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gloweyjoey, on 25 May 2012 - 01:30 AM, said:

You're conflating two separate (but tangential) issues:

1. Copyright infringement is not allowed. Whether it's cartridge ROM dumps or another site's articles. This applies to the entire site.

2. Articles on the front page should follow a (relatively) uniform template. It is suggested that you use the stickied guide when posting in the USN, but only required if you want that front page option.

The copying clause in the USN template thread is just there as a reminder that copyright infringement is against the rules. It is not specific to this forum, however seeing as most of the infringing threads were here it makes sense to put such a reminder. Conversely, the USN template itself is optional here and anywhere else (except the front page).

On the issue of sources "too short" to quote: it is not a necessity to include anything more than a link. If you're feeling stupendously lazy then that can be the entire body of your post.

Note that I am not a volunteer of the site, and as such you should treat this only as my observation of their rules.

Tsuteto, on 25 May 2012 - 12:10 AM, said:

APEX 2012 results

Brawl Top 8


Melee Top 8

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The ruleset in question (Unity 2.1) was generally ignored by the tournament scene and in fact led to the disbanding of the committee which maintains said ruleset.

They tried to ban him and failed.

Costello, on 23 May 2012 - 07:26 AM, said:

Kotaku's source is the Eurogamer article, where Robert Purchese postulates on a number of DICE titles which might be affected. Eurogamer's source is the tweet I mentioned.

Because it was posted on a blog, it must be true, right? Probably should check your sources next time.

EA has said nothing. The source of this is a tweet from a Frostbite Engine dev stating that they (DICE) will have some games requiring 64-bit processing.

In addition, Frostbite Engine 2 itself does not inherently require 64-bit processing. A lot of misreporting going on.

No; the problem is that it's a bad solution.

As the name implies, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It consists of "static" content presented in an "objective" manner. This precludes discussion from the articles themselves, and thus a proper medium was required for such things (the "Talk" page).

GBAtemp is a message board. The entire site is already a medium for discussion as that is it's primary function. Having discussions within discussions does not, in fact, help you discuss while you discuss (despite what Xzibit has been telling you). All it would accomplish is to fragment conversation and overcomplicate things.

A more reasonable thought might be found in the closer analog of a news site, for example Slashdot or Reddit. They use tree-style commenting which allow users to branch discussion off and focus on separate aspects of the subject in question. This works well for such a site for two main reasons. One that the material or topics of discussion tend to be multifaceted. Here on GBAtemp the majority of threads are "the fuck flashcart do i buy for my 3ds" or "the fuck is a cios i want free wii games". These do not tend to promote complex discussion, and thus the added complexity of comment trees does not bring with it much benefit.

The possibly more blatant reason they use such a format is because the stories on those news site are temporary. Not in the sense that the content is temporary, but rather interest in the discussion. People may have an argument or two, then move on to the next thing that piques their taste.

Here, threads linger. Discussion occurs over a period of days to years. When you have a thread with fifty posts non-linearily going off in twenty different directions, it becomes pretty hard to follow. God forbid a more active thread such as the one discussing Smealum's Minecraft clone with two thousand posts. Good luck keeping up with that conversation.

So, what's the solution? The solution is already in place. There are plenty of volunteers who moderate the forum, and that works fine. If somebody if sending a thread too far off the course, report it. If something is so off-topic that you would insist on posting it in this weird meta-thread, you should probably just make a separate one anyways.