so let me make a new analogy...
That's one of the most awesome analogies I've seen in a while. Props to you, good sir.
As for myself and the ugly people, well, lets just say I was in an unusual predisposition at the time, and was finding it hard to, er, focus. Glad you had a laugh though, I am laughing now at what I wrote.
Onto the more serious matters at hand...
Firstly, I
did say (though perhaps understated) that I am not opposed to changing the forums to be more accommodating. However, I think that this thread has nothing left to accomplish. You have already alerted Kyro, so that's about as much as you can do as far as a hard solution goes. And now the purpose of this thread is to (as Marshall so eloquently put it) "ask the dumpers to do their business elsewhere". Surely you see the futility of this? Anyone who's purpose is to cause mayhem amongst forums is
trying to get threads like this to pop up, to draw attention. The only way to defeat them is to simply ignore them, but if people don't, well, there's not a lot anyone can do. And continuing this thread is obviously counterproductive to your goals, at this is technically an OT thread and is taking one more space in the "recent posts" list.
You claim i am over reacting.
I wasn't referring to any emotional writing, you were indeed quite civil. It's just that this is nitpicking here; it is only one or two more clicks to see the kind of threads you are looking for. You also say you are "offended" and "should not be subjected" to these threads, as if they were some form of horrible torture, which I just think is a gross exaggeration what is no more than a minor annoyance, unworthy of more attention than making a suggestion to the moderators (enter the ugly people; point being: not a serious issue).
I'd say you were trying to mock me Miller, but as they say imitation is the greatest from of flattery.....i'll send you along a signed 8x10
Yes, mocking your "taking offense" was probably my intent when I wrote it, I just got carried away. Way away.
I don't like them is that they are much larger than any thread about Galciv2.
Well, I love GCII and all, but sometimes the game-related topics simply aren't interesting. Most of them are just simple questions people ask, and someone else gives an answer: this is how it works. And that's it, there's nothing left for the thread. The question has been answered. Some questions are sort of like polls: what do you like to do in the game? I go in, post my method, and I'm out. Again, that's it. There's only so many people, the threads can't get that long. Then there's the AAR's, that's just a one man show with about ten posts or so followed by a few "nice AAR" comments. The only game threads that have potential are idea threads: What do you think of this addition? But they are often quashed by mods ("yes, we're implementing that", or "no, we will not add that"), which is too bad, because I like those threads. It really all boils down to simply how much is there to say about GCII? Sure, there's a lot, but if its all segregated into topics, you'll never see any one get big.
The point in question is whether it is fair or appropriate or healthy for maintaining the interest of the GAL CIV GAMING community for multiple very-Off-Topic, not remotely GalCiv related, threads to monopolize a lot of the available slots on the 1st forum page viewed by everyone, the Recently Posted posted page.
I think drrider may have a case though. Is that the real complaint here? You guys think that not only do OT threads force you to click your mouse a few times, but they actually prevent a significant amount of people from posting in game topics? This still seems to be rather exaggerated. I certainly am not dissuaded to post in game topics by the mere sight of off-topic threads, and I would think that most people have no trouble talking about what they want regardless of other people's conversations, but I'm not a psychologist.
Ah, well, I hope I have made myself clear. I have an bad habit of cluttering my own arguments, be it with humor or rhetoric or unnecessarily large words, like 'unnecessarily'. For the record, I have only posted three or four times in the "far-left" topics. I do agree with many here that they really aren't that substantial, but there is occasionally a poster who says something with more than sub-simian coherence, which is precisely the type of thing I look for in those threads. I hope I haven't offended you neilo, I know you're kinda sensitive.
***woohoo, asterisks!***
