Series En Fuego

[Munsu]

I'd also like to toss my late game two cents in about the change to the status quo. I don't really understand the point of breaking a series up by episodes and then putting those episode threads into General Anime. It seems like it could lead to confusion on the off chance some new person stumbled onto the forums and wanted to start a thread (kind of like I suspect Series en Fuego may cause some confusion to anyone unfamiliar with Spanish who stumbles upon this English speaking forum). Unless people are aware of the connection between "Index: 13" and "Toaru Majutsu no Index" being a 'Series en Furego", which they'd also have to understand the meaning of, I think some people could start seeing the practice of making threads per episode the standard practice for any series leading to more clutter, time will tell of course, and new blood isn't exactly frequent here so maybe there's not point in worrying about it.

I'm not worried about this in the least. That's why the mods have nifty tool called "Merge Threads". New members create crappy incorrect threads all time regardless of this new system. I don't think this will be much of a problem.

That said, if the episode threads are going to be moving at 'random' (defined by when the mods get around to moving them) times from Gen Anime to SeF I don't get how that is good for discussion. Speaking as a selfish person who wants the forums to facilitate his ability to read and make posts about anime he's interested in I don't see any benefit for myself in having to potentially hunt for a thread on two different boards at the whim of the schedules of the staff and whatever rubric they come up with to decide when a thread needs to move into SeF.

Not at random. When the next episode is released and a new thread is created for that episode, the old thread will then be moved when a mod sees it. I don't think there'll be much of a problem there either. I also think that the increase of discussion more than makes up for someone to do an extra click to read another thread that contains discussion that might've not existed otherwise.
If the latest episode discussion was inside the Series en Fuego section and it's not the latest thread to be responded on, you would've needed to do that extra click to find that discussion thread. With this new system, the latest thread is conviniently placed in General Anime, and that thread will be getting most of the discussion. So when you add things up you might be making less clicks overall. Plus, it gives better exposure to series that are in the section but aren't as strong as the other, so it facillitates discussions for those... kinda like what happened with Druaga paired up with Code Geass.

I'm not trying to say that the staff are lazy or won't be able to stay on top of things but the practice institutes uncertainty. If I come onto the forums and am looking for the latest Toaru discussion where should I look first? Do I look in General Anime or do I look in SeF? With the old status quo I have no uncertainty. I know that all threads related to SeF series will be in the Sef board for as long as the series title is on the SeF Board subtitle. With the new system I would have to start guessing/assuming based on my own knowledge of the series schedule and the rubric for moving series around.

You should look first in General Anime, which you should've done so first anyways since in order to get to SeF you need to first enter General Anime.

If the rubric is something simple like only the latest episodes thread will be in Gen Anime at any given time then I wouldn't have much reason to complain, other than needing to refresh TokyoTosho constantly, but if it was anything more complicated than that I think it would start to be rather unfair to casual users. If it was something like X number of days/posts reached/posts not reached and then a thread gets moved then it becomes a guessing game for anyone who isn't refreshing the boards every hour to find where the thread for episode X of anime Y is.

The rubric is something simple like that. ONLY the latest episode discussion will be in General Anime. All other threads will be tossed inside En Fuego.

And some more two cents, I personally don't like the idea of taking 'Episode' out of the thread titles. Removing it inserts a small amount of ambiguity which could potentially lead to confusion. While it's not that ambiguous it's still more so than if 'Episode' was there. Acting on the assumption that potential confusion is to be avoided unless its existence is offset by gains somewhere else, what is gained by removing it to offset to the potential confusion (which I do recognize is minor)?

I only took it out because of the "Last Post" column problem since it has limited characters so if the episode number doesn't show up it will cause confusion as to what thread that is. I guess I can put 'ep.' instead. That should work.

And as a side note is there something wrong with the official title To Aru Majutsu no Index? Personally, I think of the series by the name "To Aru..." seeing just "Index" in a thread title it didn't immediately register to me that the thread was about "To Aru Majutsu no Index Episode 13". That character is barely even in the show at the moment so it feels misleading to label the threads for the show with just her name. But that's just my opinion, maybe everyone else calls it Index.

Nothing wrong with it. As explained above it was because of the "Last Post" problem. Suggest me other alternatives that might be more representative of the series but is short enough to not mess with the "Last Post" column. The official name is simply too long. I simply put "Index" on a whim.

Just throwing some possibilities out there:

"Toaru"
"Toaru Majutsu"
"Majutsu no Index"
"Toaru Index"
"TM no Index"

I don't know. Which one you like?