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Doesn't talk about boobies and cheetos sort of belong to wibbles?

I mean, i hardly see the distinction. Cars topic could go in discussion, on the other hand. As could movies topic.
Originally Posted by Odlov View Post
Doesn't talk about boobies and cheetos sort of belong to wibbles?

I mean, i hardly see the distinction. Cars topic could go in discussion, on the other hand. As could movies topic.

Well maybe the cheetos and boobies were a bit on the side of the subject here :P

It's just that i.e. car topics tend to go into "ok here's a nice car i'm gonna post a picture of it and then not care about this thread whatsoever again".

That is not a good discussion topic. I can see how movies could be nice enough as discussion topics but only if it revolves around specific movies. If it's named "what's your favourite movie?" though, it's inappropriate for Discussion.
Originally Posted by Odlov View Post
*Sigh*....Life is so complicated

I know right? :/

To get forums like these to work at maximum efficiency you'd have to understand the brains of the userbase, both individual and collective. A largely impossible task :|
My personal preference is Discussion, Rapid Threads, and Wibbles. No Chit-Chat board. See FP's Fast Threads for an idea of what I believe should go in Rapid Threads.

Good discussion, but I want more opinions on these matters.
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One problem is that under discussion, it reads "donuts." Consequently, newbies will see that as an invite for short posts, and borderline spam.
The same goes for the label for Debate. "serious business here" seems way too humorous for a board like that.
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Originally Posted by suomynona View Post

1. Have you noticed a lack of interesting Discussion material? I personally am in favor of mostly moving elerk. However, that'd be redundant and would definitely not include Wibbles. I'd much prefer to either leave it as it is, or get your opinion on what we can do to spice Discussion up.

Eh, this is something that is hard to remedy in my opinion. What is interesting to one person is boring to another. Although I think allowing music and game chat here would encourage people to use the board more.

Originally Posted by suomynona View Post
If I have to bribe you to make good topics, I will.

Now that's just lame.

Originally Posted by suomynona View Post
2. Have you noticed that in The Game board, we don't talk about The Game (or the game, for you annoying insistent people.) I'd prefer it if we stop wasting ten million megabytes of a hard drive space on replays and start talking about Toribash. At that point, I would probably read it. Or maybe just bring back the moves discussion. It also shuts the noobs up, they can find good moves.

Damn good point. It is sort of odd that there is no "general Toribash" board or something like that. I LURVE the replay board, but at the same time I don't think it would hurt anything to have it be a sub forum of "The Game".

Originally Posted by suomynona View Post
3. Support: Do you people not read? There are stickies. One of them is titled rules in some manner or another. I'd prefer it if at least the Undescriptive Topic Title rule was followed. I would greatly appreciate it if all of them were followed. I'd also appreciate making it so only mods can reply, but that's a bit overboard and makes mod recruiting hard. Maybe making the posts moderated like Debate could improve intelligence.


4. Tutorials and FAQs: How can we make people read them? Please tell me.

Eh, you are dealing with a very large number of people, many of them not only a tad immature (like me but also many of them don't speak English as a first language. There will ALWAYS be problems like this, calling people stupid, banning them, hell even being nice and kindly pointing them in the right direction probably wont change that 100%. In my opinion, there are mods for this reason, its your job.

Originally Posted by suomynona View Post
5. Infractions: Do we need to give out more, less, or switch to an entirely different system? They obviously don't work for ingame situations, nor for Debate.

Honestly, I have no effing clue.
Originally Posted by suomynona View Post
6. Wibbles: Are you happy it's being deleted? Personally I think it'll be boring and sad at first, but nothing important.

Eh, I was sad enough to type in giant bold red letters that I think it kind of a bad idea, but I also think in the long run it wont matter. Plus I don't really care.

Originally Posted by suomynona View Post
7. Post ranking does nothing. Maybe we should get a way for people to get something from posting well. Read number 1.

Eh, again, there is really nothing in my opinion that can be done about this sort of thing. You can't MAKE people behave or post in a certain way simply because you offer them things or infract them. It is just part of any large group of people that everyone will suck at least a few times, and that some people will suck almost every time.
Originally Posted by suomynona View Post
8. Your complaint here.

This one may piss someone off, but I feel it needs to be said. The suggestions board is FULL of great ideas. But it feels like a useless venture posting there. Like, my first suggestion got to somewhere over 20 pages I think (might be overshooting), hell, even Rawrbarf (I think) posted there saying he would pass the idea on to the development team. I know that maybe that single suggestion was actually not possible, but many of the ones on the board are, and it just seems like no one who could do anything about it EVER looks at them.

I would be SO much more happy with Toribash if maybe a month or two was taken off from releasing new colors or trails and time was actually spent on improving things about the game that we all know shouldn't be there, like the knee frac bug, or the AFK glitch, etc. etc.
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2) Yeah, the game is getting a bit too flooded with replays and there isn't anything interesting to actually read. Maybe make a separate subforum for replays but still keep the game?

3) Well, there are a lot of people that have never used forums, they just come here and post their questions. There is nothing to do about that, however I've noticed that mods just infract the people that make undescriptive titles.. They should actually change the topic title too.

6) Very happy =D

8) My complaint here.. Forum doesn't have general rules.
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Originally Posted by Guv_na View Post
One problem is that under discussion, it reads "donuts." Consequently, newbies will see that as an invite for short posts, and borderline spam.
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Yeah, "donuts" does not seem like the best label. "Serious discussions" would work maybe?
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