I wouldn't have called it spam since it does appear to have been a genuine attempt to make more silly-bullshit games, but it could have been, like, one thread.
Agreed. Games don't have to be complicated, but first-page real estate is limited- one should try to avoid making more threads than needed to do a thing.
I'd like if casual games and serious games can continue to coexist and not have the later feel the need to fight for "real estate" with them.
I think you may have misinterpreted me. Like, entirely. I did not intend to imply in any way that casual games were less deserving of real estate, hence why I said "Games don't have to be complicated". In fact, I was briefly annoyed a few months ago when someone made like eight threads for a
very complicated forum game (apparently they'd migrated from some other forum, and they all had a reason to exist, but still).
As I did volunteer for the Forum Game List I may as well be the one to remind that it is an option.
Look, mate, the fact that you have to remind people of its existence
is the reason folks don't use it much. It's a fact of life that games on the first page are more visible. Very few people are going to check an incomplete list to find new games, and that's fine. Things work as is.
In the 31 games that were posted in the last 2 years, all found players (though a few didn't have quite enough). Here's the records I compiled this morning:
2020 to present:
30 pages
58 pages
14 pages
2/5
18 discord members
3 pages. several participants
31 pages
3 pages. several participants
3 pages. several participants
12 pages
2 pages. several participants
4 pages. several participants
3 pages. several participants
2/7
2 pages. several participants
13 pages
23 pages
35 pages
8 pages
24 pages
2 pages. several participants
10 pages
1 page. several participants
3 pages. several participants
48 pages
9 pages
5 pages
1 page. several participants
1 page. several participants
3 pages. several participants
5 pages
Good gods, man. This is not relevant. While you do post a lot of games, the guy in question posted half a dozen in 24 hours, all of which were similar in form, and could've easily been a single thread.
And taking the time to make a list of the page count of every game you've made in the past two years (while bragging that all of them had replies- which is not a very high hurdle) is weird.
In conclusion, you don't need to be the moderator of FG&RP (because it doesn't need one), you don't need to fix any systemic issues (because there aren't any), you don't need to defend the right of people to make games (because no one is seriously objecting to people making games). Things work fine as is. Sure, sometimes things like this happen, but that's to be expected. There's no way of making a perfect system, and it's better to deal with issues on a case-by-case basis when they're this uncommon.
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