The magic of the word games and humor

[RamesesII]

This thread is about all the good things that concern "The word games" and all other "Humor" threads. When I first got here on TFF I was damn lonely and didn't know how to make new friends. Guss who helped me! The magical place of word games and humor. These threads are based to have fun and to get to know new people. I met really great people on the word games and also got many rep/tnx points. Even now when I see my profile it's written that I have most of the posts in the "Word games".Damn..those were the times when I got online just to fool around with my friends on those word games.

Do you have to say something about all this? Did you met any great person trough those threads? Do you go often to those thread?
What do you think about the word and humor threads?
Do you think they are helpful the way I think it is?

No i disagree to a point, yes the word games is a nesting place for the noobs as i was once raised there myself as a noob its a place where you can spam to a ceartain extent, but i fear that this then leaks out into other parts of the forum like a virus.I think this is the wrong impression we are giving because some new members tend to stick to the word games thread and not venture out to the other parts of the forum.

We want new members to feel free to roam the forum and post in other threads whether it be ID, Literature or even General chat.But of course to produce good quality posts hence CPC8's guide that was recently posted about Post ettiquite.
If people stick to the word games they tend to have a tendancy to be the more likely to spam and produce poor quality posts in the other threads.

Though i do think H/W games is a good place to go to have fun and get away from the seriousness of other things but seriously dwelling there day after day, i fell if new members don't post in other threads they won't grow to respect the forum and won't grow as a member of the forum in general, they will think that the forum is a place of shinanigans, don't get me wrong we do like to have fun in the forum but it should be kept to vm's and not have petty arguments or one liners in a thread like 'Wow so where do you live?' in a thread thats called Hero ellimination (Take note that previous statment is just a example), which i have seen quite often especially in H/W games this crap should be kept to vm.

As for meeting new people and making friends among the forum this i see should also be kept to vm if you like the post of another member and or relate to it why not send them a vm message and talk in there not in the thread.

I think it's alright to have a place like that, but I think most don't come any further than the Word Games. Too bad.

I'd love to see an increasing amount of posters in the Intellectual Discussion forum.

This is quite true as i said before most new members don't stray from the H/W games and if you don't then you will not increase your experinece of the forum and think of everything else you are missing!

I also would love to see more members in the ID section or even the general disscusion section but of course there need to be more new threads. Another thing i see that is reoccuring is that most new members are younger and are 'scared' to express their opinion in ID and find some the other members intimidating which of course restricts them to H/W games.

[Kilala]

No i disagree to a point, yes the word games is a nesting place for the noobs as i was once raised there myself as a noob its a place where you can spam to a ceartain extent

I agree that the Humour and Word Game threads can be a starting area for noobs. Heck I think on my first day here I went there first *guilty look*.
But it was only because I felt... well... new. I didn't know anyone. I didn't know what threads had been posted... And I can be painfully shy at times.
As a general rule I think noobs feel intimidated and so the H/W game threads are a great place to start. You won't be told your spamming. And you meet people! It's hard to post in a place where everyone knows each other... you feel perhaps... insignificant. Silly I know, but it's just a thought ^~. I don't think it's wrong that a noob should start there... it's the beginning! Make some friends and then have the courage to go on right?

We want new members to feel free to roam the forum and post in other threads whether it be ID, Literature or even General chat.

Yeah, that's a very good point as well... But again it comes back to the intimidation factor. Especially when it comes to ID! And in General Chat there needs to be more 'open' or 'opinionated' easy threads. I don't know if that even makes sense! XD.
It would be great if we could get ID to become more active. I was thinking, perhaps there could be a sub forum thing. To lighten things up - like an Agony Aunt sort of section. If someone has a problem they want to share they could go there. It makes it less "OMG" maybe... And perhaps in that area post count could be off so people didn't abuse it or something. Just a thought.
If we want people to become more adventurous we need to integrate new systems/ideas/thoughts :3.

I also would love to see more members in the ID section or even the general disscusion section but of course there need to be more new threads. Another thing i see that is reoccuring is that most new members are younger and are 'scared' to express their opinion in ID and find some the other members intimidating which of course restricts them to H/W games.

*Nods* Yep I agree about the 'scared' thing... Time to put thinking hats on ^~.