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So, about the What If thread...
Raikaria:
--- Quote from: Helepolis on March 31, 2016, 02:11:14 PM ---Similar problems I see in Rumia's section. Some text based games are played like by 1 person, sadly. (But I guess that is another issue)
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I would argue that isn't so much an issue with the section as it is an issue with text based RP's. Players disagree; the GM had to pick a route; and the players who didn't get their way are unhappy and leave. Repeat until you end up with 1~2 players and it effectively becomes a choose your own adventure book.
As someone who had this exact thing happen, it sucks but I wouldn't count it in the same spammy nature as What If [And Rumia's is supposed to be for forum games/roleplay so as long as the games have players who are roleplaying it's not too bad]
I'd say the addiction thread is almost as bad. Almost. A quick glance also shows the same frequent users. Strangely that thread is on #9 but it at least seems wittier than What If.
shockdude:
Some people post in threads to discuss things.
Some people post in threads to just have silly fun.
And of course some people do both.
One could theoretically dig through post histories and determine the distribution of each poster "type" we have on this forum, but I'm not gonna do that. I'm just wondering if "fun" threads were closed, would that actually result in more discussion/discussion threads? What happens to the posters who just post for fun?
Drake:
I'm sure it isn't that difficult to have fun with posts that are more than just two sentences of eight words each.
I really don't think closing the What If threads is an instance of no-fun-allowed. If it didn't consistently tend towards posts that take all of ten seconds to think and type and goes absolutely nowhere, this wouldn't be on the table.
Helepolis:
Addicted thread was one of the threads I also intended to point out. Sometimes I wonder validity and genuine level of the statements. Especially when again the same people start posting in a possible spammy frequence. There is hardly no interaction when someone makes a statement so for me it feels like a drop-a-post-and-leave thread. But as said, giving it a chance is more fair than the 'what if' thread.
About the Rumia section: if players leave because the route one player caused was unlikeable then imo the structure of the game is poorly made. You can never please everyone as GM and I can see the difficulty in order to prevent people from leaving. This is why I only hosted boardgame-like threads myself
Finally about the 'fun' threads being closed. Fun is subjective. I personally wont go around tagging/judging threads fun or unfun. That would be a bad idea and terrible moderation choice.
The 'what if' thread lost its charm and became spammed by the same persons daily without sharing the fun. And this behaviour has been repeates multiple times. And this is kind of the moment where we as moderators start feeling iffy. On one side we dont want to take away the fun but on the other hand we dont want to make it become spam.
@shockdude's question/wondering. We dont close down threads expecting people to post 'qualify' (another subjective thing). We close threads when they lost their purpose or became poor.
It is up to the community to decide whether they want to post 'quality'. I dont see also why anybody should feel pressured to overthink when posting a thread. Just use common sense.
TL DR Dont spam. Try not to post meaningless spam enforcing threads. Dont overthink and have fun.
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: shockdude on April 02, 2016, 06:39:56 AM ---I'm just wondering if "fun" threads were closed, would that actually result in more discussion/discussion threads? What happens to the posters who just post for fun?
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This is a false dilemma. Literally no one is talking about banning fun. Spamposts and shitposts though, have never been accepted here. That the What If thread used to be fun and is now a shitpost repository is the point here.