Happy Friday!Follow

Embrava nerf.

Yes... no... maybe.

Edit: Whats the link again for that original topic anyway? Really would like to know!

Edited, Nov 9th 2012 6:43pm by Coconut

Sadly, though, one thing that =10 is lacking of late is threads of epic lulz. We've just become too serious business man....

At least an angry moon isn't about to smash into Vana'diel.

No it is because you all teamed up and got rid of the drama from =10. You guys white knighted this place into the ground. I told you that you it would kill the forums. I wrote a nice long post about how the trolling you all so loathed was healthy for a forum like this because it kept things lively and provided good entertainment.

But Noooooo. You didn't listen to me. You kept white knighting and the fun drama posts that keep people F5ing have gone.

The Circle jerk did this.

Free Rog!

Useless things don't cause drama. ******** up a thread causes drama, some call it trolling, but there is good trolling and bad. Trolling promotes good discussion, it also produces drama. Both of which add to the count of people who retain interest. If there is a good thread that is analyzing things lets say for the sake of a prime example...analyzing RDM melee. A year ago you would have had a flame war, however within that flame war was a solid discussion on mechanics, and situation based circumstance. Or you had the thread where it was all out chaos with mudslinging and name calling the epic page turner that has people F5ing and sniping some +1's before the mod lock.

When was the last solid thread that contained either of those two factors, not in =10...not in the job forums... because the people who contributed to those acts of trolling have left...the people who joined in the discussion are gone. The discussion is gone, and it is because the drama has gone.

This?

At least Pikko would join in before it got completely out of hand. (>.>)

You have to take into account that the general user base on here is different than what we had before. What a lot of people "back in the day" would just laugh at and turn the other cheek about, these new people take offense to. With few exceptions, all topics I respond to as far as moderating were in response to one or several post reports on the matter (or direct PMs about the topic).

A lot of new forum members that pop up don't necessarily have a hardened skin when it comes to posting on here. So unfortunately, anything said or done that some of the older members would just laugh about, these new members find offensive and report, or just up and leave. It's just trying to find a happy medium, to keep it pleasant for everyone, and unfortunately I have to be a bit of an ******* in the process.

True. There were posters who were walking lulz factories every time they posted. Ahh, the good old days of =10

Its not your fault Vlor. The Circle Jerk did this not you doing your job. I know you remember the dust up. The result was a glaring victory by the cicle jerk. They established that it was ok to be an @#%^, as long as you were an @#%^ to the right people. I even tested this system by trolling Rog and I saw my post rating go from negative to positive. It established the collective, and it was achieved in a series of threads centering around 2 parties calling each other names. Not just one party. It exploded into a discussion on just what is considered bad form. Can anyone click the report button and it becomes bad form.

Not that I wish to rehash a buried issue, just reminding everyone (and introducing people to) the event and scenario that began the downward spiral of the amount of content on the sight, the amount of socializing on the site, and the amount of information exchanged on the site. Ive personally met a lot of good people here, from all sides of the internet ethics divide.

The members that cared already left, they stopped posting because their time was over. You are left with a handful of people who still post here out of habit, loyalty, friendships, post counts, and a pile of new people. Who post their questions, get their answers, and move on, usually to the Wiki, where we all send new folks to learn the game, because of the lack of sh*t posting there is not social aspect to the community. Hell even 10K is more or less dead, and I can't be assed to post in it because I don't give a @#%^ anymore.

I was just answering a dudes question, that was the break point for the forum, its resident sh*t poster is gone and the threads that developed our community with him.
(just like I said would happen.)

I wasn't wishing to raise questions to the strictness (or lack there of) of moderation...just an old troll typing out words remembering the good times.

Edited, Nov 10th 2012 11:43pm by rdmcandie

Why praytell would I be next? I have done nothing wrong since I was punished for doing something wrong. I made my apologies and payed my dues. Outside of 1 instance where I was being an idiot I have contributed positively to this community even as a troll. I made my helpful posts, and I derailed some posts.

But that is what community is about. Do you poke fun at your friends because they did something stupid or said something dumb. I like to think of this community as a group of people who enjoy similar things as I do. Perhaps I am wrong in chiding people I consider friends, after all we have been posting with each other for what, 6 or 7 years now. As I said earlier "trolling" is healthy for a community, it provides humor, embarrassment, knowledge, and more importantly post counts (aka community building).

Am I troll, sure, I am an old school troll, you know before trolling became cool. Trolling to me was turning any thread into a RDM melee thread, where great discussion ensued and it began to become more popular, and accepted as more people experimented. We collectively refined the details of how to best optimize our performances to even further the expansion and acceptability of the role. But I suppose that was a bad thing... I mean look at the RDM forums now. Been there lately?

As for Rog being my personal Jesus, maybe he is, maybe I liked talking with that little ****. But you know what, he has likely done more for this site than any of us frequent guests, and not in terms or traffic. Im talking about bugs and other **** that keep the site healthy, and convenient to use. Did the guy deserve to be banned of course, but that isn't reason to ignore the things he did for the forum we have used for the last 6 or 7 years. I suppose my thought is different because I mark him as one of my friends from this site, and you know maybe he too has paid his time for his crime. But that is not for me to say, that is up to our overlords.

But its ok Seriha, you can be my friend too.
In fact you already are.

People have always been trying,

Forums are for people to come and share in a community. What has been absent is the drama, that keeps people posting, people talk more, people see who the regulars are, and they get to feel more comfortable in the community. They know who to laugh at, and who to laugh with.

We all went through that initial giddy phase, you ask some questions, you make some bad posts, you make some good posts, you try to jump in your first flame war...get burned...and come out a member of the community. Welcome in any discussion, as the joke or making the joke. Except we don't have any of those threads anymore. The community doesn't have its **** posters. Its why it is stagnant, new posters don't know the battle lines, they don't see regular discussion so they ask questions get answers and then go on there merry way.

That is something Rog did, he kept it active, and it wasn't just him, but he always took the bullet, for a lot of people, he would push it over the edge and take the shot. You can continue to put him down and say he had no influence but when this forum was active, he was active in every thread, answering questions, pushing buttons, creating discussion and drama.

So yes to refute your opening thought, a single person can influence and entire community...it happens all the time, all over the world.