I counted 13 game threads on the recent posts list. 6 from 'everything else' and 7 that have been here all along. Way too many IMO, even from us. Consider the fact that when you have the recent posts list on your screen, only about 16 posts fit before you have to scroll down.  and people are bumping those game threads all the time, it forces more important things down the list.

Even though the powers that be here think that it's no big deal, it makes coming here and wading through all that to get to the good stuff... well, not so much fun. 

When I first came to WC, I read the forums avidly, was impressed by all the people helping one another with skinning issues, discussing things that were relevant to customization in some way, and it made me comfortable here, knowing that if I had an issue when I started skinning that I could come here for help. There were only a couple game threads then, and a few threads that were just plain silly, but even those were started (and continued) by people I was beginning to be familiar with. I have since 'trained my eye' to ignore those in the hunt for better threads, but now we have doubled the number of them here.

I realize that this is not going to change the decision that has been made, but I was not happy by the change when it was implemented and it makes the forums much less enjoyable for me.

Oh...and I need to add....

Of ALL the threads on the full first page of "Recent Posts" at this moment...there is ONLY ONE thread [of ANY KIND] whose last commenter is NOT a Wincustomize.com 'regular' [but likely gamer].

ONE.

Well said Xiandi, Id have said exactly the same thing if I wasn't so DAMN LAZY !!!

Anyway, as I see it, the origin of the post or poster is neither here nor there, It's the utter number of senseless game posts and the incessant bumping of them that is ruining this forum. It's slowly changing WC from a skinning site into a garbled pile of nonsense.

If the powers that be don't see it, well, nothing more to be said, but to me, If it's forcing me to come here less and less.... and less.., I'm sure it has the same effect on many others.

I thought the idea of having separate categories was so that people could navigate to their topic of interest... and that the 'General' section was for just that... general items that do not belong in the categories, 

Nope, it ain't that hard, and if I can navigate to what I want to read... well it ain't rocket science.

One freakin' week! Count 'em, one! That's how long those game threads from other forums have been resurrected for. Beyond that it's game threads that were started on here by Wincustomizers. As has been stated again and again throughout this thread, they are in a subforum that is appropriate for that content, and the people that play them have the right to do so. If they are constantly bumping other threads off the front page, that says more about the interest being shown for the other threads vs the game threads, which has also been stated in this thread. It requires nothing more than a few mouse clicks to go looking for the content you want to see.

Exactly.

Jafo bestows some Karma....

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The studious ignoring of #54 gets on my tit.  You DO realise that Wincustomize-originating threads also show up on the Gaming Forums?  Are they running around like headless chooks exclaiming 'the sky is falling'?

Can't say I've noticed....

The sky is absolutely not falling

refer post 56.

Im so glad I have two tits... My condolences Paul.

too, too       

and correct spelling...         

well....I'm guilty of supporting 3 of the games threads quite constantly.... I think there is room for a little bit of socialising as well.... and it used to be that newcomers would feel more comfortable dipping their toes in one of those threads to get to know people than a technical thread....

Keep A Word...Drop A Word... always makes me smile to see Ed's name bobbing up in the forums...damn sentamentality...

but...there are times we have gluts....and its gets frustrating...when good posts get buried too frequently.... guess we just have to ride out those glut times.....they always manage to subside...for a time..

Well said. I mean, there are no elitists here, or opinions, and people are keeping an open mind to new ideas...

Very true. Possible solutions?

1. More Galleries for other skinning apps. Xwidget comes to mind. I'd like to hear other 'safe' apps suggested. Folks suspect 'new' things, and that's not unreasonable in this day and age. How about some testing results? Not everything is msstyles or an equivalent. More niches encourage organisms to branch out, and serve as an attraction for potential customers to be exposed to SD software and just why it rocks. When someone runs into something new, please tell me.

2. Skinning 'classes'. How's that for a "Community Project"?  Yes, there is the WinWiki, but a Master showing step by step (omitting nothing) going from image creation to completed skin would really do wonders. I might actually try to make one, and Po' might actually finish one. Vampothika actually did something akin to this, just not in video. Hell, a Journeyman, or Master Apprentice could do this. It doesn't require a Master (though it would be nice, Harley). Just shoot the vid when you start and resume. Mistake? Show it! Nothing teaches like mistakes. Put them up as installments. No timetable. No cussing.

3. Instructional vid on Forum anatomy (and Gallery anatomy) and how to look for what really interests you. You can go beyond the Homepage, though granted, it takes a little more effort. That won't just help n00bs, but but many folks who've been here for a while.