Wouldn’t a better solution be to have the news integrated into the forums similar to how Jax has them setup on 8WayRun. This way mods can infract (and ban) when necessary.
yh its all good, working for me.
Now the whole world knows we’re nerds. OH NOES.
Why did we ever have a comment section on front page articles in the first place?
You gotta chill, man. 8WR is a MUUUUUCH better implementation of Xenforo. You can see the amount of work they put into making sure it looks and works perfectly.
Also, this place did have it working when they first rolled it out. At some point, they broke it.
First of all, if you’re worried about your facebook friends seeing your SRK posts(Really that worried about people think or how nerdy you may sound? smh), it’s easy to make it so that the posts aren’t shown on your facebook.
Secondly I don’t know how comments really were like here, but on about 3-4 other sites that I frequent, that transitioned to facebook profiling(It wasn’t MANDATORY, but a lot of users signed in with their facebook), comments and posts were a lot better, and all the retarded/trolling/spammy type posts were limited to the random guests with random aliases. People don’t act as stupid when they don’t have anonymity or something to hide behind.
Didn’t know it was made mandatory here, but like many of the people on this threads are saying.
- Like the front page commentary was awe-inspiring in the first place.
- Is front page commenting REALLY that important? I mean, there is a forum here.
- Like the dude above me said, you can hide your posts on your fb timeline/page. The fact that you nerds even care about your IRL friends seeing a SRK post is laughable to me though.
- It’s not that damn big a deal, somethings wrong if you don’t have a facebook in 2011 anyway, just link the fb to the srk once, make it not post to your page if you’re THAT worried about what people think, and you never have to waste brain space on it again. Jeez.
What’s even better, it looks like you can log into the forums using your Facebook credentials and forego your normal username entirely. I think I might try that to see what it’s like.
That would work. I mean, facebook won’t stop trolling, folks could easily make a facebook account just to troll, it’s not hard.
Im sorry for the people hating it seriously and that SRK has to come to this but yea trolls have been laying low lately on the front page and its lovely, yea they can make a facebook account, but its still been nice hear since its change.
Personally, I think it’s a dumb idea. I’m also one of those stalwarts that refuses to get a Facebook account. I actually don’t careat all whether the frontpageisfb or not… What I dislike is the thought that this might seep it’s way into the regular forums. It’s always like this, first they start small and then they expand. I can’t help but think that thisis just the beginning. I also am wholely pissed at the overall use of facebook to police folks via job interviews and such. I personally like my anonymity here and in other places.
This just pisses me off on principle alone. Like paying for dlc training mode or someshit. And no if I had an fb page I would NOT want my friends knowing that I post on srk… As if…
As long as it doesn’t make it’s way into general forums I’m cool though, not like I ever cared about front page comments much anyways.
-dime
Yea I gotta admit SRK is changing alot…
I don’t have a facebook and I’m not getting one so thanks for making it impossible for me to ever comment on SRK podcasts or anything anymore. I appreciate it Wiz, I’ll be on eventhubs and Iplaywinner.
Forcing SRK memebr to be FB member just to comment on the front page, does seem like an extremely dumb idea.
Maybe the guys running SRK just bought some FB shares or something.
Does that mean I won’t be able to enjoy WINBACK’s partially successfully front page troll comments anymore? :sad:
I can’t comment on WUSRK posts anymore either. That’s the only serious thing I’m sad about this whole change.
Also, I’d rather have trollthisSRK or WINBACK in the comments then “dan hibiki” saying a bunch of low tier hero bullshit jokes about how cool it is he is dan.
Would prefer a choice of twitter or google accounts but it’s not all that bad.
Except the rediculous uptight old people who run this country do use this against you when you apply for a job. When you are applying for a serious corporate job the HR manager chick who watches too much American Idol will think that you are a nerd irresponsible gamer. Gamers have a stigma that welll we all know is pretty damn true. Especially people on this site who probably mostly all spend more free time on games then on improving their career. I keep my internet profile as far away from my name as possible. In this cutthroat world you have to take every precaution to protect your career. Cause I will probably need to reach upper management just to get a decent pay check at the rate this country is going into crapper.
Well im now only visiting the forum. Im on evnethubs now for news and front page comments. (sadly)
If you’re that worried about your job and are that smart of an upper management guy you’ll just know not to make any comments. If you are really that much of a nerd gamer some HR lady wouldn’t have a random facebook comment on an SRK page as her only evidence any way.
well said
if you like fighting games but hate facebook, go to iplaywinner.com
they have unique fighting game news, no facebook requirement (no email validation even), no censorship
and somehow everyone there gets along, no trolling
AMAZING RIGHT???