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Subject: Just a suggestion...

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

I think that The Maw and The Library should be combined. They are very similar (with good reason), and the only total about 215 pages or so combined. And It might also be good to move The Flood up as one of the main forums, as it is used a lot.

Any thoughts/suggestions/additions/constructive criticism?

  • 09.14.2004 4:27 PM PDT
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Yeah, I think the flood could probably be made one of the main forums because that is where a great majority of people hang out. However, I think the reason that the Maw and the Library aren't combined is because they still have different things to talk about. The Maw talks a lot more about Halo Custom Edition and ways to troubleshoot and/or PC and Mac strategies. The Maw still has planty to talk about because, after all, the PC/Mac version of Halo does have a few more features than the X-Box version.

-Baerdog7

  • 09.14.2004 4:37 PM PDT

They'll probably be combined eventually. One of the reasons they are split, I assume, is because Halo Xbox is Bungie's responsibility and Halo PC is Gearbox's.

  • 09.14.2004 6:14 PM PDT

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Very interesting. I made a similar suggestion last weekend in a PM... that the order of the forums be changed in the forum page and in the sidebar. I suggested the following order:

* New Mombasa
* The Library
* The Maw
* then the rest

That way the first forum people see when they come on is the one they're most likely looking for; people joining now are mainly looking for Halo 2 info. Then come the Halo games, as they're still reasonably good sellers, and then the others.

This works with the natural inclinations of folks eager to get started, as sometimes folks go to the first forum that kinda fits... the Underground. (Posters' interpretation of "Bungie General" can be stretched rather widely, as I think the mods have found.) With the suggested arrangement there are several good alternatives listed before the "General" category comes up.

It goes with the flow, and everybody's happy with the result. Right?

-- Steve thinks it'd be a minor fix for a minor- to middling- problem of misdirected posts. Is there anything he missed?

  • 09.14.2004 6:34 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

And if they accidentally or in ignorance post in the flood, well, no one will really mind then. Good ideas as always, Steve.

  • 09.14.2004 9:40 PM PDT
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if they moved the flood up maybe less people would post off topic all over the main forums

  • 09.15.2004 8:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: Skabok
if they moved the flood up maybe less people would post off topic all over the main forums

That is true! People dont see the flood becuase it is at the very bottom.

  • 09.15.2004 8:44 PM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

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Posted by: Skabok
if they moved the flood up maybe less people would post off topic all over the main forums

That is true! People dont see the flood becuase it is at the very bottom.

While most of the off topic posts are Halo 2 related, it would help, true.

  • 09.16.2004 9:14 PM PDT

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Okay, upgrading my opinion from "minor problem" to "BIG FREAKIN' HAIRY PROBLEM"... eight of the first ten topics on the Underground deal with Halo. Mostly in alternate presentations (movies, books, paintball) but still Halo storyline relevant.

(One of them is there because I posted a reply about game-related movies. That was before I realised that Halo posts were dominating the front page.)

I'm thinking that a reordering is in order pretty soon, or something similar.

-- Steve's hoping that he's not contributing to the problem, but he probably (albeit unwittingly) is.

  • 09.20.2004 4:21 PM PDT