An "I understand what I did and I'm sorry" used to be enough for a reduction in ye olden days
I don't think the GGD class threads were malicious, though - they served their purpose entirely within the rule set that was created with the new update. The no megathreads thing has pretyt much led to this.
I also think the biggest concern with many users is the fact that two community leaders expressly allowed the threads to be made, so being given permission for them and then getting perma'd is the reason everyone is even more upset.
I feel like this would work far better if it was a tagging system, rather than an actual sub forum system
if you could tag a thread with multiple words, then it'd actually make sense.
#Retro #UT #Quake #oldschool #FPS #Shooter #90's
having a section for something like guns doesn't make sense because it's really niche.
What about the legitimate threads created by hezzy's suggestion? Those are dumb spam too? The OPs of those were serious. Obviously "heavy's eyebrow" and "the boot" threads were shitposts. But the 9 class threads weren't.
Malicious compliance is used to highlight shortcomings of a set of rules, it's effective precisely because it disrupts normal activities. Instead of acknowledging it as legitimate criticism you effectively stuck your fingers in your ears and ignored it completely. Is it really worth banning them permanently? Are the forums any better now that a bunch of veteran users are gone forever?
The current system almost literally is tagging with how it dumps to GD. The actual subforum pages are basically just a tag search for a particular tag.
The thing is that it's only using one specific tag, which doesn't really make sense, and it's for things that are incredibly niche that will have almost no threads around it.
This is actually the best alternative I've seen suggested thus far. I would much prefer something like this. Perhaps show threads with similar/related tags at the bottom of the page?
TF, DOTA, HL all fall under 'valve' but they're split into their own 'tags'
Look at the context. Do you actually believe they went and spammed 9 no-content threads with innocent reasoning?
Would you have even acknowledged their complaints otherwise?
I mean if we are trying to clone Reddit here might as well give us a front page or a way to subscribe to only the subforums you want to see. I don't have any interest in TF2 and don't want to broad through 3 pages to find content on Arma 3. There needs to be a way to filter out content that doesn't interest us.
if Newpunch wasn't a clean slate you wouldn't even be posting here right now, what kind of point are you trying to prove with this
Look over on the left while on any forum or subforum page, the yellow button, you can subscribe to any forum or subforum.
Alternatively, let us sub to tags instead of subforums.
garry's actually been paying attention to feedback on meta since Newpunch, he's been engaging in the forums discussion and update threads and he's actively developing the new forums. I can't imagine why now of all times changes happen to the forums users felt the need to spam threads to make a point merely hours after the changes happen instead of just posting their feedback on the threads garry's reading. They were being massive babies, but I still don't feel permabans with no appeal are justifiable.
Mind explaining how my history at all relevant?
Megathreads taking over and individualized threads going down was mostly just because seeing a wall of megathreads doesnt make people think they can post anything different, but it only got to the wall of megathreads because of moderation. If you want quality threads and moderation is harsh then posting a thread on a random gaming subject becomes a gamble due to the high visibility, on average that's going lower willingness to risk anything but posting in safe topics and eventually once the wall of megathreads encroaches people just dont bother.
You could just do what 4chan did successfully, a subforum specifically for all game and chat megathreads to get dumped in to allow standalone threads their own space and visibility. Might also be worth somehow trying to convince people they wont be banned for their random discussion topics... not a great start on that second front.
Yes but that doesnt remove the other threads that I don't want to see from popping up.
At least when everything was contained in megathreads I could skip past it. But now that I have to search through 6 pages to find content I'm remotely interested in, i have no incentive to post. It's a hassle.
You can do that easily by clicking on the specific subforum.
Why do people keep talking about reddit?
I happen to be someone that didn't agree with you being banned and actually liked having you on the forums
Are you trying to say their perma's are justified? Because that would be an insanely unfair judgement of them
YOU WILL SEE TF2 AND CAR THREADS!
shh
stop trying to fight it
It's been a huge point since pixel punch
it honestly dumbfounds me, I don't get it
Because FP will effectively turn into Reddit where only a few threads are consistently at the front page, while the rest are left to rot drowned in the noise.
I think your missing the point. What if a subforum doesn't exist for the content I want to see, like D&D or Total War Arena? These aren't played by millions of people, so they don't get posts every day, but I'm still interested. Now that megathreads are gone, do I have to make a new thread just to post a tiny bit about D&D , where it will most likely get 1 reply and then die?
Because the model of "make a new thread for every question or topic you have" is embodied the most by Reddit, as well as a highly fragmented userbase with no real sense of community.
That model is called a "forum"
That was a huge issue in pixelpunch
I mean I hate the section system, but it's still not as horrendously shit as reddit, at least
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