DISCUSSION ISN'T DRAMA.

*rolls up sleeves*
*cracks bottle on the counter*

common RPG MAkerers will fuck yuor shit up, better watch out

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I don't believe in pulling punches with criticism and prefer to be honest but there is a difference with being too harsh.

Yeah, this. I don't feel the need to babysit my comments. I usually just comment whatever I think on screenshots and stuff, not every comment should be some wealthy paragraph of info where every complaint is elaborated. let me browse in peace!

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If someone gets offended by someone else, there's roughly a 99.9% chance that the person who feels offended is in the wrong.

I don't know where you pulled this statistic from, but you're completely wrong. If I get offended by some asshole's comment, it doesn't automatically (as you suggest) mean I'm in the wrong. His comment could have very well been uncalled for, nonconstructive, or straight-up douchebaggery. A direct comment doesn't mean it's a good comment. (By good, I mean that it pointed out an actual issue and was constructive about it).

This.

Blending the forums with game profiles seems completely backwards to me. The forums are not game profiles, and the game profiles are not forum topics. Putting them together would be counter-intuitive. The thing you described, hali, is pretty much what happens already. They just have to click a different link. The one that says Games. I am not sure how more intuitive than that you can get.

The issue is more about the usability of the game profiles, rather than where they exist.

I haven't really had that problem, hali. I feel as though my gamepage gets most of the attention I want it to, and I feel that I haven't really been neglected other gamepages as well. I don't feel as the forums are a BRAINWASHING FACTOR that somehow mutually excludes me enjoying both aspects of the site. Sure, more ideas to make gamepages more central is cool, but blending the forums and the gamepages doesn't seem necessary. I like both. Separately.

Oh. What you said before didn't seem to suggest that, but I'll take your word for it.

I thought this was about comments and discussion, not view count. But yeah.

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I thought this was about comments and discussion, not view count. But yeah.

Prolly, I wasn't paying 100% attention, but they are directly related.

The way comments are integrated into gameprofiles is a million times better then expecting people to post feedback inside of a forum topic buried in page 4 of Game Discussion. The problem with most games not getting much feedback or discussion is because there's a set of "regulars" here who are actually somewhat active and all have accounts, but are either game developers or just hang out on the forum for the most part, and then a smaller set of people who actually play and comment on games, or for that matter pay any attention to gameprofiles that aren't theirs at all. It's more of a general person who stumbles across here's apathy to signing up for an account and participating in commenting on and reviewing games that seems to cause a lack of discussion. I guess the player base that is attracted to here just isn't big on doing anything but playing?

Also, to tie this into the topic more, the only drama that happens is caused by that subset of users that are active on the forums, because the people that are active on the rest of the site aren't very active aren't active enough for drama.