• Cleaning up the GMF
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Dear posters, You're wondering what I'm doing here. Put it simply, we need your help. As you know, being a gold member comes with many perks such as: The name, the avatar size, access to gold-only forums, and the responsibility of being a good poster. Nearly everybody on FP knows that there's a gold-only forum called the GMF. You also know that it currently enjoys the reputation of basically being the armpit of FP. It has always been rancid and out on prowl to troll users around the forum, normal day for GMF. Problem was it had reached a point where this privilege had been abused, and the system failed to fix it in time. However, thanks to a number of gold members along with some mod assistance, it was decided enough was enough and a silent but organized effort was made to push out the problem out of GMF. The effort was simple, displace the subforum with new users & have them self-moderate GMF. The attempt partly succeeded, but there are still some issues that need to be fixed. We’d like every gold to take advantage of GMF, let’s all post there. We’d like old GMF to become an immediate thing of the past, all 10+ years of it torn down. We’d love to see all gold members start using GMF and make it their own. If keeping to relaxed posting + snark, that’s perfect. Never let GMF spiral down into a loop of harassment and personal flaming again. Ever. Users who personally flame/harass and single out users as before, will be banned. Gold forum rules will finally be taken seriously, as actual rules of the forum. [b]HOW ON EARTH?! IT’S A SHITHOLE![/b] This isn’t hard, the forum cancer was already on its way out. Around 20 users were able to topple what was left of GMF a month ago and positive changes happened almost immediately. All this was done to end dumb witch-hunt bullying, and general forum cancer. This is a plea to make Gold Member worth something. Too long has it been passed off as something not worth it, we can make it into a better place. Come join us in the GMF, make it a subforum of your own. Make use of it.
lmao [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Snipe" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
I'll try my best, thanks
Agreed, for far too long has the GMF been shackled by the weight of shitposters and been filled with much more shit than the largest septic tank on earth. Let alone the more recent (in its history) cronyism and bandwagon bullying of people by a small clique. It needs to get better and it needs to do it anew. "Its always been like that" is no excuse.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;48087253]Agreed, for far too long has the GMF been shackled by the weight of shitposters and been filled with much more shit than the largest septic tank on earth. Let alone the more recent (in its history) cronyism and bandwagon bullying of people by a small clique. It needs to get better and it needs to do it anew. "Its always been like that" is no excuse.[/QUOTE] And that's the reason why I don't post there. As well as many others. Zonesylvania asking us to post there isn't going to change that.
[QUOTE=Leestons;48087266]And that's the reason why I don't post there. As well as many others. Zonesylvania asking us to post there isn't going to change that.[/QUOTE] We're asking you, not zone.
funny thing is a lot of the guys that did the "silent invasion" turned into the ones that they hated
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;48087253]Agreed, for far too long has the GMF been shackled by the weight of shitposters and been filled with much more shit than the largest septic tank on earth. Let alone the more recent (in its history) cronyism and bandwagon bullying of people by a small clique. It needs to get better and it needs to do it anew. "Its always been like that" is no excuse.[/QUOTE] Relax man, they're are just ironically shitposting. Chill man, blaze 420.
it's not like you pushed us away a lot of them/us were getting fed up with the stupidity of fp, so we let you have it
[QUOTE=Leestons;48087266]And that's the reason why I don't post there. As well as many others. Zonesylvania asking us to post there isn't going to change that.[/QUOTE] Neither is doing nothing. The only way the shitposting in the GMF can be altered without extremely drastic action, is the shitposting being watered down by decent posters displacing them. Like Zone said, a while back, a few people managed to displace enough to make a positive change, though this change is hindered by the reputation of the GMF. They knocked the first few pebbles, whats needed though is people going in there, breaking up the cliques, breaking up the gangs and getting them to piss off. It's been many things in its history, it was never meant to be a place where shitposters reigned supreme (that's what the OIFY is for), but it's slipped into that for several reasons and has stayed in that slump ever since.
As a reformed GMF shitposter I salute this thread. Godspeed
I remember when I got my free upgrade - I think I posted there once, felt like I wasn't part of the club, and then never posted again. I hope it gets better.
[QUOTE=bepassley;48087296]As a reformed GMF shitposter I salute this thread. Godspeed[/QUOTE] Wanna play some bingo? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0aCg9yG.jpg[/IMG] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ejyH5ku.jpg[[/img]
The GMF is pretty much self-cleaning as people eventually either get banned or leave of their own accord. Gold members posting here should remember that your if posts in GD leak anything specific which happened in the GMF you may be banned.
It's definitely not self cleaning.
For the longest time I thought GMF was just an unofficial OIFY without the seizure graphics.
[QUOTE=verynicelady;48087318]The GMF is pretty much self-cleaning as people eventually either get banned or leave of their own accord. Gold members posting here should remember that your if posts in GD leak anything specific which happened in the GMF you may be banned.[/QUOTE] blah blah blah apart from those threads which you did the silent invasion about (keeping vague to avoid #2), the rest was a fairly friendly place if you fit in the ones that complained about the gmf being a shit place to post were usually the ones that would come in and go "hey guise whats up" without trying to even meet any sort of social standards that the gmf had, and then spiral hilariously as they got called dumb [editline]30th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=bepassley;48087326]It's definitely not self cleaning.[/QUOTE] there's an inherent irony in you posting this
[QUOTE=bepassley;48087326]It's definitely not self cleaning.[/QUOTE] It's about as self cleaning as trying to clean the bloodied walls with a dirty mop in Visceral Cleanup detail. Has been for a long time, if it was self cleaning, this thread wouldn't nor wouldn't need to exist. Don't get me wrong, there's a few good threads in there, but those are far outnumbered by the bad ones.
Goldmembers were supposed to be examples of quality contributiors, but the whole system turned into a game of who could shitpost the loudest.
p sure this is leaking gmf content
[QUOTE=OvB;48087376]Goldmembers were supposed to be examples of quality contributiors, but the whole system turned into a game of who could shitpost the loudest.[/QUOTE] Which was entirely the reason for the lesser restrictions that ended up making the shitposting allowed at first, then normalised, now it's practically expected.
[QUOTE=Craptasket;48087308]Wanna play some bingo? [/QUOTE] I don't understand. Does GMF consist solely of postal recreating goatse with his own ass, photoshopping it into the crotch of an anime hitler, and then spamming the board with it? I am sorry for your tribulations, gold members, I really am. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/1j4u436.gif[/IMG] But, cheer up guys, I found a cool gif. [IMG]http://www.gifbin.com/bin/062011/1309454508_cirque_du_soleil_first_pitch.gif[/IMG] (Garry please don't ban) Seriously though, good luck, sounds like an awful place.
[QUOTE=OvB;48087376]Goldmembers were supposed to be examples of quality contributiors, but the whole system turned into a game of who could shitpost the loudest.[/QUOTE] And some of us blew people by accident to get it during the donation stage.
Theres no upside for me and possibly a lot of other users to post there. The rest of the forums perfectly suit my needs currently. I'm interested and applauding the effort to clean up the GMF though, great job!
I've generally avoided gmf for this exact reason. I've only actually opened it like 3 times.
Hey, Goldies, you want somewhere to shitpost on the forums, that's what the OIFY is there for, so go do it there, let your shitposting fly free all you want there.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;48087340]blah blah blah apart from those threads which you did the silent invasion about (keeping vague to avoid #2), the rest was a fairly friendly place if you fit in the ones that complained about the gmf being a shit place to post were usually the ones that would come in and go "hey guise whats up" without trying to even meet any sort of social standards that the gmf had, and then spiral hilariously as they got called dumb [editline]30th June 2015[/editline] there's an inherent irony in you posting this[/QUOTE] but lordcrypto you were the one getting bullied quite heavily when you first approached gmf/ktt and attempted really hard to fit in I guess you did many, hella many months later, being the op of the witchhunt thread and all let it go
I've never understood the point of posting in there. You take one look around and you can see a pretty cliqued up environment. I'm not in high school. I'm not dealing with cliques anymore.
Eh, Only take one or two looks in there. Theres some quality threads, but then in some of those threads it is literally just a circle jerk of people bashing you for not getting their wacky inside jokes.
I am a Moderator, and I approve of this message. [QUOTE=Leestons;48087266]And that's the reason why I don't post there. As well as many others. Zonesylvania asking us to post there isn't going to change that.[/QUOTE]
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