I haven't forgotten about this idea; I don't think it was necessarily concluded that the place was fine as it was. Rather, I think the discussion just died down.
If I remember, the debate was more or less between organizing by complete vs incomplete, or organizing by genre. The issues were that organizing by completion was vague and served to divide the community, while the details of organizing by genre were never fully hashed out or even agreed upon (What genres did people actually want to see, the workload involved and how to divide it, etc). And given the forum restructure, a lot of stuff like that just got pushed to the back of everybody's minds.
But while that's definitely a topic still worth debating, I'm necroing this thread simply because I think it's long past due that I bring up a related topic: I really think a lot of the sections should be combined/removed. It's plainly clear that the one place that gains the most amount of attention is the H-Games section. Whether that should be sub-divided further was the original debate, but that isn't what I want to talk about. I'm talking about the H-Movies, Vanilla H-Movies, Doujins, Under Construction, and Unsorted sections. It was a good idea back in 2009, but now that we've seen the direction of growth for this place, I think they need to be redone.
I also feel like many people use the H-Games section to serve as just a general discussion area, when I feel like the purpose of this section should be ONLY to talk about games. Obviously, there aren't rules against just having discussion; in fact, I'm actually pretty happy that people want to hold a conversation about
the state of Patreon, or
the merits of animation in an H-game alongside just talking about recent announcements for games. But a quality discussion can easily get swept away by the neverending tide of new announcements, releases, updates, and the like. Plus, the trend of recommendation threads got me thinking that perhaps there really is some merit to letting people just ask the community what kinds of games they should try out.
So my proposal is this:
- Combine the H-Movies, Vanilla, and Doujin sections into an "Other H Media" section or something.
- Under Construction becomes a sub-section in the H-Games section
- Unsorted Hentai absorbs all of the threads in the general H section, all of the recommendation threads in the H-Games section, and becomes a Discussion section.
- Recommendation threads are put in their own sub-section or even just a stickied thread.
However, I'm actually a little doubtful of my own proposal, simply because it'll just be a reorganization that will change nothing. That is, people will continue to not post about other h-media, and will not utilize a discussion section, as it's just easier to get attention from the massive H-Game section. And honestly, I think that's the main problem: the attention people give to that section is far greater, which really leads to nobody looking in the other sections. So I feel reorganizing will either break a principle dynamic, or do nothing at all. At the same time, I also feel that the place really doesn't make sense structure wise and perhaps really would change if it just made more sense. But I don't want to just lump everything under H-Games when it doesn't make sense to. I'd appreciate any thoughts on this.
Also, this by no means is an announcement of a change in structure. I don't know how to do that, nor would I want that responsibility. I'd just really like to hear other peoples' input on this, as it'll give me insight as to what people look for when they browse the H section.