you might have seen the other thread. well this one is going to be less emotion ridden ^^
so let me explain why we should have a discussion.
1. the forum does not have a firm line to it yet as to what the focus will be.
2. some people (includeing myself) are not realy satisfied with the (for lack of a better term) interpritation of the forum rules.
here is where we stand:
the forum is almost exclusively used to answer rules and other questions of new players. this is neither good nor bad. its simply the current state.
what the comuninty should discuss is: should this forum be a place for new players to have thier questions answered ? should this forum focus on a diffrent aspect of magic ? should this forum focus on all aspects of the hobby in equal parts ? should a selection of aspect be picked out to focus on ?
the thing is that if this forum focuses primarely on answering questions from new players than that is perfectly valid. even then some things need to be done. writing FAQ's need a high priority. subforums should be restructured. here is an example of the top of my head:
- creature abilitys
- card interaction
- card types
- other rules
- deck help
thats just very rough and not realy good.
what is important to me is that we have this discussion. also every user can and realy should contribute. its your forum. if you dont contribute no one can know what you want the forum to be like.
there is the option to leave everything as it is. personaly im against that because at the moment it all seems very much chaotic and in need of cleaning up to bring out a unique and somewhat more respectable character to the magic forum.
i sincerely hope that this discussion will be held by all or at least most and not just the usual suspects.