[Consim-l] New Forum: Old Soldiers Magazine

[Dave Kohr]

On Dec 18, 2007 3:07 PM, Thomas Cundiff <tdcgunslinger at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> For instance if every company had a forum and under their
> forum they could list sub forums for their specific games and company news
> and/or an opportunity for the publishers to chat with wargamers.  That would
> be more useful than the single thread.

That's basically how CSW is structured right now, except that the
individual games folders
are grouped by historical period (Era) instead of by publisher.

For the popular publishers like GMT, I agree that their forums are
painful to read, because there's too much traffic and too much of it
is off-topic chatting (never mind the flames).

Magazines get their own subtree, which makes their forums fairly easy to find.

> Yes, I was referring to the ACG forums (Armchair General) i.e. that their
> forums have become populated by too many far left loons and right wing skin
> head types.

I had a peek at some of their forums. To the extent that political
leanings were on display, all I saw were right-wingers. I am intrigued
that there would be any left-wingers hanging out in such forums, can
you provide a specific example (forum name and thread subject)?

> I think CSW has always the
> opportunity and ability to serve the needs of all wargamers if there was
> more effective modertion of the excess of its rather more .... shall we say
> vocal, imptuous, impulsive, and intemperate members.  Sadly no effort is
> made to do that.  And, there's no real  reason to suffer the bad manners of
> bores.

Moderation simply won't work, since what one guy regards as a witty
expression of opinion is invariably taken by another guy as a nasty
insult.

> If Alan doesn't mind, I'll post things here from time to time such as the
> release of new issues.

If the point of announcing such things here is to give your magazine
some publicity, then you should consider posting something to
www.boardgamegeek.com. And ask one of your subscribers  to post to a
suitable forum on CSW, on your behalf, if you can't stand to use the
site yourself.

Dave