Topic: State of the Worst (Read 127816 times)

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #920 on:** May 06, 2011, 09:23:47 AM »

So the summary of the last couple pages is that you want this place to be a lively fun place again? Try encouraging the kind of content you want. Get over the possibility of dissent and set some ground rules, like the ancient post atop the Thaditorium. If they're proven to not work towards the desired goal, change them.

Maybe some ideas from other forums could be examined? Privateer Press Forums (A discussion area for the games made by that company) uses a practice of a 'new members' area, where for your first ten posts, you are restricted to a single board. New posters are usually greeted by a moderator and given an answer to a question or a comment on a statement along with others participating. They used to have an open forum where people could discuss anything and mod activity was on a case by case basis. A couple years ago however, they dumped that after numerous headaches and went to a far stricter format. Basically, any kind of heated argument or dissent is grounds for thread closure and moderator action. (List of their rules here.) Draconian by some standards, but works for them to keep people on topic.

As for me, I've moved on to other web communities that are a bit more in line with what I want these days.

Classic · « **Reply #921 on:** May 06, 2011, 09:40:30 AM »

You dare claim infidelity and then refuse to name (all) your tempters!? Shame and fie on you!

I also get the impression that what some people want are heated arguments and dissent.

Smiler · « **Reply #922 on:** May 06, 2011, 09:49:13 AM »

Where we're going, we don't need rules.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #923 on:** May 06, 2011, 09:59:30 AM »

Quote from: Smiler on May 06, 2011, 09:49:13 AM

Where we're going, we don't need rules to moderate.

Lady · « **Reply #924 on:** May 07, 2011, 03:35:39 PM »

what is a rule

or:

maybe explicitly outlining rules would be good. when I registered initially, I wandered into all the little crevices and nooks looking for interesting things, realized nothing had been posted in them since 2008, and then stopped because, idk I'm gonna do something dumb.

(I find mega threads impossible to penetrate)

Mongrel · « **Reply #925 on:** May 07, 2011, 04:57:21 PM »

Quote from: Lady on May 07, 2011, 03:35:39 PM

what is a rule

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #926 on:** May 07, 2011, 11:20:02 PM »

Having a designated archive section where topics that don't get a post within six months or whatever get automatically moved to would be pretty amazing, and I do think we need to consolidate our forum structure a lot. When the "relevant, active discussion" is taking place in a dozen different locations around the forum but it takes two clicks or so to find any given one or two of these spots (plus two dozen fallow topics), then pretty much any thread that doesn't get enough activity to consistently appear in the "recent posts" box is only going to be used by people who are already entrenched in that thread.

François · « **Reply #927 on:** May 09, 2011, 02:17:52 PM »

Oh, uh, yeah, so, I was never much aware of the specifics of the humor involved, but is there any way LP Hell could be made to stop looking like "i have a boards nao i dunno where the config lol"? Maybe whatever joke that was has run its course by now?

I'm not talking about anything fancy, just, you know, making it match the rest of the forums.

Lottel · « **Reply #928 on:** May 09, 2011, 02:28:36 PM »

If they do that, then they can fix the "Print" and "Log Out" buttons and those other little things people complained about and never got around to fixing.

François · « **Reply #929 on:** May 09, 2011, 06:56:01 PM »

Much gratitude, oh omnipresent authority figure! That is... the swellest.

the asshole you hate · « **Reply #930 on:** May 09, 2011, 09:23:10 PM »

While we're growing up our boards, can we fix the labeling system? I guess I don't even care if new people show up or not, I just want it a little less confusing. There's a reason people don't start reading the glossary/index of a book until AFTER they've read a book once.

Thad · « **Reply #931 on:** May 09, 2011, 09:37:03 PM »

Guild, I already fixed your problem figuring out the difference between Real Life and Real World by not letting you post on one of them. I'm not sure what's so damn confusing about "media". And THIS board's name is entirely your fault.

the asshole you hate · « **Reply #932 on:** May 09, 2011, 09:47:01 PM »

So no, then? I'm fine with just 'no'. There's no reason to be a Thad about it.

TA · « **Reply #933 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:06:30 PM »

You keep blathering about the labeling being confusing, but never quite seem to manage to say why.

Lottel · « **Reply #934 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:19:08 PM »

He's Guild. As far as I know EVERYTHING confuses him.

the asshole you hate · « **Reply #935 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:22:25 PM »

It was more a complaint I was hearing from Silversong. I know where shit is, but it would be nice to not feel like I'm reading a snarky teenager's blog when I click on a forum title. Why is everyone acting like my word has any weight? I've been quite careful to disabuse you retards of that notion. Just ignore me like always?

Here's a rundown: Life, Politics, Professional, Media, Bullshit, Videogames, MMOs, LPs, Forum Games, Jail

Are the hate-ons finally turning to love? Oh god, I don't think I'm ready for that yet.

Lottel, just tell me you have a crush on me and get it over with. TA... your suspicions are correct. I'm the only cool person on the boards and if you don't fight me SO HARD I will take them over. Thad... you know how much I secretly want to walk in magic gardens with you forever.

Fixed? uh uh uh shit... /me grabs a garden hose and hoses you all down.

Better? Um... command-based economics destroy incentive to create new technologies! Down with dems and bad planning and bloated social crutch spending! Uh...

fuck it just go ahead and crown me king of cool or whatever i give up

Defenestration · « **Reply #936 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:26:16 PM »

I don't know about teenager's... but what gave you the impression that everyone wasn't snarky?

Smiler · « **Reply #937 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:38:32 PM »

IN THIS PLACE, ALL ARE TEENAGERS.

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #938 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:39:33 PM »

Specific complaints: for each board, I would like either the name or the description to specifically say what the thing is without needing to be a joke. Real Life is fine. Thad's Politics Extravaganza is probably inferrable from some combination of the title and description, and I feel like Thad's rep as the politicontent moderator isn't hard to figure out. Media works, I guess, but neither High-Context Discourse nor its description makes sense until you already know that the board is for topics about the forum itself. Guild Hall has the same issue.

Most of the boards in Mount Brontolympus, The Land That Time Forgot, and The Land That Time Would Rather Forget feel like they would be better served being grouped as child boards under a single archival board, rather than taking up a third of the front page. I assume they're taking up half of our six board categories principally as a hierarchical measure, in order to screen the more skeletally-infested of our closets from our newest visitors.

The other three board categories are not mutually exclusive, so what goes in one vs another is arbitrary. Discussion Boards should contain threads where discussion is taking place, except when the things being discussed are games, as those go in the Game Boards—unless the games are happening on the forum themselves (or, it's a Discussion Board topic about something you yourself have made), in which case you should post it in the Activity Boards. Heaven help you if your day job involved making a game that you'd like to discuss with people on the boards while scheduling multiplayer sessions for.

the asshole you hate · « **Reply #939 on:** May 09, 2011, 10:39:45 PM »

Quote from: Defenestration on May 09, 2011, 10:26:16 PM

I don't know about teenager's... but what gave you the impression that everyone wasn't snarky?

Nothing, but as I get older I'm learning the power of subtlety.

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