Ahh.. The BYOND Developer Forum and the BYOND forum, They have been separate for a few weeks but yet already have a large level of literacy between them. Personally i think the BYOND forum serves no use. All it does is attract Players who are illiterate and want to complain or start trouble. Did anyone else see this happening? Because i sure did. Perfect Example: Hub server goes down - Users see the link to the forum looking to complain and chat without knowing the rules what so ever and are so arrogant they wont listen to the rules for the forum anyway. Another example is complaining about other games. Worthless..
Keep the Dev forums but get rid of the BYOND forums they are just a waste of space.
~>Jiskuha
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Feb 19 2005, 5:43 am
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In response to Scoobert
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Scoobert wrote:
Just because a few idiots find it doesn't mean it needs to be shut down. Yeah, I mean, just look at me! |
In response to Elation
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Well...I wasn't pointing any fingers, but...
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In response to Scoobert
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The point is the BYOND forum is illiterate garbage.
~>Jiskuha |
Jiskuha wrote:
Keep the Dev forums but get rid of the BYOND forums they are just a waste of space. Then they would post on the developer forum instead. Which do you perfer, them over there, or them over here. Think about it. "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." -Henri Bergson |
In response to Jiskuha
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I... don't think that was intended when it was created.
I'm not complaining, but I'm going to have to find a translator if the language barrier continues to thicken on that side of the forums. |
That's what moderators are for. =)
Don't fret; most of the Games forums are (A) exclusive to those forums, so you don't have to read them if you don't want to, or (B) locked forums (i.e. Announcements) which only BYOND admins can post in, or (C) are in the off-topic section, which always attracted a fair amount of garbage posts even when it was only in the Developer forum. In fact, I think the quality of the off-topic forums has increased since the one forum was split into three (and since we started moderating those forums better). |
In response to Jiskuha
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Jiskuha babbles:
The point is the BYOND forum is illiterate garbage. I find your hypocrisy amusing, especially since you also post in that forum (if you notice, it contains some of the same content as the developer forum). the forums were split up for very good reasons. complaining about it serves nothing, certainly not for opinionated reasons you give above. if ya don't like it, then you don't need to post there then, eh? common sense really. |
Regardless of the quality of posts that forum receives, there is a purpose for it...
The developer forums are for just that: the developers... In the BYOND userbase, we are vastly outnumbered (at least the group of most frequent developer forum posters)... The great majority of BYOND users are strictly players, and most of them never venture here... Heck, I'd bet a good chunk of them don't even know it exists...lol However, what if one of us wants to announce our new game to the public? Do we just post about it here, on the site's only "worthwhile" forum? And only reach a small percentage of the BYOND users? A small percentage that for the most part, probably aren't active players? I know that I, for one, hardly ever play a BYOND game... I'm too busy making my own... And when I do play, it's only to check out something new once or twice, and then I go back to not playing again... I'd guess that many of us are like that, and those that do play games probably have a select few favorites that they play almost exclusively... So, what good does it do to advertise your new game on the developer forums aside from bragging about it to your fellow developers? First, you're not reaching the larger playing audience, and second, the audience that you are reaching isn't likely to continually play your game... So, there needed to be a way for developers to announce games to the playing masses... A forum in the Games section only makes sense for that... And that's only one of the reasons that the Games forum is useful... I'm sure someone else can come up with more... So, regardless of what "illiterate garbage" gets posted there, it definitely has a worthwhile reason for existing... Besides, if you don't want to read those posts, no one is forcing you to... Just keep your browser on the Blue and Gray side of the fence and those noisy, backwoods neighbors on the Orange and Peach side won't cause you any trouble (well, aside from the small overlap of the three "Off Topic" forums)... |
The BYOND forums are a great idea. It mostly keeps those illiterates out of the developer forums, and it isn't ALL illiterate anyways, and it is a haven for gamers to talk about BYOND games, which we hardly had before this, and it allows new people to get help with joining, people that don't know that you had to go to the 'developer' section of BYOND to get help. I've seen lots of worthwhile topics there so far.
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In response to Kunark
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Sorry to bring up such an old topic but kunark was right before. Now... just no. Great going guys! I love the new link in the games side of the forum. Since its been put there I've noticed a lot of forum trolls(people just posting to be posting and complaining) here at the developers side. Can I say, not really great going?
~>Jiskuha |
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The byond forums are there to allow players to report problems they have found, and find the community that we so dearly love. Just because a few idiots find it doesn't mean it needs to be shut down.