Thread:BunsenH/@comment-40022303-20190715134300/@comment-31797469-20190715204814

Took a quick look at the 20 most active threads in past weeks in Fun and Games board. Basically:
 * 8 RPs
 * 3 Monster related games, such as Ban the Monster, Find Similarity and Make Up Monster Fact
 * 3 Off-topic games such as Ban the Player, Wish Corruption
 * 5 Counting games, such as Count to 100, Count before Reply, Xth Post win
 * 1 Misplaced thread (Bisonoros elements)

RP's and Monster related games are obviously not what we are discussing but I thought I'd weigh in on Counting and Offtopic games.  Disclaimer: I have personally absolutely No interest in participating in the forum game activities, but would like for our Wiki Forum to be a nice and relevant place for those that do.

Counting Games - I'm going to go straight out and say it: These types of games are popular in most forums for two reasons:

1. Almost Zero effort needed and

2. Bump your post count.

This can be absolutely terrible, and can easily drown out all other forum activities with only a few threads. There are however some exceptions, if there are rules in place that you have to do some kind of interaction, commenting etc. with every post, instead of just writing down the next increment.

Off-topic games - These are usually a lot more involved, and I think there is value to have some off-topic to blow off steam (in a respectful and possibly playful way). I agree it would be a problem if these types of threads came to dominate the entire board, but currently they are only 15% of the most popular threads, so at least for now it may not be too big of a deal.