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[RandomGuy26]

I may as well jump in for support. While this is redundant by now, yes, the main thread for EMH is huge to the point where there are more EMH-related posts than posts in all of the other threads combined.
I had always thought of creating tagged threads as a last resort. An ungodly amount of discussion can result over the smallest thing. It really would drown out all of the small side-stories, which aren't getting much attention as is.

The rate of conversation is unlike anything I've seen before. Over 500 pages were created on the main thread in less than one month. (pages 380-946 in November. Roughly 566 full pages. 8507 posts.)

I respect your opinions and we can just make subject-threads if it comes to that, but do feel that it would unnecessarily clutter the forum.

[Glomple]

I agree. It's getting pretty impossible to get any discussion done on the non-EMH threads because those threads are always being bumped to the top.

Also, it gets ridiculous finding any info for EMH, seeing as the main topic gets ~5-7 new pages a day.

Finally, if EMH was to be split into various topics, it would swamp the entire board. EMH has 3 Twitters, a blog, and 2 Youtube accounts that I know of. If there were to be new threads for everything, there would have to be new threads on one of the Youtube channels favoriting a video or changing the background, because those often provide clues.

tl;dr EMH is already swamping the Slender Man Mythos board, your counter-proposal to keep it on the board would probably swamp it more. D:

[awakeasaurusrex]

[Norrior]

[Trygon]

I am supporting this notion. EMH is bigger and has more stuff going on then Marble Hornets. And if Marble Hornets has its own board, surely EMH more then deserves to be given one.

Splitting discussions up as per month or entry (or whatever) would only make things worse for the Slender Board, as it would drown all the other threads.


However, is it possible to make these Slender ARGs with their own boards sub boards of the Slender board? It would mean all Slender RPing is in the same place, but also mean that EMH wouldn't be flooding the main board.

[Romulus]

How about (to save room and prevent clutter, of course) we move the marble hornets subforum into the slender man mythos subforum? Clearly it's part of the SMM, and all that the readers would have to do is put some sort of tag on the threads such as [MH 12/13/10 UPDATE] to avoid confusion. It's got (as shown earlier in this thread) roughly the same amount of posts going on in it as EMH does, so why not just lump it into the SMM subforum?

[SolDL]

[Romulus]

Bear in mind that there is a season 1 AND season 2 off topic thread in the marble hornets subforum, and no one seemed to think they were unnecessary.

[SolDL]

Well; the three Tournament groups were required to be created, bringing our total of EMH topics up to 7.

[chizuru]

[awakeasaurusrex]

I'm wondering whether there might be a problem here with the fact that neither of the mods for the Slender Man Mythos subforum actually seems to participate in EMH.

I don't think anyone who has actively taken part in EMH could deny that the main thread has become impossibly unwieldy to navigate, or that if we took the advice given and made individual threads for each new release of EMH content the Slender Man Mythos subforum would be overwhelmed. But neither ndemeter nor DavFlamerock seems to have made any recent posts on EMH - they're not in the game. So they probably don't realise what seems completely obvious to us.

Yet the mods appear to consider the matter resolved, because they haven't responded to any of the points we've raised since their last statements on this issue.

[chizuru]

I think that if we did what they suggested, the forum would be flooded, then them might realize what we mean, but I'd feel terrible flooding the SMM subforum with nothing but EMH threads... But that may be the only way that we can get the mods' attention which would suck.

[ndemeter]

Intentionally flooding a forum to prove a point is quite a horrible way of getting our attention.

Since I do read all the posts and arguments for and against a move there is no reason to suspect that we lean any certain way towards a request. Quite simply, there's no easy solution for a variety of quite boring reasons that have nothing to do with the moderators participating in a game (Lord knows if I was participating in every ARG in N&R I would go insane ). Thus every move must be planned and not done in a vacuum.

[awakeasaurusrex]

[TheNightmareComplex]

I too believe that any story with quite so many active participants [I.E., hundreds of users in-game, a cast larger than MH's, and one with so many entries and separate media to cover], should certainly have its own board. It only makes sense.