New Forum Board

[Brad Shepard]

I was looking through the threads around here, and it dawned on me, We should have an anime board, what does everyone else think?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Why? Anime is merely a genre/artistic style, we don't have forum for those. If we did, why anime and not anything else?

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Why? Anime is merely a genre/artistic style, we don't have forum for those. If we did, why anime and not anything else?

Probably because anime transcends its own genre in some ways, depending on what you've been exposed to. That, and it's one of the more popular topics here on the Escapist. Not a day goes by when I don't see an avatar of a user derived from an anime, mine included. I think it's a great idea. Why not?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

This has come up before many times. They don't like putting in new forums very often so we'll just have to live with it in OT. I know I've just accepted the endless "recommend me an anime" threads.

We could try having a master thread for it all...

*shrugs*

Feel free to make your case in this group [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Ideas-for-The-Escapist] if you want staff attention.

 

[Hal10k]

Not a day goes by when I don't see an avatar of a user derived from an anime, mine included.

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

 

[tendaji]

If anything we need a science forum, so we can discuss science and medicine! Maybe throw tech into the mix as well to give it a nice well rounded feel.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

We have an anime fans group that is open to all. If you wanna talk about Anime, you can chat about it there. We don't need another new board.

 

[Dango]

No thanks. I'd rather not have to go to a separate forum section to see anime threads, besides, there's already a huge anime user group.

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

Not a day goes by when I don't see an avatar of a user derived from an anime, mine included.

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

Oh, what a peaceful and tolerant forum that would be...

OT: Meh, indifferent. Probably won't happen as even I've seen this come up before just in order to be rejected by the staff.


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[Z of the Na'vi]

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

Is there anything wrong with that? Hardly. An anime forum would fall along similar lines: a centralized forum where a broader range of topics regarding anime could be focused, rather than just mixing them in with Off-topic.

It's a principle of organization and choice more than anything else.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Not a day goes by when I don't see an avatar of a user derived from an anime, mine included.

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

4chan did it, why not the escapist? Kidding, Kidding

 

[Hal10k]

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

Is there anything wrong with that? Hardly. An anime forum would fall along similar lines: a centralized forum where a broader range of topics regarding anime could be focused, rather than just mixing them in with Off-topic.

It's a principle of organization and choice more than anything else.

Creating a new forum board would only be justifiable if that forum board were expected to receive a comparable amount of traffic to the forums that already exist. There have been roughly three anime threads on the off-topic board in the last two weeks. Even being generous with the estimation, those threads accounted for less than .1% of the total traffic that board received. It isn't worth the trouble. If we bothered to create sub-forums for every topic that received the slightest bit of attention, the forums would be cluttered with long-abandoned subforums for old games that all recieved more forum traffic than anime threads are now.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Creating a new forum board would only be justifiable if that forum board were expected to receive a comparable amount of traffic to the forums that already exist. There have been roughly three anime threads on the off-topic board in the last two weeks. Even being generous with the estimation, those threads accounted for less than .1% of the total traffic that board received. It isn't worth the trouble. If we bothered to create sub-forums for every topic that received the slightest bit of attention, the forums would be cluttered with long-abandoned subforums for old games that all recieved more forum traffic than anime threads are now.

Noted.

It gives us something to talk about, though. One can dream.

 

[TimeLord]

Not a day goes by when I don't see an avatar of a user derived from an anime, mine included.

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

4chan did it, why not the escapist? Kidding, Kidding

Actually 4chan banned Pony threads entirely. Then a break off group created an entirely new site called PonyChan.

OT: If we had a forum for anime. We'd need forums for ponies, mass effect, Warhammer, call of duty and everything else.
The exact reasons why user groups exist.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Not a day goes by when I don't see an avatar of a user derived from an anime, mine included.

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

4chan did it, why not the escapist? Kidding, Kidding

Actually 4chan banned Pony threads entirely. Then a break off group created an entirely new site called PonyChan.

OT: If we had a forum for anime. We'd need forums for ponies, mass effect, Warhammer, call of duty and everything else.
The exact reasons why user groups exist.

http://boards.4chan.org/mlp/ This looks like a Pony board to me.

 

[TimeLord]

Not a day goes by when I don't see an avatar of a user derived from an anime, mine included.

You realize that, by that logic, we'd also have to make a pony forum?

4chan did it, why not the escapist? Kidding, Kidding

Actually 4chan banned Pony threads entirely. Then a break off group created an entirely new site called PonyChan.

OT: If we had a forum for anime. We'd need forums for ponies, mass effect, Warhammer, call of duty and everything else.
The exact reasons why user groups exist.

http://boards.4chan.org/mlp/ This looks like a Pony board to me.

Well they originally banned pony threads entirely. They must have made that after. But really. PonyChan is better because it isn't filled with the 4chan haters.

 

[SycoMantis91]

Yea, I agree with the people saying anime is too niche of a topic. Not that I'd hate if they did it, and not that I wouldn't use it, but I doubt it would get enough attention to justify an entire sub-forum. Perhaps an "alternative media" forum. For things such as tv, movies, anime, music, and the like. I can see that garnering worthwhile usage.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Yea, I agree with the people saying anime is too niche of a topic. Not that I'd hate if they did it, and not that I wouldn't use it, but I doubt it would get enough attention to justify an entire sub-forum. Perhaps an "alternative media" forum. For things such as tv, movies, anime, music, and the like. I can see that garnering worthwhile usage.

Now this is a far better idea

 

[Jonluw]

Nah, that sounds horribly superfluous.
Why do you think we have user groups? [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Anime-Fans]

 

[Esotera]

The amount of boards on here is just about perfect...if there were any more or any less, then you'd get a decline in number of threads of all of them, or just a crappy singular board. Try some other forums if you like anime, like a chan.