2-word story thread locked

[Demanufacturer]

just saw the two word story got locked, because ''it is just a way to get more posts....;_;''


LAAAAAAME-O!!!!!


i REALLY don't care how high or low my number of posts is!!

Two word storys are fun, but NOOOOOOOO ppl here don't like fun and immediatly think about ''oh no he's raising his post-count help me''

sorry but this is just too pathetic

my entry for this topic:


LAME-O

 

[rammoth]

Better PM that instead of causing a flame war, which will result into post count padding

 

[flowersofnight]

Demanufacturer: I've moved this post here since it's a complaint about my moderation of the forum. I'll leave it here for Lejun and Amasanin to take a look at, and if they disagree with me, they can reopen the locked thread.

My personal opinion is that the thread in question just can't work. There's no way to write a coherent story when you only fit about 1 sentence per page. We have enough "fun and games" endless threads as it is, and this one doesn't bring anything useful to the table.

 

[rammoth]

my opinion is: this IS a well known forum game and you might be surprised by the amount of people participating in these kind of topics. I myself never really participated in any of them except for a few messages, but there quite some people out there who like it. I don't agree with the "post-count padding" thing, I do believe it turns out into a spamming centre most of the time.

 

[Demanufacturer]

well, since it has been (and is) a lot of fun on another forum where i'm posting i thought it whould be fun to introduce it to this forum too


sorry for my earlier choice of words but sometimes i REALLY get pissed of by the way some things are going here...

besides, it's off-topic according to you, so who cares then? :s
i mean, first every one was ''yeah it's off topic so it doesn't matter what ppl say in which topic (remember my complaints about that in the forum-band topic?)''

and now i have made my second maybe third topic, which i thought was just ordinary fun, and it gets locked by you saying ''it's just a way of raising ur number of posts''

i don't CARE about my number of posts, i only wanna have/give some fun while learning about the whole j-rock thing on this forum

i guess you are a COMPLETELY different kind of ppl then (i don't mean anything negative with that.)

i'll shut up for a while then -_-

 

[†_Sephiroth_†]

hhhhhhhhmmmmmmm a lot has happened in so little time, maybe this has to do with our masive posting from yesterday, they think we want to keep our numbers up while in reality we where having some good clean fun...the game sounds fun btw because in like 5 posts it can become a story shaped by different ppl but alas if that is your will what the heck we have no real word in this as I can see...

 

[Anonymous]

One thread like that is cool... 2... 3... 4... ok. But we have far too many for a forum this size. There's always a new one popping up. What's the weather like/Random thoughts/Last thing you ate/Last movie you saw etc etc... It's a little too much. So I think there has to be some limit. Some are fun, others are spam. Which are fun and which are spam? Well I don't know, I guess that depends on the person. So how to judge which ones to keep and which to lock? Well, I guess we'll do it when we think we should.

We're not trying to stop your fun here, just keep some essence. When it seems like the essence is 35% and the fun/spam is 65% it's not a desirable balance. So if we think the balance is off I guess that's when we'll think we should be putting limits.

About pushing up your post count, I don't know if there's people here who do it deliberately but there's definitely a few people who have a ridiculously high amount of posts purely due to spamming. What does that matter? It matters to newbies for one thing, and in some cases it also matters to the people who have them because they start getting a little cocky. I haven't seen any of that here to be fair, but it happens ALL the time elsewhere. So it's not considered a good thing generally if your post count is not reflective of your actual contribution to a forum.

I don't know what else to say... I'm kind of divided about these threads, but too many are definitely not good. Maybe we can have some new ones in the future but let them rest for now. And Demanufacturer, I can see why you might not get the problem but I think you're completely overreacting. Is it really that important?

 

[Demanufacturer]

no, shure it's not thát important

it's just that, well, i get the idea that you ppl think that every post of mine is spam.

shure, some (or maybe most) posts could be concidered ''spam'', but when i DO try to blend in a discussion or try to be very ''on topic'' then i'm mostly ignored

i see that too with other newbe's here, they try to blend in a discussion but they won't be replyed, the ''locals'' just go on about their own subjects

i'm not saying that ppl should reply on EVERY post, btw

 

[Anonymous]

I am possitive flowers didn't lock your post because it was yours, but he can tell you that himself. And I haven't noticed any of what you're talking about either - newbies getting ignored. I think it all depends on what you're talking about. If you haven't said anything important well, why should you get replies to it?

I really doubt people check to see who started a topic before replying but then again I hardly ever notice things like that so I might be missing it. Does anybody else think so? I think that on the contrary this forum is good at welcoming newbies as long as they read the rules, which is the very least they can do. And even then, I don't think we bite heads off.

You have been taking things a little too personally since you started posting here, and really, nobody is out to get you.

EDIT: Actually...

I see that too with other newbe's here, they try to blend in a discussion but they won't be replyed, the ''locals'' just go on about their own subjects

What do you mean by this? Because I have been having a similar problem lately but I don't know if you mean the same thing. LejuN made some referece to it as well in the Kami thead: it seems like we can't have a single thread without some kind of inside joking breaking out which the rest of us couldn't care less about or some kind of drama. And that is very annoying, especially in -main-. If that's what you meant, I agree.

And if that is really what you meant then that is exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to post count. See, those are people with hign numbers of posts attributed for the greater part to spamming. But you think they are the 'regulars' because they have a high rank. Missleading isn't it?

 

[Demanufacturer]

indeed it is, and i get the point now.

sorry for the trouble



i know i'll reduce my posting rate and say only something that truely has something to do with the subject.

what i meant about the newby thing, sometimes someone new asks something, but won't be answerred because the ''locals'' (if there are locals) are too busy talking about their own thing.

i know that this is a big place with lots of ppl, but i do think that when someone asks a good question which does have something to do with the main subject that at least the question should be answerred.

i had this problem myself. I'm not saying my questions where good, if they weren't to you then i understand why my questions (or points of view) were'nt answerred.

again, sorry for the trouble

 

[Anonymous]

Missing questions happens. It's not that they're newbies and they get ignored. Like now in the Societe thread, although I did read your post I somehow forgot to reply by the time I posted because I was doing something else while reading probably. I'm not always 100% concentrated when I read the board. Most of the time I've just gotten back from work and have too much on my mind.

I do try to answer questions when I see them though and feel terrible when I see newbies getting bad treatment (like with that Gackt thread), but I can't always reply personally and the same thing goes for LejuN and flowers I'm sure. I would definitely like to see us staying focused in the main forum though and I have already expressed my opinion a couple of times about annoying nonsense taking over threads. Maybe we should try to be a bit more rigid.

 

[Demanufacturer]

yes i have seen ur opinion, and i try to be less of a ''spammer''

and i know you can't reply on everything around here, there are too many members, but then again, because there are so many members then at least one could give some kind of an answer. Most of the ''noobs'' come here with the reason 'to learn more about j-rock'

i just kinda feel sad/angry when they wanna know something and they won't be replyed.
Although i have leraned a lot by now, i still concider myself being ''a noob who wants to learn more about j-rock (mainly malice mizer and m10m)''

shure, a lot of info is available on the main scape site, but not everything can be found there (or somewhere else for that matter), so it's logical that ppl ask here about something.

oh yeah, one more thing, not everyone has seen every (and i mean EVERY) thread on these boards, so it is possible that someone who is not around for that long might make a thread which already excist(ed)

 

[flowersofnight]

First off I just want to mention that there was nothing personal in the closing of your thread. I would have done it no matter whose thread it was.

And I'm not sure what you mean by people not getting their questions answered. I took a look through the main and off topic forums just now and I didn't really see anything that didn't get some sort of answer to it. This forum is generally quite good at answering people's questions if an answer exists.

As far as duplicate threads go: don't take it personally if one of them gets locked. Lots of people have done it and it's no big deal. We just point them to the other thread where their question has probably already been answered.

 

[Demanufacturer]

ty

i know enough now (y)

sorry for all the fuzz

guess i wasn't in a good mood or sumthing -_-''