SSNTails said:
Or maybe you feel the way you do because nobody's paying attention to you anymore.
Hahahahahahahahahaha
Omega the Hedgehog said:
Digiku is in a god damned hospital for attempted suicide.
What. When did this happen?
Why did this happen? How did it happen? And how did you find out about it. He was one of the last people I'd have expected to do something like that.
Omega the Hedgehog said:
Ritz's appearances here are brief and rare at best and it would be unusual if his posts had any conveyable point aside from making some sort of joke at a newbie's expense.
I've been trying hard to make myself useful as of late, but shoveling sand against the tide gets a bit disheartening sometimes!
Tets said:
Honestly I don't see what the point is to complaining about an internet community supposedly dying.
Mabye... Mabye we complain because, deep down, we actually
care about what happens to this forum? This place played a crucial part in my becoming a respectable internetian, and it pains me to see it go to waste like this.
Mystic said:
I don't see any suggestions. I, personally, do not want the forum to go to hell, and am perfectly willing to implement any good ideas of how to deal with our arch-enemy, exponential growth.
Expontential growth and the community's dwindling collective IQ are only half the problem. I've just about given up hope on the community ever being the way it was before in those regards, and there really is no viable solution for that. What
really needs to be fixed (And actually can be, I'd wager) is the 'creator' end of the spectrum. Honestly, there hasn't been anything worthwhile in the Releases forum since it's conception. It seems to me that people are creating wads only for the sake of getting a high out of creating something and having others praise them for it, because they sure as hell can't be enjoying what they're churning out. A good wad this does not make.
And now, for a suggestion: we create a guide that establishes, in great detail, precisely what makes good wads good, and how to go about making such a wad. Not one of those cheap aluminum guides we've seen before that tell you the basics and nothing more; we need to break wadding down to a science, a reproducible algorithm. A challenge, yes, but I'm sure it's doable- I've come to realize that there's a certain rhythm to how geography and objects are placed an arranged, to when paths should or shouldn't branch, etc. We just need to block it out in a concrete form so that the newbies who actually do wish to make something worthwhile (Read: People who don't make a single 12000x12000 sector, fill it with rings and call it a day) have something to go by without having to take the time to discern the formula for themselves (Which they
should be able to do on their own, but they aren't taking the bait, so).
Blue Warrior said:
Exactly. Why can't we put our heads together and think of something to solve the problem - or avoid it, if no more? Maybe we can think of a way to attract more intelligent members than we do morons? Or perhaps I could create a forum on my website solely for the purpose of being just like the SRB2 message board, but where noobs are too stupid to even notice it? I've got lots of spare bandwidth, you know; I could even let us upload files on there with absolutely no hassle of downloading them if I wanted to.
You want us to save the forum by abandoning it? No, not going to work. As for attracting intelligent members, well, the fangaming community has always been seen as magnet for idiots by outside parties. Any intelligent person who just happens to stumble across this forum wouldn't bother to stick around for long, so long as the stupidity persists. We'd have to deal with the morons we have now, make them smarten up- shame that no amount of rule-shoehorning is going to phase them.
Spazzo said:
I'm not sure if it was Furiousfox or yourself who mentioned it, but I believe it's time to consider the possible solution of disallowing users to register.
Not going to work. Blocking out potentially useful members (All members in general, actually) would only accelerate the forum's death. Besides, we'd still have plenty of idiots on the inside that simply can't be dealt with.