While it may chafe from time to time, I think the decision not to have an off-topic board here is a very very very good idea.

I long thought that Tangency was a pestilence on Rpg.net. For a while I changed my mind, but now ... more certain than ever.

Quote from: S'mon;817581For her it was the site's raison d'etre.

At this point, she's correct.

Quote from: Will;817650While it may chafe from time to time, I think the decision not to have an off-topic board here is a very very very good idea.

I long thought that Tangency was a pestilence on Rpg.net. For a while I changed my mind, but now ... more certain than ever.

Tangency always struck me as the law of unintended consequences in action.

While I can't say for certain what they were thinking, I seem to recall in the early days of RPG.net that whenever something political or whatever would pop up, the mods (pre-banhammer era mods, that is) would come in and say "take it to tangency!".

It seemed to me that it was meant as a place to shove unwelcome and disruptive off-topic conversation so it could stay out of the actual game discussion.

Since then, the whole culture of the board has changed in a way that Tangency is a central draw of the site and spills into other forums frequently. It dominates rpg.net's forum culture in the exact ways I believe it was designed to prevent.

Agreed. I hope the mods are looking at all the TT threads they shot down 6-8 years ago suggesting Tangency get shut down and realize things. Probably not, though.

But we fucking told them.

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;816519Ok, so now the real question: How do we get therpgsite to surpass all those losers?

Content.

Quote from: Justin Alexander;817587The post counts are public.

RPG Boards: 7,518,876 posts
All Other Boards: 7,653,700 posts

(This does not include Trouble Tickets or the Reviews forums. Although the 54,000 posts in the Reviews forum are probably predominantly RPG-related.)

Yeah, but 100% of our 555,432 posts on our RPG subforum are even vaguely RPG-related (555,542 posts as of when I started writing this, less 110 posts for this thread), compared to 50% of their 15,152,576 posts being RPG-related, so clearly we're more influential, because 100 is a bigger number than 50 (Well, 49.6, but sod decimal places).

Or something.

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;816252Christ, could that mess really have had that much of an impact!?

They imposed a ban on the topic as of August 4th (which is still stickied at the top of the TTRO page) so that might also have something to do with it.

I wish it was 100%.

But then people get into circle jerks about SJWs or grouse about rpg.net...

Oh crap!

Quote from: Will;816467I was increasingly unhappy with the place for a few years, but there are several cool communities there, provided you can keep out from under the burning Eye of the moderators.

Other Media and Video Games Open have some cool folks and discussions, and don't overheat too often.

VGO was the only reason I stayed as long as I did. I still sometimes miss the ready-made groups and guilds in MMOs the community there offered, but it's worth it to not have to sift through all the outrage threads about everything I enjoy serving as proof of my being an objectively terrible person for the occasional gem in which everyone finally put their fucking politics aside and just talked about the goddamn game.

'Course, lending credence to Pundit's earlier point, I also posted almost exclusively to that one board. I couldn't have posted in TTO more than five times, maximum, and I stayed well clear of Tangency even before I started rolling my eyes at the incessant moralistic grandstanding about operatic Russians and soggy knees. I've easily done more reading/posting about tabletop RPGs in the ~6 months I've been here than I did in nearly 9 years over at TBP.

Now I just need to find a tRPGS-style replacement for VGO so I have somewhere to learn about cool mid-tier/indie games that might otherwise fly under my radar again.

If you do, tell me, because VGO was also a big reason I liked TBP.

(Originally I joined there to talk about D&D and avoided Tang entirely. Then when 4e came and the place blasted down to molten glass, I wandered over to Tang with a big sigh, mostly got my gaming fix from VGO)

I've never visited the Tangency forum on rpg.net and only really read the DnD forum from time to time, sometimes glancing at the TTO forum.
If you stay out of the edition debates, The DnD forum can be useful at times, although I increasingly post here with questions, reflections on DnD stuff and other RPG stuff.

Apart from G+ communities, I read here for RPG stuff mostly.

Quote from: woodsmoke;817723VGO was the only reason I stayed as long as I did. I still sometimes miss the ready-made groups and guilds in MMOs the community there offered, but it's worth it to not have to sift through all the outrage threads about everything I enjoy serving as proof of my being an objectively terrible person for the occasional gem in which everyone finally put their fucking politics aside and just talked about the goddamn game.

'Course, lending credence to Pundit's earlier point, I also posted almost exclusively to that one board. I couldn't have posted in TTO more than five times, maximum, and I stayed well clear of Tangency even before I started rolling my eyes at the incessant moralistic grandstanding about operatic Russians and soggy knees. I've easily done more reading/posting about tabletop RPGs in the ~6 months I've been here than I did in nearly 9 years over at TBP.

Now I just need to find a tRPGS-style replacement for VGO so I have somewhere to learn about cool mid-tier/indie games that might otherwise fly under my radar again.

For me it was the PbP boards that kept me coming back. Hard to find a good pbp forum I like.

Strange, half of the reason I concentrated on Tangency was to avoid discussion of games that I either didn't like in the first place or knew perfectly well how to play.

JG

Quote from: Bren;817621Out of curiosity, what's the count for Tangency?

Tangency itself is 3.7 million posts.

Other Games, Video Games, and Other Media combine for 3.7 million.

Tabletop Roleplaying Open is 4.5 million. D&D adds another 900,000 to that. Roleplay-By-Post surprisingly adds 1.5 million.

Everything else is chicken feed.