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If anything I regard that degeneration as a reason to have a forum on the subject because there wasn't any real analysis on an issue that influenced all of us heavily at school. How many people here don't bother with physical exercise because so much of their formative experience was so off-putting?
You know, that'd be a topic with great potential, but it sounds to me like a significantly different one than anyone want to discuss their hatred or love of cross country at school?
I may not be explaining this very well.
If there's one thing that both sport and videogames do have in common (although this is much truer for the latter than the former), it's that hardly anybody spends time or energy trying to talk about them in any great depth, especially on the Internet. Like you say, there's not any real analysis. That's why this forum could be a very good thing indeed. At the same time, though, it could also mean that a new forum *still* wouldn't be home to any proper analysis, because people are so unused to going into depth on these subjects. The norm is to talk about them as a sort of light entertainment with no underlying 'value' or meaning, and if we want to change that and make sure that it's not something that we're simply perpetuating or opening the door to here, we need to be really careful about very basic things. You (largely non-specific 'you', here, but using your example) want your thread to be a discussion about how negative experiences with the teaching of PE at early ages can affect the willingness to undertake physical exercise of your own accord later on in life? Then it's likely that you're going to have to go to a greater effort to set out the purpose of your thread than you would in any other area of the board bar Headshop, not just in the opening post, but also in the tile and abstract. The issue of proactive moderation again.
And if we're combining sport and videogames into one forum, which seems inevitable, then we've got to be even more careful about this, because the general level of videogame discussion is *far* less sophisticated or intelligent than sports discussion. We'll get away with the odd purely conversational sports thread in the new forum, but the problem then becomes one of trying to dissuade a flood of similar videogames-related threads. Because even on the best gaming fora that I'm aware of, that's more or less all there is. You'll maybe get a couple of people trying to look at a game or an issue surrounding gaming with some amount of depth every now and again, but those threads either die straight away or become about how "the graphics are sh8t" within a few posts.
In other words, a frighteningly large proportion of the videogaming community doesn't need much of an excuse to act like a bunch of idiots.
I'm probably worrying about this too much, I know, but I feel that somebody needs to be pointing out just how wrong this could all go. It might as well be me, seeing as I've also been so enthusiastic about what we *could* get from this, if it works. |
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