Originally Posted by Pimp

A good example of a under moderated forum is the replay board, read the rules for yourselves they're just shitty which (i'm guessing) is why people don't even give real cnc anymore, the rules are so lenient you could basically shit post and post farm all you want.

Originally Posted by pusga

demanding high standards from replay posts would be a great way to kill an already scarce part of the community by discouraging people to post. generally, activity generates more activity. usually only people with atleast a bunch of months of replaymaking under their belt are able to give actual useful "real cnc", and it's not very rewarding to walk that road if nobody is allowed to encourage you to make replays. some people play the game for fun but other play the game to climb the ranks, which is a reason just as valid as any other.

i think a lot of people underestimate being encouraged when it comes to replays, years ago when i made replays every day i loved having people post in my thread because it encouraged me to make more replays, but i rarely took into consideration what any of the posts actually said.

i also think it's worth mentioning that the current format for CnC, which looks somewhat like this:

"opener was v
2nd part was w
3rd part was x
pose was y
z job!"

..was created after higher quality posts were demanded in the board. so people decided to comment on replays chunk by chunk to make it look like they were trying, which actually decreases the quality of the post in my opinion because it doesn't take into consideration things like the transitions between parts, and the scope of the entire replay and how every part comes together as one. they will also fill in the blanks with anything, including "average" or "ok" just to fill in the format and have what is considered decent cnc.

Originally Posted by Pimp

Personally i don't think quantity is better than quality. If you look at dez's posts they actually help people understand replays, they feel like they should be there, Now i don't think everyone should give the cnc that dezrai gives but the posts should be held to some kind of standard i can legitimately go
"opener was good
2nd part was great
3rd part was sexy
pose was meh"
and post that on every single replay thread. Most of the posts on the replay thread are equivalent to clicking a like button, which is fine because it's encouraging to replay makers but post farming would be so easy to do there has to be a better option to it. I agree that people shouldn't have to go make 100 word replay posts but some type of standard to the posts would help right now the only posts that get deleted seem to be the ones that are 2 words long.
something like they must say something that relates to the replay in some way would be nice to ensure that people are actually watching the replay. So you don't get posts like this.
http://forum.toribash.com/showpost.p...&postcount=213
http://forum.toribash.com/showpost.p...&postcount=202
http://forum.toribash.com/showpost.p...&postcount=124
people already seem to be doing it anyway
http://forum.toribash.com/showpost.p...&postcount=198
http://forum.toribash.com/showpost.p...&postcount=234
Now the posts at the bottom aren't too good of perfect posts but it's better than what is acceptable above.

Originally Posted by Soon

or stop producing TC all together?

What if they just stopped generating TC and the only way you're going to make TC is marketing, dueling, and bet servers. it'd also make events way more appealing.

Originally Posted by Pimp

nah
that's not how it works.
as i said above
you post idea people like, they say "yeah" or "ok" on it and nothing is done.

Originally Posted by Pimp

Personally i don't think quantity is better than quality.
...
Now the posts at the bottom aren't too good of perfect posts but it's better than what is acceptable above.

Originally Posted by xSpiikes

Toribash is NOT dying because the forum has gone to hell. Its dying because people are not playing the GODDAMN Game.

Originally Posted by Pimp

Personally i don't think quantity is better than quality. If you look at dez's posts they actually help people understand replays, they feel like they should be there,

Originally Posted by Pimp

i can legitimately go
"opener was good
2nd part was great
3rd part was sexy
pose was meh"
and post that on every single replay thread. Most of the posts on the replay thread are equivalent to clicking a like button, which is fine because it's encouraging to replay makers but post farming would be so easy to do there has to be a better option to it. I agree that people shouldn't have to go make 100 word replay posts but some type of standard to the posts would help right now the only posts that get deleted seem to be the ones that are 2 words long.