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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #50 on: 19 Jan 2009, 16:28 »

I imagine this has come up somewhere else, but the forums are no longer even recognized on the QC homepage. Or have I missed something?

I take that as a bad sign.

Comics and Drawing should just die. Movies/TV/Books could handle the influx of discussion that goes on there about (web)comics and graphic novels. If there were some dark hole we could dig to put the "plug yr comic" thread... none of us would have to look at it - like the newb forum.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #51 on: 19 Jan 2009, 16:31 »

The Forums are still listed. It's under Extra Credit on the right hand side of the comic page.


Anyway, I have to agree with Inlander here. For example, I like the "Weirdest Ending to a Relationship?" thread, and that one was nearly stillborn due to the fact that some people didn't like the OP's earlier topics. And that's a really mild example, honestly, since it's not like anyone went out of their to be rude or anything. Sometimes we're just a rather cantankerous lot.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #52 on: 19 Jan 2009, 16:33 »

sometimes that entire "extra credit" section doesn't appear though. i've had that happen to me a couple of times.

so if that's the problem, try refreshing the page or something.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #53 on: 19 Jan 2009, 21:01 »

Heavily moderated?
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #54 on: 19 Jan 2009, 21:11 »

sometimes that entire "extra credit" section doesn't appear though. i've had that happen to me a couple of times.

so if that's the problem, try refreshing the page or something.

there's some weird pages that just don't have it. i find clicking home works pretty well too.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #55 on: 20 Jan 2009, 00:22 »

It's on the home page but not the comic archive pages, is all, I think.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #56 on: 20 Jan 2009, 00:41 »

Heavily moderated?

No shit. We can basically say whatever we want, as profanely as we want or post pictures of dicks in this forum. Do you know how precious that is? I personally do not think that it is too draconian to have a mod intervene (i.e; doing their job) when a thread descends into insults or outright stupidity.

EDIT: Incidentally: Hey people on this forum! Sad that there are not enough good, interesting, fun threads on here? Make some! Honestly I do not understand people complaining about the content on a place where the members generate all of the content.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #57 on: 20 Jan 2009, 03:26 »

Well, you can't really post realistic pics of dicks (no porn rule), but other than that that is essentially what I was getting at.  Especially seeing as I will readily admit to being an absolute tyrant on this forum in the past when it was first going from a small forum mostly consisting of friends from another forum to a larger one.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #58 on: 20 Jan 2009, 03:59 »

My dick is not porn, it is art.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #59 on: 20 Jan 2009, 07:11 »

I am pretty much the opposite in terms of my reading habits of many others.

I already know, way better than I'd honestly like, what you all look like, what you all bitch about on a routine basis and could give two shits less what most of you are wearing at any given point. This means I pretty much never read the blog and fashion threads and only read the photo thread out of force of habit. My opinion on the matter has been elaborated greatly in Meebo/Gabbly, but if I had my way, I'd lock every thread more than fifteen pages long and see if people could MAYBE get back to starting interesting threads without them.

I really and honestly think that our insular circle jerk threads like those are why there hasn't been a lot of interesting things in here lately. Since I joined the forum, there was a seemingly unspoken rule about threads being locked after a certain point to avoid getting redundant and that seems to have been completely abandoned. I genuinely believe that threads that go on too long become kind of a crutch where people kind of check them out of force of habit as opposed to coming up with new and interesting threads.

Beyond that, I don't see a real problem with the separation of subforums. I do think the comics and craft forums could stand to be combined as the two go nowhere, really, but there are too many people who occasionally check them to justify eliminating any given subforum.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #60 on: 20 Jan 2009, 07:48 »

When I say "too heavily moderated" I don't mean that the mods are like an oppressive police force. Quite the opposite. They're more like your obsessive compulsive aunt that winces a little bit whenever you bite your nails. Relax, they're just nails, it's not that gross.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #61 on: 20 Jan 2009, 08:10 »

My dick is not porn, it is art.

Now that's an art show I wouldn't mind seeing.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #62 on: 20 Jan 2009, 10:06 »

Oh Liz!

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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #63 on: 20 Jan 2009, 13:30 »

hm, now I am curious if the liveliness of the forum affects the frequency of my posts. Have I been posting less lately? I am a really bad judge of how much I've been posting, because I simply don't pay any attention.

ADDITION: Also, for what it's worth note that I've been away on a ski trip for the last four days and now there are 24 threads with new posts. That's relatively slow I suppose, but still more activity than you are maybe assuming.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #64 on: 20 Jan 2009, 16:03 »

I will admit I don't read the tech forum, so I can't say exactly how it would pan out.

One thread for MacOS, one thread for Windows, a thread for Linux, a thread for Other, and a thread where they all fight over which is better.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #65 on: 20 Jan 2009, 17:00 »

My dick is not porn, it is art.

Now that's an art show I wouldn't mind seeing.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #66 on: 20 Jan 2009, 17:04 »

we used to have a five-page rule for everything except the picture thread. the idea was that after five pages, a thread is locked, which encourages new threads. people complained about their conversations being interrupted and I can understand that but I'm still a fan of the sentiment.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #67 on: 20 Jan 2009, 17:18 »

maybe not 5 pages, but after a thread reaches 100, or maybe even 50, we should lock it and restart it. Same principle that used to be applied to the photothread.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #68 on: 20 Jan 2009, 17:49 »

I don't think the mediaf!re thread should go away.

It's sort of drained the life from that sub-forum but it's a legitimate enough thread, even if I don't use it. Others do and that is up to them.

maybe if there's an additional discussion thread to discuss albums that've been uploaded?  i often check out some of the albums on there and really enjoy them, but i'll rarely post any feedback unless i'm making an upload post anyway, as i feel it'd be clogging the thread otherwise.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #69 on: 20 Jan 2009, 18:05 »

There have been some good points suggested in here. I agree with combining arts and crafts with comics and drawing. I look at almost all the subfora (apart from the WCTs and New ones) and the two arty ones are a bit confusing, and also pretty slow, so putting them together may help them move a bit quicker? I don't think Movies and Books should be put into here, but more general threads, like genres discussions may encourage more conversations in there.

I think the page locking number was 15 pages? I remember it being something like that and people used to always complain that the threads would be closed in the middle of discussions. The Blog thread is really huge, though, and I think people will post in there or the pointless thread instead of starting new threads. And when people do they are told they should go there instead. So people just stick to those threads and we end up talking about stuff in there and if people don't go into those threads then they miss out (I don't think that's quite the term I want, but I can't think of what I mean)

There does seem to be a general aversion to starting new threads around here because they are shat on pretty quickly, unless you have been here for over a year and have a few hundred posts. Even when people new post in already established threads there is an sort of standoffish feel to responses, which results in the same people talking about the same stuff and hitting on each other in all the threads. Maybe if the forum in general were more relaxed when someone starts a potentially shit thread then it would encourage others to participate. Sure if it is just "Man, I just farted. Lol" then people shouldn't try and make it better, but you don't need everyone in there telling the person how stupid and annoying they are. If it's just left alone then a mod will probably see it and lock/delete it and life can go on.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #70 on: 20 Jan 2009, 18:08 »

Man, having a general upload thread is not bad, but to bring up the example that we don't like, look at hipinion. They have a leak thread, for new albums as they come out, but other than that it's just general genre based threads for types of music people might be into. I'm sure there is a ton of stuff I would like to hear in the mediafire thread, but I'm not gonna see it because I don't want to slog through page after page of megaposts to find an occasional album I like. Dividing it up into non stickied genre threads would be a much better way to go, that way people can post what they like, flow on the forum increases as new threads are made specifically to talk about certain bands/genres, and we don't have that cumbersome, useless giant taking up space.


Also, I should be a mod again.

Also, all the hitting on each other stuff has got to stop, I agree with Eris. I don't even have fun doing it anymore, and hitting on girls on the internet used to be like, my favorite thing! This sucks, guys! You are taking away my joy!
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #71 on: 20 Jan 2009, 18:08 »

I mean, I don't post much any more, but sitting here all day just reading the same stuff gets a bit boring and repetitive and makes me think that maybe we are going in different directions and should try taking a break.


I'm sorry forum; it's not you, it's me. Ok, maybe you're a bit to blame as well. Shit, don't cry. I'm sorry, really, look let's just talk and try and work out what we're doing wrong and maybe give it a second chance? I don't want to keep visiting your mother every second weekend, though. She hates me, I swear.


edit Yeah, the problem I have with the mediafire thread is that there is so much stuff that I always seem to just see it all as stoner rock or similar, so I just skim over it all. If it was separated into genres it would be easier to navigate, I think.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #72 on: 20 Jan 2009, 18:24 »

Forcing myself to listen to their album multiple times is how I realised The Modern Lovers are actually one of the best bands ever created. Straight talkin'.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #73 on: 20 Jan 2009, 18:31 »

That's probably one of the smartest decisions you've ever made.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #74 on: 20 Jan 2009, 18:36 »

I think the page locking number was 15 pages? I remember it being something like that and people used to always complain that the threads would be closed in the middle of discussions. The Blog thread is really huge, though, and I think people will post in there or the pointless thread instead of starting new threads. And when people do they are told they should go there instead. So people just stick to those threads and we end up talking about stuff in there and if people don't go into those threads then they miss out (I don't think that's quite the term I want, but I can't think of what I mean

This right here is exactly my stance on those threads and I have been saying it for months in Gabbly to much disagreement. People don't post anything new or interesting in new threads anymore. If something interesting happens, it goes in the Pointless Thread or the Blog Thread and as someone who, no offense, could give two shits about the personal lives of most people who post here, reading through the entire three or four pages of blog thread movement in any given weekend is just too much of a chore to be bothered with for me and many others. I constantly get sick of the back and forth commiserating that happens in there most of the time, but skipping it entirely results in a lot of missed info. I honestly think we'd be better off if we just took a month off from blogging, accepted the fact that there are maybe going to be two or three people at any given time that give a flying fuck what's going on with the majority of people posting in there and got on with our lives. I get the impression that the majority of people here will only actually venture into that pit when they have something to personally blog about and will maybe check the post or two above them before doing so.

Being less pissy about new threads would help this. While I'm all for bitching about shitty execution of new threads, we've had some real winners in concept (I'm looking at you Weird Relationship Thread, although you've long since run your course) and some things that have been brought up in the Pointless Thread that have gone unnoticed.

Personally, I think the fifteen page rule should be brought back and noted in the rules. It's hard to bitch rationally about your conversation being interrupted mid-flow when you know when it's going have to end.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #75 on: 20 Jan 2009, 18:50 »

But the problem is that people will automatically just tell people who start a new thread that they should go to the Blog Thread. Sure there are stuff in there that should be there, and there is also stuff in the blog thread that would make good threads. If Elizzybeth started a thread about her grandmother and wanted to talk about the grieving process then it would be an interesting thread and people could give their own experiences, but it was posted in the blog thread and any real potential discussion was reduced to simple condolences or offers to PM conversations, because her original post got lost in the masses of posts in there and people missed it.

I am not saying it should be gotten rid of, I just think that because people post things in there it means the potential new threads are being lumped in there and not explored that well.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #76 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:05 »

I hate tomatoes but I'm capable of not eating them. I don't need all tomatoes everywhere destroyed.

How would you feel if in order to get a quality steak you had to eat a barrel full of tomatoes first? That's kind of what the blog thread feels like.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #77 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:12 »

Being less pissy about new threads would help this. While I'm all for bitching about shitty execution of new threads, we've had some real winners in concept (I'm looking at you Weird Relationship Thread

This is the main issue as I see it. In my mind, all the other stuff about consolidating forums and instituting page limits is secondary to the simple fact that people around here have gotten too habitually cliquey and insular. Go back to the beginning of "I Like HURRR" and you'll see all kinds of threads started on a whim and tossed aside just as lightly.

Also, the couple threads from back then that I looked in had posts by duchess tapioca. I have to assume that any decline in the forums is related to her departure. In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm sure of it. Just forget the beginning of this post.

(jesus christ this took me forever to write. writing this post was a lot like trying to read all the way through a wikipedia article; every other word was a merry jaunt across the internet)


jon, I was totally going to comment that you yourself are sometimes pissy about new threads, but I checked in the Weird Relationship thread and you were the first person suggesting that people lighten up and let the thread be. I don't know if my thinking that you are among the naysayers is a figment of my imagination because I can't be bothered to look further than that one thread, but clearly I was mistaken in that one instance at least.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #78 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:24 »

You were mostly right. For the first maybe year to year and a half of my time here, I was a big naysayer of new threads from new forumites.

Then I realized the pointedly obvious fact that being pissy over every new thread based purely off of the users post count and/or grammar is why we can't have nice things. The best course of action in these instances is to point out how much we hate poor grammar and then go about our business by trying to salvage the thread. I think the Weird Relationship thread might actually be where I really realized it. That was a thread with a lot of potential that people judged extremely harshly because MidnightUmbreon had started his first few posts off rather inauspiciously. Fortunately, people backed the fuck up and actually participated and it had a good run. I'd say it's pretty shit now, but that's to be expected of most threads that last as long as it has.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #79 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:35 »

I just locked the blog thread.  Thing was over 120 pages long.  Some of the things being said in here helped the decision, but I never really liked the idea behind the thread in the first place and I honestly think it stifles new threads because given the choice between the possibility of posting a new thread that might be replied to with "lol, get a blawg" and choosing the safety of the blog thread people will post all sorts of shit in there that could just as easily be made into a new conversation.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #80 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:36 »

This has little to do with me, but I'm going to consider it a personal victory anyway.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #81 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:38 »

CHANGE! OBAMA FOR BLOG THREAD LOCKS!

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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #82 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:43 »

I don't know, how did we get by before we had the blog thread?
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #83 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:45 »

That is pretty much how it happened, yeah. If people had something interesting to mention they would start a thread, with the crucial twist that customarily people would at least make a nod toward follow up discussion in the first post (eg. "do you think the way I reacted was stupid?")

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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #84 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:45 »

Or maybe tell people in meebly or something instead.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #85 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:50 »

I also just unstuck the photo thread and will probably lock it a bit later so we can have a break from it.  This is basically an experiment in temporarily shutting down some of the bucket threads to see what new things crop up.  Both the photo and blog thread will probably come back at some later stage.

edit: do you mean a separate forum for personal blogs like Dan has over at Aurostion, or a wholly separate set of forums?  I do kind of like the blog forum Dan has, but I am not sure it is a good idea for here because it'd basically mean giving every member of the forum access to an open mic.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #86 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:51 »

Still going through the first threads in this forum, can you imagine the reception to this thread in today's climate?
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,7980.0.html

@jens: do not worry, nobody thinks you are a dick. Ideally just we all collectively stop judging new threads harshly. On three...

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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #87 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:53 »

Guys lets just try no blog thread and see if its better. For all we know, it could be!

Also mind if i bring up the mediafire thing again? I am kind of concerned with that
The mediafire thread feel like a giant garbage dump. In there is something that somebody will find cool every once in a while but the rest of the stuff is just trash. And it sucks and is horrible wading through it. Kiff's suggestion is a pretty good one, if we are to continue it. However I just think it needs to be put down. As Darryl has been saying, it makes us fat and lazy. Finding new music from it nowadays is so boring. We can start making finding music more exciting again by not uploading it and making the kids use google blog search or some other tool to find it. At least then your digging a little bit, instead of just picking it up off the ground. And the megaposts are just horrendous. They never have any sort of description ever and it is just boring. As it is right now, I really dislike the mediafire thread. Perhaps another incarnation of it in the future could be better, but now it is just kind of shit.
(beause i am concerned with these kinds of things)

Also kids stop posting so fast.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #88 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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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #89 on: 20 Jan 2009, 19:58 »

That would be a huge improvement on whats there, but like the blog thread a temporary break at least would probably be pretty healthy.

@Jho: That thread is oddly liberating. We should try doing that.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #90 on: 20 Jan 2009, 20:24 »

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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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #91 on: 20 Jan 2009, 20:34 »

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?


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.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #92 on: 20 Jan 2009, 20:47 »

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?
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #93 on: 20 Jan 2009, 20:52 »

Let's talk about it in out super secret forums.

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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #94 on: 20 Jan 2009, 20:59 »

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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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #95 on: 20 Jan 2009, 21:00 »

Huh. I actually liked the blog thread. I'm still kind of hesitant about making new threads on this forum, given some of the responses I've seen in the past. I guess I'll get over that, though. And there are some things that I would post about in the blog thread to maybe get advice or opinions about, but wouldn't feel like it merited a whole thread. Also, I quite liked the conversational tone it developed. It was pretty much off-topic chatting at some points, without having to go into a chat program and the added benefit of being able to read what was said while you were gone.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #96 on: 20 Jan 2009, 21:12 »

I'm still kind of hesitant about making new threads on this forum, given some of the responses I've seen in the past.

That is one reasons why I thought maybe it was time for the blog thread to take a nap for a bit.  I want to push people out of the safety of the blog thread and see if any interesting threads pop up as a result.  If so these might expand on what people tend to think are "acceptable" threads or whatever you want to call it.
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #97 on: 20 Jan 2009, 21:26 »

Tech forums are too slow, and don't have enough ATidiots and nVIDIots fighting over superiority (nVIDIA).
Music forums, I lurk, not many threads to get excited over (I don't know that much music).
GD, I lurk.

Yeah, so I do a lot of lurking. I stopped looking at the comic discussion threads, because the people there creep me out. C'mon guys, they're fictional chatacters... :|
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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #98 on: 20 Jan 2009, 21:31 »

Yeah, so I do a lot of lurking. I stopped looking at the comic discussion threads, because the people there creep me out. C'mon guys, they're fictional chatacters... :|

Given the diversity of people on this forum, being alarmed by the WCT is probably the main thing we have in common actually.

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Re: I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
« Reply #99 on: 20 Jan 2009, 22:19 »

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