Majora's Cat
How about that
I have to say, I am not a huge fan of removing things that do not meet a quota of some kind like that.
Yeah, it doesn't hurt to have the sub-forum around, does it? I'd rather have multiple sections under larger generalizations like a menu system than simply merging together sections of the forums.
Djinn said:Another idea is to make a Fun and Games Category with sections within it being Forum Games, Mafia, Role Play, and maybe a signups subforum.
For the sake of being organized, I agree with this. Forum Games, Mafia and Roleplay don't seem substantial enough to be their own sections under the Communty category. I think that Forum Games should be changed to Fun and Games, with Mafia and Roleplay being sub-forums of the Fun and Games section.
I am also all for the Community Competitions forum. I think the reason previous competition threads were misplaced. Because they were each under the section of the forums they were related to, they easily felt separated. Now the fact that they all eventually became dormant is another problem entirely, and I just think that having weekly competitions allows for too thin a time margin. It would work much more easily with monthly competitions.
DGN's unofficial Golden Rupee Awards was quite the success, and as Zelda Universe has demonstrated, an awards ceremony of sorts can greatly increase interest in the forums. It should be an exciting period of time on the forums and keep many members glued to their computer screens during the summer. If done right, yearly awards could be both fun for the users voting and running the process and beneficial for the Dungeon Gaming Network forums.
Djinn had come up with the idea of designating a Forum Staff badge to those who help out with said awards and other forum business in a noticeable way. I think it's a good idea, but I would much rather prefer that different badges would be assigned for more specific forum jobs. One of them should be Article Editor, and if the yearly awards should ever come to fruition, the Awards Staff, etc. Just some food for thought.