “Hey! Here are some baseball fans talking in a thread!” I wished I’d found it earlier. If the forum description had been something like “Discuss sports, video games, and board games here” it might have been clearer to me.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just dense and no one else had this issue.
You got to remember, The Game Room is super new. And a good chunk of the board was actually here to watch it open. So we know exactly what it was about due to the endless fights to get it.
So it actually says “Sports” but you didn’t think sports went there? And then didn’t see any sports discussions, and wondered why we didn’t discuss sports?
I think all those other examples are listed because “sports” is a lot more clear than “games”.
Maybe if “sports” and “games” were reversed?
*“For sports and games of all sorts, including video games, board games, party games, role-playing games, cards, and puzzles.” *
That way all those types of games are associated with “games”. shrug
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Why should discussion of the plot of, say, Mass Effect, go on the board with the discussions of baseball rules, or who the greatest soccer player of all time is, instead of on the board with the discussions of Star Wars, Stargate, etc?
If it’s a game based on a sport, sure, talk about it on a sports board, but games that actually have characters and a narrative and such, it makes no sense to do so.
And all the “on board” games (like mafia or whatever it is) those don’t really fit with either sports or video games. If anything that should have it’s own section, then let sports go with either GQ or MPSIMS depending on the type of discussion (assuming they don’t have enough to support an entire forum on their own), and them darn vidya games, those totally belong in CS.
Just because they’re all “games” doesn’t mean much. If it did, reality competition shows (Hell’s Kitchen, Apprentice, etc) and game shows (Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune) should be talked about in the Game Room exclusively as well. They have more in common with sports than Fallout 3 does.
Move sports back into Cafe Society with the other passive couch potato entertainment. Video games and on-board games are active entertainment that actually involve doing something, so they should stick together in the Game Room.
See, we gamers can be elitist too!
Though to be honest, it really doesn’t matter to me where the threads go, because I’m capable of ignoring the threads I don’t have any interest in.
I would like a sports board, separate from games. As long as it didn’t devolve into insults.
Actually, that was my idea. I’m sick of “my team is great, your team sucks” or “anybody that plays for my team is an All-Star and anybody that doesn’t play for my team is a criminal”. You know what I mean. I was just hoping that maybe the SDMB could have a sports board that actually promoted some intelligent discussion from people that know how to construct a sentence.
The staff brought that up when the Game Room was first created, and I gave them a way to rationalize it: Reality shows have no reason to exist except to be televised entertainment. Sports, on the other hand, are their own reason, and the games would still go on even if they weren’t televised. As was the case before television existed.