I don't think I was in the brightest of moods yesterday, so it would probably be a good idea for me to clear up any misunderstandings on the reasoning behind this.
Earuto said:
If you don't like HDIJ then why come here into this subforum and try to ruin it for everyone else?
Maybe I'm just impatient on comments like this, but it's quite evident to me that some people on this forum don't know how to read.
Firstly and foremost, I stated that this wouldn't destroy the subforum, it would move it somewhere else. The reasoning of my idea wasn't to kill off HDIJ, but to separate it from the MB, because a lot of the community likes it, while some of the community wishes it would just die already. To place it somewhere else would keep it living, yet nobody would have to look at it if they didn't want to. It was something to try to make everyone happy, not just appeal to a slight majority.
I am negative about this subforum, but it's mixed feelings more than anything. Yeah, I
have felt that my Asdf was more successful than this, but it's not out of arrogance rather than my concern for how HDIJ is run. There are still some subpar topics, but overall, HDIJ is better off than it started.
I visit the SRB2MB mostly for serious discussion, and also as a main source of communication with the SRB2 community. I've already explained on IRC that I use the new posts search for this (apparently, I'm one of the few people that do this, but it's what I always do on phpBB forums and it's very convenient), and with HDIJ along, half the new posts are that single subforum. This bugs me because I'm easily distracted... though I wouldn't say that's any valid reason for why HDIJ should go.
Shadow Hog and the others have pointed out why this particular "moving HDIJ" idea wouldn't work, and that's fine by me -- encouraged, actually. But I don't want to hear your insipid whining that I'm trying to ruin your fun.
Spazzo said:
https://www.srb2.org/mb/viewtopic.php?p=296795#296795
I should have made myself clear earlier on this subject, but late is better than never.
The slope prank was a brilliant one, and it was nicely executed. I have nothing wrong with the staff fooling around, really. I'm quite against the hierarchy that the forum has had for a long time, and it's good to see the feeling is shared among other people.
My stance on this joke isn't "butthurt", as I've heard it put more than once; as a matter of fact, I was suspicious of this the second I heard it. I knew you couldn't be as stupid as to blatantly post 1.1 on the forum just to get it deleted half a minute later, but what irritated me was having to guess whether it was real or not, because it just seems to me that, since HDIJ started, these practical jokes have been occurring way too frequently to be funny anymore. After the creation of HDIJ, Ozzaps, and Fapjack, I've had quite enough. Had the joke been executed any other time, I would certainly have welcomed it.
In any case, I'm sure some people would agree that I've been especially tense about the MB since HDIJ came along. Perhaps it would be best for both your sake and mine that I quit frequenting these forums as long as this forum is active, because clearly, I'm just creating a ruckus. Go ahead and just do your thing.