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| 25 Aug 2013 10:02 PM |
I have stopped being active in this forum recently because its quality has decreased and is now below the quality of the Suggestions & Ideas forum. You'd think that can't happen, but it did. I analysed the recent threads in this forum (the first three pages at some point) and analysed the recent threads on the Suggestions & Ideas forum and realized that the overall quality of the threads on this forum is now lower than the quality of the threads on the Suggestions & Ideas forum. We should be proud.
I have been active in this forum since I've joined it. I'm the user who has been active for the longest time in this forum. I've literally never stopped being active here for around two years. I've seen some periods where the quality was decreasing a lot, but I think I can safely say that it has never reached this low. There are two periods where the quality of the posts on this forum was particularly low: back when the forum enhancer was introduced, because there was a million threads about it on the forum and because everyone was abusing it everywhere (but they ended up calming down), and about 8-10 months ago, for an unknown reason. This time, we've hit a record.
We should do something about this. I know the forum generally recovers after some time, but generally, that happens when a bunch of features are announced by ROBLOX (because we then start talking about them, getting back on topic) at once, and I don't see that happening any time soon. I don't see the forum recovering by itself happening any time soon either when I look at the most active people in this forum currently.
I'm suggesting that we try doing some forum sliding by posting only in threads that clearly belong in this forum and not posting, *at all*, in threads that clearly don't belong in this forum. This is obviously the best way to clean up a forum, and we might be able to increase the quality back up using this method.
So, from now on, if you see a thread that doesn't belong in this forum, don't post in it, whatever reason you'd have to post in it. |
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| 25 Aug 2013 10:03 PM |
Let's face it We just don't have any vintage scripters anymore
It's time to pack up, boys |
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| 25 Aug 2013 10:03 PM |
| Good idea, I like how Quenty is bringing up on-topic things, so that's a start. |
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| 25 Aug 2013 10:03 PM |
I miss Person299 honestly.
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| 25 Aug 2013 10:04 PM |
It seems I am not the only one noticing this problem, as Quenty has started posting on topic threads to attempt to revive discussion, and as AbsoluteLOL has posted another complaint similar to this one.
Please, if you see a thread that doesn't belong in this forum (whether because it's spam, flame war incentive or anything else), ignore it and don't post in it. |
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| 25 Aug 2013 10:05 PM |
I agree. But when mods save my tix o3o i mean sbs* |
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Quenty
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| 25 Aug 2013 10:12 PM |
I for one, have given up on most of ROBLOX's communities.
I've noticed that...
A) I only play my own games, or a few games with friends that I know, generally games that are made by people I know.
The fact that I know all of the makers of the games I'm playing shows how high my standards are, or how low ROBLOX's standards have sunk. I haven't had fun on ROBLOX in a game without friends since forever.
B) I've stopped forumming on ROBLOX and moved on to other communities.
I've gone to Twitter, XMPP, IRC, Reddit, RudDev, and IronNoob for all my ROBLOX discussion. I can't say I've gotten anything good out of the discussion here.
For any scripter who is looking for a good chat or discussion, feel free to join me, I'll help you join the community.
C) Nothing inspires me on ROBLOX anymore. - Well, this isn't exactly true, but it's close enough. The only people who are inspiring me at this moment in time is probably RudDev or people who are my friends.
This thread is sounding dangerously like a quitting thread, and although I don't think those threads make any sense, I can't exactly see why I'll keep on talking to a forum full of spam and requests. If I just slowly drop off the radar, know I'll be flying somewhere else. |
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| 25 Aug 2013 10:15 PM |
Proposal: we should try to fill the entire thread list with only threads whose name start with "Discussion". Me and Quenty have already started; help us!
(note that if off topic threads are posted, we can just add useful discussion to on topic threads to make them slide down and get on the second page :D) |
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Quenty
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| 26 Aug 2013 03:22 PM |
Although we quickly converted Scripters Forum into an on topic place, we were seriously deterred by the facts of:
A) ROBLOX mods don't spend time here, and spam quickly was created by people (not naming names), complaining about our increase in discussion - and then simply leaving, not contributing anything at all.
B) People still spammed
C) Most discussions tampered off.
Houston, abort mission. |
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| 26 Aug 2013 05:12 PM |
| @Quenty, it's because they haven't been in a good community in so long. |
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| 26 Aug 2013 06:26 PM |
| 129k adn i wil b mor on topiik |
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| 26 Aug 2013 06:27 PM |
| booing adn i wil b mor on topiik |
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| 26 Aug 2013 08:58 PM |
I agree to this, though I am not necessarily an 'older' member, I have seen a downgrade in quality. I understand I might contribute to it, but I certainly don't actively create spam.
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| 26 Aug 2013 11:33 PM |
It's basically turned into "hey, I feel like being a total idiot today, so I'll go spam in that scripters forum that no one ever goes to" or just posts that are on topic, but seem to need to follow imaginary 'rules' like prefixing the title. Yes, what quenty did helped a bit, but I doubt this place will ever be that forum with scripting posts, more than just a few active members, and occasionally a comedic post here or there. |
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| 26 Aug 2013 11:45 PM |
lol, people thinking they're superior
i spit into the face of colourful body
gobwey |
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| 27 Aug 2013 04:42 PM |
| I was here back when this section was born.. it wasn't all that great back then either. |
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| 27 Aug 2013 04:45 PM |
@Bokken
It never was great, but it never was as bad as it was some days ago either. |
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| 27 Aug 2013 04:50 PM |
Generally, everyone was a lot nicer, though they were still intimidating to the outsider.
The Unwise Wizard of Scripters has spoken. |
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| 27 Aug 2013 04:53 PM |
@Color, discussions have always been fairly off topic but yeah, I'm willing to admit that recently it's been pretty bad.
@Awsum, Nah man, we GOBWEY'd anything and everything. It only seemed nicer because there were less of us and everyone knew everyone. |
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| 27 Aug 2013 06:22 PM |
@Bokken
I would argue that GOBWEY is more non-threatening than "Get out." |
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Quenty
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| 05 Sep 2013 12:34 AM |
| GOBWEY is not the issue here. The issue is on many levels, but most importantly, the lack of discussion. |
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| 05 Sep 2013 12:35 AM |
| We've been having much more discussion than before. |
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| 05 Sep 2013 12:46 AM |
| i made two challenge threads within the last two days |
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