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Did anyone else not realise that all those threads were games?

In all fairness, my first cue that helped me make up my mind about what I was looking at was the fact that they're all posted in the "Forum Games" section. No telling what I would've thought if I had missed that detail.
 
Gritches said:
In all fairness, my first cue that helped me make up my mind about what I was looking at was the fact that they're all posted in the "Forum Games" section. No telling what I would've thought if I had missed that detail.
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Never went to it. I stick to new posts.
 
Nope, I didn't have a clue either. The subtlety of it all was very apparent...I mean, "Forum Games" is the last place you'd expect to see such a thing. It would have taken some detective work to figure it out, on par with the great Sherlock (whichever one you prefer, modern or classic).
 
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You are in no way stupid hombre. After about a year here I noticed that you could post photographs. Depends what interests you I suppose.
 
Upon my arrival here, I went straight for the music and word-games threads, as those were my favorite things to partake in, on a different forum I had been a member of, in the past. But, like you, if I merely view new posts that pop up, I will not have realized that a 'Game' post is a game, by merely, reading the title, and, this is what occurred, when I noticed tree's newly posted games show up, on my screen. The ones tiled: 'Feelings' and 'Mutation'. I clicked on both, and found them to be Games, but, from the titles, alone, thought they'd be posts, pertaining to the titles, actual, subject matter.

: ))
 
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That's... good to know? Didn't know it either, although I didn't really look for forum games anyway. Not my cup of tea.
 
I usually look at the top of the page when I click on a new post to see what section it's in.
Sometimes I like some of the games. Especially word games.
 
I have previously noticed the fact that @tree posts a lot of games, and usually the thread titles have capital letters. So when I see thread like that, I suspect a game. I then look to see in which forum it has been posted. I agree that it's not always immediately obvious - I have to look to check that it's a game, usually stated in the first post, but if you have things set up to read only new posts, it's easy to miss!!
 
Progster said:
I have previously noticed the fact that @tree posts a lot of games, and usually the thread titles have capital letters. So when I see thread like that, I suspect a game. I then look to see in which forum it has been posted. I agree that it's not always immediately obvious - I have to look to check that it's a game, usually stated in the first post, but if you have things set up to read only new posts, it's easy to miss!!
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Just thought people needed reminding that I'm not always as brilliant as they all think :)
 
Fridgemagnetman said:
After about a year of posting on the game threads it sank in.
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Prior to that realization, what did you suppose they were?

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When I first started using this forum,
there were 5 pages of Games. I didn't
realize that there were 5 pages, at first,
and that I could look at all of them.

But it was apparent that this place was
divided into categories which included
Games, "Serious Discussions," Love/Dating
and so on.
 
tree said:
Prior to that realization, what did you suppose they were?
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My process didn't stretch that far.
I have a trend where I try to define as little as possible.

I guess I thought it was just a thing.
Answer a question with a question . - okay. Did that .
Didn't consider it a game.

After having done that a lot at one point I wondered where are the games..
Then rather than sticking to new posts only I ventured out into the rest of the site.

Game-blindness
 
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