Exclude Forum Games from Recent Topics?

merit • 6 days ago

Hi, I've been trying to use the forums more lately and it's been really slow going. Most of the action seems to take place in the Forum Games section.

There's nothing wrong with that; forum games are fun and a great way to do forum post dailies. But it also means that the Recent Topics are mainly filled with them. I think this might keep other topics from getting more attention.

My thought was, what if the Forum Game topics were excluded from the Recent Topics list? This would give other posts a better chance to be seen. I also don't think it would hurt the forum games themselves much.

I don't know how easy this would be to implement, or how other players would feel about it. I would find it useful personally, but I'd love to hear other people's opinions!

myriadium • 6 days ago

I agree, I'd prefer if Games were sequestered into their own sections and was invisible from "Recent Topics" and even as records in users forum post histories (maybe they can include a checkmark or something, if they really want to have those records, but I personally don't)

spookyfrog • 6 days ago

Ooh i really like this idea. I only really care about the "Feed the creature above you" forum game, and there have certainly been times where I miss a good post because it gets drowned out by "Dogs VS Cats" or "Count to 1 million".

jarsha • 3 days ago

Like myriadium mentioned, it would be fantastic to have the forum games in their own forum pulse so I can see which games are active while also being able to see which of the rest of the forums are also active. I'm much more interested in the rest of the forums as well, but find it very easy to miss them because they are drowned out by forum games.

myriadium • 23 hours ago

badump