Originally posted by zynthetic
If the editing board is dominated by mappers and their specific board has been moved back into general editing why do they care coding and sounds get thier own. The topics that pop up are generally less common than posts about mapping. and when they do it's usually the same question that was asked a week or so ago posted by someone who doesn't know what to search for and either missed it or didn't bother to look through because of the hodge-podge of posts ranging between many different topics.
A forum split lets ppl communicate easier to an audiance that is interested and actively looking for the information they want. Searching is half the fun is a lame excuse. The less time I have to search for posts the better. Isn't this board (editing) supposed to encourage productivity? A topic specific forum split means ppl can spend more time posting replys or new topics and actually working on a product. In case no one remembers this was discussed many times in the PlanetUnreal(now BeyondUnreal) forum and the split was encouraged by members here. It was members themselves that brought the idea up. A split is/was a good idea IMO as it ecourages ppl to post in specific forums about certain topics. If the editing forum remains general than besides the heap of various posts related to all aspects of UEd, the OT posts wont help searching either (seriously guys there is an OT board here, use it).
Well my reasons for caring about Coding/Music were because I enjoyed picking things up from those posts that were about something other than mapping.
Searching well you'll find people in coding or music will probably just pop in and ask the same question somebody asked a week ago. It's the way we(Humans) are. Nothing can change that
I guess the discussion for the split must have been well before my time. I'd say I've been around for 4-6 months or so:/ So didn't know about that. Might be worth a bump tho
OT posts..well in their defense after a while a forum survies because of it's community. Editing is a very different community from OT. THey joke about monkey porn, truffles and stuff. While that is all well and good I don't think NFZ's frequent rants about BSP holes or spy conspiracies would work as well there. Our humor is more editing related. I guess I do see your point in that regard but I'd still think the costs of having to sift thru that outweighs that of splitting the forums. Hey just ignore anything posted by NFZ j/k
Well conclusion is that Proph came up with a good compromise suggested by several people. So i guess everyone kind of got what they wanted. Anyway I hope that kinda of gives you some idea as to why some of us prefered the old way. Things change I guess in the end change needs to be slow or you get polls like this one