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I don't think these should have images, as they steal your attention from other parts of the main page, and the majority of people probably aren't interested. Also, when one added a picture, the other added a bigger one (and labelled the edit minor), and it wouldn't be good if it turned into a competition. Do people agree that they should be removed? --Undc23 23:50, 4 March 2006 (CST)
- I'm inclined to agree. Either the images should be pulled, or some sort of a standard (x pixels by y pixels) should be developed so that the images will be uniform. Pictures can be very powerful when applied correctly, but I'm not sure if these add much in terms of navigation. --Steelviper 09:10, 5 March 2006 (CST)
- Yeah. Yuck. I hadn't seen that, but I agree so much that I went ahead and took 'em out. If someone can come up with a compelling reason to keep them, we can always revert. --Day 19:48, 5 March 2006 (CST)
- We are in agreement. I doubt many people even use these things, and pictures don't seem necessary. --The Merovingian 21:07, 5 March 2006 (CST)
- If those who set the rules & regulations of the website deem it that images aren't acceptable on the main page ((which seems to be the case)) then thats perfectly understandable and accepted. But also believe me, It was far from a competition, Especially given I didn't realize the banner was actually larger but I'm a bit blind at times, It as done more so to keep a certain balance given their had already been a image for the other link for a number of days now. But it's all good now, I do apologize for any possible inconvenience though. Though, A new section dedicated to fan based subjects or maybe fan fiction/Role Playing alone might be a good idea, giving everyone expanded room to explain their sites for those who might be interested.. But thats just a idea. Thanks. --RWL 22:01, 5 March 2006 (CST)
- Sorry, I should have assumed good faith. --Undc23 23:57, 5 March 2006 (CST)
- Compared to the number of people that use GalacticaStation or something else, few people actually use these things. The "BSG 2003 fanfic archive is a broken link; there's nothing there anymore.
As for the "Original BSG 2003 RPG"...barely a dozen people use this; why are we advertising it? We should not.
Most of all, as for the "Kobol's Legacy" RPG, why are we advertising a small-scale, localized fan event which hasn't event started yet?
Frankly, I think we should take a vote on ever bothering to keep these at all. --The Merovingian 22:12, 5 March 2006 (CST)
- I think you're all forgetting one important thing though. BSG, as re-imagined series, is relatively young. I'm 100% sure it doesn't have a fanbase compared to Star Trek, Star Wars or even Stargate yet. Also, I doubt it'll attract the same people as the bigger "brothers", maybe except for Stargate (people, who weren't too impressed with Atlantis, like myself, might switch over to BSG). And I even doubt that it'll attract all of the fans of the original series. It's still growing. And that'll take some time.
- Also, as for the RPGs. Well... From my experience a game with a dozen+ members who manage some 3,000+ IC posts of rather high quality within a bit over 6 months is rather impressive. Go to any random Trek or Star Wars RPG on the net and you'll see that the majority is either dead after 6 months (usually even faster than that), or the quality of the posts is so bad that good roleplayers will stay away from it (agreed, there are games with 2,000 plus members, but, as I've seen it, only a small number of them -usually not even 10%- can roleplay in more than two coherent sentences).
- Fanfictions, also still in the beginnings. Of course, the older stuff has bigger FF areas. Just take the thousands of Stargate FFs, no surprise there, considering that Stargate is hitting season 10, while the new BSG is about to end season 2. Stargate is 8 years ahead. Trek and Star Wars... a few decades...
- Face it, the BSG community for the re-imagined series IS small when compared to the others. Fact is, it's only been running in the US and UK, it has finally hit Germany in February with season 1, which surprised me, because you could get the mini-series on DVD in Germany last autumn already.
- When looking at the "big brothers" of BSG in the business I have to say a successful community for a series usually has more than a wikipedia and a couple of fansites. That includes FF areas and RPGs and advertisements for those. Nothing can live without advertisement anyway. And, to be honest, I think BSG wants to play with the big brothers on equal ground and not stay in the shadows of them. --AKM 07:13, March 6th, 2006 (CET)