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To be blunt, these forums are becoming painful to read. I don’t mean this in a metaphorical fashion, either. I experience physical pain when trying to comprehend what’s being said half of the time. Please, everyone, use some damn common sense.

  • This is a message board (a developer message board), not a chat room. If it’s not worth the time to eloquently type out what you have to say, it’s not worth the time for anyone else to read it. When requesting help, be clear.

  • If your post doesn’t add anything to a thread except for vertical space, don’t add it. Posts like “LMAO” are not cool.

  • If you can’t help people, don’t try. I don’t care if you think you’re teh bestest codez0r in the world, if you’re not sure you can help the problem at hand, don’t try.

  • Demanding help is not a way to get help. Don’t tell anyone to help you – ask politely, and someone will help. Furthermore, don’t criticize people who try to help you.

  • Use the damn forum search. I swear to God, if one more thread about MP3 support comes up, I’m going to kill my cat.

  • Don’t repost, bump early, or bring a thread back from the dead. A rule of thumb is that if a thread hasn’t been active in a month, and you don’t have anything new and exciting to add, don’t. Don’t bump posts unless the thread is both off the front page and it has been twenty-four hours. Also, reposting threads sucks. If you repost threads, you suck.

  • Stereotypes are not good. No one cares if you don’t like DBZ, that doesn’t mean all DBZ games are bad. Don’t generalize people based on their interests.

  • If you want to contact the staff, use the support form.

    Please, I used to really enjoy the developer forums. Now they’re just a collection of garbage. I know I’m not a particularly nice person, but I’m a jerk because this community, as a whole, has really begun to irritate me (and, I’m sure, a lot of other people also). The staff has enough work to do without holding the hands of everyone new user on the forums.
I agree with you on pretty much all you said but this post still will not stop the stuff from happening. For example, byonders have been telling other byonders not to bump post within one day for many years, but people still will go and bump it after 5 minutes. All you really can do is just ignore the people and their post.

->Calus CoRPS<-
In response to Calus CoRPS
Calus CoRPS wrote:
I agree with you on pretty much all you said but this post still will not stop the stuff from happening. For example, byonders have been telling other byonders not to bump post within one day for many years, but people still will go and bump it after 5 minutes. All you really can do is just ignore the people and their post.

->Calus CoRPS<-

Don't sign your posts. Your name is at the top.
In response to Ben G
Even though you can see my key name at the top I sign my post because it is just my signature I use. Do not let the small stuff bother you.

->Calus CoRPS<-
Ben G babbled:
  • Use the damn forum search. I swear to God, if one more thread about MP3 support comes up, I’m going to kill my cat.

    LOL! he said 'swear'.
Ben G wrote:
Use the damn forum search. I swear to God, if one more thread about MP3 support comes up, I’m going to kill my cat.

Speaking of forum search... this post has been made 100 times before. If these forums are painful for you to read, then don't read them.

Kids and teenagers account for the majority of BYOND's population. If you're expecting maturity and thoughtful discussion, then you're looking in the wrong place.
LMAO.
In response to Calus CoRPS
Calus CoRPS wrote:
For example, byonders have been telling other byonders not to bump post within one day for many years, but people still will go and bump it after 5 minutes. All you really can do is just ignore the people and their post.

->Calus CoRPS<-

The BYOND ADMIN staff should be taking care of this problem, but they never warn people.
FORUM MODS ARE SLACKING OFF!
Shape this form back up to what it used to be!
In response to Flame Sage
Flame Sage wrote:
FORUM MODS ARE SLACKING OFF!

That's an interesting viewpoint, seeing as the minute we stop "slacking off" we get accused of overreacting / being too harsh / being Nazis. =P

Seriously though, we are actually pretty active.
In response to Crispy
I would rather you be Nazi's than let this forum get this way.
That's what your supposed to do! Be hard asses!
In response to Flame Sage
Even though they are Moderators, it's not there life to sit here and reload the page all day...They have a life also, and I say they do a fairley good job anyway!
In response to Flame Sage
Flame Sage wrote:
but they never warn people.

You don't see all the forum actions. Warnings aren't done publicly. There's a specialized system in place for it. That's why you never see them warning people.
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Seriously though, we are actually pretty active.

Solution: a BYOND moderation AI. Simply get developousthe current mods to program a BYOND world with an AI that allows for personality plug-ins. Peroidically it will feed new threads from the forums through its parser, then moderate as it sees fit.

To make sure the slide from human authority into machine dominance is as unnoticable and subtle as possible, keep the plug-ins working specific times. So, for example, load Crispy.per at the times when those crazy Austrialians are online, and Lummox.per whenever someone puts usr in a proc.

Job done.
In response to Elation
I see you haven't heard about Lummox. They're halfway there, you know. :P
In response to Elation
At a forum I used to go to, an admin actually tried setting up a "Mod bot". It even answered questions in a private forum and everything.

He had to take it down when people asked him for IP addresses of forum members and the thing answered.
In response to SilkWizard
SilkWizard wrote:
Speaking of forum search... this post has been made 100 times before. If these forums are painful for you to read, then don't read them.

However, the sentiment of the content has not been felt, providing the need for another one.

Kids and teenagers account for the majority of BYOND's population. If you're expecting maturity and thoughtful discussion, then you're looking in the wrong place.

Oh, gosh, how silly of me to expect maturity in a developer forum.

Take your petty vendetta crap somewhere else.
In response to Sniper Joe
Grammer Nazis for the win, ban without hesitation!
In response to Ben G
Oh, gosh, how silly of me to expect maturity in a developer forum.

This isn't just the developer forum. Going to the Community section of the normal "BYOND Forum" also takes you here, just in a different color.
In response to Zaole
Zaole wrote:
Oh, gosh, how silly of me to expect maturity in a developer forum.

This isn't just the developer forum. Going to the Community section of the normal "BYOND Forum" also takes you here, just in a different color.

I'm fully aware of that, however I felt that this post wouldn't go so great in Bug Reports (actually, on second thought...). This post is meant to reflect views on the Developer Forum specifically, however.
In response to ZeroCrash
You misspelled the word "grammar".
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