Kow wrote:

I enjoy podcasts as much as anyone, but I've yet to hear a gaming one that didn't make me want to stab someone.

Maybe it'll be this one...!

Idle Thumbs was good. Hopefully will still be good when they re-launch.

But yes, I wouldn't mind an expansion of field.

If dunks comes back we'll have loads of reposts

Yossarian wrote:

We all agree that without new blood this place could stagnate and die..

We don't all agree with that. If new people join then fair enough but I don't think there's any need to try and woo people in here. There are 200 already.

I agree with the Kow, but that's still but two of us.

Who's being negative? I'm expressing disinterest, nothing more.

I'm not massively sure what this impact is though. Right now, I have ERE and Kilted Moose's blogs bookmarked. Instead of going to two different places to read there stuff, I could go to one, and also whilst I'm there read Skerret and Tigers words of wisdom too. That's the impact as far as I can see.

If people don't want it here though, that's fine, I can set something else up. But I'm getting the feeling that some people are cold on this either because they weren't invited into any other forum lead creative offshoot, or because they think that setting something up here will somehow destroy the forum.

Neither of which I can understand.

I was going to say, I've got quite a few forumer's blogs in my RSS feed. 

I'd believe any attempt of implementing a community forum would not be to detract from an individuals personal blog. Whether it's Voodoo posting his designs, Kaz writing about games, Reg writing about film, Moose writing about games, Jim writing about Calvin & Hobbes, etc.

Essentially any community facility to post lengthy prose is going to serve 3 types of people, each for vvarying reasons.

1) People with a blog that has nothing to do with the audience here. My research blog for example. As not to lose a perfectly good bit of prose to people who will probably not be interested on their own blog they can post it here. For the more responsive and appreciative audience.

2) People with a blog that has everything to do with the audience here. Moose's games blog for example. As a favour to the community here they may wish to post a new piece or post an edited piece they are particularly proud of. The favour would be a post on their own site, driving trtaffic and fresh meat. This would be an avenue to raise the readership or community at B&B.

3) People without a blog. For example you want to write but you either don't want the responsibility of having a blog or you don't believe it's worth it because you can't see yourself writing that much. Or some other reason for not having a blog, whatever. Either way you post your prose here because there's a facility to do so.

I think that's generally it. I wouldn't want to suggest people here abandon their existing blogs. Many of us keep blogs professionally and keeping the bulk  of our work in one place is usually what suits.

Diluted Dante wrote:

For example, on The Trace there was an idea for something called My White Whale, in which someone took something they could never quite finish before, and play/read/watch it again and write about it.

That was my idea. If this thing gets off the ground I fully intend to take on the original Shinobi game again, this time on the MegaDrive Collection on Xbox with unlimited credits to see if I can finally finish off that last boss. My bet is I won't.

By which I mean Petey will delete spam from WallArtRockers, or clean up anything that looks barely legible.

Beano wrote:

"Petey and his missus have had a baby. We've never installed spam watchers and no one has ever volunteered to help him with dev. Petey is no longer available to manage the site. Who's gonna 'take the keys and drive' from now on?"

I suggest we all chip in to get Petey a vasectomy now to stop this ever becoming an issue.

Very true Bean

If people want to do something why don't they just do it? Ask people here if they want to join and if they don't, they don't.

Linking it to the community would be good but this thread has been populated by a minority as I'd wager a lot of people here just don't care. Build something, if it's good folk will read it. I give forumite related stuff a cursory glance now and then but i have other places I go for that content.

In the end, unless people are dicks I hardly think any harm will come of it.

My oats, there.

I for one agree with rambletits.

Tempy has surely hit upon an important point, so important that one might refer to it as very important. This importance of type very will no doubt be of great importance to me and us, the community.  Like any community, accord must be reached on the key issues.  These issues are mirrored in my own day to life, largely composed of getting up, going to other places, and so on.  Some of these places are of great interest to me and others, each for personal reasons which I will now detail in a long and interminable monologue on personal reasons one might have for being interested in going to places both here and not here and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh