Do any of you agree that there needs to be a Mario Sub-Board?
The series is mainstream and popular enough to warrant it's own section.
I've been waiting for a response, but looks like that's not going to happen unless I bring up the suggestion again and garner some attention.
Yes, definetly. I always also wondered why smashboards have a Zelda Sub Forum but not a Mario Sub Forum.
Since I was part of the push to get the Zelda room a few months back, I can tell you how and why we got our own room, and also why the Mario series doesn't have one (yet). For those of you who were active in the Light House before late July of this year, you'll remember the massive Zelda thread. We'd been discussing everything Zelda there for a while, and it had been growing pretty consistently for the better part of the year. By the time of E3, with all of the Zelda speculation that was going on, it was pretty clear that there was too much to talk about for one thread. So, we decided to take it to forum support. We did our best to keep the discussion to PMs and not in the thread, because that's not the place for it.
A bunch of us made threads there (or at least I did, but I know others were going to and said they did). I got a response from Buzzsaw, who took it to the other admins, and poof, our own room. They gave us the room we so desired, and ended up dropping the Pit Stop (F-Zero room) due to its own inactivity.
Now, why is it that Zelda, but not Mario, has its own room? Well, in my experience here, before this thread was formed, Mario discussions were game-specific, and generally pretty short-lived. The only threads I've seen last at all are the Mario Kart ones, and the ones of the games announced at E3, sort of for a little while. For the Mario fans to show that their series merits its own room, they have to show that there's enough to discuss. If this thread shows staying power and demonstrates that there can be extended discussion of the series, then make the move to a new room. But I don't think they give out rooms to any series whose fans ask.