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After the first few weeks, nothing really, but someone would have to go in there once in a while to check there's nothing breaking the rules that hadn't been reported. Doubt any of the remaining mods would be too keen on that.
But they weren't dealing with it in the first place apart from the initial creation. I mean, it wasn't in anyone's way or bugging anyone so why kill it at all? Wasn't the pitch for the forum to let threads die naturally?
Okay...
But why would that even be an issue? What, were people legitimately less keen on reporting posts that were breaking rules in that section than in ANY of the other sections of the site? Cause I find that hard to believe.
Nothing was going on. It was just people posting NSFW pictures, there were literally no problems to speak of. Everyone was following the rules of that section.
Why doesn't garry just delete the forums or sell them instead of making them worse to drive people away. He'd save so much money if he didn't have to pay for hosting anymore
This.
The only rule in OIFY is a general rule for all forums. No illegal shit like doxxing or minors.
Otherwise you’ll figure it out.
The most irritating part for me is that I couldn't care less about videos. I also couldn't particularly care about GD threads. But I do care about being notified of meta threads. And meta threads are now in GD. So if I want to be notified of them I have to deal with 20+ notifications per day for videos I physically could not care less about if I tried.
And then the dev section is now flooded with mapping crap and model requests. Again, stuff I physically could not care less about if I tried. I do care about programming and web dev stuff though. Which is why I was subscribed to notifications in those two sections. But now the notifications system is completely useless for that purpose.
I have like 70-80+ notifications per day now when I used to have 40-50 and ALL of those additional ones are threads I have zero interest in. This complete kneejerk change in completely the exact opposite direction with no subtlety or taking into account the changes people were actually asking for was not a very good change. He's paying far too much attention to people pissing and moaning and not providing constructive criticism while paying no attention at all to those who are actually trying to help him improve the forums and it's quite frustrating.
That's probably due to rust.
"plz unban"
"i not use cheat"
etc
Was there ever a reason given for removing the videos subforum?
So, why wouldn't any of the remaining mods be keen on checking in on that section? It doesn't exactly seem like a hard () task.
I could do it. The average user could probably do it.
And if looking through porn is a problem for you guys, then why move the threads to OIFY?
You'll then have to look through goatse and porn.
Temporary solution:
Ban the people who spam gore in porn threads.
Considering that its wrapped under OIFY that doesn't make too much sense. Schindlers fist was possibly the only time the forum specifically had a dedicated porn section, prior to its creation that kind of thing was always regulated to OIFY or back when it was allowed a GD/fast threads thread.
The whole reason its getting spammed with gore right now is because people are fucking stupid and decide to shit things up now that its under a different subsection. It's no different than when people decided to try and shit up polidick for allowing opinion pieces, which was almost exclusively done by long time members to "prove a point".
I'm not going to go and ban people for doing stupid shit in OIFY, that is literally what that entire subsection is for. If you give it time people get bored with it, and if you really need to share your wank material with other people there's always discord.
90% of the time, Garry's reason is "Because i felt like it" and/or "Go fuck yourself".
So just bring back the NSFW section then. Problem fuckin solved
I think the fact the old forum didn't have a NSFW section is no longer relevant considering that after garrys purge the new forum no longer has quite a few sections that were staples of the old forum.
We petitioned for that section and obeyed the rules of that section so its removal seems completely arbitrary.
Why is it that the OIFY gets to stick around, despite having arguably no value anymore with such lax rules on the main board, and the NSFW section gets axed despite being granted to us by the administration? I mean fuck, just put them in Gold Membie Fuck Bunker then if people are too lazy to recreate the NSFW section.
@Hezzy your input would be much appreciated.
From a general forum perspective; why? How many threads were actually active in an entire subsection? How many people actually posted in said subsection? What is the point of having an entire sub-section of the forum dedicated to a grand total of 8ish or so threads with actual usage that really only had 2 or so that were moderately active? Why cater to 50ish people who are basically just reposting porn from other websites? That is literally something that can be wrapped into OIFY no problem, and was for over a decade.
There's no sense crying over spilt milk, either accept that its back where its always been or find another place to get your wank material.
"There's no problem"
*threads are now full of gore and other misc spam*
Whatever you say I guess but I'd rather Hezzy weighed in as opposed to someone who didn't want the section in the first place.
Hey it keeps some users happy. Isn't that reasonable enough?
We've kept less active forums for longer, like the very dead prototypes forum.
Is Facepunch your sole source for pornographic material?
Seriously, if you need some good porn that bad there are over a thousand websites that have a much larger selection that what this forum has ever offered.
Well clearly making people happy isn't a priority if the last week or is any indication to say nothing of the months of neglect.
Spite is the flavor of the day.
You obviously haven't figured it out.
There is nothing to figure out.
I'm pretty that stuff like gore is banned in the main boards.
Umm no shit? Did I indicate otherwise? You're gonna have to point out to me exactly where in that quote I say that gore is allowed on the main boards.
My point is that there is still a use for the OIFY. Which is for posting stuff that isn't allowed in other sections (like gorn),
And in regards to the stuff you brought up, I don't think shitposting is entirely allowed in the main forums.
I just think it's hypocritical to be like "That OIFY section where people spam gorn, yeah that's ok but that NSFW section you guys had and successfully petitioned for? Worthless."
In my opinion if the OIFY is allowed to exist then having a section with pictures naked ladies is hardly the scandal of the century.
We don't need porn on FP. If there is, I'm not complaining, I checked out Schindler's Fist semi-frequently, but it's not a cornerstone of the community. We lose nothing if it goes away tbh
Yeah I'm not gonna argue for it, but I'm not sure I agree with Unclejimmema's reasoning for removing it (although it wasn't his doing)
If schindlers fist was not ok, why is OIFY?
If it was because of low activity, then how come the videos forum was removed at the same time?
If it was because of low activity, then how come the prototypes forum is still around?
Of course, the answer is that Garry collapsed the forum without giving the existence of these individual subforums a lot of thought.
There's no real logic involved, other than Garry feeling that this is how it should be.
Tbh. If we get the video forum back, I'll just go full stockholm syndrome and be happy.
Jesus I’ve never seen people fight so hard over porn it’s a tad embarrassing.
Did people forget the forum main audience?
Video gamers first.
This isn’t a forum for porn.
I’m sorry if I’m going to upset people but that is what this place is and always has been. A forum for video gamers to discuss Facepunch games, news, videos, politics, programming and anything that fits in GD.
OIFY and porn is completely non mentionable because it isn’t the forums main source of content.
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