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hello!!!!!!!!!!!!! poo poo has been pretty good since last we spoke. E3 was pretty successful as far as Games goes and the bonus is that the forums didn't take a massive poo poo and die for 3 weeks like they did last year so hooray on that. Tried a new thing with Derek Smart that backfired and made me look stupid because that rear end in a top hat got too popular with a bunch of gaming news sites regarding his Star Citizen battle and determined, probably correctly so, that posting here didn't serve him any purpose. Just know that I tried like mad to get that fucker to probate a bunch of you  Couple things I want to go over and then you guys can have the floor. 1) I think the biggest thing is that people are STILL posting about how many new posts they see and what their thoughts are on how many new posts there are, like forums Raymond Babbitts or whatever (its fine if you dont get this really bad joke about Rain Man). Please stop doing this!!!! 2) Reports are at a pretty good place. There's one particular dude that generates a bunch of reports pretty much on a daily basis out of the DOTA thread and I'm not gonna say his name (Love Stole the Day) but other than that everything is pretty good and a lot of people have gotten used to not always expecting a novel length post when it comes to video games for gently caress sakes As always, feel free to post your concerns, gripes, suggestions, whatever. Please don't think that they go ignored because they don't. I'll try to address them the best I can and when it comes to suggestions or forums features or whatever I always pass them up to the admins or the big man himself to see if its something feasible GO!!!!
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ColdPie posted:Are the forums allowing people to use crap like "u" now? I thought we were at least above that. Is this a serious problem with rampant use that I've somehow missed because as far as I can tell maybe 2 or 3 people do it and it's usually ironic.
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Aug 12, 2015 17:33
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ColdPie posted:Guess that answers my question. All I can go off is what I see in reports since it's not really feasible to see every post in every thread, and from what I have seen recently is maybe 1 report for Stux that mentioned his lovely typing. I elected to let it stand because it's Stux and he's a dumbass and I punish him a lot for other things that aren't really as minuscule as lovely typing
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Aug 12, 2015 19:17
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Blacula posted:We need a dissertation length Smart Room postmortem http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3732645
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Aug 12, 2015 19:27
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Black Baby Goku posted:Let's see the reports 
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Aug 12, 2015 20:38
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Black Baby Goku posted:What post, specifically please lol ya all the china posts from the dota tourney thread or whatever
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Aug 13, 2015 03:32
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Baal posted:while we're at it, gas the vita thread please imo gassing threads and telling people to take certain discussions to divvied up threads and poo poo is bad and dumb. i dont like the idea of controlling the natural flow of a conversation which is what a forum basically is and i especially dont like the idea of squashing something games related that people want to post about, regardless of whether i think theyre all dork nerds (xbox one sharktank guys) or not. i think my favorite thing about the sharktank thread or the star citizen thread or any other thread that may have been gassed in the past is that the posters within them are more often than not incredibly well behaved and that makes me extremely happy. i also love that i see virtually zero reports come out of those threads
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Aug 13, 2015 18:00
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Larry Parrish posted:We live in a world where the Dota thread is way more toxic and retarded than the Kickstarter AIDS thread and the Xbox Has Wrong Ram MEGAThread. the dota thread has always been toxic. nothing will ever change that. water is wet
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Aug 13, 2015 19:01
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Ciaphas posted:I've never worked it out, is it the posters in there being generally terrible already, does something about the game and discussion of it make them terrible, a mix of the two, or what? the thread is just a reflection of the moba community. a game that locks you into a 40 minute+ battle with 4 strangers is going to lead to a lot of anger. people want to post about mobas though and they pay 10 bucks so they should be able to and we've had enough time to look at it and understand that theres always going to be hostility in them so its best to just let the thread ride it out which its managed to do pretty well to this point
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Aug 13, 2015 20:03
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Aug 13, 2015 20:05
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Mans posted:how has Games posting activity been? Do we have less goons or more goons, or maybe more goons posting less or less goons posting more? Or is it basically a steady and constant thing? not really that great honestly. like the rest of the forums, we're down active users. Games at this time last year averaged about 1300 active users and we're currently averaging about 1100 so yea. could be because reddit, or forums in general not doing as well, or moderation, or whatever.
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Aug 14, 2015 02:21
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Sigma-X posted:Was the GBS change in response to the decline or prior to it? nah, changing GBS didn't really have much of anything to do with it. There was kind of fledgling forums userbase and then very high peak with bit torrent barnyard, and then the obvious dropoff after btb was shut down. there's been a steady but gradual decline since then but the main thing that caused the biggest drop in active users was the major outage last year. a lot of people just never came back and the numbers show
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Aug 14, 2015 19:46
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there other thing is that there was a spike of about 500 users during e3 across the entire forums but those were mostly all in games, and half of those were guests. the goal i would think would be to show those guests that the place is worth registering for but it just seems like it never happened.
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Aug 14, 2015 19:49
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Ryoga posted:Games has been running with almost no real issues except for the one where you can't post in certain threads without running the risk of getting stalked by the mentally ill. Stricter moderation very likely wouldn't fix this either anyway. do you have examples of this because this is the first i've heard of this issue
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Aug 17, 2015 00:09
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alright well thanks for the input. see you again in around 6 months
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