How about a "Kickstarter" Board?

[Doug ex-em4]

There's a lot of Kickstarter topics appearing on the boards I regularly check. Apart from the possibility of enforcing a strict "Commercial" rule and insisting they be posted there, how about a separate "Kickstarter" (or Crowd Funding) board where all these could be concentrated? Or perhaps a child board attached to each current board specifically for Kickstarter promotion/propaganda?

I'm not averse to Kickstarter promotion here - I may well do it myself in the future - but they seem out of place on the main hobby/genre boards.

Doug

[Tactalvanic]

Happily second the suggestion,

Although a little kickstarter overloaded  at the moment, its easy to miss something of interest, in amongst the other boards, and there are times when a kickstarter in one hobby area, is actually of interest in another.

It would definitely be easier to notice them if they had some more defined seperation.

either the commercial enforcer or a seperate funding/crowdsourcing board?

[beefcake]

Agree also.

[Dewbakuk]

I'm generally against the idea. The Commercial board is the place where topics go to die, just look at the number of comments and even views on the topics there... I suspect exactly the same thing would happen to a Kickstarter board.

Much like a Pulp product should be posted in the Pulp board and not the Commercial board, a Kickstarter should also be put in it's relevant board so that those who might be interested will see it.

I suspect the current batch of Kickstarter threads that are happening in the (future wars?) board will pass soon enough anyway.

[OSHIROmodels]

The general forum consensus is to post the relevant crowdfunding topic in the closest board and if no board suits then it goes in the Commercial area.

I don't see this likely to change anytime soon as the current method works best as is.

cheers

James

[Doug ex-em4]

The general forum consensus is to post the relevant crowdfunding topic in the closest board and if no board suits then it goes in the Commercial area.

I don't see this likely to change anytime soon as the current method works best as is.

cheers

James

James - interesting. I missed the earlier discussion. Have you got a link?

Doug

[OSHIROmodels]

Good question 

I'm sure it's around somewhere, I'll have a look

cheers

James

[Doug ex-em4]

The Commercial board is the place where topics go to die, just look at the number of comments and even views on the topics there... I suspect exactly the same thing would happen to a Kickstarter board.

This is really a reason why the Commercial board needs attention then - not an argument against Kickstarter segregation.

My favoured solution would be a sub (or "child") board for each current board which would be for Kickstarters relating to that genre. They wouldn't be ignored or lost in the limbo of the Commercial board. In fact, if all the, for example, Pulp Kickstarters can be easily accessed on a Pulp Kickstarter subboard, I think it may increase the attention they get and the same for all the other boards.

Doug

[frogimus]

I never look at specific boards. I always use the "show unread posts since last visit" on the upper left and pick the interesting ones to read.

Why? For one, the board hierarchy is already too immense to navigate up and down root and branch. Two: nicely done miniatures, terrain, rules, action reports, etc is worth checking out regardless of whether I play that genre.

My point? Let the forum structure be about tidy housekeeping and not about limiting yourself to a small corner of this rich wealth of hobby talk.

[Cherno]

I never look at specific boards. I always use the "show unread posts since last visit" on the upper left and pick the interesting ones to read.

I do exactly the same on all boards that have this feature. To be honest, the only reason I would understand for someone to do otherwise is if he or she is only interested in one or two particular boards.

[Doug ex-em4]

Let the forum structure be about tidy housekeeping

I'm not sure if that's supporting a separate KS sub-board configuration (ie - "tidy" - keeps things in relevant "file-drawers") or against?

Doug

[beefcake]

I also just click the "unread" button. I think the (COMMERCIAL) tag is what puts people off the commercial stuff. Personally with the commercial stuff I only look at what I am interested in and there is usually not too much on that board.

[wolfie907]

I also always click view unread if they have () before the topic I don't even bother reading the title

[Doug ex-em4]

I click the view unread but on a board-by-board basis. I'm not interested in all the boards all the time. I've just tried the top left, view unread topics button and that way is not for me - too much of a scatter-gun approach.

Regardless, all this seems tangential to my original proposal. I still think Kickstarters should be quarantined.

Doug

[frogimus]

Regardless, all this seems tangential to my original proposal. I still think Kickstarters should be quarantined.

Oh, my point was that this place seems to be sliced into too many boards already. Of course that's only my opinion. As long as they keep the "unread" button, it really doesn't affect me how many boards exist.