thegreekdog wrote:
I know that some peoples' initial reactions are "we should bring back Dancing Mustard." Assuming that will not happen, are there alternatives? I say yes. And those alternatives are to be witty, smart, fun, and rebellious (within the rules) yourselves. I've found that, although perhaps we've lost some entertaining posters, there remain entertaining and intelligent posters and we are constantly bringing in new ones. I think if you want to be one of those posters, you should try to be one. If you are complaining about the lack of entertainment in the forums, go provide that entertainment. I can certainly understand how you can have some frustration regarding the content of the forums, but a lot of you are witty, smart, fun, and rebellious and, therefore, you can change the content of the forums to reflect the content you want to see.
I've been here since year dot. I try to be
witty, smart fun and rebellious, but to be honest it's hard work being funny when so many of this sites great protagonists have been banned, there is less and less material to work with.
But we're just touching on the humorous forum content. Trapyoung brought up other valid points regarding the endless dice bitching threads, the endless congratulatory threads. I'd add to that the endless obama threads and the endless American political threads. Why don't the mods focus on these repetitive threads and just merge them until they no longer become an issue?
I'll admit that I recently created a thread congratulating myself on breaking my high score,
but, I made it in the bumpage forum (where I inhabit on a regular basis) for a change and added a ridiculous poll to let everyone vote to say I should STFU about talking about points
and it took me 2 and a half years to break that score.
If you want the forums to be a place to visit, make them more varied in content / title.
But the mods instead allow countless dice gripes, obama sucks, I've got 4000 points and a todger that wouldn't fill a hummingbirds arsehole to remain. They then ban DM, dm goes and soon after
heavycola disappears. 2 of the greatest posters in bumpage go and you expect new witty posters to replace these heavyweights? New and witty posters would of been encouraged by having these people and more like them in place instead of having their input removed.
But Trap also touched on the lack of decent open games. So far, it's the players who have to set up games with some standard password if you have a certain amount of points. This site hasn't done jack shit to give this as an option to the paying players. We have to come up with this stuff ourselves.
Clan ladder games?
Again we have to set it all up
Where is the site in promoting the team work ethic that makes a great clan or a great quad team etc. ?
Doesn't the admin here understand that being in a clan could be a massive part of the site, and income, if organized by the site efficiently instead of some poor schmuck having to do loads of donkey work and adding stuff up manually...
Card counters?
Again we have people creating scripts to do the most basic things and it takes the site 2 fucking years to say "Hey! - that's a great idea to implement and without it, it was unfair to players that didn't know where to find the script download thread in the forums"
And all the other add on scripts that people have made. Sure it's less work for the game server and makes running the site slightly cheaper by letting people find this stuff out for themselves, but If I applied the same sort of logic to the company I worked for we'd sell just 10% of what we actually sell.
I would of thought that by now, Lack would of known exactly who his key customers are. He could of created a forum for non mod, non brown nosing players to discuss how to take the site forward.
I know we have an official suggestions section, but that is so bogged down with suggestions that it's become a quagmire, no longer a melting pot of bright ideas.
. Even more, there's at least 1 mod who's 17, and he's definitely mature. There's also definitely people who are not mature, mostly kids, but also people over 18.
cracking post...
