Originally Posted by suomynona

Ah.

Let's post that in bold letters then:

Not contributing to this thread will get you banned.

Originally Posted by Gubbin1

add a "vote up" and a "vote down" feature to each post. If you get voted up 10 times, you get 10 tc, voted down 20 times, you get infracted for sucking

or something.

Originally Posted by Gubbin1

add a "vote up" and a "vote down" feature to each post. If you get voted up 10 times, you get 10 tc, voted down 20 times, you get infracted for sucking

or something.

Originally Posted by Gubbin1

add a "vote up" and a "vote down" feature to each post. If you get voted up 10 times, you get 10 tc, voted down 20 times, you get infracted for sucking

or something.

Originally Posted by Gynx

I have a feeling that posting the latter part will not do much good, unless you're going to do it in every thread, as people will still go against you. For example; the rules say no begging, but people beg. I know you dont mind the opposition, but i would have thought if you could avoid it, you would.

I dont know, but if you go around banhammering, when most are banned they use the fact that they didn't know the rules as an excuse. Ignorance is not an excuse, it's pretty easy to get along without knowing them. Common sense really, though, it'd be good to have somewhere that everyone could see the list of rules, if there are any, to save them even entering discussion and posting shite.

Though, thats if discussion gets through this 'depression'. The reason for this all is rapid threads, i'm sure it's been said before, but i didn't cycle through all the pages, but everything that used to be in discussion ended up rapid thread worthy, or wibbles. Nothing really 'fits' into general discussion anymore, and if it does, it's a rare case.

In my oppinion, you shouldn't be changing the description, because that wont get any more threads than you already have (unless you give examples like; "General Discussion - Discuss x, x and y here".), but you should be changing the title; "Not-so-useless-to-go-in-wibbles-stuff-goes-here - Donuts."

I'll post later, it's early right now, so forgive me if i've mentioned anything that i shouldn't have.

Originally Posted by Kips

The "LOLS U GET BANNED" shtick doesn't work at all.

In fact, the only people advocating it aside from modpowers are usually the cocksuckers, trying to get on the side of guys like you who go around and promote that state of mind.

You know how many people come on IRC almost daily going around ("Y I BND I WUSNT EVEN BUMB?!") proclaiming innocence. The relationship between regular users and people with powers is already strained.

The basis of this forum is made up of hormonal teenagers (with the exception of the little kids lying through their teeth from COPPA) who come on to have fun, at the end of it. Whenever you have a large-scale game like this, it comes with the baggage. Runescape, anyone?


I am not advocating the mindless idiots who spew "lol i beet teh hampa in aikdo" on a daily basis, but a ban-first attitude is NOT the way to go, radical approaches such as these will turn this forum into another facepunch. I repeat, in bold, shiny red letters. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

Originally Posted by Gubbin1

add a "vote up" and a "vote down" feature to each post. If you get voted up 10 times, you get 10 tc, voted down 20 times, you get infracted for sucking

or something.

Originally Posted by shook

No, please, no. It'll just end up with numbskulls ganging up and infracting random people, all while getting money from their own useless posts.

As for the problem with posts here in Discussion, i think a mix of moderately strict rules and rewards for good posters would be good. Infract (and eventually ban) the bad and horrible posters, and reward those who make above-average posts. Average posts get nothing, but this might motivate people to think their posts through, and try to get rewarded for it. How to make this system work is probably rather tricky without placing any "powers" in the hands of the users, though. Darn.

Originally Posted by Kips

and have voting circles.

Of course.

Not to mention people can just vote up or vote down someone they like or don't like, respectively.

It may have worked for replays, but in a mass forum like this? Not really.

Originally Posted by Gynx

I can see people who are generally disliked getting spam vote downs which'd cause nothing but trouble. Same thing goes the other way, "vote me up and i'll cut you in on the profits!".

On a whole, it's too much like the rep system, bound to be abused.

Originally Posted by hidingwarior

That would turn into a shitfest popularity contest like karma was.

EDIT: Just realized several other people said the same thing, sorry.

Originally Posted by veb

^ does that actually work?