Val and Dios, we need to talk about this when we get into Vegas.
SRK mods, assemble!
Rolling out.
See you guys thursday.
ban all post 09ers:coffee:
Everything is fine. This is just a “the stuff you new people do is different than us”. It’s like how I make fun of my brother and his friends for listening to Drake and Wayne instead of Wu and Nas. But then once in a while, you find something they listen to you like Hopsin and something you listen to they like Busta Rhymes. It’s a generational difference, difference in what is liked or found to be entertaining.
Just chill.
The reason game specific GDs/OTTs are good is because you’re already interacting with these people and have something in common by playing the same game. This site has many more people now, pockets like this were bound to happen. You guys talk about how good it was with less people anyway, how it was closer. Pockets like this is how people maintain that closeness.
Yeah okay generation blah blah but I guess the problem is, most forums have weathered the generational change. Game-specific forums don’t have their own IMM or Tech Talk thread, but newcomers are avoiding GD, while going to IMM or TT before venturing back to their familiar OTT. If the new guys keep neglecting this place, more outsiders will perceive GD as a non- (or anti-)FGC board on SRK, and the more we’ll see other mods challenge the purpose of GD (as well as ‘large’ GD threads).
On that note, the spam bots have been pretty bad lately.
If only I had mod powers…I would make all these problems go away.
I think that the source of all these bots are the obtrusive ads that we have on here. Not that I would know since the only one I deal with anymore is that shitty sell out complex bar. But yeah, get money.
Edit: in all seriousness the shit those spam bots post isn’t any less worthless than your average OTT post.
Have you ever stopped to think that the reason most people don’t come to GD is because GD tends to come off as a bunch of elitists?
When new people see posts like this:
They’re not gonna think, “Oh, that’s just SNAAAAKE. He’s joking.”
They’re going to think, “Oh look, another SRK snob that judges people by their join dates. Nothing to see here.”
Now, I get that that’s how you guys operate, but most new members aren’t going to look at it that way.
Not to mention that most people in GD and FGD tend to bash the newer games…games that newer members tend to play and enjoy.
My point is, I understand that you guys have your own culture and all, but you have to understand that with your culture comes certain stigmas.
We know it has certain stigmas. All cultures do. Take that away and the culture loses its definition.
Or, to couch it in gaming terms: good games have a learning curve. Take away that learning curve and anybody can play it right away, but it’s going to be a shitty game.
That’s all opinion.
Some people are turned off by games with high learning curves. Others enjoy them. Doesn’t make a game universally shitty if it doesn’t have one.
Same for forums. Some people might find GD to be a bunch of howling frat boys. Other people may feel right at home with the trash talk.
Some people might think OTT is the second coming of 4chan. Others find it to be a cool place where they can connect with members of their particular gaming community that just so happen to share similar or different interests, without bashing anyone else’s scene or set of likes.
That’s why these forums exist. Everybody gets to go do their own thing, and allow their particular community to thrive under the SRK umbrella.
I didn’t say a high learning curve. I said a learning curve, period–which is what we have. It’s not particularly aggressive, to the point where I can’t imagine anyone not being able to get along unless they think that they shouldn’t have to do anything and that it’s 100% everybody else’s job to accommodate them.
We’re not talking VF5 vs. SF4. We’re talking SF4 vs. Bible Adventures.
Well, to be fair, every forum has its own learning curve. Yours may not be particularly aggressive, but it is on the higher end of the spectrum.
But then, again, that’s why everybody has choices. They can choose to hang out in GD, or FGD, or SF4, or UMVC3, or anywhere else.
Everybody belongs to their own tribe on Planet SRK. Why change what works?
Srk isn’t that fucking big compared to a lot of forums you post on chief, like Gaia online or what not.
Nor is GD that aggressive that members need to be sheltered from it. All it really boils down to when you guys come in here with your bs is people trying to protect their little safe haven thread that really doesn’t amount to anything more than glorified stream chat. Half of the post in your so called thread is just 3 word reply(or less), complete gibberish(spam), or straight image replies with zero text. That shit needs to go, from the ENTIRE site, especially here in GD. I don’t care if RockyB gets a sore vagina from me saying that shit either.
His vagina is meant to deliver a baby. It can take some abuse.
But he might get sand in it, which isn’t good.
You sound a little jealous, my man. And nobody said anything about sheltering.
You’re sitting here pouting because more people post in OTT than they do GD, then you turn around and insult the very people that post in the thread.
And then it’s right back to wondering why GD has pretty much the same people in it.
Sit down and think sometime.
Wow is this guy serious?
I don’t give a shit about people feeling insulted because I called them out on posting spam at the speed of fucking light. If anything I am ashamed that this is what this site has devolved into. Fucking degenerate ass fools slapping their dick beaters against the keyboard and then somehow managing to press the reply button. Hell this could all EASILY be fixed imo if they introduced that post time limit in all the sub forums since they are supposed to be sources of KNOWLEDGE and not useless 4chan shit.
Whoever the fuck thinks GD is the place full of big mean elitest snobs probably should be posting anywhere ont he interenet for fear of getting their feelings hurt. Especially if they see Ban post 09er stuff, anyone who gets butthurt when someone calls them out on their joindate should probably pack it up adn leave.
Or maybe people should, y’know, stop calling people out on their join dates.
That got old **real **quick. There’s a reason the mods come down on that kind of stuff.