"What to do about Tournament Posts?" Topic

I'd like you feedback on this before I make a decision.

Let's say someone wants to post about their medieval tournament.

Should they post to:
Tournaments

Or:
Tournaments & Medieval Discussion

One argument is that some people find tournament posts annoying, and they should be confined to the Tournament board where tournament people can easily see them.

And the other argument is that medieval tournaments are part of medieval gaming, so they belong on the medieval discussion board.

Input?

Medieval is medieval. Post it on the medieval board. No-one is forced to read it….

How is a medieval tournament not a part of medieval gaming?

Two knights jousting at each other seems to be as legitimate a thing to game as big game hunting, blood bowl or any other thing that might be considered a sport.

Let them put it wherever they feel appropriate

Both

What if it's 7th century Britons versus Continental invaders? Is it medieval?

Let's people make their own decision.

Why is there so much angst about crossposting? No one is forced to read anything they choose not to.

I would think both, and if you don't want to read about it pass it by. IMHO, Some people have too tight a trigger if that annoys them.

Aren't we getting tournaments and tournaments confused here?

Isn't the Tournaments board for posts about wargames tournaments (FoW, DBA, HoTT etc) rather than for posts about jousting games?

So unless you are playing your tournament as a tournament then it isn't a tournament and it shouldn't be on the tournaments board. But of course if you are playing a tournament as a tournament then it is a tournament and the tournaments board is the correct place to post.

So long as everyone follows those simple rules I don't think there should be any problems.

I have no interest in tournaments whatsoever but (he says, gritting his teeth) I agree with Winston: wherever they like.

I'm not in favour of restricting how and where people post and I'm not really a supporter of (as I said elsewhere) salami slicing a forum into more and more portions. Balkanization and ghetto-izing doesn't work for me.

John T

What ceddic said.

Whatever they feel like as this is a rational cross post.

I think more would be irritated by not cross posting then the one or two who complained

Madaxeman can post his posts wherever he likes. Too entertaining to constrain.

if it fits in both, post it in both.

I usually crosspost my conversion projects to Conversions and the appropriate period/periods.

"What to do about Tournament Posts?"

Ignore them and hope they'll go away?

I'm pleasantly surprised! I thought there would be more people saying "get off my lawn!" to Tournament posts, given how much anti-tournament talk we see on the forums from time to time.

Cats and dogs living together in harmony! It's a sign of the End Times, I tell you…