littlefran Posted:

This.

More people posting implies on more idiots and more spammers. If people are smart enough to go and search stuff on Flamebate, they’ll stay here and make Forumwarz grow as a community.

I don’t believe people who comes to Flamebate only seeking tips ever have the intention of staying here and posting more. Otherwise, they would simply post more. It’s not rocket science.

As someone who has just started playing the game I think this is wrong.

I’ve participated in many forums and still do but at first glance I find this one quite confusing.

Because people are quite often posting in character in some areas and then not in others it seems hard to find where those lines are drawn. Now when you know the forums and it’s members I’m sure it’s easy to know peoples characters and when they are joking/role playing or being serious. But as a new arrival you have none of that knowledge and the whole place feels very inaccessible.

I’ve looked around a little for the last couple of days and not really found anywhere I felt I could step in.

The reasons I posted here are from what I can tell this is a serious non flame area, so I could make a serious point, and also I have come into the forums as I would like to seek advice but I certainly would remain on the forums after if I felt comfortable so I felt the post I’m replying to was wrong.

Now I’m not sure you can solve this problem of confusion as it is the nature of your forums, you like to let people role play their characters, but I do see it as a problem to encouraging people to step in and join.

Except perhaps for the idiot type posters people have discussed as they will just step in and start trolling and flaming people as thats what they really want to do anyway.

So you may well attract new people, but it’s probably not the type you really want to create a good set of forums. They might be discouraged by the confusing nature of what is allowed in different areas.