Originally Posted by BenDover
ya, but the point is, i dont want to make a thread with new rules and spend 3/4 of my time saying "read the first post" "read the first post" "read the first post" which is exactly how it would be.
thats what global rules are for. sort of.
thankyou =)
Yeah, yeah, that's why you want to contact the moderator to NICELY ASK HIM to enforce rule X on the topic. To prevent repetition. The moderator will just infract and delete, which will set an example. And people will start reading the first post everywhere, which actually helps out the general forum mood.
Originally Posted by Dalir
oh god.
anyway, y/n-threads like this one don't go anywhere. there's actually no discussing going on, there are just people answering your question who then leave.
I don't think you can even contend that real discussion isn't going on in this thread as we speak.
Red: Your conversation with BenDover sparked an idea which I don't know is able to be implemented but I sure as hell know it would be useful to help the workload of said mod who would ever be asked nicely to look over a debate thread. How about giving the debate tag more authority? Or even better, much like topics had to be approved once submitted in the debate thread, we could do the same with any thread labelled and tagged "Debate". That tag should indicate a level of formality that was held as a standard in the old debate board.
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Originally Posted by deady
If anything I think it has gotten, and has been for a while, too serious. I know we have rapid threads, but come on, bitches need to lighten up.
agreed. I used to love the discussion board the way it used to be moderated. These days everyone gets so serious and anal about it. Sometimes a one word or image based reply is much more entertaining, concise and informative than a poorly written wall of pretentious text.
I think the problem is the quality of topics.
When I joined a few months ago I posted in Discussion constantly because there were always at least two or three interesting and controversial topics.
Now people are just posting current events/world news, and most of the conversations are populated by people who have little to no idea of what's going on.
EDIT:
ex., this thread
may not have been of the highest intellectual quality, but at least it was somewhat interesting.
When I joined a few months ago I posted in Discussion constantly because there were always at least two or three interesting and controversial topics.
Now people are just posting current events/world news, and most of the conversations are populated by people who have little to no idea of what's going on.
EDIT:
ex., this thread
may not have been of the highest intellectual quality, but at least it was somewhat interesting.
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