A mess

[a2h]

My first GBAtemp blog post, and a rant.

I am bloody tired of going through countless posts of people repeating the same thing over and over, not bothering to search, acting like an obnoxious selfish idiot who will rage at you if you tell them to spell properlyk, people who can't spell properly, people who overuse emotes, PEOPLE WHO USE ALL CAPS, etc.

The rules go on about garbage about legible English, etc.

Is that enforced in such a way?

Also.

"Duplicate topics will be closed."

Blaaaaah.

I hardly see any moderation of those kinds of things going on.

It's only very off topic or flaming, etc that gets deleted.

This place is almost like a garbage tip.

And so why am I here?

Because every other forum would be the same.

Consoles almost always attract obnoxious idiots.

I can almost sympathise with Smiths, who's wanting mod privs in the AK forum cause of the people.

It's saddening.

But then..

Can't do anything about it.

It sucks.

Oh well.

 

[War]

Moderators are doing the best they can... they can't be on 24/7 watching reported posts and threads.

 

[dinofan01]

All though I agree there has been a flood of useless threads lately, it won't last forever. This really started a couple of weeks ago when FW 4.0 was announced for Wii. Ever since then with the USB loader there has been a crap load of noobs creeping out of the wood work. Just give it some time for everything to die down. Then well have the good o' GBAtemp back. Oh, and don't blame the mods for this. It requires alot to do what they do especially at a time like this.

 

[UltraMagnus]

I think more needs to be done to get rid of this shit, its sometimes not even a case of searching, its not unusual to see the same question asked three times on the same topic list page. I stopped posting in the AK forum for this exact reason, I guess being the first DSi flashcard has attracted a lot of idiots.

as for spelling, well, that is sometimes more excusable and being lysdexic myself I can sympathise somewhat. and you have to remember english is not some peoples native language

 

[david432111]

Moderators are doing the best they can... they can't be on 24/7 watching reported posts and threads.

Then why not get more moderators? One or two for each time zone?

 

[UltraMagnus]

Moderators are doing the best they can... they can't be on 24/7 watching reported posts and threads.

Then why not get more moderators? One or two for each time zone?

the are 24 times zones though... 48 new moderators seems a little, overkill?

 

[david432111]

Moderators are doing the best they can... they can't be on 24/7 watching reported posts and threads.

Then why not get more moderators? One or two for each time zone?

the are 24 times zones though... 48 new moderators seems a little, overkill?

Maybe not one for every timezone, but one for each of the most used time zones.

 

[raulpica]

Moderators are doing the best they can... they can't be on 24/7 watching reported posts and threads.

Then why not get more moderators? One or two for each time zone?

the are 24 times zones though... 48 new moderators seems a little, overkill?

Well, maybe not 48, but someone more would not be a bad idea

 

[Eon-Rider]

Something that I would like to mention is I really dislike the search function in the first place. The default IPB search feature has been replaced with this awful Google search that doesn't show the most relevant threads anyway from my experience.

 

[Maz7006]

I see all the frustration, and yes there has been an awful lot of topics like "can meh r4 work on the DSi if I get it ?", basically lame things that have been answered, i'm sure moderators are doing their jobs, but you can't stop people for well lets see, being stupid, and NOT believing in something called the search feature in this forum. I'm sure the mods at GBAtemp are moderating their assess off lately.

 

[p1ngpong]

Two mods for each timezone is a naive idea, real life doesnt work like that.

You lot seem to forget the mods dont get paid for their work, its all voluntary and they mod here in their spare time.

A gaming forum, which is mainly populated by kids will have its fair share of badly written, repetitive, lazy posts.

Its not the staffs fault. Blaming them is unfair. This is a very well run orderly forum.

If you see something that should be moderated, use the report button.

Thats what its there for.

 

[Satangel]

Well, we've seen messes before, like when the Wii Backuplauncher was just released or when some new homebrew comes out.
But it has never been as bad as this yet, and normally, the mess was solved now.

 

[tj_cool]

Don't forget when GTA came out

 

[mthrnite]

Something that I would like to mention is I really dislike the search function in the first place. The default IPB search feature has been replaced with this awful Google search that doesn't show the most relevant threads anyway from my experience.

I agree, searching the forums isn't nearly as easy as some would make out. That's one of the reasons why I'm sympathetic to folks who just ask a question, even if it's been answered before.
As for more mods.. it's not a bad idea, and it's one that's being talked about, especially with Wii hacking being notched up a bit these days. Not many of the current mods have hacked Wiis, so that's something that will hopefully be addressed relatively soon.

Picking mods is not an easy task btw, and frankly there are other fish frying atm.

 

[Satangel]

It's getting a bit better now, since the USB Loader... my turn

got a summary in the first post now.
Thanks for the ones that made that happen!

 

[UltraMagnus]

Something that I would like to mention is I really dislike the search function in the first place. The default IPB search feature has been replaced with this awful Google search that doesn't show the most relevant threads anyway from my experience.

if you switch to the classic skin you get the proper search.

I have to agree the current google search is complete crap though, the problem is that the normal one creates load on the database