Hi Tom.
Yep, even on forums you need to be careful about how strict rules about
things like offtopic discussion are, sinse nazi moderators who jump down
members throat for not adhereing to some vague pattern of discussion do not
create nice forums, and naturally humans and discussion are farely flexible
matters, plus people forget the rules (really even on audiogames.net it is
hard enough to get people to post in the right part of the forum).
So, I agree with this being a suggestion rather than a rule.
Personaly, I'll try and put the subject at the top of messages.
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A suggestion for subject lines
Hi Dark,
Agreed. As I mentioned in a previous post it is hard enough to get
people to stick to a topic as it is because most people are rather lax
when it comes to subject lines. Since I'm not a control freak I try
not to interfere accept when the situation needs more heavy handed
moderation. I think rather than making this a rule to phrase it as a
suggestion so that people can do it as a courtesy rather than making
it a requirement. Especially, since some subjects are long enough as
it is and adding platform information etc will undoubtedly make it
longer.
Cheers!
On 2/24/15, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
While I fully agree that it's helpful to have the information quickly, I
wouldn't personally want any hard and fast rules. For a start, subject
boxes
on mails are rather short and by the time I've written something like
"new
game, Inquisitor chapter 3 sister's in dream" or "new spinoff from
inquisitor series Inquisitor's heartbeat" I've likely gone over the limit
of
what will be displayed.
Plus of course, some games are multiplatform anyway, look at the
choiceofgames titles that can be played on Android, Ios, in Google
chrome,
or indeed online on their own site through any web browser.
Then of course I'm not sure how affective regulating people's subject
lines
is anyway or indeed whether moderator's should be attempting to lay down
rules about what information people include in their e-mails anyway (to
me
that would be stepping over the free speech boundry a little, though of
course I'm not a moderator for this list).
I would recommend that people perhaps write at the top of a message what
platform the game is, eg starting with "this is a great new game for
windows" rather than "this is a great new game in which you do so and so"
and then finishing with the platform, though even this I'd say should be
in
the matter of a be a suggestion rather than a rule.
All the best,
Dark.
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