Poll: ITS THE WHOLE FORUM! FUCK YOUUUUUUU!!!

Game & Demo
26 28.6%
Crap Shack
14 15.4%
Welcomes & Farewells
10 11%
Game Ideas
14 15.4%
Pile of Feces
3 3.3%
Music
3 3.3%
Feedback
1 1.1%
Question & Answer
6 6.6%
Happy Zoo
3 3.3%
Post 9/11 World
11 12.1%

Status: Voting has ended

89 Total Votes

Poll GW Awards: Worst Forum (Read 1785 times)

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american magic is really good if you're not inri, tho.  it's my favorite discussion forum
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pile of feces doesn't really count as a forum to me. it was between G&D and crap shack. I voted Crap Shack because the crap shack had a lot of dumb topics, and it wasn't it's own community sort-of-thing. I think it's better to keep G&D topics in there because if we didn't  have it, they'd put it in IGD.
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Q and A was so...bad. Seriously, I always felt depressed posting there. Was wasting my time. So Q and A gets my vote.

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Although that "What's on your Mind" thread's been sent around to quite a few of those forums so I'm reconsidering.

EDITEDIT:
So. Um. Seriously, where is the "ALL OF GW ROFL" choice?
Last Edit: December 22, 2008, 03:23:23 am by Juris
"I would be totally embarassed to write this, even as a fakepost. it's not funny except in how you seem to think it's good. look at all the redundancies, for fuck's sake. "insipid semantics, despicable mediocrity" ugh gross gross. I want to take a shower every time I read your prose." -Steel
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Man, even W&F was worse than Q&A...
Me and Tom Under the Boardwalk ... there is so much fun to have under the boardwalk
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all these forums rule, what ya gonna warn me now??
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Man, even W&F was worse than Q&A...
I never really got a straight answer from anyone, what happened with W&F?
"I would be totally embarassed to write this, even as a fakepost. it's not funny except in how you seem to think it's good. look at all the redundancies, for fuck's sake. "insipid semantics, despicable mediocrity" ugh gross gross. I want to take a shower every time I read your prose." -Steel
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it got archived because there weren't very many useful posts there
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Like it wasn't being used for the purpose of welcomes and farewells or did GW just suddenly not care about the people leaving prissy FUCK YOU posts behind them?
"I would be totally embarassed to write this, even as a fakepost. it's not funny except in how you seem to think it's good. look at all the redundancies, for fuck's sake. "insipid semantics, despicable mediocrity" ugh gross gross. I want to take a shower every time I read your prose." -Steel
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mostly GW doesn't care about people making a topic that just says "Hi. I'm new" followed by a bunch of "welcome," and shitty jokes.  So i guess the first one because the purpose of a welcome topic is to introduce yourself not to announce yourself. The fUcK yOU topics were entertaining, at least.
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no real forum keeps an w&f section or a polls one. i mean look around!
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GW's a real forum? *sniggers*

Personally I thought the welcome forum was a good idea. It was easier for me to post in other forums afterwards, because I thought everyone who posted in my welcome topic was nice and I followed them around. (I was so naive). Also, my welcome topic was stickied. *smiles proudly and pins medal on chest*
"I would be totally embarassed to write this, even as a fakepost. it's not funny except in how you seem to think it's good. look at all the redundancies, for fuck's sake. "insipid semantics, despicable mediocrity" ugh gross gross. I want to take a shower every time I read your prose." -Steel
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iirc game ideas has always been full of nothing topics so I guess I'll go for that!
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I voted w&f just for the sheer (lack of) quality of the posts in there, such as:

"Hey everyone, I just decided to join these boards after lurking and stalking you all for many years. I'm mainly into video games (duh), music and films (kinda the usual, then). My favourite bands would be Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, The Fall of Troy, Public Enemy, The Who, The Mars Volta, Tool and Portishead, so pretty much anything in the guitar universe with some diversity here and there.
I'm also very big on films and are currently a film student, I won't bother to list films, because you'll be able to tell what I like if I'm wanking on about it or shitting on it in a topic."

Jeeze. Whoever wrote that is such a fucking shit.

And tbh, w&f was quite useless in my opinion.
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Gotta be G&D. I still don't have any idea why it's still around as G&DA, as there's absolutely no difference between it and IGD except it's shit and has a terrible community.
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Welcome and farewell was fucking awful, in my opinion. It used to be people going "Hi there my name is blah and i am realy glad to be part of this commu unity! *excess emoticons*". Very rarely, the person was interesting and actually generated some worthwhile conversation. It was nice for people who were leaving and the like, but very often someone who you barely ever see would randomly decide that someone cares if he's going away for the summer. There's also the people who just "come back" and are like "Hey guys I'm bac!!!!k *excess emoticons*". However, no one actually even knew this guy existed, nor that he had been away for some time.

:|

I also remember making a pretty shitty post in that forum a while back as well. God...it's just tainted with awful.
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Conclusion: G&D Go Away!!!
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