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Subject: Organize Forums in topics within the forum.
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For example, Optimatch.

And for Optimatch you would have categories like:

Matchmaking Playlists (For comments and suggestions)
Gametype Suggestions(Share your gametypes)
Halo 2 Xbox Live General(Anything Xbox Live Specific)

Zanzibar
Multiplayer (In general)
Gametype Suggestions
Multiplayer Strategies

ect.... I have topics for each but I bet you guys have a reason why you guys havent done this already.

  • 12.13.2005 9:07 AM PDT

People have a hard time putting a topic in the correct forum now, it would be even worse if there were subcategories. We tell people to put montages in a specific thread in Zanzibar, but people still create threads about their montages.

You are very optimistic and I wish I could agree with you on this topic, but this will never work.

  • 12.13.2005 9:21 AM PDT

Optimatch is ONLY matchmaking playlists.

  • 12.13.2005 9:35 AM PDT
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Why would you have "Gametype Suggestions" in two different forums?

Oh, right. Considering that people still make new threads for montages in Zanzibar, or advertise just about anywhere, making sub-forums would not help in the least. If anything, they would just make the problem worse.

  • 12.13.2005 2:18 PM PDT
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Good idea, but you should never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups. I mean, look at me. My IQ has probably dropped ten points since coming here. And as dmbfan said, if people can't even figure out what forum to post in, how would they decide with subcategories?

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  • 12.13.2005 2:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: dmbfan09
People have a hard time putting a topic in the correct forum now, it would be even worse if there were subcategories. We tell people to put montages in a specific thread in Zanzibar, but people still create threads about their montages.

You are very optimistic and I wish I could agree with you on this topic, but this will never work.



Thats where moderators play a role in this, they move threads where they belong and post/ENFORCE rules in such, it doesnt seem hard, Organized is always better even if its hard to do.

  • 12.15.2005 1:28 PM PDT

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it doesnt seem hard,

I think you just underestimated Bungie.net forums and its users. Moderators already have enough on there plates. If they were to enforce any more rules or make Subcategories, I don't think I would visit the main forum anymore than I do now. It would be to crazy around here. Let alone discouraging for new members who wouldn't know where to post...
The 10 or so forums we have now are confusing enough for someone taking there first steps into bungie.net.

  • 12.15.2005 2:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: DarkBlades
Posted by: dmbfan09
People have a hard time putting a topic in the correct forum now, it would be even worse if there were subcategories. We tell people to put montages in a specific thread in Zanzibar, but people still create threads about their montages.

You are very optimistic and I wish I could agree with you on this topic, but this will never work.



Thats where moderators play a role in this, they move threads where they belong and post/ENFORCE rules in such, it doesnt seem hard, Organized is always better even if its hard to do.


The moderators are already trying to enforce the rules and people still don't get it. Sometimes a moderator can't be everywhere at once to move/enforce threads. Most the time, half the moderators are offline or taking care of some other crazy thread. Just creating subcategories for people to post more stuff in would overwhelm most of the members who have either just joined, or still haven't gotten a grasp on the rules.

  • 12.15.2005 3:06 PM PDT
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I think you just underestimated Bungie.net forums


Actually I think im overestamating Bungie.net, if Bungie.net cant do it, then I guess I was expecting too high. I think they can do it, but it doesnt seem that much of a problem to them that much. I wouldnt even want them to do it if they we're just doing it to prove that they can. That loses the point of the matter.

  • 12.16.2005 9:18 AM PDT
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The moderators are already trying to enforce the rules and people still don't get it. Sometimes a moderator can't be everywhere at once to move/enforce threads. Most the time, half the moderators are offline or taking care of some other crazy thread. Just creating subcategories for people to post more stuff in would overwhelm most of the members who have either just joined, or still haven't gotten a grasp on the rules.


There moderators, of course there enforcing the rules, in fact; there not even trying, they ARE enforcing. Its up to the people if they get it or not. Just because the people dont learn, that doesnt mean that mean the moderators cant enforce. And If the moderators cant be at 2 places at once, then get more moderators, I bet there are Millions that would love to Volunteer to be a Moderator. Hey, the more the mary-er.

  • 12.16.2005 9:25 AM PDT
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Clearly despite the fact your account has been around since January 2004, you haven't spent much time here. In most cases people post threads in the wrong forum(s) because they are idiots, not because they are new. For gods sake, theres a description right under each link. And the moderators do have other lives, they can't spend all their time moving threads because a person with the IQ of 70 learnt how to use the internet. And the people who post threads begging to be moderators are the exact same people who should NEVER in any circumstance be given powers. This is why private groups are always being taken over, because morons give people priveliges for the sake of it. I and most of the decent members of the community would probably quit b.net and never look back if this happened.

  • 12.17.2005 3:51 PM PDT
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Only the paranoid will survive!

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Posted by: The SyNnergy
The moderators are already trying to enforce the rules and people still don't get it. Sometimes a moderator can't be everywhere at once to move/enforce threads. Most the time, half the moderators are offline or taking care of some other crazy thread. Just creating subcategories for people to post more stuff in would overwhelm most of the members who have either just joined, or still haven't gotten a grasp on the rules.


There moderators, of course there enforcing the rules, in fact; there not even trying, they ARE enforcing. Its up to the people if they get it or not. Just because the people dont learn, that doesnt mean that mean the moderators cant enforce. And If the moderators cant be at 2 places at once, then get more moderators, I bet there are Millions that would love to Volunteer to be a Moderator. Hey, the more the mary-er.


I would agree if I saw a need for it. It's like the old saying-
"If it ain't broken, don't fix it."

  • 12.17.2005 6:08 PM PDT

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Even if there were subcat's...people are people and would never use them. Plus the fact is that you have to remember that some people who get on B.net are young and would not understand what to do....CASE & POINT: People are ignorant *90% of them*

  • 12.17.2005 6:37 PM PDT