About GC....And other things....

[Agent Proto]

Ah yes, just because I provide sarcastic disagreement with you I have a stick up my ass.

Some of us want that stick up our asses.

Exactly.

[Del Murder]

As soon as I come up with an intelligent idea for a GC thread, I'll post one.

See you in another month.

[Agent Proto]

Do not worry, I will repesent The Man when I post a new thread.

[Raistlin]

Do not worry, I will repesent The Man when I post a new thread.

Why would you do that to yourself?

Ok, I'm done.

[Yamaneko]

OMG MY MESSAGE BOARD IS SUPERIOR TO YOURS LOLZ!!111

[The Man]

Well, either they thought it was EoFF GC versus FG GC - in which case my reply is "no duh," or they're just idiots. With some of those guys, I think it's a coin toss which it is.

As you'd see if you read my edit, you'd realize there's a lot more to the issue than FG spam forum vs. EoFF as a whole. I'll repeat the particularly relevant bit:

Given from the fact that the percentage of newbies in Fool's Gold's gaming forums posting the kind of content that Big D's current profile scheme is made to ridicule is very low indeed, it doesn't entirely seem misguided to me.

But hey, I'm sure people like Proto and LH will be very happy to know that you consider them idiots.

The staff's point is that there's a thousand members posting in GC, and 3 or 4 consistently complaining here. And some of the complaining is about the crap threads, which the staff can't do anything about.

I counted nine people acknowledging the poor quality of General Chat on the first page alone.

And of course the staff can do things. They can close the crap threads, they can split out the crap posts, they can warn the crap posters. I see them doing none of those things, at least to the extent they could be doing.

Do you think these arguments through in context, or just wherever they seem to fit? I said that when the entire staff said "I don't check EotW anymore because it sucks." I was saying that the staff cannot depend solely on the members to keep track of flames, etc. All of the mods read GC.

Funny that you say I don't think my arguments through in context. All these staff members read General Chat, and yet none of them do anything about the consistently poor quality of the replies posted there, despite the fact that several users have asked them to, and that several suggestions have been presented as to how they might do so. How, exactly, is a General Chat forum that no one bothers to moderate different from a World Events forum that no one bothers to read? The net result is the same: The forum ends up unmoderated.

[Shoeberto]

Earlier today, after reading this thread, I checked through GC for posts that deserved to be deleted. I couldn't find any.

It seems more like you're going on the idea that GC is crap rather than providing specific examples. There's actually been quite a few good posts there lately, in my opinion.

[Del Murder]

How do you know nothing has been done about it? Aaron you need to work on your exaggerating. It's a problem you've had for a long time and it doesn't help your case to be taken seriously.

[The Man]

I have to admit that I haven't read much in General Chat in the last five or so days, so maybe things have drastically improved since then. However, it seems like just last week that several staff members were complaining that you couldn't post a thread in GC without it getting spammed to oblivion. Which, as can be confirmed with a simple check of this thread, it was.

[Agent Proto]

The spam certainly have cut down recently in GC, and I find that good, though I'm sure Aaron can't be arsed to find the threads without the excessive spam. Though, I think it's the members to be thankful for.

The members just need to be told that moderation is the key and too much spam is a bad thing.

[Shoeberto]

I'd like to revisit this thread in mid-September, when most members (myself included) are back in school five days of the week.

[Hawkeye]

My posts are still be deleted, so GC shall remain as always.