Me being funny? You guys sure could go for stand-up, you know? I have hardly laughed this hard in weeks.
HDIJ? It was pretty cool, IMO, but our userbase is not mature enough to have one. I'm not insulting anyone or calling anyome immature... You want spam? You can't handle the spam! Some people just couldn't handle being rulefree and went all-out. I honestly think that the only rule that should ever be applied is "use common sense", yet it's such a cloudy term for many, and it's not even solidified for others.
Well, I've went over this a long time ago, but to any of you who've at least kept an eye on Sigsev Cafe while it was still alive, I've emphasized that its "Asdf" board was not a "spam" board but a "fluff" board. The reason -- and I've said this before -- was because stupidity alone isn't funny, and spamming up the board with crap topics makes it
really hard to find anything worth looking at in the forum. The difference between HDIJ was that Asdf
was ironically heavily moderated, because shitty posts do need to be rooted out to maintain the quality of a board, no matter what the board's about. That doesn't mean Asdf wasn't
lenient, it just means people took it too far. As people do here.
The other difference, as you said, is that people on the SRB2MB don't have a very aligned idea of what is funny and what isn't, especially due to the sheer age difference of the whole population. At sigsev, everyone was on there not because it was the SRB2 community's main source of communication, but because they
wanted to be there, largely because of the people that were already there; so the board had a group of intelligent people (except Autosaver and AndyQHW) that knew how to be lighthearted in a way that's actually enjoyable to their fellow people.
It sounds self-contradicting, but I guess the idea here is that you gotta be smart if you wanna be dumb.