CockroachMan said:Linkiboy said:Of course it died, you were the only one to use it.
He was also the only one to use "Lurk moar"
iwakura said:
oh snap. time to lurk moar.
JPH said:4chan isn't GBAtemp
Some people argue that the Testing Area is bad for GBAtemp, and is ruining it.
If that is so, I say it's removed...
xcalibur said:
4chan is an anonymous image board.VVoltz said:
scubersteve said:Apparently, according to Costello, the staff is going to try to de-4chanize the boards.
Yes, I pulled it out of IRC, and I deleted some lines of irrelevence...we're discussing in the staff forums on how to end this rather annoying 4chan & bashing trend that has been going on lately on the forums
4chan trends aren't that unhealthy...
they can be funny.
its an interesting discussion and there will certainly be consequences
I think as long as 4chan stays in the testing forums, then it should be ok
yeah.
its everywhere.
and no, it's not ok
oh
i wish you could read this staff topic, you would totally understand
I wish I could too :/
well, at least desu died out.
all I know is that i really like the gbatemp forums and members. they feel like a family too me
we'll take action soon to solve these issues, this whole thing is turning the forums into a bunch of crap not worth reading.
I wish 4chan and the "anon" crap never existed
I dont really see much 4chan stuff going on...
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080227.jpg
can you link me to a topic thats an example?
thats totally what we're seeing now
discussions used to be interesting, now half of the posts are 4chan memes
"TITS OR GTFO"
"Troll."
"Lulz"
"Epic win"
dont tell me you havent seen this all over the place
I really dont see that very much...
well I see it every day, every time I load gbatemp
I only go to topics in the top 10 last replied ones
yeah well maybe I just read more topics than you do
the problem isnt 4chan itself
its the way people are behaving
they're behaving 4chanly
see what I mean
lol?
like they're on a meaningless random image board
well gbatemp is not a meaningless random image board.
now, cotello. are you saying peoples replys to things? or are you talking about whole discussions?
you should know rule #1
"# When replying to a topic, don't; unless you have something meaningful to say or something that will contribute to the discussion. Posts such as "Yes" or "I agree" or "LOL" are useless and are wasteful on the servers. This is not GameFAQ's!
it's all in here http://gbatemp.net/index.php?act=boardrules
maybe the rules could be numbered by priority?
why would we need to establish priorities when you are required to respect ALL the rules
I personaly think that the only way to stop the random crap is to make an area thats just for it. (like the testing area) because it will happen. you cant ever get rid of it for good without getting rid of most your members
I really think that trying to rid it off of the forums will not work and just be bad.
OsakaTemp: that's not our intention for now. we're strill trying to decide on what to do
heh...
Costello:
i have an idea
I have an idea if you can actualy do it
robot9000 it
but seriously, it feels like GBAtemp is turning into 4chan, with the /b/ section being the Testing area. people post all sort of bullshit in there (they would post anything like porn, or illegal files if the testing area wasnt moderated)
* ScrubberS hides in a corner as if he's doing nothing wrong
it will eliminate meme posts
whats that?
i'm all ears, osaka-chan
http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-...-noise-in-chat/
ok, it doesnt have to be this exact punishment, you can do whatever you want.
but..
make it so if anyone posts any of those bumb words you hate outside of the testing area, then make it so they get -1 post instead of +1
like, if its anywhere in their post
this doesnt sound like a grown-up solution =P
so people will stop responding to real topics with memes
what if it's a typo?
like, someone typing the word me twie by accident?
you cant typo "tits or gtfo"
we need a constructive solution
But Costello has a very good point.
KEEP THE #CHAN ON #CHAN!
(yes, I know that I'm part of the problem, so I will begin by replacing the word epic with awesome)
Sors said:scubersteve said:Apparently, according to Costello, the staff is going to try to de-4chanize the boards.
Yes, I pulled it out of IRC, and I deleted some lines of irrelevence...we're discussing in the staff forums on how to end this rather annoying 4chan & bashing trend that has been going on lately on the forums
4chan trends aren't that unhealthy...
they can be funny.
its an interesting discussion and there will certainly be consequences
I think as long as 4chan stays in the testing forums, then it should be ok
yeah.
its everywhere.
and no, it's not ok
oh
i wish you could read this staff topic, you would totally understand
I wish I could too :/
well, at least desu died out.
all I know is that i really like the gbatemp forums and members. they feel like a family too me
we'll take action soon to solve these issues, this whole thing is turning the forums into a bunch of crap not worth reading.
I wish 4chan and the "anon" crap never existed
I dont really see much 4chan stuff going on...
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080227.jpg
can you link me to a topic thats an example?
thats totally what we're seeing now
discussions used to be interesting, now half of the posts are 4chan memes
"TITS OR GTFO"
"Troll."
"Lulz"
"Epic win"
dont tell me you havent seen this all over the place
I really dont see that very much...
well I see it every day, every time I load gbatemp
I only go to topics in the top 10 last replied ones
yeah well maybe I just read more topics than you do
the problem isnt 4chan itself
its the way people are behaving
they're behaving 4chanly
see what I mean
lol?
like they're on a meaningless random image board
well gbatemp is not a meaningless random image board.
now, cotello. are you saying peoples replys to things? or are you talking about whole discussions?
you should know rule #1
"# When replying to a topic, don't; unless you have something meaningful to say or something that will contribute to the discussion. Posts such as "Yes" or "I agree" or "LOL" are useless and are wasteful on the servers. This is not GameFAQ's!
it's all in here http://gbatemp.net/index.php?act=boardrules
maybe the rules could be numbered by priority?
why would we need to establish priorities when you are required to respect ALL the rules
I personaly think that the only way to stop the random crap is to make an area thats just for it. (like the testing area) because it will happen. you cant ever get rid of it for good without getting rid of most your members
I really think that trying to rid it off of the forums will not work and just be bad.
OsakaTemp: that's not our intention for now. we're strill trying to decide on what to do
heh...
Costello:
i have an idea
I have an idea if you can actualy do it
robot9000 it
but seriously, it feels like GBAtemp is turning into 4chan, with the /b/ section being the Testing area. people post all sort of bullshit in there (they would post anything like porn, or illegal files if the testing area wasnt moderated)
* ScrubberS hides in a corner as if he's doing nothing wrong
it will eliminate meme posts
whats that?
i'm all ears, osaka-chan
http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-...-noise-in-chat/
ok, it doesnt have to be this exact punishment, you can do whatever you want.
but..
make it so if anyone posts any of those bumb words you hate outside of the testing area, then make it so they get -1 post instead of +1
like, if its anywhere in their post
this doesnt sound like a grown-up solution =P
so people will stop responding to real topics with memes
what if it's a typo?
like, someone typing the word me twie by accident?
you cant typo "tits or gtfo"
we need a constructive solution
But Costello has a very good point.
KEEP THE #CHAN ON #CHAN!
(yes, I know that I'm part of the problem, so I will begin by replacing the word epic with awesome)
Actually i think the real problem lies much deeper than just the meme flooding and the chandialect.
Gbatemp is part information network and part social network, the social network part alone ignores the rule costello mentioned mostly. Also many others of the rules are mainly ignored in any high frequented topic.
This of course is done to make gbatemp a "friendly" community, instead of a cold website that serves nothing more but plain information. But such a community oriented decision of course also has the downside that, well, the community is in charge of the "face" of the site and not the Mods and Admins. With chan spreading all over to any community oriented site it is a given that gbatemp also get's it's fair share of "chan facelifting" then. But generally all big communities have to "suffer" from any big internet movement (for those old enough to remember the rise of the 1337, they know whyt i mean). And chan isn't the first and won't be the last community infection.
So if you want to get rid of internet community infections the best possibilities are either having no real community, just a userbase or massively enforcing any rule without any double standard. Since new users with a strong chan influence simply won't be able to differ between the gbacommunities "hi friend" post's offtopicness and the chan's "lolwut" post's offtopicness.
Serious post is serious.
WHY SO SERIOUS?
