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I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
Professor Snuggles:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 20 Jan 2009, 19:48 ---Yeah, that, or stuff like "we should have a blog thread". Maybe I remember incorrectly, but I think that was a fairly popular request too.
As the initial "naysayer" in the relationships thread, I feel like I have to defend myself explain a little here - we keep hearing about how people judged it harshly and stuff, which wasn't really what happened at all. You can all go read it right now, if you want! It's right here.
I said what I said based on earlier experiences with this forum. I mean, hell, look at the discussion pharmmajor started today in the Discuss! subforum - judging a new thread based on the previous behaviour of the original poster is not exactly an uncommon thing here. What I did was intended as an entirely good-willed attempt at helping MU post better according to the norms of the forum. I was barely even commenting on the thread itself, it was more general advice - like how when you have ten posts and you just got beat down for making a thread about your own relationships, maybe you shouldn't start a new one five days later about other relationships. I made a bad call, the thread turned out to be a lot more fun than anticipated, but I still stand by that if you were acting poorly in a self-made thread five days prior you probably shouldn't start anything similar in the near future. Maybe that makes me a dick, but frankly, as long as we are still complaining about people using coloured fonts I don't think giving advice to newbies on forum politics is something you should be painted as a bad guy for.
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E. Spaceman:
--- Quote from: est on 20 Jan 2009, 19:56 ---I don't really like the monolithic dump thread the mediaf!re thread has become. I am currently thinking about the "new releases plus genre-based threads" idea in the music section, but I am not sure it's right for here. What are other people's thoughts?
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I think the mediafire thread can use some more restraint. But that genre based threads are a bad idea, one of the best things about the mediafire thread is that it takes you out of your comfort zone. You can have a musique concrete record sitting next to a stoner rock comp and it is awesome. separating them would be of no use, i thnk.
est:
Yeah, and if there were multiple unstickied genre-based threads some genres would have less interest than others and as such would fall off the main page onto the second page AKA oblivion.
E, you and Johnny are probably the best judge(s) of what would be best for that thread/forum. Is there a good way to encourage that thread to be less of a huge, intimidating dump / encourage more restraint in there?
E. Spaceman:
Let's talk about it in out super secret forums.
After a nap
Alex C:
Jens, I am really sorry for making you feel like I think you're a dick. You're not a dick, and I can easily understood how my post can be interpreted that way; in retrospect, I should have posted in far more general terms, but sometimes I'm kind of dumb. My bad. If it makes you feel any better, half the reason I mentioned that thread in particular is because it was such a mild example. There's other far worse threads I could have cited, but frankly, those are all threads that never really recovered at all, and frankly, I'd rather pretend they never existed than openly acknowledge them. Basically, Joe put what I was trying to say far more diplomatically than I did: the best thing would simply be for us all to try judging threads based on content rather than on the OP's rep.
But again, apologies regardless.
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