feardragon64
Smash Champion
Who wants to go through the trouble of shifting through hundreds of spam posts, sorting out the well thought out ones(in an unbiased manner), and composing links to them in a timely fashion?
And honestly, thread or sub-forum, I think either one works, though both have advantages and disadvantages.
Sub-forum would completely separate the discussion boards, but it could have some problems in terms of having multiple proper discussions. However, seeing as the first posts are normally one of the most well thought out, this might also lead to more well thought out posts being heard. Still, this would be incredibly unorganized.
A thread would seem like a simpler solution(stickied of course). However, if anyone actually wants to get anywhere with this, they would have to shift through lots of spam posts to actually get any progression. Most of the progression is done when someone posts a new topic and everyone reads it and responds. After that, the first few pages are read, and then the true spamming ensues. However, this would give users who use the search function the ability to talk about either side all they want, though I'm sure this would still allow for more threads to be formed in the inappropriate sections(thus causing more mod work) than creating a sub-forum because a sub-forum is much more noticeable than a stickied thread.
But here's another thought: a huge problem is trying to distinguish spam posts from intelligent posts. Why not do this: redirect everyone who wants to complain about brawl or melee post it in the proper, section(see end of first post for the link to the thread about ranting over why brawl disappointed you), and create a sub-forum or new thread for ACTUAL DEBATE in brawl vs. melee. The only thing is, this requires some moderation to make sure people aren't just insulting each other and restating the same thing over and over again. But more importantly, it requires moderation to make sure people aren't RANTING about it, they're ARGUING it. Arguments MUST involve taking in the other side's opinions and ANSWERING them. However, this becomes much more difficult for mods so I still think creating a sub-forum is the best idea since, though it would create a few more problems, the problems wouldn't be anything THAT much bigger than what's already happening(it would just be an isolated problem that's a little bit bigger rather than a smaller problem that's scattered throughout the forum).
