Re: Miscellaneous

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:47:56 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/24/2024 12:35 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:51:42 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 10/23/2024 4:02 AM, Ant wrote:

Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

Samuel Söderberg <samuel@samuelsoderberg.se> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

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You might have already discussed this, but have you considered moving all of
the general discussions around games to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc?

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This is the group that stayed active, and the others just folded in for
the most part.

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c.s.i.p.g.misc sounds like a place for games that defy categorization,
and I don't think the denizens here play many of those.

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The risk would be that you lose the good thing that you have going, I suppose.

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That's one, another would be that it might not even be carried by
various usenet providers.

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I tagged it and checked for new messages, there were no messages.

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Why would we move from an active group to a dead group?

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We could always CC like this post. ;)

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well, we could just spread out and use these groups as well

 
Always an option. Like I said, a number of people frequent multiple
groups so if you post a question in *.adventure (or wherever) odds are
somebody might answer you.
 
But the bulk of the active readers are currently here, in *.action.
You'll have more eyes on your message -and more chances of a response
- if you post it here. There just isn't really a large enough
population to support that diversity of newsgroups.
 
Nonetheless, I again reiterate: if its something you feel strongly
about, you can do it. Post enough messages long enough, and people may
come. But it could take a long time before your efforts pan out.
 
Personally, I think it seems like a lot of work for no real advantage
(if only because, arguably, *.misc is as bad a location for general
game discussion as *.action) but there's nothing really stopping
anyone from making the attempt.
 
 

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well, you might have noticed I keep posting to rec.games.frp.* in the
hopes that people actually are coming to discuss something :D
I also have been posting to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg for similar reasons

You know, I just may have. ;-)

In fact, I almost referenced you in my previous comment as an example
of how much work it can be trying to reinvigorate a group. It doesn't
come easy! You have to keep plugging in content so that the group
looks active. Eventually somebody sees something and responds to it;
now there's too people. You keep it up, soon there's three... and then
four. But it can take YEARS.

(I do something similar with csipga --hence these new threads I put
out semi-regularly talking about stuff like Ubisoft's shenanigins or
CRAP polls-- but obviously it's a lot easier here because there's
already an active population who does most of the work already. Mostly
I just try to ensure it STAYS active.)

Revitalizing a nearly dead group is _hard_. But --at least from a
fellow rec.frp.dnd reader-- your efforts are appreciated, even if I'm
sure it sometimes feels like a thankless, hopeless job.

So I'm definitely not going to discourage anyone if they want to do
the same with *.misc. More Usenet is good Usenet as far as I'm
concerned!