What's acceptable?

[Del Murder]

If Leeza posted the exact same thing as kishi, would you have argued with it? (rhetorical)

Anyway, kishi and Leeza are both on the right track. I find it hard to believe that you would think 'post a picture of your crotch' would in any way be acceptable. I have a feeling there is a bigger issue going on here, Prot. Do you really want to talk about crotches and peeing and humping pokemon or is there something else eating at you? I'm fine either way, but this just seems like it is a mask for something else.

[Shlup]

Del said what I was thinking.

[-N-]

Hey, it's the weekly Proto whining thread! (Del, it's ffbabe again. )

It's a cycle, ya know? Crappy threads happen. So they get closed. And then Proto complains. And then things subside. And then they pick up again. You see where I'm going with this?

I just don't see the point in even bringing this up. This is a non-issue. Is it really that important to you what the hell happens in GC? It's just a phase man - these things happen; whatyagonnado*. Reprioritize or something; it's NO BIG DEAL.

* Yes, I paid Unne and Dave royalties.

[Big D]

Why is posting pictures of your "crotch" or pants, unacceptable? It's not hurting anything, and the thread should have stayed open.

The level of quality in General Chat is so repulsively low that we are being harder on stupid threads at the moment, and the staff has generally agreed amongst ourselves that closing them is the best way to discourage their proliferation.

Need I say more?
GC has been scraping the bottom of the barrel lately, with poor-taste topics threatening to drag it into the spammy abyss of body-function jokes. A bit of extremely prejudicial negotiation is required in order to set things straight now and then.

The occasional silly/twisted thread is good for a laugh, but when there's so much of the same thing being churned out there's just no humour value at all. It simply lowers the overall tone.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

By the way, this is all Psychotic's fault.

[Psychotic]

By the way, this is all Psychotic's fault.

Most things usually are.

[-N-]

You have to have a fall guy for plans to work, ya know.

[Destai]

random Poster no.3: "I miss the electric fence thread!"

[Ultima Shadow]

Well, I have to agree with GC being a bit screwed at the moment. I don't even post in 10% of the treads since I don't even find 10% of them intressting at all. That may just be me, though... since others seems to enjoy posting a lot in them.

But really... sometimes there's soo many COMPLETELY pointless treads in GC that I'll almost have to use the searchbutton to find the good ones.

Anyways... whenever I find a closed tread, I can see the reason it got closed and I've never found myself strongly dissagreeing with it being closed either. So basically, I think Leeza is doing a good job as a CK.

[Agent Proto]

The reason why I made this thread is to get an explanation why threads are getting closed. There was no announcement saying "All dumb threads will eventually get closed if they get too dumb." And seeing that this was a staff decision, I'm happy with the reason given.

If Leeza posted the exact same thing as kishi, would you have argued with it? (rhetorical)

No, because of the mention of the staff being behind the decision. When I ask, I expect to be answered with a straightforward answer, not be sidetracked with accusing me of trying to be staff. I asked why are more threads being closed in GC? If I'm answered, "Because they're dumb..." I am not satisfied. If I'm answered, "The staff's decision is to begin closing dumb threads to further prevent future dumb threads..." I would be more satisfied, knowing that it was a staff decision.

[eestlinc]

We close stupid threads so they will slip down the forum and be forgotten. We don't need to spend time discussing why threads were closed when the reason they were closed was to be forgotten.

[Destai]

I think threads in GC should be enjoyable even if they are stupid. The only proplem with threads in GC if you ask me is if theyre insulting. If you want a serious debate or a certain level of intelligence then id stick with Eyes on the world or each other but as I said, I think topics on a video game forum should be enjoyable more than anything else.

[Leeza]

No, because of the mention of the staff being behind the decision. When I ask, I expect to be answered with a straightforward answer, not be sidetracked with accusing me of trying to be staff.

the reason that I'm closing them all is because the level of threads getting started in GC is getting pretty sad. If those stay open all it does is encourage more of the same.

Sounds straightforward enough to me. Staff are in unison and that's something that I really shouldn't even need to mention everytime something like this comes up.

[Del Murder]

The only reason Leeza closes most of those threads is because she gets to them first. She's very quick, catlike, even. She, just like the rest of us, will bring up in the staff forum if certain types of threads should be closed, and hear the collective decision, before taking any action. For that reason you can safely assume that her, or any one mod's, actions in this regard reflect the will of the majority of staff.

An announcement was not made concerning this issue because they don't do any good (and actually RSL did make one a while back anyway). With the way people are today, it would probably encourage more nonsense. Psychology is such a wonderful thing.

[MecaKane]

Good to know you guys're cleaning up genchat. Maybe next month I'll look at more than 4 threads.