Do people read first or post first?

Post by **finarvyn** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:51 am

I dont mean to be too grumpy, but in the LA forum I found this:

1) Gygax Games teams up with Mongoose Publishing (thread started Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:01 am)

2) gygax games unannounced announcement (thread started Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:57 am)

3) Mongoose and Gygax Games (thread started Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:19 pm)

4) Mongoose to produce Lejendary Adventures... (thread started Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:03 pm)

5) Mongoose to partner with Gygax Games for Lejendary Adventure (thread started Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:07 am)

Thats four threads on the same topic started in a very small span of time. While this is an important topic, Im not sure that it merits four threads and I cant help but wonder if people actually read the boards or just log in and post something.

Its not like the LA forums have so much traffic that a reader might have missed something, and these threads are five of the first six that pop up.

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Orpheus · Post by **Orpheus** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:38 pm

Everyone wants to have the scoop. It's that simple. I suppose for some it can be such an emotional thing to read news like that that they don't read, but instead just go happily postin' away.

Geleg · Post by **Geleg** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:56 pm

while I share your basic sentiment Finarvyn, I think in this case that part of the multiplicity of threads has to do with where they began life. I believe several of those started in general discussion and were then moved to the LA forum. so subsequent posters, eager to make the post (but perhaps not habitues of the LA forum [hmm.. that sounds funny]), kept starting new threads ... which kept getting moved to the LA forum by the mods.
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moriarty777 · Post by **moriarty777** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:27 pm

Geleg wrote:
while I share your basic sentiment Finarvyn, I think in this case that part of the multiplicity of threads has to do with where they began life. I believe several of those started in general discussion and were then moved to the LA forum. so subsequent posters, eager to make the post (but perhaps not habitues of the LA forum [hmm.. that sounds funny]), kept starting new threads ... which kept getting moved to the LA forum by the mods.

Sadly... that's not the case for all of them. Where as I read before I post, I agree with Orpheus's assessment -- some people just are too excited by the notion of delivering the 'news' first.

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cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:34 pm

Wait a second...you mean Gygax Games has teamed up with Moongoose Publishing?

That's CRAZY!

I hadn't heard.

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Stuie · Post by **Stuie** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:54 pm

Most of those threads were started in this forum and moved to the LA forum without any indication they ever existed here in Open Discussion. So then another one would be created etc.

Blame sloppy moderation, not the posters.
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Julian Grimm · Post by **Julian Grimm** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:57 pm

I blame not using forum categories and lack of reading skills.
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gideon_thorne · Post by **gideon_thorne** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:38 pm

Julian Grimm wrote:
I blame not using forum categories and lack of reading skills.

Yup. Thats why they were moved.
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Orpheus · Post by **Orpheus** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:54 pm

Julian Grimm wrote:
I blame not using forum categories and lack of reading skills.

Honestly though, I sometimes forget about some of the sub-forums which I tend not to frequent. If I hadn't seen Treebore's post in the Open Discussion area then I never would've thought about looking in the LA area.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:33 pm

I started my thread here in the general forums to find out what was going on with TLG and if they were now allowed to announce things, I was not wanting to talk about the LA/Mongoose partnership in that thread. IT was moved to the LA forums by Fiff or another moderator.

Since the Trolls are yet unable to announce anything it may as well be another LA/Mongoose thread, and yes, I do read before I post.
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Coleston the Cavalier · Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:14 pm

We noted the proliferation of posts on the topic over at our little LA site as well.

And while we were glad o hear news about LA coming back into publication, none of us regular LA guys would ever flood TLG's forum with such news - especially since we don't know about the future of CZ for C&C yet.
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Post by **finarvyn** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:08 am

Don't get me wrong -- I understand how excited people can be, but it does seem odd to post something just like another thread already there.

I guess the "thread started in Open Discussion and was moved" explanation really takes care of most of the issue.

And I certainly don't want to pick on these specific posters, since I see this kind of thing a lot on boards. I just know that for me I tend to read through on-topic threads first and then decide if I want to add a comment to one or if my idea is different enough to warrent a new thread.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:12 am

I generally read through all the new threads and posts I'm interested in before I post anything to any of them. Even for threads I might not be interested in, I see that they exist before I hit "Mark all as read".