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high scores forum or sticky topic in Main?
« on: March 12, 2009, 11:02:42 pm »
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Re: high scores forum or sticky topic in Main?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 11:25:48 pm »
My two cents:

A forum on its own probably wouldn't get as many page views, and I know that I'm guilty of skipping past the stickied threads usually. The current setup seems fine to me.
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Re: high scores forum or sticky topic in Main?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2009, 03:58:04 pm »
Mm. Maybe I'll go ahead an ask in Main, as I never come here - except to've posted this idea - and I bet most others don't, either.
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Re: high scores forum or sticky topic in Main?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2009, 05:46:02 pm »
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70236.0

Post it here and follow the details in the link above.

My two cents:  I'll never visit it as I don't want to weep in sorrow about how badly my scores are.   ;)

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Re: high scores forum or sticky topic in Main?
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2009, 08:09:24 pm »
Or do what you want regardless of what the site owner says....  ::)

I've got to say that the way your thread is structured, or the lack thereof, in the Main forum pretty much means it's going to be a free for all.  I can't see there being much value.  IF it gets to 4 or 5 pages, do you really expect people to muddle through all of it for tips or hints?

Pretty pointless if you ask me.

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Re: high scores forum or sticky topic in Main?
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2009, 09:01:45 pm »
Similar attempts on other boards seem to fail with regularity as they become a free-for-all, but who knows ?

FWIW, I really like reading the various competition threads and seeing other folks' scores and thoughts about that specific game.

If anything should be stickied, I think it should be a single post (or maybe one post per competition) indexing those threads -- an easy way to get at all of the threads from a single launch point.  :cheers:
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Re: high scores forum or sticky topic in Main?
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2009, 10:10:53 pm »
If anything should be stickied, I think it should be a single post (or maybe one post per competition) indexing those threads -- an easy way to get at all of the threads from a single launch point.  :cheers:

That's why when I started competition number 14, I included links to all the previous competitions. It was sorely missing from the other threads.
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