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Rowain

#1 January 08, 2006, 10:25:25 pm

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This a repost, originally put together by Steel and posted as an announcement by DragonSlayer. It's now open to public opinion, etcLately we've noticed a disturbing trend on our forums, and it's not something we can really create a rule against. Rather, I think we're going to make an announcement about it, and hopefully you guys will pay attention.That problem is we are becoming a shapeless blob.Think about it for a second, and then go into a topic and try and pick people out from their posts. There are mods, staffers, admins, premiums, regular members that you can instantly tell the poster from the post alone.And then there are about a hundred that you can't, because they are all posting this:

Quote

holy shit

Quote

oh man

Quote

i would like to but internet is gay so

This isn't that bad if it wasn't MULTIPLE PEOPLE DOING THIS, and more people trying. A perfect example is the recent Christmas thread debacle.You will notice that leafo got a TALKING TO and guess what, he's SO MUCH of a better poster now because of it. But imagine this; imagine leafo hadn't quadruple posted. Those posts could have all been done by four different people. Hell, they might as well have been.This kind of posting is not exclusive to that topic, and is DEFINITELY not exclusive to the people posting in that topic.So basically, CUT IT OUT. I'm not saying NO MORE LOWERCASED POSTS or NO MORE ONELINERS or even NO MORE FUNTIMES. Hell, there are people on this forum who do all three of those without turning into one of the BLOBS. But guys, just stop. It's not funny, it does not give you a sense of identity, and it's really REALLY irritating to become literally UNABLE to tell your post from someone else's.You don't need to imitate some weird amalgam superposter you have in your head with witty one sentence quips every post.

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Arkeus

#2 January 09, 2006, 12:58:27 am

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You will notice that leafo got a TALKING TO and guess what he's SO MUCH of a better poster now because of it. But imagine this; imagine leafo hadn't quadruple posted. Those posts could have all been done by four different people. Hell, they might as well have been.

This.---------------------------Anyway... I think posting something like "this" isn't that bad... Especially when a topic is asking for peoples' opinions and someone has the same opinion... It lets the poster know that more people have that opinion without making the person retype it all... I mean, of course it would be good for them to add to it, but not everyone has anything to add. Although it is annoying when someone quotes something like "oh man" and puts "This." ^^Just start warning people... With a light/soft/not bad warn thing... Whatever it is called!

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#3 January 09, 2006, 01:02:20 am

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This.---------------------------Anyway... I think posting something like "this" isn't that bad... Especially when a topic is asking for peoples' opinions and someone has the same opinion... It lets the poster know that more people have that opinion without making the person retype it all... I mean of course it would be good for them to add to it, but not everyone has anything to add. Although it is annoying when someone quotes something like "oh man" and puts "This." ^^Just start warning people... With a light/soft/not bad warn thing... Whatever it is called!

You could at least dress it up a little. Leaving it at "This" is just laziness. Even "Yeah, I agree. And what really gets me is ______" would do.Also I agree! The growing facelessness and loss of identity among a large portion of GW's members is pretty gay imoget it

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Tigress

#4 January 09, 2006, 01:02:26 am

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Quote from: Ketay

This.---------------------------Anyway... I think posting something like "this" isn't that bad... Especially when a topic is asking for peoples' opinions and someone has the same opinion... It lets the poster know that more people have that opinion without making the person retype it all... I mean of course it would be good for them to add to it, but not everyone has anything to add. Although it is annoying when someone quotes something like "oh man" and puts "This." ^^Just start warning people... With a light/soft/not bad warn thing... Whatever it is called!

haha, funny, i quoted what he said. Well too bad, cuz I agree with him. It's perfectly fine to post that you agree with someone. Though... sometimes people post things without context and they could be using it to make fun of someone... think ghettofab sig...

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dada

#5 January 09, 2006, 01:03:38 am

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Oh, the terrible irony.EDIT: this post has been obsoleted.

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#6 January 09, 2006, 01:09:12 am

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I read the announcement. I'm glad to see spam will start getting modded now adays. Having people quoting a post for their entire post is annoying.

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DS

#7 January 09, 2006, 02:14:27 am

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Quote from: bazookatooth

You could at least dress it up a little. Leaving it at "This" is just laziness. Even "Yeah I agree. And what really gets me is ______" would do.Also I agree! The growing facelessness and loss of identity among a large portion of GW's members is pretty gay imoget it

whoever started the whole imo trend should burn in hell imoAlso, I personally don't really mind people quoting others if they share the same opinion but saying something more than "This." would be good. It gets pretty annoying.Anyway, I hope this will help a bit. I don't want to start warning yet since this whole thing is pretty vague and it's hard to create a definite rule to stop it as well.

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The Riddler

#8 January 09, 2006, 09:53:15 am

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I find it pretty annoying when I see one-word posts or one-sentence posts which could have been written by over 200 people on here.But I don't have as much of a problem as just quoting. If someone has said what you believe then quoting is an easy way to show you agree, if you feel you have to post because it's something you want people to know how you feel about it.Anyway, I'm glad there's going to be at least some policing about this, as the forum is starting to lost a bit of identity and freshness.

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reko

#9 January 09, 2006, 10:10:12 am

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I agree with bazookatooth.Just quoting and saying nothing or saying "This." or "Yes." seriously isn't contributing much/at all.

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#10 January 09, 2006, 11:46:06 am

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But what if the person you quoted had perfectly summarized your thoughts, and you can't really do anything else but say you agree wholeheartedly? I assume in general forum you could just not post at all but in poll forums not posting because someone thinks exactly like you kind of defeats the purpose (even though you could just vote then but you know what im sayyyiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggg~~~~~~~~~~)

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#11 January 09, 2006, 11:59:51 am

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Then I think you should try to do a better job or elaborate on places where he or she might not have touched. There's always something to say or explicate buster brown! But yeah, I'm really glad this is posted, I think only GOOD can come from this. People (including DOC POPULAR) need to realize that they can't bank on their post count anymore.

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Rowain

#12 January 09, 2006, 12:13:40 pm

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These are primarily DISCUSSION forums, not POLL forums. Outside of the poll forum, there is absolutely no need for you to post just to show "hey, I agree with x about y issue". Zero. nada. Zip. It's right in the rules that I wrote, and I took the ideas about posting straight out of Bart's old rules which have been the same for years: Don't post if you're not adding to the topic. "Quoting + This." is little more than a post count + 1.It's strange that I've never bothered warning or enforcing it or anything, considering I'm usually pretty quick to warn and shit. But that's changing now because as you can likely see, it's getting out of hand. Obviously people would say "it's not a big problem, it's just people agreeing with each other" but that's ridiculously lazy and defeatist. We're better than that. "Quote + This." is a World of Warcraft forum attitude and if anyone is happy with being on the same level as the WoW forums in terms of quality, you can leave now.

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#13 January 09, 2006, 12:24:13 pm

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Quote from: Rowain

if anyone is happy with being on the same level as the WoW forums in terms of quality you can leave now.

Goodbye sir...I'm kidding. Actually I'm pretty happy to see the mods decided to put a stop to this before it goes even more out of hands. I must say that I sometime used to make that kind of "Quote+This" but now I will put a stop to this and every intelligent members on this forum should too.

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#14 January 09, 2006, 01:08:30 pm

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What's the policy on shit like this:

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Arkeus

#15 January 09, 2006, 01:09:36 pm

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Quote from: Rowain

These are primarily DISCUSSION forums not POLL forums. Outside of the poll forum, there is absolutely no need for you to post just to show "hey, I agree with x about y issue". Zero. nada. Zip. It's right in the rules that I wrote, and I took the ideas about posting straight out of Bart's old rules which have been the same for years: Don't post if you're not adding to the topic. "Quoting + This." is little more than a post count + 1.It's strange that I've never bothered warning or enforcing it or anything, considering I'm usually pretty quick to warn and shit. But that's changing now because as you can likely see, it's getting out of hand. Obviously people would say "it's not a big problem, it's just people agreeing with each other" but that's ridiculously lazy and defeatist. We're better than that. "Quote + This." is a World of Warcraft forum attitude and if anyone is happy with being on the same level as the WoW forums in terms of quality, you can leave now.

Well... Isn't a forum supposed to be kind of like a "discussion forum" and we're supposed to be having discussions? A lot of times in life if you're talking with a bunch of people, and you make a point, you'll get a bunch of people who say "Yeah, I agree with that!" I don't see the point of penalizing people for that. You're like turning this into a serious political meeting where people have these huge posts every time, and people aren't allowed to speak out of turn. =/ It's an amateur gaming community... You're going to have people of all ages who all talk in different ways... It's just natural to say "Yeah, I agree" when someone says something.

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dada

#16 January 09, 2006, 01:15:33 pm

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What's the policy on shit like this:

I think Hundley himself is the best at explaining that.http://72.232.26.242/~admin/forums/showthread.php?t=39068&page=1&pp=25

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#17 January 09, 2006, 01:19:11 pm

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Ketay@well, considering it's an internet forum you needn't be as SOCIALLY COMFORTIVE and you have the time to put thought and value to your posts. LOL SERIOUS BUSINESS isn't exactly the best way to oppose probable advancements in forum discussion quality!!

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Lars

#18 January 09, 2006, 01:26:44 pm

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imo this is what we deserve. We are one bunch of shitty lazy fuckers who can't even finish their games on various makers. When we can't even complete those, how are we to complete our posts on this forum? If a forum is made up by lazy people, who wants to make games but cba to learn actual programming and uses an easy tool to do it for them, and even then can't get a good game done, then the posts are most likely to become just that; lazy.

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Rowain

#19 January 09, 2006, 03:04:52 pm

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Quote from: Ketay

Well... Isn't a forum supposed to be kind of like a "discussion forum" and we're supposed to be having discussions? A lot of times in life if you're talking with a bunch of people and you make a point, you'll get a bunch of people who say "Yeah, I agree with that!" I don't see the point of penalizing people for that. You're like turning this into a serious political meeting where people have these huge posts every time, and people aren't allowed to speak out of turn. =/ It's an amateur gaming community... You're going to have people of all ages who all talk in different ways... It's just natural to say "Yeah, I agree" when someone says something.

Yeah. Sure. But have you ever had a discussion with someone who just says YEAH I AGREE over and over? It's pointless and boring. In REAL discussions, no one just says I agree. They add their own opinions. Besides, this isn't a car of friends, this is a place where hundreds of people come and post their thoughts and opinions. When you get a bunch of people posting "This" all over the place, it starts to get from pointless. The idea is just DONT post it if you have nothing else to say.No one is trying to turn this into some circle jerk forum where we all fellate each other through thirty paragraph essays. You can post one or two lines without being a worthless tool who has nothing to say but THIS to someone else in the topic. You're also doing exactly what I knew someone would do. THIS IS JUST AN AMATEUR GAMEMAKING FORUM... Well sorry for trying to enforce some sort of quality control. I suppose we shouldn't care that television is flooded with crappy reality TV and sitcoms because it's just the media. Sure, that's an inflated example, but the point is that people can put a few more seconds into their posts and add some semblance of thought over mindless agreement. I know I sure respect someone more if they can say more than "I agree!"

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#20 January 09, 2006, 04:04:23 pm

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What's the policy on shit like this:Original Thread

you wouldn't know AWESOME POST if it ejaculated on your grandfather

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