I'm not so sure. You never once screamed "Fuck you!" at someone and then a short time later realized it may have been a silly thing to do? Also, even if you have something good to throw back you may need to pause and consider if the person will get the point of the comment or it will fly over their head and just confuse them even more. In those insances "holding it" can be very usefull and prevent further bickering.

One of the things that's strange about this forum is that they resist making subfora that people are likely to use, but have one for just about every game on her. Few of which attract enough traffic to be of much value.

IMHO, they ought to have 3 or so regular fora, one for general, one for gaming and perhaps one for forum games and contests. Then have 1 subforum per genre.

Seems like a good compromise between specificity and broadness of use.

True, this forum is good, but I've seen better structures. Of course, I've seen worse too (I'm looking at you IGN!)

Leave as is.

It works.

Depends...

You may not believe me but, no, haven't in a long time now. I don't use those words directed at someone. If I did that goes more back on me. In RL that is, because even I get more aggressive if someone yells/screams at me. (absolutely hate it)

I'm usually "holding it" (ironically) but still it does feel better to vent it, some of it at least. However, when I do vent it out, the valve is mostly set on moderate / non-insulting. (again, depends on the person listening :-)).

Nevertheless, there's no reason not to - as long as there is some progress, and it doesn't include meaningless words like Fuch U!, bitch!, ect... If the person doesn't get it... well, you've tried and then moving on.

Not talking about verbally hammering that person, even I can get "thick-headed". :D

I would love to see giveaways in a specific forum. And one for "advertising" - ie, not a giveaway, question, what have you, but the "Hey look what this company is doing" kinda thing.

That's fine and good for the GOG giveaways, but they make nothing on the steam and GG giveaways. And in some cases they may lose sales if the game is on or will be on GOG.

That’s right, but these can be created almost automatically (or it’s in the checklist when adding a new game). Also they make combined forums for whole series like Settlers or Port Royale.

And say what? I like it so! Because it makes sense. The number is huge but you never have a problem in finding the right forum (also it’s easier to find similar topics and older ones, when the forum itself is not so much frequented). That’s the difference to other sites which have many forums with vague descriptions and you don’t know where to post/look. Here with one forum per game (series) it’s very clear.
This clarity I want also for the main discussion forum. As there is no implicit distinction like a game’s title, we cannot have many forums. But the suggested four (GOG/general, gaming, giveaway and g…off-topic) are so damn clear to me, I would never ask myself where to post.

Finding one, yes, but if you post something there it's likely that nobody will ever see it. I've got well over a hundred games here and I can't monitor well over a hundred fora with any frequency. Even people who have a mere dozen games here are unlikely to be able to monitor that many with any regularity.

The " Classifieds " thread should be separated.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/survey_classifieds_20

The classifieds thread could use a whole forum for itself. ;)

You have a point. Maybe that’s another area that needs improvement, so genre-partitioned forums could improve the situation for answer-seekers. Yes, if I think about it, that would be great.

I think it's really the best compromise between visibility and neatness. The only fly in the ointment is that you potentially have some ambiguity as to which genre some of these games belong in.

I'd like an off-topic forum to reduce a bit of the clutter in GD. New threads often get buried in less than 24 hours unless very popular.

And a separate "classifieds/trades" forum. I think that'd be useful, especially for ongoing sales and whatnot.

And mods be willing to move technical game-related queries and questions to the appropriate sub-forum for that specific franchise.

That's about it.

It would be nice if people searched the forum before creating new topics. You can go to google and search:

"(query) site:gog.com/forum/general"

A lot of new topics have been discussed or have existing discussions. That might clear up a bit of the clutter.

Yes, but isn’t that kind of silly? People are trying to use the built-in search function here on GOG, but it’s so incredible bad, and then people don’t search anymore but create a new topic. People are lazy. And I think they are right. If GOG is too incompetent to implement a real search function, they could just put a button with “Google custom search” in here and let the results open in a new page. Yes, it’s not a big deal, but that would indeed help. And because it’s no big deal, it’s even more absurd why GOG doesn’t do anything about it.
You’re right. That’s not much to do. Just two, three more forums and some will from a mod to move less than a handful of threads per day to another forum.

Please vote for the wishlist item if not already done: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/a_betterstructured_forum