Is anyone else sick of...

[Sullyman2007]

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Also, what happend to operation Iron Law? It looked like it was working for a while there... then the thread disappeared and the picture was removed from papercrane.

[JurseyRider734]

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+1 postcount started years ago. Before you people even joined the website. Believe it or not, Chit Chat used to be good... 3 years ago. 2006 it started turning into crap and now it's where it is. Worse crap.

[blindreper1179]

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i'm sorry my genereation plus ruined it for you guys. they make us all look bad.

[foilman8805]

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I'm happy I made Jurs sad.

[tsugomaru]

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Well, it's natural though. FFR is a quickly growing community and as FFR attracts more people, there will be more absent-minded posters. Had I been a mod 4-5 years ago, I would have had the same attitude as yours when it came to the type of threads that should or should not be locked and I probably would have been very unforgiving to said type of threads or posts.

But since then, my mindset has changed a lot because this is a large community and if the community wants this or so thread like "post what you're listening to", then so be it. I don't ever need to click it if I don't want to and I don't have to ever read posts from posters who tend to post useless things. The forums are not here for just us to use but everyone who wishes to come to FFR and if creating and posting in threads like "post what you're listening to", then that's their business.

FFR has an amazing staff who does an extremely good job keeping the forums from cluttering with terrible threads and has done plenty to improve the community as a whole.

~Tsugomaru

[JurseyRider734]

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I'm happy I made Jurs sad.

I'm not sad. I have a private forum to go to.

[ledwix]

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The professionalism of the internet is bound to crumble over time. Think about when the internet started. It wasn't even open to the public, and it was only used so that corporations could send very serious information back and forth. My generation didn't start using the internet frequently until age 12 or so. Now a bunch of people are getting laptops at age 7. Internet etiquette is becoming a joke, almost.

I personally support the notion of treating every place like Critical Thinking except for the occasional joke post.

[TheRapingDragon]

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- Rate the Above persons avatar/signature/person.

I occasionally venture into the games section to try to sort things like that out, if only to get people to post content while they do post-whoring rather than just post-whoring. I think travman has the start of my most recent attempt in his sig.

- lol hi tgb gais

TGB is seen too much as a place where you should have been funny but nobody has been funny. I always thought TGB was a sort of "anti-chit-chat" where you still posted chit-chat kind of stuff but it was more interesting and occasionally people were funny.

If we got rid of the panel and the requirement that you had to be funny then I think it would start to be a step in the right direction.

- ffr is gey gais

Irony would be that this thread is complaining about FFR, some people just choose to put it in a more blunt way. I don't really see too much wrong with the forums.

- something about the same bug that everyone has posted about

It happens, not everyone can find a thread. The search function seems pretty bad sometimes for finding things. Even when I know a thread exists and search for it sometimes the search bar will tell me no threads exist.

- another random **** thread etc....

All forums will end up with bad and good threads, especially one as big as FFR. You have to get used to it rather than letting it get to you.

Is anyone else sick of getting a post count raise from these?
So what, in those categories I'd say many of us have about +200 posts....

200 posts is about 2% of my total posts so I can't really say I care about post count from it. Not to mention I don't really do any of the above you've said. I think this is sort of an unnecessary thread because we all know about these.

Rather than complaining try thinking up reasons to sort them out.

[spinal_compression]

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I've noticed that the quality of these forums have decreased greatly over the past month or two.

All those 'rate this and that' IMO belong in the game section. Hence the rules about not postwhoring and limit to posts in there.

The ones about eating and drinking aren't games and serve no purpose.

I agree about the forums degrading. One of the reasons I left a while back. I have a friend who is on the forums now and if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be here.

[WorkonMe]

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ef devonin, he's ban happy, and knows he knows everything.

sig'd

[devonin]

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Hey reper, I think you and I maybe need to have a chat? I'm not sure where you're getting such a negative opinion of me. At any given time I've got maybe third or fourth place in terms of "number of people banned" and I'm -always- willing to listen to an explanation about behavior that I've banned for, and as -Yukari- mentioned, I -often- lift or shorten ban lengths after such a thing happens.

This has happened in more places than just FFR, some people choose only to see certain aspects of my moderation either because they don't know about or just don't care about the other side of things. I go to bat for the users of this site -all the time- and half the reason I'm fairly successful at that is that the other members of the staff know that I take the job seriously, and don't let personal biases cloud my judgement.

Of the 25 bans ending soonest, -4- were given by me. One was for "Racism, flaming, and ban evasion" One actually should be a permaban as it was the first of the "Posting the giant browser crashing images" accounts before we realised it was all one guy. One was for posting porn, and one was a ban evasion re-ban.

Please tell me which of those you think demonstrates that I'm a ban-happy asshat please.

Compare my "4 of 25" bans to Jasonkey's 6 bans, Tasslefoot's 5 bans, and Guido/Stretchy combining for 7.

[OrganisM]

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I don't know about you guys, but I really think we need a thread complaining about it as well.

You do realize that people are not going to change for the sake of the forum? I know what you're complaining about, but I don't see how it's ever realistically going to change. And don't you think it's ironic that you were complaining about pointless threads that raise post-count and now just the same thing is happening in this one?

PS - reper, acting defensive and standoffish toward somebody because they use "big words" really makes you look stupid. Thought I'd mention that; it's the truth.

[Gibson63]

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1 mil get is ****** stupid IMO.... i would lock this... its useless..idk. its just some spam whore.....

[tsugomaru]

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That is why people need to register for a separate account to play 1 mil get and that thread is in the Forum Games forum. There's a reason why we have so many different forums and that's for all the types of threads out there. We have the Games forum for forum games, General Video Games for video game talk, Chit-Chat for casual topics like this one here, and much more. If you don't like to a certain type of thread, just don't visit its forum.

~Tsugomaru

[blindreper1179]

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i'm not acting defensive, i'm just saying. and obviously i'm not the only one who thinks so. so, ok. out of 25 now, it doesn't matter what there is now. and i've never said a-hat, because i don't swear.(oh sorry, i had a picture of a curse word :O)