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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

elf help book posted:

Please ban everyone who openly hates "anime". Thanks.

This but without even the slightest possibility of irony.

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Pladdicus posted:

I can agree with this with the caveat that new GBS is really boring after a few days of posting and if the quality here slides to that it's gonna be a bad day for me.

Nah, it's never gonna go that far. Imp Zone is where posts like that go.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2014 02:23

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Jon Joe posted:

Imp Zone should be a forum wide standard.

The last thing I want is more Taint Reaper posts.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2014 02:53

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Blazing Zero posted:

Thank you for this, Kewpuh. It's one thing to constantly poo poo on ho-hum or sorta bad games, but star citizen is a hilarious disaster and anyone who spent more than a car payment on it deserves to be mocked relentlessly.

Anyone who spent more than a Hot Wheels car payment deserves to be mocked relentlessly.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2014 07:54

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

nilumtil posted:

I love this forum, but sometimes it's tough.

Dude, sometimes people just wanna toss words out there. It's a forum, that's kind of what it's there for. If people are instigating arguments over and over then I agree that that's banworthy behavior but you shouldn't have to pass some sort of 100 question test just so you can post 'i really wish waluigi was in smash brothers' or whatever.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2014 19:58

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Well, I mean, how exactly do you judge how 'worthy' a post is? Even if a joke fails to land, it's still an attempt at a joke. Even if you're echoing the opinion of 100 other posters, you're still expressing your opinion. Nobody really posts complete garbage, at least in the threads I've seen, because Imp Zone kind of acts as a runoff for posts that are just 'gas' and 'nice av dude.' It's an internet forum, not the holy grail of discourse. It's one thing if you're yelling slurs into the night, but if you just made an uninteresting post, I don't think you should really be punished for that. And I've still seen plenty of interesting discussions. Heck, probably more so, since there are more threads where you're allowed to go 'I think this thing sucks and here's why.'

# ¿ Aug 9, 2014 20:05

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

nilumtil posted:

It's not as though you both don't make good points. However I really do think there's merit to trying to nudge the community towards effortposting and away from IRC room content. I wouldn't suggest any type of real inquisition or objective rule.

Maybe we can't do it the way we used to. I mean, where Kewpeh says that he thought maybe it was the heavy moderation when it was the quality of poster... I would add that there's a distinction between heavy moderation and keeping people out.

We did keep people out for years, during the "good times" I'm talking about. People that were not seen as smart enough, funny enough or adding anything to the discussion. were literally run off, both through the community ostracizing people and admins. Today, bans and probation just mean re-registering.

Look, I'm going to be honest here. The golden age you're talking about was boring as poo poo to me. I'm not saying every post should be an empty quote and the word 'gas', but just constantly worrying about whether or not your post will be deemed worthy by the Mod Gods leads to stale whitebread style posting where everyone's just echoing the same opinions in the same tone.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2014 20:34

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

The weirdest thing about that dude wasn't even the bad thread, it was his weird freakout when people made fun of him. Like a few people go 'gas' and suddenly he's committing internet seppuku.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 03:20

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

I would recommend doing everything in our power to be as little like NeoGAF as possible.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 07:18

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Brackhar posted:

As an aside Kewpuh, after eight years here this is still my favorite game forum on the internet, and as a game developer I feel really safe and rewarded engaging with peeps here. Thanks for the work you and the others mods do.

I made the manamune suggestion in the LoL thread like 5 years ago and the item was implemented into the game exactly like what I said it should be and then I never got ten billion dollars what the gently caress

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Extra posted:

At some degree of lax moderation the only difference between SA and 4chan becomes 10 dollars.

I don't think I can call people friend of the family and post porn here.

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