This place is going to the dogs again.

[polygon]

There was a point at which this place wasn't "to the dogs?" I'll be damned.

It's an internet website. You got internet people. Enjoy.

Edit: It's "fascists."

 

[chronobreak]

I dissagree. To suggest that someone has to make x number of posts before they can start new threads, if not harrassing, is certainly unfair. I didn't have to, you didn't have to.

As far as spelling or ettiquite goes, get over yourself. This is a site that caters to videogame and electronics enthusiats, who like to sling their own lingo as a matter of identity, community as you like to keep throwing in my face. If you want folk to stick their pinkies out as they sip their tea, go right ahead. But don't blame me because the Escapist is changing and you don't like it. Some of us do like the way this site and the forums have been developing. Some of us don't feel an overwhelming need for more authority, or authoritarians.

If you feel like bad threads are bumping good threads off the list, make more good threads to combat them. There are at least four to five different ways to search the forums or click on tabs to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Bad threads either get reported for violating the submission rules, or don't get responded to because they lack worth. Seems pretty simple and Darwinian to me. Doesn't need more moderation than that really.

If bad threads get perpetuated, then that is the choice of the forum goers, the very community you seem so proud to serve. It's not anybodies fault if a perponderance of them fell like that maybe the Escapist should resemble 4chan or youtube more. That's convergent evolution. It's up to the forum goers what makes a good or bad thread. Moderators should just enforce the rules as they have been laid down, and everyone who comes here should be able to say whatever they want to say whenever they want to say it, as provided for by those same rules. I think that if the same thread comes up again and again, then that is the will of the forum goers. If I don't like it, I IGNORE it. Just that simple. Change to this site is inevitable, as more people come here to participate. If you don't like the changes, maybe it's the Escapist you're not happy with anymore, not the posters.

To be fair, I never endorsed that idea whole-heartedly, but instead I endorsed people to come up with ideas, and to at least try to think of different things to curtail the influx of bad posting. I actually thought a quiz was a good idea myself, but I'm sure other people have good ideas as well. And, you are right, it isn't fair, but too bad. Sometimes unfair rules have to be instituted to curb a problem, it happens all the time. Look at the Patriot Act, for example. (Not trying to open that can of worms) If it came down to it, I'd do it myself, I would have no problem waiting even 100 posts to make a topic, even though I already can.

Also, you seem to be missing that I am not the only one with the problem here. It is a concern shared by many members who have been here long enough to see what is happening. It isn't a matter of tea-sipping, good grammar and ettiquite are common courtesy. This isn't 4chan. We have deliberately set ourselves apart from other forums by openly being a tad more strict in what we percieve as good content and by enforcing at least halfway decent spelling. You say that I maybe can't handle what the site is becoming, maybe I could just as well say it doesn't belong the way that it is, and something should be done.

As far as thread bumping, I agree people should keep making good topics so bad ones are the ones that get bumped down. That's elementary, though. We can also lock terrible threads, I mean why not? For repeat threads though, I don't see how you could condone it, as it is a "
"rule of thumb" of this site to not do it, as I understood them. They should be locked, as per the community consensus.

Overall, what I'm trying to say is there is a problem, whether or not you choose to see it that is way is on you. All you have to do is look at the other people's posts in here, and you can see that much. I'm not making it up. Also, I know you are not very fond of me, and I don't have much good to say about you, but I am glad we can at least have a civil discussion, which, after all the bullshit, is at the heart of why I love this site.

 

[AvsJoe]

I don't really mind the little offenses committed by the newbies, I just ask them to the guidelines. But when they make the forums a less enjoyable place, I tell them so. And if they really annoy me, blatantly breaking the rules, I report them.

YOU PEOPLE ARE RETARDED

you people are retarded

FACISTS

Can you not do this? This isn't cool.

 

[ChaosTheory3133]

snip

Fair enough, I respect your opinion, and I am hoping a day will come where things are a little better. I know it probably will not happen, but a man can dream. A man can dream.

I'm with you there

 

[Russian_Assassin]

I agree that there a a lot of [shit game]vs[shit game] threads lately and of course "DO U LIEK HALO" threads, but I think that saying that the escapist is on a highway to hell is a bit overreacting. Nothing that a ban hammer can't solve

 

[CIA]

There was a point at which this place wasn't "to the dogs?" I'll be damned.

It's an internet website. You got internet people. Enjoy.

Edit: It's "fascists."

People have been saying "the Escapist is going downhill" ever since I got here. I guess its a meme of sorts.

 

[Ultrajoe]

I'm going to try and purge the spammer and his spam, please continue and try to ignore those posts.

They shall be cleansed.

EDIT: Yes, I did lock this for a second, you may now continue.

 

[polygon]

Also, you seem to be missing that I am not the only one with the problem here. It is a concern shared by many members who have been here long enough to see what is happening. It isn't a matter of tea-sipping, good grammar and ettiquite are common courtesy. This isn't 4chan. We have deliberately set ourselves apart from other forums by openly being a tad more strict in what we percieve as good content and by enforcing at least halfway decent spelling. You say that I maybe can't handle what the site is becoming, maybe I could just as well say it doesn't belong the way that it is, and something should be done.

Enforcing rules about spelling and grammar is absolutely a matter of tea-sipping. Language is a means of communication; it doesn't matter if I spell "asshole" with one S and no E so long as the idea that I think you're an asshole gets across. Banning someone (or putting them in the timeout corner of "probation") because they misspell words is nothing short of ludicrous pedantry.

And here's something funny: you misspelled "etiquette" and "perceive." Infraction time!

 

[Aqualung]

Ah, finally, the 'facist' is banned.

Anyway. Every time I make a creative thread that hasn't been done before, it rarely lasts more than a page. So I'm thinking that people just LIKE the same old VS. threads and stupid polls, whether they admit it or not.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

They're new users. Its not like they can snap to the rules so quickly in one day.

Give them a little leeway, maybe a smack in the face, and they'll get better eventually.