What brings you to the forum
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BlackLivesMatter
Gold Member
To be honest I don't remember but probably caused I was bored.
The mods always had the requirement But most mods only would come to forums and that was mainly mod forums if you threatened to take their "boots" away, (Old chat lingo) to read an all staff message from CM.
I think the problem with forums is obvious. No arcade. I and many others came for the arcade. If arcade was down we go check out forums.
What I don't like about forums Ignore should include not only the messages but the obnoxious name and any reactions, for that person to cease to exist. i.e. ignore.
I mean it is fun to see idiots complain about mods or bans but sometimes the bans are accidental as to a system trigger and some bans are sketchy. Determining who is the idiot is difficult at times.
The mods always had the requirement But most mods only would come to forums and that was mainly mod forums if you threatened to take their "boots" away, (Old chat lingo) to read an all staff message from CM.
I think the problem with forums is obvious. No arcade. I and many others came for the arcade. If arcade was down we go check out forums.
What I don't like about forums Ignore should include not only the messages but the obnoxious name and any reactions, for that person to cease to exist. i.e. ignore.
I mean it is fun to see idiots complain about mods or bans but sometimes the bans are accidental as to a system trigger and some bans are sketchy. Determining who is the idiot is difficult at times.
Sorry about ruining the game scores for everyone back then. I've mentioned it before but I don't think they care about adding things like that back again. The site is super vanilla because they don't want to have to make sure every add on is updated and compatible with the latest forum update. Otherwise you end up either not updating and being vulnerable or updating and losing that aspect of the site. It's risk deflection by not implementing.
I said 'other' but it's a mix of all of them. I had to sign up to apply to mod but then I got into interacting with people as well as watching the stupid kick/ban appeals (not that all are stupid but the majority are). I find forums better than chat rooms tbh. I see it as a form of social media but with the benefit of anonymity.
It needs more activity on here to get any improvement at all and whether we like it or not we have to compete with social media. Some things off the top of my head that I think could help:
It needs more activity on here to get any improvement at all and whether we like it or not we have to compete with social media. Some things off the top of my head that I think could help:
- Have some kind of "home" section that new users can go to to get a feel for how it all works (perhaps including the FAQs etc mentioned in point 3 below) Explain how to get involved in things. Sometimes if there are big personalities around it can be intimidating for new users to just jump in whereas the reality is that their contributions would usually be welcomed
- Having good topical debate threads where people don't troll could get people more involved but they always go off-topic/get trolly/personal insults
- Have specific content linked to from the rooms. Eg. Have some "how to" guides, some FAQs/threads that answer the common queries with either screenshots or videos (eg. "why does it say the pic is too big?" and explaining how to compress it).
- Expand the trophy system beyond the 113 Club
- Having some kind of score on the profile which factors in the reaction score against the post count although this would need to be fixed for people who've been here a long time where they have high post count but low reaction score presumably because of a migration
I mainly use the forums to flag issues or incidents where there is no other obvious recourse (site lags or crashes, queries which aren’t covered by site rules or mods couldn’t/wouldn’t answer, suggestions for improvement).
As for what I’d like to see on here: suggestions actually leading to responses from site owners and/or any notable improvement maybe? Otherwise why have the forum?
As for what I’d like to see on here: suggestions actually leading to responses from site owners and/or any notable improvement maybe? Otherwise why have the forum?
-Luka
Platinum Member
excuse me
You were the one I was thinking of 😀
Almost 10k reactions against 43k posts doesn't seem fair. I think I read somewhere about an old rep system and that didn't carry forward when the software changed?
-Luka
Platinum Member
Personally attacked yet flattered rn. Ha!
Bear in mind it would be higher if people weren’t offended but alas. I’ve never seen anyone be in competition with those trophy things although I would participate if there were new ones to acquire I quite like them.
The rep system was here when I joined it was genuinely for helpful solutions but of course it was abused. Then there was begging threads which I obviously participated in. Fun times when you’d get loads of your mates to bad rep someone who bad repped you as revenge until they had a bright red negative reputation. There were legit tears over this.
Bring it back!
purplerose
Gold Member
nah cm just wiped them every now and then and we had to start over. rest assured though @Luka was rep h0ing day and night.
-Luka
Platinum Member
Today’s equivalent is calling someone a bAd nAmE, getting tons of likes and the post gets removed. Everytime it fkn kills me i stg 🤕
purplerose
Gold Member
the forums speak when you have full green reps and then full red reps in a minute or less. people certainly knew where they stood.
Basically all the reasons you listed as options is why i picked other. Cause like @Inkandtatts stated. It’s a bit of them all for me.
purplerose
Gold Member
Coulda just said floor poopers need not apply... but I see your in customer support mode.
