In post 324, zoraster wrote:i mean it may be, but I don't think having tons of sign up threads is any less confusing, and it substantially reduces the chance of a newbie finding his or her way into the newbie queue. Something like this might work:
At first it could simply be that those threads act exactly the same (except there would be an area for mods to enter in players signed up that would update the OP and the sign up number and a toggle for the game status) and the join this game button would automatically make a /in post and take you to the end of the thread, the replace into the game would either take you to a PM to the mod or type /replace. The thread could function exactly as before (in that if you click on the thread it takes you to the OP with info etc). It could also serve as the first step toward automatic sign ups. It'd still be curated by the moderator, but it would start the process of moderators entering into the system who is playing in what games.
Speaking honestly, automated signups are probably like 3-5h of work from having a functional beta. I powered through working on them quite a bit before I got fed up with working with you guys. The problem is once the functional beta is up, it would take a lot of feedback from the list mods and I just don't feel like dealing with it. They also work completely differently from how you are proposing this would work.
You want me to add a couple optional fields like game type and number of players? Sure. I'm not adding any sort of processing though (such as a sign-up button).