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XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007

An Angry Bug posted:

My sincerest apologies for reporting underaged porn. Clearly it was wrong of me to be at all upset.

I don't think he was complaining or criticizing the report, he was just replying to a question. Your report was appropriate and noted.

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XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007

tehloki posted:

Please necro the stupid reports thread, franco

Actually, since I posted that stupid reports thread, frivolous PYF reports basically ended. We went from getting 10 reports a day (9.7 of which were frivolous "He said something I don't like" or "He posted a blue duck in the red duck thread" poo poo) to roughly 1 a day, of which almost none are frivolous.

XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007

Ariong posted:

What's so bad about megathreads? genuinely curious, I didn't think they were a problem as long as they got refreshed every year or so.

EDIT: Plus they're fun to binge. If people start having a dumb argument, you can just skip forward a couple pages. Problem solved.

They encourage reading more than contributing. Individual threads encourage more active posting and participation and community and creativity and goodness. You'll get some of that in megathreads, but you'll get a lot more people lurking.

I don't hate megathreads, but try looking at a subforum you don't already read and which thread do you click on first, the 2 page one or the 1200 page one?

XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007

Your Computer posted:

I admit I'm not a contributor but if you just want to, say, watch pictures of cats, a megathread of cat-pictures is wonderful. Start at page one and work your way through the thousands of pages of cat pictures, all without the casual misogyny and racism you find elsewhere on the net. Which is why I like PYF. Most of the threads I frequent have become little more than "PYF [topic] from the imgur frontpage", but at least I'm spared of all the reddit poo poo going on from going to the site proper. :shobon:

Spanish Manlove posted:

:skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal:

SPOOKY RULE #2
Later today I will temporarily close all the gigantic megathreads and expect people to post new, and interesting, threads to now post in instead for the weekend.

oooooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo

This is just a warning so you can all think of new ideas and prepare

:skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal::skeltal:

XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007
Well maybe if you ever checked your PMs!

XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007

IceAgeComing posted:

since more admins seem to be checking this thread; I thought I'd share I good recommendation from QCS

that is a good recommendation, i'll keep it in mind.

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XyloJW
Jul 23, 2007

Spanish Manlove posted:

So long and thanks for playing PYF, sorry I forgot to open some of those threads back up. You know, it wouldn't kill you guys to have some fun every once in a while.

My bad, sorry. Threads are re-opened!

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