Thoughts on Forum Games section on Forums?

Alot of forums have a forum section for forum games, where they make up their own games, and what not. I really dont like the idea as many just use it as a way to raise their post count. AdminBB used to have a Forum Games section, but I removed that long time ago as members just posted there and nowhere else, they also used it to raise their posts counts. In my opinion its a acceptable way of spamming, and getting away with it. Whats your thoughts?

EDIT: If you have a feature to disable post counts for a certain forum than you shouldnt have a problem with a forum games section. XenForo and many others dosent have this feature yet.

 

That is why you disable post counts to go up in that section.

Also I don't see anything wrong with forum games. Some forum games can be pretty fun.

 

XenForo dosent have that, so I had to remove it. And alot of other softwares dosent have it like phpbb, mybb, smf, etc.

 

Then suggest it on Xenforo. That is something that is needed.

 

That is at the least of my problems right now lol, and yea I think it has been suggested.
Back on Topic.

 

We used to have a forum games section, and we even had post counts turned off in that section. However, many people spent more time posting in that section, and less time posting in more significant areas. Basically we just ended up trashing all the topics and deleting the section because it's a complete waste of time, even for a general chat forum.

 

I've got a spam games section on my forum, post count disabled off course. There are some members that literally never leave that section. I've tried to trash it before, it didn't work. In the end, people that only post there will keep posting there. Taking it away didn't encourage them to post elsewhere. If anything, they got pissed.

 

Thats exactly what I did, i moved the posts to the trash section and deleted the forum. It does keep members from posting around on the forums.

 

I have a games section, its well used lol :p but i dont mind, whatever keeps my members happy keeps me happy

 

That was a good move on your part. I don't think forum games should be on a webmaster forum.

 

Yea I agree its not professional either, thats another reason i forgot to mention.

 

I dont have one on my forum, and im not very fond of it. It does cause spam...

 

Yes it does... its better to just not have one. But thats me.

 

Forum games are more of a thing for gaming or entertainment related forums I think, certainly not advertisement, general chat or webmaster forums

 

Its okay for general chat forums I'd say, but I agree with the rest. Its crazy FP has one, theres like so many posts made there in a day.

 

Games section would be good but open it to premiums

 

Maybe because I personaly don't like the "forum games" topics.

 

I personally think they're useless and just used to increase overall forum post count. I don't have any problems with that because we all love a higher overall forum post count.

 

I feel that if you disable post counts in one section, there is usually good reason to disable post counts in another. I only have the one general discussion section on my forum so I have no issue with people boosting their post count. There is no incentive for high post counts for members, so there really isn't any need to disable some post counts.

 

Forums games just wastes time and serves no point.. I'm not a fan of them