You guys know why these forums aren’t as popular as Bungie’s forums?
Because you guys combined and lock threads constantly. I get that there’s already threads about topics, but you don’t need to combine threads or lock threads all the time. Sometimes there’s ideas and posts that need to be seen, and aren’t going to be seen if they are on page 17 of the one thread in the entire forum that allows for discussion of that specific topic.
Let’s use the topic of ranks as an example, since I just made a thread about ranks that was relevant, which just got locked. The bungie forums probably had 10,000 threads about ranks. There would be a relevant thread about a specific discussion inside the topic of ranks, and it would be seen, discussed, and then the thread would be done and it would slowly be pushed back to later pages and then next time there was a relevant discussion about rank, another thread would be made, it would have it’s time to shine, and then it would be done.
Having single threads dedicated to single topics is a good idea in concept, but a terrible idea in reality. If I wanted to come on these forums and find posts about ranks, or talk about ranks, I’m not going to look at the single rank discussion thread and sift through a million posts in a completely unorganized thread who’s only requirements is the word “rank” in order to find the specific post I want to see. On top of that, when there’s single threads for topics as broad as things such as rank, it’s going to be completely disorganized and borderline unreadable.
Do you guys realize how broad some of these topics are that you guys contain to one pinned or official thread? The topic of ranks can be anything from “Hey guys I think the inheritor symbol looks super neat” to “Let’s divulge into the concepts of ranking systems and compare and contrast the 1-50 ranking system with the Arena ranking system”.
Tell me, do both of those topics deserve to be contained in one thread? Who is really going to look through a huge thread in order to find either of those specific posts? On top of that, even if people wanted to, it’s going to change topic literally every post. As a random example, hypothetically, over here on Page 37 of the one and only Rank Discussion thread, here are the posts.
Post 1: I like the ranks in this game, they look really shiny and neat.
Post 2: Why DID I GET RESET WHAT THE HECK
Post 3: How much EXP do you need to rank up to X Rank?
Post 4: Quotes some guy from Page 4 and replies to him and whatever topic he was talking about, inside the general topic of ranks
Post 5: I don’t like Arenas ranking system
Post 6: Are we going to add more ranked playlists?
Post 7: Reply to post 1 Yeah man, that eclipse symbol is sick!
Post 8: Bungie sucks Reach is a bad game the ranks are stupid
Post 9: What rank am I, I don’t even know.
Post 10: LOL what’s the gamertag of the 19th guy to reach inheritor?
The worst is when you make a thread and it gets combined with another thread. On the rare chance that the thread it gets combined with is actually on a topic, and on a single topic, you now have two topics combined and it’s going to be completely disorderly and pointless.
So for the sake of tame and efficient discussion, please stop locking and combining threads in order to attempt to keep this forum “tidy”. All it’s doing is making this forum worse, and taking away a lot of it’s potential. I’ve probably made 6 or 7 threads on this site in the past year or however long this forum has been open, and I’m pretty sure all but 1, or maybe 2 have either been locked or combined.
It honestly makes me not even want to come to this site. All I’m doing is trying to help make sure Halo 4 isn’t a colossal failure like Reach was, and I can’t even do that without threads getting locked with orders from a moderator to post in some 120309034 page long thread, or my threads getting combined with another random thread. inb4 this thread is locked. If this thread get’s locked I will honestly never come to this site again. So you might as well permanently ban me if you lock or combine this thread.