I vote to kill off any game that requires links to outside pictures (Closed Captions, Alphabet Picutres).

I also took liberty to kill off Meet the Story Goal.

Seconded.

New Word Plus seems like the mechanics need some work to make it actually possible.

Acronym Conversation seems redundant with Five Random Letters.

EDIT:
I have since re-read the rules of AC, and it is not the same as FRL.  I rescind my comment.
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The "vote out" rule for INCDEC seems too complicated.  I'd suggest that you just be allowed to remove a player when they haven't voted in at least X time.  X could be measured in days/weeks, or in posts.

I vote to combine the RTJ thread with the Info thread, so that Royalty only has two exempt threads instead of three.

But then it's harder!

Yes, I vote for the same, it seems like a good idea.

I vote to kill off the "In the year 2012" game, or at least change it to "In The Future".

I accept the In the Future name change vote, after all I already changed the current thread of it to 2014...

For the RTJ, I'm not certain, as I've noticed some actually LOOK for an RTJ thread before joining...   I'll stay out of that vote

INCDEC sounds like it should have days till removal; posts vary greatly by activity, making it easily plausible they would be kicked out over the course of just a few hours, or never be removed at all.

Acronym Conversation, don't we have two games similar to this same concept?

New Word Plus is to complicated, the thread itself has more votes to take it down than it has actual game play.  There were people voting it down in 2011, I think it's time has come

As for picture games, I concur, to likely that somebody could slip virus material into those games to begin with.  Than sometimes the links just don't work, and you have to find another picture.

In reply to Yoss (msg # 3):

I don't agree with the outside picture suggestion.  Closed Captioning is one of the best.  The inclusion of outside pictures is used in almost every game on RPoL.  The idea that it could lead to a virus is not realistic, and the violator would be instantly removed anyway.  Plus, I think we all know each other enough that it's not like clicking on a random link.

What I do is put the pictures on PhotoBucket.  So though it is an "outside" link, it is to my own picture.  If you limit the rule to those types of pictures (i.e., not allowed to post pictures that link to third party sites), I'd be fine with it.  I can understand if it links to a third party's picture that could change or be turned into a virus at some point.

I never said anything about viruses.

Closed Caps is fine as long as the images show up.

The Alphabet Pics is not a fun game.

Yeah, that part was responding to Just a Girl's comment.

If images don't show up, then someone should just add a new picture to start a new line of captioning.

I have a game concept, it's simple really...  While we have games to add/remove/change words, and sentences.  Why don't we have a game where we may re-order the word/sentence.  A scrabble type game in which you perhaps start with the word 'estate' and come out with the word 'taste' removing or adding one letter, and moving about three or more letters to form another word.  If no word can be made than you must post a fresh word with six or more letters.  What do the rest of you think?

I like that idea?

When did this thread become question tennis?

It never did I don't think, I was just saying that I liked the idea in a perfectly unsure way

In the end scrabble is totally up to the GMs :p

Yep, a suggestion of my own though, that one game This Isn't Balanced, is there any way to get it up and running again? Or was it voted as dead in the water?

If a thread is open, then it's alive.

And yes, we can reopen a new game if there is enough interest in it.  The only reason games are closed at all is (1) so No Lifers don't just waste their time on something not being played, and (2) to keep the active games up front.

So I'd say if you get 3 or 4 people interested in a certain game, we'd reopen a closed one.

On a related note, I hope we do not off-site archive any game that has no successor!  In other words, the only off-site threads should be those with follow-on threads here.  A player should always be able to see every game we've ever tried (even closed ones) just by looking through RPOL.

Good point.  Otherwise, the idea will die with the posts.

We could use Jeapordy to incorporate Treasure Hunt as an optional take on it.  (GPT had the idea, perhaps inadvertently.)

Many years ago, we also had a hangman game that was popular

In reply to Heath (msg # 26):

It's still here: Wheel of Time Wasting.