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[Detonator]

This is a tl;dr version of a post I made in the Stray Thoughts topic a while ago.

So, it happens to us all.  We play some old or obscure game, and we have some keen observation about it we want to share with everyone.  The problem is, the topic for such random observations was closed on our favorite dinosaur-themed internet forum.  What are we to do?

My idea is to take all of the good things from such topics, while removing the bad things.

Game Babel would be a completely new website that centers around users signing up and posting "babels" about any game they've played.  A babel would be a short, independent observation about the game, not a reply to someone else's babel. 

The difference is the organization structure.  You don't have to read every post in the order they were made.  A comprehensive database of titles would be integrated, so users can easily find every babel about a game they're interested in.  Individual babels can be replied to, but they are kept hidden until expanded, like a blog's comment system.

Also, babels can be filtered by user, and you can subscribe to the babels of your favorite people, much like a twitter feed.

Babels can be marked as spoilers when posting, and their contents will be hidden until revealed by the user.  Users can mark the games they want to read spoilers for, and the site will automatically reveal all spoiler-marked babels for that game.

I've been kicking this idea around for awhile, and would really like to see it happen.  The problem is that it would be a massive undertaking, and I have no related skills in web design or programming.  That never stopped us before (not immediately, anyway), so I want to know what people think, and how they might make it better.

[Brentai]

I'm building a thing that could possibly include this.

If it ever matures, I'll go into more detail.

[Mothra]

I like the idea, and if folks get on board I'll do all the buttons and boarders and such and make it look nice (possibly also the CSS stylesheet)

Really don't like the look of the word "babel" for some reason. It sounds fine spoken and I get what you're going for there, but that word is somehow really off-putting to me.

[Bongo Bill]

Reverse the word and the subtext; call it Game Babble but use an unfinished stone tower as the logo.

[Rosencrantz]

Sounds kind of like Backloggery. People (like me) tend to put short, twitter-like comments about what they're playing in the "progress" section, and you can see the most recent updates of the people on your friends list, and so on.