[Poll] Forum Merge?Follow

I think Joph put it best with the kitty box thang. Personally, I rarely visit the Asylum or Alla's anymore just because forum=4 has damn near gone comatose. I rarely post in the OOT because it would frankly take more effort than it's worth to get the gist of all the in-jokes and memes so I would know what the hell people were talking about.

So I guess what I'm saying, is meh.

Ok, has the butthurt really reached this level? Seriously?

Mute me if you want, but I'm tired of being quiet on this.

Kao made a mistake, he got called on said mistake, said mistake was not acknowledge for some time, and people got pissed. Then someone of the admin crew thought it was a great idea to publicly roast a forum poster instead of, quite professionally, just dealing with it via PMs.

I like Kaolian, I do. But I'm getting this sense that he needs a slight break from being an admin, or at least admin lead for a bit. This smacks of personal insult, and you can mute me for that as well Kao.

And this merger or behave bull... The OOT has been in this state for how many years? It's the release valve for all the sarcastic posts in the site. It's where people come to laugh and have a good time, often at one another' expense. To change that, to force them to conform now is your choice, I just don't see the point. Are you losing subscriptions over it? Are there lawsuits pending? What about this situation differs from any previous one?

I know that you are all reasonable people, but this is just been a series of kneejerk reactions that are spiraling out of control. We are not questioning your authority. We are not trying to run this board however we see fit. There are about 3-4 members of the forum's community that caused the fuss to begin with, and summarily judging us all on their action is just the same as judging all admins for the failings of a few, and I recall that directly offended you personally Darq.

So, there's two reactions you can have to this thread:

1) Mute me/Warn me for being a "disturbing influence" for mentioning anything of the above

2) Seriously consider what's in this post, and what you have seen, and take a reasonable, logical action toward your clientele, even if that involves public apology for being human, making mistakes, or overreacting.

Hell, half the reason I DIDN'T jump in behind those rioting over some of the recent events was due to the fact that I thought they were overreacting too.

So let's call it at even, have BT and Mindel serve out their mutes, make amends and move on.
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I demand a moderately diabolical forum, and I demand it now!

I tried posting there, but my thread was unrated before I could even read it. I think I might need to downgrade to "mildly amoral".

I'd say forum=69 but I believe that one is locked.

I agree, drink Dr. Pepper.

Half-posts are never acceptable or amusing.

Gonna parallel Red's post a bit. That's the wrong approach IMO.

The OOT was originally created for exactly that reason. The existing OOT was kinda rowdy and most of the people knew eachother (cause most of us were old EQ veterans). As Alla added more games, it brought more posters who were not in the "clique". There was tension. It was not so much about subject matter, but the sense of being tossed into the deep end of the pool/litterbox.

The OOT was renamed the Asylum to give people a place for "no holds barred" discussion, while a new OOT was created to be the place for new people to cut their teeth in without feeling the stress of forum veterans blasting them.


The correct response should be for forum posters who become more harsh and/or more "veteran" to post in the Asylum instead of the OOT. We already have two forums guys. One for the newbies and folks who just want to post friendly off topic stuff without being flamed to death, and one for more jaded and serious (read: flame-inducing) conversations. Those are the OOT and Asylum. Let's not change things, but rather just moderate the posts appropriately.

I think that many people are thinking in terms of community. The folks in the OOT are used to eachother and have formed another clique, separate from that of the Asylum. That may be, but that wasn't the intent, and it's kinda silly IMO to carry forward with that. So what? We create a third forum, and new people who aren't in the Asylum clique or the OOT clique go there? And in a few years, do we have new-new-new-new people who don't get along with the new-new-new people in the new-OOT complain and create a fourth off topic forum for them?


I just see that as becoming silly and unsustainable. I also think merging is equally silly. How is that different than just telling people that they should post in the Asylum instead of the OOT? We don't need a forum for posters who can't handle folks like BT and Mindel. BT and Mindel need to start posting in the correct forum for their content. We need to stop viewing this as one clique or another clique, but "no-holds barred" versus "shallow end of the pool". I think that a little admin moderation on this will encourage a lot of self moderation by the posters and the problem will fix itself.


Um... So basically, the regular OOT posters need to realize that they are no longer the forum newbies (most of them) and let go of the wall, cross the floaty rope thingie, and start swimming in the deep end of the pool with the big kids.

Edited, May 5th 2009 1:58pm by gbaji

Maybe, a few bannings, Status reductions, temp bans, Mutings, more moderation.
might help a great bunch.

As usual, tailmon is way off. Maybe quoting like Smash will help.

I like Gbaji's plan. Let's do this.

I think we post in the same alternative forums.