Isn't the whole point of a message board to DISCUSS things?

[Movies205]

Community is not beyond saving.

When Hype Mods realize the point of community, perhaps you'll be right, till then, keep up the good fight! It seems as clear as day to me, political forum and junkyard forum(And where posts in this forum, don't add to your post count, I've seen it been done b4 on other boards).

 

[JLBats]

A little birdie told me that you went el-loco when you banned a poster for making fun of your ridiculousness, of course that what a little birdie told me, so perhaps it was Jesus she was saying should go free, and your the metaphorical Jew.

Of course, I stick by what I said Community is a cess-pool, and the ridiculous attempts at trying to turn a cess-pool into that beautiful and lovely community pool down the street would be and is futile, but have fun trying, kids

This is Movies doing his best Wilhelm impression.

Unfortunately, he's no Wilhelm.

 

[Movies205]

This is Movies doing his best Wilhelm impression.

Unfortunately, he's no Wilhelm.

Don't act like you know me because you've manage to have some repartee with me in the past couple of days, so you want to make your mark, or whatever it is, you kids like to do on these boards to make yourselves feel special and to gain an identity of some sort, here's a tip, first off you do it where people will actually see it and two you got be a little more pungent than that. Because quite frankly again you don't know me, and if you seen my posts, you'd know, I'm a sarcastic prick 99% of the time so buzz off kid.

 

[JLBats]

Don't act like you know me because you've manage to have some repartee with me in the past couple of days, so you want to make your mark, or whatever it is, you kids like to do on these boards to make yourselves feel special and to gain an identity of some sort, here's a tip, first off you do it where people will actually see it and two you got be a little more pungent than that. Because quite frankly again you don't know me, and if you seen my posts, you'd know, I'm a sarcastic prick 99% of the time so buzz off.

WTF are you talking about?

Make my mark? On a message board?

Listen, Movies, I have 16000 posts. If I haven't made my "mark" by now I'm not going to try to make it by going to technical support and poking fun at you

I just think calling Community a "cesspool" is sort of self important. Community serves its purpose as much as any other forum on these boards. Seperating it into two forums, a junkyard one and a political one, only creates one forum that is a useless pile of spam and another one that is a seering political hatefest. It doesn't increase the actual quality of anything.

 

[JLBats]

I like how he edited just to add the word "kid" to the end of his post. Seems kind of pointless.

 

[Movies205]

WTF are you talking about?

Make my mark? On a message board?

Listen, Movies, I have 16000 posts. If I haven't made my "mark" by now I'm not going to try to make it by going to technical support and poking fun at you

I just think calling Community a "cesspool" is sort of self important. Community serves its purpose as much as any other forum on these boards. Seperating it into two forums, a junkyard one and a political one, only creates one forum that is a useless pile of spam and another one that is a seering political hatefest. It doesn't increase the actual quality of anything.

First off... This is an internet message board it's not like it matters if there's quality, but in any case make 3 different forums:

Community

Political

Junkyard

Now what does this do, it makes everyone happy. Because one, you have the spam-happy kids posting in the junkyard and it doesn't hurt anyone, and it can be periodically deleted once a week. The political threads are now no longer invaded or driven off topic by ******s(such as myself) and can have some serious discussion and not be over-ridden by spam threads. And the emo-kids cna have community all to themselves, tell me how does this not produce quality and give everyone what they want?

Edit: Also it is a cess-pool now because you have the spam threads over-riding real threads, you have political threads becoming flame wars because of the spam-heads and emo kids, and the emo-kids getting owned by the pundits!

 

[Leto Atrides]

Community is not beyond saving.

I believe in the Community Forum.

 

[Movies205]

I like how he edited just to add the word "kid" to the end of his post. Seems kind of pointless.

It sounded more poignant to me, kind of like a cliché line from a movie...

 

[JLBats]

First off... This is an internet message board it's not like it matters if there's quality, make 3 different forums:

Community

Political

Junkyard

Now what does this do, it makes everyone happy. Because one, you have the spam-happy kids posting in the junkyard and it doesn't hurt anyone, and it can be periodically deleted once a week. The political threads are now no longer invaded or driven off topic by ******s(such as myself) and can have some serious discussion and not be over-ridden by spam threads. And the emo-kids cna have community all to themselves, tell me how does this not produce quality and give everyone what they want?

So you're basically suggesting the junkyard primarily as some sort of forum for games and lists threads? That leaves Community with very little to it.

I'm not saying seperating the forums is necessarily a bad idea. I'm just saying it won't actually change the quality of the threads and posts being made within them. It's a band-aid on a message board desperately in need of stitches.

 

[JLBats]

It sounded more poignant to me, kind of like a cliché line from a movie...

Ok.

 

[Movies205]

So you're basically suggesting the junkyard primarily as some sort of forum for games and lists threads? That leaves Community with very little to it.

I'm not saying seperating the forums is necessarily a bad idea. I'm just saying it won't actually change the quality of the threads and posts being made within them. It's a band-aid on a message board desperately in need of stitches.

Not quite, I've felt the community forum would have a lot more potential if the mods weren't gay about chat threads, and let people actually form the cliches and friendships, and just talk about life and various things in that forum. Also you'd be surprised, I'd bet that if the community forum was rid of political threads and spam threads, a lot of interesting topics would pop up and you get a whole new group of people posting there and people leaving, each board would find it's user-groups, it just take some time for them to grow, only my opinion is all.

 

[JLBats]

Edit: Also it is a cess-pool now because you have the spam threads over-riding real threads, you have political threads becoming flame wars because of the spam-heads and emo kids, and the emo-kids getting owned by the pundits!

Seperating them into different forums isn't going to stop the trolls from coming in and derailing threads. Political threads tend to become flame wars regardless of spammers. That Israel attacks Lebanon thread has very little spam in it, but it's still full of people flaming each other. The only real emo kid who tries to debate politics on here is kainedamo.

 

[Movies205]

Seperating them into different forums isn't going to stop the trolls from coming in and derailing threads. Political threads tend to become flame wars regardless of spammers. That Israel attacks Lebanon thread has very little spam in it, but it's still full of people flaming each other. The only real emo kid who tries to debate politics on here is kainedamo.

The flame wars as long as they have good points being made so be it, these are issues people are passionate about, if they break out into insults then delete the posts and let them start again, heated debates aren't bad things.

 

[JLBats]

The flame wars as long as they have good points being made so be it, these are issues people are passionate about, if they break out into insults then delete the posts and let them start again, heated debates aren't bad things.

I'm not saying they are. What I'm saying is, the political threads only get derailed when it is a particularly stupid poster starting the thread. Usually they stay fairly on topic.

 

[Movies205]

I'm not saying they are. What I'm saying is, the political threads only get derailed when it is a particularly stupid poster starting the thread. Usually they stay fairly on topic.

I don't see why they can't be separate though there's enough threads to warrant another forum, it doesn't even need to be called politics, it could be a "News Forum"... Well I've said my piece...

 

[Elijya]

wow, movies, did you stop taking your medicine?

 

[Movies205]

wow, movies, did you stop taking your medicine?

Oh man I got off with a crappy retort, I was so worried he go crazy again and ban me, **** I got lucky today!

 

[JLBats]

Well, my issue with it is that you say Community is currently a cesspool, but advocate removing all the useful threads from it... leaving just one huge swamp with nothing useful in it.

If more interesting non-political topics were being brought up in Community, I'd probably agree with you.

 

[Elijya]

no, seriously dude, wtf is going on?

 

[Movies205]

Well, my issue with it is that you say Community is currently a cesspool, but advocate removing all the useful threads from it... leaving just one huge swamp with nothing useful in it.

If more interesting non-political topics were being brought up in Community, I'd probably agree with you.

You got realize it perspective, a lot of these kids are young(granted I'm still young), when I first started posting here I made a bunch of crappy borderline/emo threads as well, it's there way, they like making them, so if that's what they want, let them have it, there just going through all the steps.

 

[Movies205]

no, seriously dude, wtf is going on?

JUMANJI

no, seriously dude, wtf how do you want me to respond to that?

 

[Philly Phanboy]

Community is not beyond saving.

Fear the bat...ummm I mean..the dog.

 

[jaguarr]

no, seriously dude, wtf is going on?

A valid question. He does seem a bit unhinged over this.

jag

 

[DOG LIPS]

I think the Community forum may have beat up Movies205 when he was a kid, or stole his girlfriend. He's out for revenge.

 

[JLBats]

I think the Community forum may have beat up Movies205 when he was a kid, or stole his girlfriend. He's out for revenge.

But it's a cesspool, Dog Lips. A CESSPOOL!

*foams at mouth*