[News] Changing the gaming forums

Originally Posted by Roflfox

lol man

just lol

You really are thick aren't you? Tell you what I'm gonna do. Starting tomorrow, all gaming threads will be strictly categorized by Genre, which will then each have individual sub-forums for specific platforms inside said forums. Then we're gonna take it to the next level and have developer subforums inside THOSE forums.

Organization!

Yeah, because that's obviously what I've been supporting the whole time.

look.

you obviously need to make up your mind. said forums are already in the works, and are currently visible only to certain parties and will be made availible tomorrow

mario party 10 thread, what!

Tails, what happened to you since I left? So hostile.

Someone give Tails a hug. I would except I fear for my life.

Ordinarily I'd say something back to you right now Guru but with Tails around here being silly and his style... It's like the Benny Hill song's on the minute he walks in here. =OOO

You know how I roll. Who needs hugs, hugs are for queermos.

This would be more fun if it were OO. He's always a blast to fuck with.

Nothing "happened" to me, I just fail to see how anybody could miss how awesome this change is.

I can see FOREVER now and it's great

Originally Posted by Guru

Tails, your posts would actually mean something if I agreed that this was actually helping anything. But there lies the point of contention.!

Uh, if it's certainly not an unimprovement and it allows us to consolidate forums and allow for better organization than before then what do you call it, Guru? You call that "not helping anything"? I don't even see what you're arguing against anymore, man.

I had mentioned this before, but this might be a better time to bring it up (or if this has already been discussed/mentioned, I apologize).

Originally Posted by Free.user

I don't know how flexible vB forums are, but would it be possible for users to "create" a custom forum that contains specific tags? For instance, my account could have a forum that displays all gaming threads that are tagged as "RPG" and "PC"? This would be in addition to the two proposed default gaming threads, so no posts/threads are missed.

He's arguing against his Wii threads mingling with those other consoles, it just ain't right and it ain't natural. Segregation!

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Uh, if it's certainly not an unimprovement and it allows us to consolidate forums and allow for better organization than before then what do you call it, Guru? You call that "not helping anything"? I don't even see what you're arguing against anymore, man.

dead horse dead horse dead horse.

that's exactly what i don't agree with.

it's all opinion. why do you keep telling me my opinion is wrong? i like what i like, and i don't agree with the reasons you give me to like the way it is now. but what difference does it make? it's not like what i'm saying here is going to change anything, because i'm the idiot.

but you can all keep trying to drive your points home with me and make jokeslol and make me look dumb if you want. it really doesn't bother me.

Yeah, but I've already said pretty plainly in huge text that we plan to have a feature that allows you to ignore certain tags just like you have an ignore list for users you don't want to see. Bam, no more Microsoft and Sony system tagged threads for Guru if he sets them to ignore. Instead of acknowledging that he still goes on resisting this whole shebang for god-knows what reason. I'm highly confused.

but i don't like that way of doing things.

do you understand me now?

Originally Posted by Guru

but i don't like that way of doing things.

do you understand me now?

Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah!

Stop the fucking presses, guys!

He doesn't LIKE this change!

Clearly, we should all just scrap the plans that were accepted by pretty much everybody else, because he doesn't like them!

::everyone lols::

Originally Posted by Guru

but i don't like that way of doing things.

do you understand me now?

It's all about you then?

Ideally, yes. Did I ever say anywhere that things had to be my way? No.

I'm debating my opinion. Is there anything wrong with that? I didn't think so.

I'm not the one that gets immature and attacks people and throws out what are supposed to be scathing remarks trying to make people look stupid.

*shrug*

No you just come back from an extended absense and assume that shit isn't going to work because "it was fine before."

No, you're misunderstanding me completely. Still. After about 20 posts of me saying the same thing.

My opinion is that there was nothing wrong with the way it was before, therefore, there is nothing to fix. If I don't agree that there is something that needs fixing, then there's nothing that needs "to work."

You are all acting like the forums are going to be a huge failure just because I'm voicing my opinion. Do you have such a problem with one person believing that you're wrong? I've already accepted that all of you think I'm wrong, if you'd read the last 5 or 6 posts I've made in this thread. There's nothing I can do about it, the plans are already in motion. I'm going to see what happens. So far, I have yet to be convinced this does anything aside from change the way people navigate the forums.

I'm just a little bit defensive when people are trying to imply that I'm some big asshole that wants to see the forums fail. Get a grip. If I didn't care, I wouldn't have donated money, I wouldn't even be wasting my breath.

Originally Posted by Guru

but i don't like that way of doing things.

do you understand me now?

You liked Mario's Warp Room, right? I ran that place. I should know what it looks like. It had Nintendo DS threads, Nintendo Wii threads, and other misc. Nintendo-related discussion. It generally didn't have any RPG threads in there even if the game was on a Nintendo system so those would be in RPG Forum or sent to RPG Forum.

So yeah, picture Mario's Warp Room but merged with General Videogame Discussion which had multiplatform games (some of these multiplatform games were on a Nintendo system! =D) and some general discussion and little fun crap like guessing screenshots from videogames that could pertain to any videogame system (including Nintendo videogame systems! =D). Plus the benefit of tags to help things to be easily organized and filtered on demand with those icky Microsoft and Sony system tags put on ignore that's pretty much what Mario's Warp Pipe would be like but now with the added benefit of all the fun from General Videogame Discussion.

It would look a good something like this. =)

Spoiler:

Oops! My bad. I forgot to get rid of the PC marked ones too. I didn't exactly specify that I'd be putting them on ignore as well though. Well, I'm too lazy to go back into Dreamweaver and then ImageReady to poop out another image for you, but I'm sure you get the idea. Maybe you'd want PC tagged threads after all. =o

So how does that sound? =)

Originally Posted by Guru

No, you're misunderstanding me completely. Still. After about 20 posts of me saying the same thing.

My opinion is that there was nothing wrong with the way it was before, therefore, there is nothing to fix. If I don't agree that there is something that needs fixing, then there's nothing that needs "to work."

You are all acting like the forums are going to be a huge failure just because I'm voicing my opinion. Do you have such a problem with one person believing that you're wrong? I've already accepted that all of you think I'm wrong, if you'd read the last 5 or 6 posts I've made in this thread. There's nothing I can do about it, the plans are already in motion. I'm going to see what happens. So far, I have yet to be convinced this does anything aside from change the way people navigate the forums.

I'm just a little bit defensive when people are trying to imply that I'm some big asshole that wants to see the forums fail. Get a grip. If I didn't care, I wouldn't have donated money, I wouldn't even be wasting my breath.

And you've voiced it over and over, even after Acer has been patient enough to explain that it's not in its final draft. Can you just let the changes happen and hold your tongue until it's complete?

Acer, I know how tags and filters work, and I know they can be formatted to fit my preferred browsing preferences. I just think that it's too much work to change them if I decide sometime that "hey, maybe I want to see what's going on with the PS3." I had a system. I clicked the dropdown menu, select the SonyScape forum, and I was there. I liked the way it was easy before, and I was used to it.

I'll get used to filters too, I imagine. I'd be fine with them, actually, if it didn't require me to run a forum search to change things up. That's extra clicking and extra menus to go through, more than I'd like. But Blah said he's going to put some buttons up at the top or something to make it fast and easy, and that should be cool enough.

Originally Posted by Devoxycontin

And you've voiced it over and over, even after Acer has been patient enough to explain that it's not in its final draft. Can you just let the changes happen and hold your tongue until it's complete?

Maybe if someone didn't come along every so often and throw out some underhanded comment because they're annoyed by my opinion. I'm not even defending my idea anymore, I'm just tired of the other things people are trying to imply about me because we don't see eye to eye.