The forums aren't fun anymore

"
Bex_GGG wrote:
Please do engage the team. Talking to you guys is the best way for us to find the right line for the Forum Guidelines. At the moment, they are slightly harsher than intended, but for now I'm okay with that. It's good to find the upper limit of what's too severe so we know where it is and can pull it back to a comfortable place while keeping the core intention of the changes.
Loved reading this. Didn't love that I hadn't read it sooner.
When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
"
Shagsbeard wrote:
Wait... wait a sec... Santa Claus isn't real?


The Claus is an illusion, Exile. =^[.]^=
=^[.]^= basic (happy/amused) cheetahmoticon: Whiskers/eye/tear-streak/nose/tear-streak/eye/
whiskers =@[.]@= boggled / =>[.]<= annoyed or angry / ='[.]'= concerned / =0[.]o= confuzzled /
=-[.]-= sad or sleepy / =*[.]*= dazzled / =^[.]~= wink / =~[.]^= naughty wink / =9[.]9= rolleyes #FourYearLie
"
Raycheetah wrote:
"
Shagsbeard wrote:
Wait... wait a sec... Santa Claus isn't real?


The Claus is an illusion, Exile. =^[.]^=


Wait.. then who the fuck was that fatass making out with my mom??!!
Don't forget to drink your milk 👌
"
This also isn't 4chan /b .

Erm that place is even worse than reddit. I saw a link to 4chan on Path of Exile once and the only posting that would not have been pruned was the opening posting that it's a thread about PoE and a question what would be an effective build.


"
It would be very interesting to see some sort of fub forum "flame war" section of some kind - no holds barred, extremely minimum moderation - and allowing people to just duke it out.

I made a nearly no rule subforum once and I ended up banning more users in one month than in 2 years.

The first thing people did was googling how to break phpbb2 or look at the bug tracker.
Then they started adding illegal content(CP, Warez, Serialz) hidden being 20000 spoiler tags.


The only rule that will always stay are legal barriers and as long they exist people will even break those.


"
Just to clarify the "lol" response as dismissive - this only applies when laughter is kind of inappropriate to the thread. For example, if a new player comes in and asks a question that's quite obvious to people who have played the game for a while but they genuinely don't know the answer, and someone comes into the thread and is just like "LOL" - that to me is dismissive and quite rude.

However, if there's a thread that's actually funny, and all you post is "Lol" - that's totally fine. That's like a + 1 to the thread.

You work in shifts one person just needs to report 'lol' during each shift and one mod just needs to probate out of context and the theory has failed.
The introduction of the report button also resulted in trollbumping+ retroprobations.
I also saw one thread where 1 user got probated by one mod and another mod decided to probate 3 more users in the next shift.

There are people enjoying playing "Temp Ban Ping Pong" aka getting other users tempbanned.




"
TheWretch wrote:
"
Raycheetah wrote:
"
Shagsbeard wrote:
Wait... wait a sec... Santa Claus isn't real?


The Claus is an illusion, Exile. =^[.]^=


Wait.. then who the fuck was that fatass making out with my mom??!!


Hi! :)
"
Drumheller wrote:


Hi! :)


I'd call you a [Removed by Support] but I think it's best to be nice right now..
Don't forget to drink your milk 👌
"
TheWretch wrote:
"
Drumheller wrote:


Hi! :)


I'd call you a [Removed by Support] but I think it's best to be nice right now..


MagicFinder?

Yes.... yes, I am! :)
"
Hilbert wrote:

Erm that place is even worse than reddit. I saw a link to 4chan on Path of Exile once and the only posting that would not have been pruned was the opening posting that it's a thread about PoE and a question what would be an effective build.


Exactly my point. Actually it is about the worst thing resembling a forum I could think of aside from the comment section on a porn site. The point being we don't have to behave like we are contributors to Wikipedia, but we also don't have to sink to levels where you are ashamed of being seen posting here. Some threads ( at certain times ) were a lot closer to the 4chan end of the scale than it was to the Wikipedia end of the scale.
"I would have listened... I would have understood!" - Scion

Have you removed Asus ROG/GameFirst yet?
I like the idea of tiered rules, for example if you ever made a 'flame war' thread you would still have to enforce T1 rules but it would actually be possible to do so.

I dont like that you have tiered dismissive / unconstructive posts with discriminatory / hostile behaviour though. I would have shuffled some of the rules around, though I know that you cant have like 7 tiers because then it loses its effect
Unfortunately I agree with the main topic or at least ill say the forums are less fun now

I miss so many of those on probation, they were my bros

even the ruler is gone

:(
I dont see any any key!

Report Forum Post

Report Account:

Report Type

Additional Info