Fun for everyone?

Personally, as long as you're not double-posting, I think that having a few posts in between your own is unnecessary. Having one in between should be enough. As long as people aren't ignoring each other on purpose it ought to be fine.

Posts ought to be on-topic, too; you make a good point about that, but again, if you're waiting extra time of your own accord it's hard to blame other people just for going back and forth.

I'm sort of curious if any moderators have an opinion on this sort of thing.

Sorry Lio; I suspect I'm the main culprit of this, but I didn't realise it was bothering anyone tbh.

When I said 'if it ain't broke don't fix it', I certainly wasn't trying to be dismissive or rude, and I'm sorry if it came across that way.

The thing is though, the Forum Games section (and the games itself) used to be on track and everyone followed the rules, then suddenly it got all screwed up. Nowadays, they're pretty much out of whack.

Let me be honest about this, I kinda get all tired of the cuddling/snuggling/nuzzling/etc. there because mostly it's getting old and it's been happening for a long time and you're not supposed to do that. I mean, it's all fun and addicting though.

Like for example, the 'Ban the Pony Above You' thread is supposed when you just pretend to ban members, but now it's turning into a non-banning thread and you're not supposed to do that.

Also, I'm kinda one of the victims for it anyways and I've been told many times to stay on track and follow the rules of these games. But, I never do and I feel like a bad person and I'm putting shame on myself for doing such a thing. All I just wanted to do was have fun...

Alright, lets get back to basics here; the point of the game threads is to have fun, right? Now obviously, the members posting whole chains of posts are having fun, so the only issue would be if they are preventing others from having fun by doing so.

I never thought that our posting was preventing others from posting, and when people do post according to the rules, I certainly try and react within the rules of that thread, out of respect. Obviously, there's no way of knowing without doing it, (and I don't really want to,) but if we did stop posting in the fashion we do, I suspect the activity of most of the games would dwindle to almost nothing. For proof of that, look at the number of totally dormant games there are.

I would also argue that the only two threads that completely abandon their original rules are the 'wake up' and 'kissed by' threads, and considering the number of active members on this site, do either of those premises really have legs anyway?

I may be wrong, and I stand to be corrected, but that's my opinion on the matter.

Let me get this out of the way; if anyone is posting cutesy/cuddly stuff in one of the game threads: don't. Take it to PMs (or better yet, Skype) if you want that. Heck, the General Chat Thread was created specifically for the purpose of off-topic interpersonal posts. Unless your post is on-topic in at least some way, don't post it in a Forum Games thread. The fact that off-topic posts add activity to the section doesn't change anything; technically spamming or pornography add activity, but that doesn't change how the rules are enforced. Try to keep at least most of your posts on-topic, or post somewhere else. It really is that simple.

All of that aside, this is a very simple problem.

I don't spend much time in the Forum Games section, so I don't usually view the "Ban the Pony Above You" thread, but the flow of that thread is usually supposed to progress with each user giving a pretend reason to ban the user above them. Looking through the posts in that thread, pretty much all of them seem to be on-topic (using the phrase "not banned" is odd and unusual, but not technically against the rules or even off-topic). Most of the other threads that I've checked seem to be on topic.

The real problem, then, as others have said, is the "You were kissed by the user/avatar above you, reaction?" thread. When I actually looked into this one, it did seem like a lot of the recent posts were totally off topic and not at all related to the game. I only read back as far as the most recent ten pages, but those were primarily the same three or four users just goofing off and chatting. That's great in general, but it doesn't belong there. That is literally the sole reason why the General Chat Thread exists (and also the reason why it has gone through several iterations exceeding thousands of posts), so use it for that. This doesn't have to be a huge deal, but your casual conversations should really be moved to the place designed for them so that others can participate in the games.

Sorry, I jsut kinda follow the crowd with the forum games. I don't mean to upset anypony. I'll behave if I must.

I can't speak for others, but when I'm online there are a lot of times when I'm interested in playing games but when you guys back and forth so much I get ninja'd and my original reply it out of place, or it's just discouraging seeing the back and forth. Dilly is right though I don't see anything about back and forth being against the rules. It's just something that personally bugs me.

Er, I don't mind getting ninja'd when it's more than two people faster post are faster post, but when it's back and fourth it like I'm not give the time to reply.

Again none of this applies to "Last to Post. " It's a game in name only and more of a chat thread.

I'm really surprised this rant got read since it's now profile status on the side of the forum instead of blogs. Are blogs listed somewhere else? Not that I wanted to rant in anomittity(sp), but I also didn't want to make my friends feel bad.

The little B at the side of your name lights up when you post a new blog, and I try to check the blog page fairly regularly anyway; if someone's bothered writing about something they feel is important, I feel it's only right people read it.

For my part, I've tried to address some of your concerns; I've set up another ltp style thread, and will try to keep to the rules of the other games a bit more closely. Hopefully no hard feelings.

No, no hard feeling.

It's good to see these things worked out in a friendly way; that should be what this forum is all about.

Well, as of 2017, it's not like there's many people to play.

But my problem with the games is mostly that they're not really challenging or that much interesting.