‘gameplay discussion’ was changed to ‘classes, skills and mechanics’
and
‘classes, skills and builds’ was changed to ‘builds and build collections’ or just ‘builds’
the builds forum is already the most active without being cluttered with posts like ‘cadence issue’ or ‘help my build is a mess’, which will contain discussions about game mechanics. It would be more neat if the build forum only accepted completed builds. Also the gameplay discussion section can use the extra activity.
look my point wasn’t really about the names, it can also be just ‘gameplay’ and ‘builds’, its the explanation that is under the name that really matters. If the builds forum only accepts posts about finished builds it becomes more neatly organized and it will be easier to find more recently finished builds. At the same time the gameplay forum is much less active and can easily take the extra activity from skill and class questions etc and those questions will be found more easily also.
But players are unlikely to ask those questions in Gameplay - they already don’t. They ask them in Classes, Skills and Builds.
I think part of the problem is there’s no longer support for the build compendium so no new builds are added to it. So they just go into Classes and then go down the thread list and more and more get added.
well, obviously because they are currently directed to ask those questions there, so my suggestion was to direct them to the other forum (each forum name has a subtext that explains what it is supposed to be used for), and probably there will of be a transition period where you as a moderater have to move a few questions to clarify that the build forum is only for finished build posts. Then the build forum will over time automatically turn into a neat database of finished builds even if nobody manages the compendium.
Though that seems to be for the current production version based on the title.
Will you do that?
What is a “completed” build?
Who determines that?
Who is going to look at all the builds posted and determine if it’s a “completed” build?
Where do “incomplete” builds go?
Who’s going to move them? [mods, I guess. You can ask mods to move a thread.]
People want things, but rarely step up to do the work. It’s a time consuming activity to create and maintain a list of curated builds. I know because I’ve done it here and on the PoE forums.
If you think your idea will work, just go to the PoE forums and see. If no one curates the builds, you get tons of build posts, many are garbage and incomplete - meaning it’s a link to build tool and that’s it.
I didn’t mean there to be any guidelines for that, just if the uploader considers it finished it is good enough. The post i believe are better in another forum are the obvious ones, where the theme is like:
‘i don’t understand this skill?’
‘my build is broken?’
‘does somebody know a good pet build?’
When I scrolled through both of the specified forums and based on the titles, they are what I’d expect to see in those forums.
Are there some posts that may not belong there, possibly. People don’t always create a good title, and/or sometimes make a mistake by posting in the wrong forum.
If you see one that doesn’t belong, you can Flag it and ask that it be moved to a more appropriate forum. The mods will decide if they agree and act accordingly.
IMHO, that’s the best approach.
Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see the problem you describe.
