Too many ephemerids (not a game title)

Thanks Fhizban for putting the intentional or unintentional spur in my side to finally post. I pretty much check BGDF every day while eating breakfast, hoping to catch some new threads about interesting game ideask but haven't posted any of my own.

I don't consider myself a 'board game geek (and I know that that is a different website anyway), and I guess my reason for not posting thus far is that I haven't had an idea or comment that I wanted to contribute. However, I did vote in the March GDS, and have been working no less than three game ideas in an attempt to have a clean, readable set of rules for review by you guys. Designing games has always been an interest of mine in a variety of media and I have been very impressed with some of the creative uses of commonplace mechanics described on this board.

I have been puzzled by the one time posters who seem upset by the slowness of comments coming in on their new idea being published via Kickstarter, and it also seems remarkable how many Kickstarter campaigns are going on right now. Granted, I haven't been sniffing around the board game scene for very long at all, but I guess I really see BGDF as more of a place to talk shop versus actually bringing new products to market. Then again, I don't foresee myself making most of games even into a prototype, so I'm probably not the average BGDF'er.

Anyway, some of my thoughts. Looks forward to writing some more later on and continuing to derive inspiration from the the non-ephemerids out there.

-Werhner

Agreed. I think BGDF is a particularly strange place to post "buy my game" posts. I come here to ask for advice, give advice and to hear about other people's design process. Self-promoting posts are annoying at BGG, but here it's like trying to sell t-shirts to sweatshop workers. When we are here we are not customers, we are producers (obviously, to be good producers we are consumers of games, but not when logged into BGDF).

This is not to say I am annoyed when someone who has posted regularly here and gotten advice from this community posts and say "Hey my game _______ that you helped me name/tweak/playtest/etc is now on Kickstarter and your support would mean a lot to me".

Agreed!
I remember commenting on this shortly after I first joined the community. But what's to be done about people who decide to hijack every thread by linking to their (often less than stellar) game? Maybe "Fund me on Kickstarter" could have a forum of its own? I doubt it would matter though.