Re: Remember PBEM.Com?

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:09:47 +0000

In article <NVcDf.267$Sk1.47409@news20.bellglobal.com>,
Geoste  <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid> wrote:

>My guess is that the fragmentation has already occurred, and nothing you and I can do will make
>it worse, IMHO.

Yes, it has already occurred, but that's not a good reason to divide it more. Competing sites
mostly die out eventually, apparently I have longevity of fanaticism...

>Since you demand me to answer your question,

Er, I asked you to answer it. Politely.

Your main complaint seems to be that you want more subcategories for
your favorite game type, rpgs.  Your suggestion, enforcing categories,
is what I already do: that's how the keywords on the site get attached
to games. So there's no point adding a search function, that you can
already get by clicking on the keywords, but more categories seems to
be what you're aiming at.

So, what should they be? I don't think D20 is a very useful category.

>So I hop on your site, Greg, and what do I see? Assuming I avoid the two "What's New" links, I
>can see "email". I click that. There are other options on the next page, and a lot of links
>below. I can see a lot of stuff that isn't D&D, so I have to click on something else - the
>category links. Possible candidates are: free and fantasy. I can click on free and then fantasy,
>or vice versa, and arrive at the same place.

If you looked at all the categories, you'd see "role playing games".

So I suppose you're also suggesting that I show too many categories at
the top level. Alternately or in addition, I could make the tree more
than 3 deep, so that after you've clicked on "email" "fantasy" "free"
you'd still have a "role playing" category visible.

See, giving someone constructive criticism is useful, even if I had to
ask twice.

-- greg

References

Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:09:54 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:29:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:44:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:16:52 +0000

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Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:09:54 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:29:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:44:04 +0000
Re: Remember PBEM.Com?
Geoste <geoste@ATsympatico.DOTca.nospam.invalid>
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:16:52 +0000