Metroid2002, where did you go? [locked]

squishy_ichigo:

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squishy_ichigo

2009-06-18 08:05:18 pm

. . .

Quote from interdpth:

Can you please define "discussion"?

http://www.answers.com/topic/discussion

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devonodev

2009-06-18 08:06:45 pm

Devonodev: Other D

This topic is win.

The mods don't let us have any fun, but when they make stupid posts, it's perfectly ok.
There have been alot of topics I have seen that were harmless fun, but have still been locked.

I'm sure alot of people have wanted to say this to alot of the mods (not all of them, as some are still cool):
FUCK YOU!!!

haha, that was fun

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tomatobob

2009-06-18 08:07:58 pm

Never stressed

Quote from Bloodsonic:

The only one actually doing that anymore is kejardon

That's why we like him. Shhh

Quote from Zhs2:

but more of a non-inclusive community that only respects all of the old members and none of the new ones. Just makes me sick to my stomach.

All the new people almost exclusively stick to the Hacks boards anyway, so we don't get the chance to be non-inclusive. :p

This forum has never been run like most other forums, it's always been much more strict about what you can and can't post even on the social boards. You can't expect the administration to suddenly change their policies because new people don't feel the need to adjust to the established order of things.

Quote from devonodev:

This topic is win.

The mods don't let us have any fun, but when they make stupid posts, it's perfectly ok.
There have been alot of topics I have seen that were harmless fun, but have still been locked.

I'm sure alot of people have wanted to say this to alot of the mods (not all of them, as some are still cool):
FUCK YOU!!!

haha, that was fun

Seriously, though. Fukkin nazis over here mirite?

[quote="Bloodsonic"]
The only one actually doing that anymore is kejardon
[/quote]

That's why we like him. :listenup_orig:

[quote="Zhs2"]
but more of a non-inclusive community that only respects all of the old members and none of the new ones. Just makes me sick to my stomach.[/quote]

All the new people almost exclusively stick to the Hacks boards anyway, so we don't get the chance to be non-inclusive. :p

This forum has never been run like most other forums, it's always been much more strict about what you can and can't post even on the social boards. You can't expect the administration to suddenly change their policies because new people don't feel the need to adjust to the established order of things.

[quote="devonodev"]
This topic is win.

The mods don't let us have any fun, but when they make stupid posts, it's perfectly ok.
There have been alot of topics I have seen that were harmless fun, but have still been locked.

I'm sure alot of people have wanted to say this to alot of the mods (not all of them, as some are still cool):
FUCK YOU!!!

haha, that was fun

[/quote]

Seriously, though. Fukkin nazis over here mirite?

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Grime

2009-06-18 08:08:49 pm

Viridian suit. Ya dig?

You just dropped the ball, devonodev. Now nothing (not even my awesome posts) in this topic will be taken seriously because you brought all of the focus upon yourself.

I HOPE YOU'RE ABLE TO LIVE WITH THAT.

interdpth:

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interdpth

2009-06-18 08:09:37 pm

Quote:

All the new people almost exclusively stick to the Hacks boards anyway, so we don't get the chance to be non-inclusive. :p

This forum has never been run like most other forums, it's always been much more strict about what you can and can't post even on the social boards. You can't expect the administration to suddenly change their policies because new people don't feel the need to adjust to the established order of things.

Then they should only let a few people in, right?

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Sadiztik Fish

2009-06-18 08:11:43 pm

OMG FLAN!!!!!!!

Quote from tomatobob:

Seriously, though. Fukkin nazis over here mirite?

Please use proper punctuation and spelling. This is an intelligent forum.

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tomatobob

2009-06-18 08:14:24 pm

Never stressed

ohhhh ur rite, srry guys. no ban plz.

Quote from interdpth:

Then they should only let a few people in, right?

yes that is exactly what i said.

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Zhs2

2009-06-18 08:15:54 pm

Yo.

devonodev... Brick wall

Quote from tomatobob:

All the new people almost exclusively stick to the Hacks boards anyway, so we don't get the chance to be non-inclusive. :p

This forum has never been run like most other forums, it's always been much more strict about what you can and can't post even on the social boards. You can't expect the administration to suddenly change their policies because new people don't feel the need to adjust to the established order of things.

Quite true, quite true. You ever wonder, though, why we stick to the Hacks boards? It's really because when you come out here, BAM, moderation hits you like a brick wall and you start to realize how truly ugly some of this forum's existence has come to be. :( Kinda like a safe haven for those of us who can't toughen up and be the sarcastic, self-serving master trolls that you need to be to live on your own. But hey, that's life.

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interdpth

2009-06-18 08:16:49 pm

Quote from tomatobob:

Quote from interdpth:

Then they should only let a few people in, right?

yes that is exactly what i said.

So when do you think they'll get rid of us?

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arkarian

2009-06-18 08:22:30 pm

wanna go faster

let me blow your mind

lol #jzd

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JaggerG

2009-06-18 08:25:15 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

DMantra: You got pretty hyper and a couple of your game-threads got locked. End of the Forum Forever? O_o

interdpth: Most of the community left. Other people came in. Naturally it's not gonna feel the same. There isn't even much sequence breaking anymore.

I doubt Ark even realizes the broadness of his posts. There's been a lot of dumb stuff that goes on that doesn't get deleted, and only like 2 members have ever been banned for being annoying. The boards are a more "serious nature" than GameFAQs. That's really not saying a lot. I participate in forum games every so often, too. Just not here. I come here to see if people are looking for help to be pro at Fusion or something, and there's also a social section. Once in a blue moon the mods do something dumb and it gets removed later on. You don't hear me cussing myself out for removing that locked thread from 2005 from the Other M board.

Silly games tend to multiply. A couple people post silly topics, then everyone thinks they can be funny too.

To an extent, good fun is tolerated here. The line is varying shades of grey, though, so don't be so surprised.

Quote from Grime:

You just dropped the ball, devonodev. Now nothing (not even my awesome posts) in this topic will be taken seriously because you brought all of the focus upon yourself.

Most of us are used to skipping over things like that.

DMantra: You got pretty hyper and a couple of your game-threads got locked. End of the Forum Forever? O_o

interdpth: Most of the community left. Other people came in. Naturally it's not gonna feel the same. There isn't even much sequence breaking anymore.

I doubt Ark even realizes the broadness of his posts. There's been a lot of dumb stuff that goes on that doesn't get deleted, and only like 2 members have ever been banned for being annoying. The boards are a more "serious nature" than GameFAQs. That's really not saying a lot. I participate in forum games every so often, too. Just not here. I come here to see if people are looking for help to be pro at Fusion or something, and there's also a social section. Once in a blue moon the mods do something dumb and it gets removed later on. You don't hear me cussing myself out for removing that locked thread from 2005 from the Other M board.

Silly games tend to multiply. A couple people post silly topics, then everyone thinks they can be funny too.

To an extent, good fun is tolerated here. The line is varying shades of grey, though, so don't be so surprised.

[quote="Grime"]
You just dropped the ball, devonodev. Now nothing (not even my awesome posts) in this topic will be taken seriously because you brought all of the focus upon yourself.
[/quote]
Most of us are used to skipping over things like that.

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Crys

2009-06-18 08:36:11 pm

Green-Kirby, ROAR!

M2K2 is what it is. I don't think it's fair that people expect it to change as they join.
If so there are better places to go do other sort of stuff on.
And as DMan said over IRC, the got metconst to go to.

So why bother in the first place?

...but I have to agree with inter, where did all the activity go? :<
When SCU did shutdown and I came, here, there was lots of activity! :3

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arkarian

2009-06-18 08:42:36 pm

wanna go faster

let me blow your mind

the forum thrives on metroid games. if there isn't any new metroid stuff to talk about, the forums are dead. hopefully when other m is released there'll be more activity 'round here.

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squishy_ichigo

2009-06-18 08:54:19 pm

. . .

Quote from arkarian:

the forum thrives on metroid games. if there isn't any new metroid stuff to talk about, the forums are dead. hopefully when other m is released there'll be more activity 'round here.

Hacks are metroid games to. Although they aren't on the same level, in either production or popularity, I'd say they still count. I know that alot people have joined M2K2 recently and mostly stick to that board. (I know I do)

My point, is that there is still quite a bit of metroid stuff to talk about, the forums aren't dead. Its just that not everyone likes hacks.

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Poision Envy

2009-06-18 08:56:48 pm

I don't think I've ever made a post outside of the Social section (other then posting once or twice in the "Post your time and difficulty here" in the MZM section).

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JaggerG

2009-06-18 08:58:03 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

The Other M board got pretty crazy the day of its announcement. A couple people stayed, others just vanished into thin air. It's gonna last much, much longer than a day once there's a game actually available to play. Or maybe someone's gonna speedrun Corruption some day. >_>

Until then, yeah, most of the activity is in the hacks/fangames boards.

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Jathys

2009-06-18 09:01:27 pm

Quote from arkarian:

lol #jzd

Don't see where this reference to #jzd came from, but just want to go on record as saying that even though some of the "negative" people here show up in #jzd a lot, they also show up in other channels. #jzd is a channel of individual people with individual minds, not the borg, and most certainly do not all feel this way.

As long as I'm in here though, let me say that I think it is amusing that:
1) Some of the people who were intentionally trolling before (page 212 anyone?) are now complaining that threads get locked . . . Do some threads get locked for virtually no reason? Sure do. But you can't be a troll one day and stand up for poster's rights the next without losing some credibility. I know different threads, different reasons, etc... But it forces the mods to be in "safemode" (ie- kill it before it grows into something ugly).
2) I've had threads locked on another board for just as little reason as on m2k2, yet none of the people who are whining about m2k2 are whining on that other board (even though most of them frequent both boards).
3) Teenagers can look back on how things were "back in the day" before all the "new people" showed up. laugh new

Get off my lawn, you kids!

[quote="arkarian"]lol #jzd[/quote]
Don't see where this reference to #jzd came from, but just want to go on record as saying that even though some of the "negative" people here show up in #jzd a lot, they also show up in other channels.  #jzd is a channel of individual people with individual minds, not the borg, and most certainly do not all feel this way.

[u]As long as I'm in here though, let me say that I think it is amusing that[/u]:
1) Some of the people who were intentionally trolling before (page 212 anyone?) are now complaining that threads get locked . . . Do some threads get locked for virtually no reason?  Sure do.  But you can't be a troll one day and stand up for poster's rights the next without losing some credibility.  I know different threads, different reasons, etc... But it forces the mods to be in "safemode" (ie- kill it before it grows into something ugly).
2) I've had threads locked on another board for just as little reason as on m2k2, yet none of the people who are whining about m2k2 are whining on that other board (even though most of them frequent both boards).
3) Teenagers can look back on how things were "back in the day" before all the "new people" showed up.  :laugh:
[spoiler="Old man Jathys says"]Get off my lawn, you kids![/spoiler]

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Paraxade

2009-06-18 11:18:38 pm

I can understand wanting to keep the site focused on more serious, hardcore subjects, but showing people some basic respect is something that's incredibly easy to do but that I rarely see around here... particularly when someone posts something about their life, even if it's in the social topic, and they immediately get blasted with responses going "no one cares", that's just unnecessarily being an asshole.

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Boris

2009-06-18 11:30:53 pm

The Overlord of All Acorns.

I came back

isnt that enough

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Soaprman

2009-06-18 11:36:12 pm

shrimp

and white wine

All these spam threads, all these funzies got you down? Make a spam board, dummies! Why didn't you think of that?

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DMantra

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2009-06-19 12:00:02 am

Breathe in the Future, Breathe out the Past

Hi Im'sdocstor Steve Brule!

For your Health!

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Soaprman

2009-06-19 12:14:40 am

shrimp

and white wine

Quote from SuperKeenenBell:

....shut your ass up

I'll guess that this post (which was deleted, go figure) was directed at me. And I'll respond by saying that it was a serious suggestion. I've seen spam boards work wonders for many forums. Hell, I have one on my own forum and it works wonders there too.

Or are you pointing me out as a problem with this forum? Because that's a totally valid claim, too. :P

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arkarian

2009-06-19 12:15:50 am

wanna go faster

let me blow your mind

Quote from Paraxade:

particularly when someone posts something about their life, even if it's in the social topic, and they immediately get blasted with responses going "no one cares", that's just unnecessarily being an asshole.

not sure what you mean. as long as it's in the social topic, i don't believe people are getting "blasted". posts about your personal life are supposed to go there; they don't warrant their own topic on these boards. this is a primarily a metroid forum.

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Boris

2009-06-19 12:16:49 am

The Overlord of All Acorns.

itt: people complain about a srs business forum having a srs business social topic

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SABERinBLUE

2009-06-19 12:17:37 am

Cook of the Sea

I've stickied this thread because I feel that many of the issues raised are extremely valid ones. I don't want to say much right now because I'm tired as hell and can't devote as much attention to it as it deserves. What it deserves is serious thought and consideration, and I will give it my best shot as soon as possible, like tomorrow if I have time.