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Post by eJm on Jun 5, 2009 17:35:12 GMT -5
You would have to get ProBoards to agree to that too, seeing as those are their rules. No they're not. It's a board rule here. Oh. My Mistake. Well, then you'd have to...get all the mods to agree? I'm trying to salvage this.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Jun 5, 2009 17:39:14 GMT -5
It's just very cluttered. Some of the topics on page 1 right now include: - emo pants - a Playstation thread - an NBA thread - someone graduated - the Tonight Show - 2 birthday threads - and several appreciation threads Personally, I like that aspect of the OT forum. It's literally a mix-bag. There's a huge variety, you can talk about a whole load of different stuff without having to have 3 or 4 sub forums open. The OT forum is what drew me to this place.
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Post by Mac on Jun 5, 2009 18:03:59 GMT -5
Problem with ignore button is 10,000 posts of....
Poster B: You're going on ignore, seeya
Poster A: See when you cant defend yourself you just quit.
Poster B: Its not that its just you're rude.
Poster A: Oh, I thought you had me on ignore. And it just degenerates from there/
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Post by Chuckie Finster on Jun 5, 2009 18:09:05 GMT -5
I find that forums that allow politics/religion often fracture what sense of unity the board has due to people getting so worked up over discussions.
The only way I could see a Politics/Religion sub-forum working here is if it's semi-private with a goodwill system for access to it, and that's promotion elitism and it just wouldn't work. And having it open to everyone is just asking for trouble. One person goes on, says something out there ("The Holocaust didn't happen" is one thing I've seen turn a board upsidedown) and boom goes the dynamite. Also, it would need constant moderation and most importantly, turn this board too serious.
This is a wrestling forum that's pretty laid back. We don't need the problems and seriousness a politics/religion sub-forum would bring.
Also, I'm against an ignore option. That's too much a double-edged sword to deal with. I've seen some things that boil my blood on here and that I personally consider stupid, but 9/10, I just ignore it. If you can't stand what another poster says and your sure they're saying it for the attention, ignore them. Don't reply. Don't feed the trolls.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jun 5, 2009 18:26:19 GMT -5
Problem with ignore button is 10,000 posts of.... Poster B: You're going on ignore, seeya Poster A: See when you cant defend yourself you just quit. Poster B: Its not that its just you're rude. Poster A: Oh, I thought you had me on ignore. And it just degenerates from there/ ...good point.
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Post by Lazy peon on Jun 5, 2009 18:39:19 GMT -5
A pixel size limit for signature pictures. Some people use huge poster and wallpaper sized pictures in their sigs and it takes half a year to scroll through each page. The auto-resize function only works like half the time.
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Post by rrm15 on Jun 5, 2009 18:54:40 GMT -5
Problem with ignore button is 10,000 posts of.... Poster B: You're going on ignore, seeya Poster A: See when you cant defend yourself you just quit. Poster B: Its not that its just you're rude. Poster A: Oh, I thought you had me on ignore. And it just degenerates from there/ Saying that you have someone on ignore could just fall under the douchebag rule. I agree that it could be a problem, but as long as its discouraged it could be ok.
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Post by Above Average on Jun 5, 2009 19:29:20 GMT -5
Okay, I have one or two suggestions:
First thing is something I seem to complain about in Ask a Mod quite a lot. Spoilers. Now, I understand that spoilers are pretty much impossible to fully avoid when you post on a wrestling forum in 2009, but I think it can be limited again somewhat. For instance, people seem to be able to get away with posting threads that clearly talk about spoilers in their thread title or in the first post, and generally these threads are allowed to continue without spoiler tags being added to the subject line. So, basically what I'm saying here is, moderators should perhaps edit the subject of threads like this to say "spoilers" somewhere in them. Living in the UK, we get iMPACT! and ECW 2 days after they are shown in the US, and I by no means believe that people shouldn't be allowed to discuss events that take place on these shows until people in the UK have seen them. However, people could make thread titles more vague.
One thing that comes to mind here is when Swagger won the ECW title back in January. I'd kinda hoped to avoid the spoilers until Thursday, had turned off signatures etc. to ensure I stood a better chance, but then there's a thread something along the lines of "Jack Swagger - ECW Champion" or something to that effect. If someone says "ECW title match discussion *insert date here*" thread... that title doesn't give away the result, it doesn't give away anything really, and people who want to discuss the matter can do so by going in there, while others can avoid it.
The second main issue that comes to mind is the WWE Current board. I know this has been said numerous times, but I'd really be in favour of a General WWE Board for all WWE stuff from the company's inception. Outside of that, I'd say the other extreme might work in that it should be limited to a more... recent set of years. The 1996 product really cannot be described realistically as WWE Current.
Also, can the swear filter be changed slightly so that censored words, that so happen to be a part of other words, don't cause these other words to come out wrong? Like... the word c*** being censored causes the football team Scunthorpe United to be censored, which can be very inconvenient really in terms of the football thread.
Might be more later... but that's all I can come up with off the top of my head.
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Post by CM Dazz on Jun 5, 2009 20:13:42 GMT -5
Personally I'm not a fan of the ignore button. I think that will just cause even more problems.
More/new smileys.
I do like the idea of a spoiler button.
An "enter at your own risk" politics section. You know what you are getting into when you go in there. I think we did a pretty good job of behaving (I think) during the election. Of course it would have to be on a trial basis, and if things aren't working out, get rid of it.
Other than that, I like this place just the way it is, and don't want to see any major changes.
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Post by Supersmark is a Troll on Jun 5, 2009 20:57:06 GMT -5
I find that more intelligent posters like myself should be able to discuss politics in a forum with friends from the board. I'd like to know the political views of fellow posters.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Jun 5, 2009 21:13:10 GMT -5
I find that more intelligent posters like myself should be able to discuss politics in a forum with friends from the board. I'd like to know the political views of fellow posters. The way I see it, it would only lead to arguing, flaming, and other things that could easily fracture this board. I like coming here. I don't want to see it go by the wayside.
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Post by CM Dazz on Jun 5, 2009 21:22:46 GMT -5
I find that more intelligent posters like myself should be able to discuss politics in a forum with friends from the board. I'd like to know the political views of fellow posters. The way I see it, it would only lead to arguing, flaming, and other things that could easily fracture this board. I like coming here. I don't want to see it go by the wayside. That's really the reason I said it should be "enter at your own risk" If you aren't mature enough to discuss politics, you have no reason to visit a hypothetical political sub forum. Honestly, I don't see it happening anyway, but hey, we are discussing, "discussing politics" maturely.
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Post by lildude8218 on Jun 5, 2009 22:01:33 GMT -5
I find that more intelligent posters like myself should be able to discuss politics in a forum with friends from the board. I'd like to know the political views of fellow posters. I find that the idea of someone's intelligence is subjective.
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Post by Supersmark is a Troll on Jun 5, 2009 22:05:56 GMT -5
I find that more intelligent posters like myself should be able to discuss politics in a forum with friends from the board. I'd like to know the political views of fellow posters. I find that the idea of someone's intelligence is subjective. I was kidding. But we should have a political section.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Jun 5, 2009 22:09:07 GMT -5
The way I see it, it would only lead to arguing, flaming, and other things that could easily fracture this board. I like coming here. I don't want to see it go by the wayside. That's really the reason I said it should be "enter at your own risk" If you aren't mature enough to discuss politics, you have no reason to visit a hypothetical political sub forum. Honestly, I don't see it happening anyway, but hey, we are discussing, "discussing politics" maturely. People too immature to handle a civil politics discussion likely aren't mature enough to stay out of a board like that. They're more likely to enter, cause problems, and get otherwise mature posters to lose their cool and start causing problems as well.
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Post by CM Dazz on Jun 5, 2009 22:41:37 GMT -5
That's really the reason I said it should be "enter at your own risk" If you aren't mature enough to discuss politics, you have no reason to visit a hypothetical political sub forum. Honestly, I don't see it happening anyway, but hey, we are discussing, "discussing politics" maturely. People too immature to handle a civil politics discussion likely aren't mature enough to stay out of a board like that. They're more likely to enter, cause problems, and get otherwise mature posters to lose their cool and start causing problems as well. That's a good point too. I could see people going into a forum like that just to start trouble. Dammit, nowhere can anyone have something "nice" anymore without one bad apple spoiling the bunch. Madison would have to give the Mod's a hefty raise to babysit that forum. How much do volunteers get paid again?
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Post by lildude8218 on Jun 5, 2009 22:45:58 GMT -5
I find that the idea of someone's intelligence is subjective. I was kidding. But we should have a political section. No.
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Post by taylorandborland on Jun 5, 2009 22:51:54 GMT -5
So the whole "no politics" comes down to mods not wanting people to flame each other?
...I got a question. Is the current state of the board really different than when it first started?
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Post by CM Dazz on Jun 5, 2009 22:58:04 GMT -5
So the whole "no politics" comes down to mods not wanting people to flame each other? ...I got a question. Is the current state of the board really different than when it first started? Really can you blame them? They put up with a hell of a lot as it is, but that would require some serious dedication/anti stress remedies. As I said before, I'd like to see it happen, but I'm 99% sure it wouldn't. It only takes one person to screw things up for everyone. It's too bad, because I think the majority of posters would be respectful, but nothing is 100%.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jun 5, 2009 23:35:06 GMT -5
So the whole "no politics" comes down to mods not wanting people to flame each other? Pretty much yeah. I'll address this now and hopefully it will end the chapter on Religious discussion being allowed. It has been proven many times that there are 2 subjects that nearly always turn into flamefests, Politics and Religion. I say nearly always as last year we allowed a Political thread on the night of the US Presidential Election. It was more a thread for people to talk about the results as they came in, rather than have a Political debate. The thread was kept very civil and was seen by the vast majority as a positive experience. However, this one thread had about a dozen Mods monitoring it with every post. We cannot justify having this many Mods watching one thread out of the hundreds that are started every couple of days. Obviously, this is Madison's board and if any changes are to be made it would be his call. But I reckon I could say that there are 2 topics that will never be allowed to be discussed here and those are Politics and Religion.
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