ya know what...im getting tired of all the mods coming down on us and telling us "we are limited in what we can do" and giving us all that bullsh
it and then closing any threads that contain any hint of discussion of the things here that annoy us. ethan was right, making a thread about the problem is a way of dealing with it. we can discuss it and see what comes of the discussion.
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Originally Posted by ArtistInTheAmbulance
Then I guess its just a difference of opinion, because I personally think its stupid that we get so many of these fapping complaints-about-how-the-forum-is-run threads.
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if you dont like the way something is.....do you just sit there and let it be? or do you do something about it. well...fenix said "make a thread". and thats exactly what ethan did. there is no reason to give him sh!t for it at all. we have a problem with something and we are trying to deal with it in the only way availible to us. by talking it out. im sorry if thats not how you deal with things, but we are just trying to get our opinions dealing with this subject heard. hell, maybe if we get them out in the open then threads like this wont spring up as much, but every time one does...it gets locked.
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Originally Posted by Fenixpunk
dont post in the pointless threads and they will fade away. Duplicate ones get combined or deleted, the lounge is what it is, a lounge with no criteria what gets posted in it, and i believe that it saves the actual music forums from getting overrun with off topic threads. It serves its purpose, its a melting pot for anything non-music related. If you want a serious topic, start a serious thread, if you want to play a game start a thread, if you want to talk about how you hurt your back trying to lick your own ass, start a thread..just try and help out and keep it in the lounge where it belongs.
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this is very true, the lounge is simply a melting pot for off topic discussion. but as of late, the lounge has become the most popular forum on these boards, and its filled with unintelligent "rate the person above you" threads. with everyone on the forum playing the games in the lounge, no one is posting in the music forums at all. most of the music forums get maybe 5 or 6 new posts a day, possibly more if an actual conversation is drawn up. hardly anyone talks about music any more.
now, sure...fenix you say the game threads will fade away if we dont pay attention to them, but we can only control one person on these boards...ourselves. even if everyone that has expressed an opinion towards this stopped posting in the game threads.....the lounge would just become a giant sh
ithole filled with postwhores who play forum games and talk about how they hurt their back trying to lick their own a
sses. if that happened, then any threads not related to music that actually contained an ounce of intelligence, would just be overrun by the constant posting the the game threads, and would die out before anyone noticed them.
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Originally Posted by ArtistInTheAmbulance
All Im saying is, this happens all the time on this forum. If everyone just grits their teeth to get through the worst of it, the mods will clean up the mess as much as we can, and ban where we see fit. We've tightened the rules up, since the new mods, but theres a limit to what we can do without it infringing on babysitting. The subforuming is probably not gonna happen any time soon. So in the meantime, quit acting like its the end of the world, we'll do what we can. Just dont look in the threads that dont interest you, we'll keep the number as low as we can, and Im sure looking at page 2 of the lounge isnt such a difficult task for now, is it?
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lately i havent seen people banned unless they are reported. ridiculous threads, obviously, have run rampant, or else this thread wouldnt have been made. and no one would be complaining. now im not saying that i have a problem reporting spammers, or anything like that, but we shouldnt have to. as far as i know thats a moderators job.
the reason its the "senior" members who are complaining, is because its us who were here when this site wasnt filled with spammers and game threads. sure, you may think that we are just
bitching and whining...but since we have absolutely no power on this site, and apparently our opinions dont either, thats all we really can do....talk about it. like i said earlier....if someones doing something that you dont like....are you just going to sit there and let it happen? or are you going to get up and do something about it?
i dont know about anyone else, but im sure there are a few people that will agree with me when i say that im tired of this elitist attitude that some of the members have taken on.
go ahead, flame me, close this thread and ban be if you want, but im not going to sit back and not voice my opinion.