The mentality of SRK GD hasn’t grown at the same time mine has. I’m 27, have some career projects going, and no longer find discussing weeaboo shit entertaining. It’s because of that I left. Every time I come back to pass the time reading threads I can’t find well-written posts typed up by adults. It, personally, makes it hard to read. I wish the mods could implement quality control with posts to make sure ideas are clear and written in at least a sixth grade level, but that will never happen.
I dont know man, im 34 years old, i enjoy the stupid stuff & the trolls here in GD…My whole IRL is all responsibility, i cant imagine myself coming back here if everyone was acting like supposedly real mature adults…
I’ve heard the accusation that it is “elitist” to make jokes that outsiders won’t understand. Perhaps it is in the most basic sense, but come on. That is part and parcel for not only this community, but any community. Either it has a culture that others aren’t going to get right away, or it has no culture.
On the movie thread: its importance is obvious. As with many things here, movies have an element of specialized interest, and I think there needs to be a one-stop place for conversation with people who view movies as more than just passing entertainments
That said, I do occasionally see standalone movie threads that don’t need to exist. The Dark Knight Rises probably has enough steam to merit its own discussion. The Raid: Redemption or The Hunger Games, probably not. If the mods were to merge these threads into the movie thread, I wouldn’t mind. It would clean up the endless stack of topics a little and maybe even lure a wider variety of posters into the movie thread.
That doesn’t mean I’m going to respect their opinions, of course. Unless your names are (for example) Angry Liberal or P. Gorath, I am unlikely to GAF.
Absolutely not. Nobody would ever go to the comic forum again besides me, Zeph, and Sano.
Alternative suggestion: move the comic forum so that it is a subforum of GD, just like the character discussion subforums are to the game-specific forums.
Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector.
About this. I understand that certain rules need to be applied to the game-specific areas for business reasons, but I worry constantly that those new directives are going to leak into the areas that don’t specifically cater to the consumer bases of the fabulously powerful companies with which SRK is now aligned. Those directives are undesirable for reasons that I don’t think I have to get into.
So far, our GD mods have done a commendable job in isolating us from this alienating influence. I just want to say that I hope they keep it up and ensure that the non-GD mods respect the way things go here.
The retardation of GD is a blight on this site. If that’s truly what you want, what’s wrong with 4chan?
also i feel like their needs to be some kinda new spoiler rule. like i dunno its a hit or miss depending on a anime or tv thread. naruto/bleach/one piece is a free for all but talk about spoilers in a tv or the big anime thread people lose their shit.
FTR, the movie thread was nothing more than an idle example. I don’t really care about others’ opinions either, trust me. Anyway, the math thread, the boxing thread, the sock thread. Doesn’t matter what super-thread it is-- it takes place ‘behind closed doors.’ Sure the door is ‘unlocked,’ but it’s still hard for general members to get the gist of the ongoing discussion that may have taken place for a number of years. At the same time, a lot of the super-threads are misleading because most of them have a general thread title, but the content of discussion is specialized.
Post in the rap thread and ask, “hey since this is the rap thread, anybody like Cypress Hill?” and you might not get the response you’re looking for (from the maybe 10-20 regular posters). Otoh you might get a response closer to what you want if you created a brand new thread broadcasting to anyone out there who doesn’t visit the rap thread religiously (hundreds of people). Post in the PSP thread, and there was more discussion about jail-breaking than the games themselves. Etc. But that isn’t possible if mods, or regulars from the ‘official’ thread, try to get the new thread closed or redirected to the super-thread. I’ve seen it happen quite a few times.
Holy shit I cited relevant examples I mean I name-dropped the rap and PSP thread. Somebody on the Internet’s gonna get defensive for no reason, I fear for my life.
The great thing about GD in the past was, it really wasn’t like 4chan at all, while a lot of SRK’s other ‘sister’ discussion forums have skewed in that direction.
lol @ Rabbit’s first 3 ideas being the same as mine. at least i wasn’t the only one who thought of those things. rabbit’s other 2 ideas are good as well. i’m somewhat against constantly “resetting” superthreads, especially when other areas don’t have to, but resetting them gives new members a chance to catch up.
GD response
Spoiler
he can “watchfully protect” my nuts slappin his mom’s butthole. shit doesn’t even make since and i still said it. WHAT
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off topic/general discussion threads in the different fighting games forums are fucking retarded. that’s exactly what GD is for.
close the comic forum and bring it back to GD
Bringing the comic forum to GD idea thirded/fourth’d…
I mean the lounge gives love to the comics, but it is usually just offtopic discussion…
Having a dedicated comic forum inside GD would definitely bring folks in I would think…
Doesn’t Udon have their hands in the comic board, or did they go away?
we have too many character sub forums, for instance, Akuma has a character forum for SF4, MVC3 and SFxT, thats three separate forums for one character. I say just have one Akuma forum for everything Akuma related.
Okay…but what does that have to do with GD?
oh, my bad. I forgot the discussion was about GD only.
Because Akuma plays the exact same way in all 3 games, right?
Just ban elitist users that post sarcastic comments desperate to get likes on it.
It’s like Facebook.
(Or Y’know…Just slap them on the wrist. Repeatedly)
For all that, just ban half the site.
2011’er over here
I would just like to say I pretty much stopped going to other forums after joining here and mostly coming to GD.
Yeah, I got my balls busted a little bit, but the atmosphere is well worth it. Whoever leaves can leave, they obviously weren’t hard enough to stay.
Honestly, any red blooded male that can’t accept some ball busting over the internet, let alone in real life probably will never really be a part of any community. When I tell my friends some crazy shit from the internet, which means it’s likely SRK, which means it’s likely from GD. When I see some wacky shenangians, I say to myself, “GD.”
TLDR; The 50 page limit should exist for all threads and if GD improved, it would be awesome. It’s already cool in my opinion, so to see it the way you guys describe it would be like seeing an internet Atlantis rising from the ocean floor.
While we’re here, can someone explain to me the differences the rep system and the current like system? Just the ability to give people negative rep right?
no, of course not. i’ve noticed that the more people you have viewing a particular forum the more responses you’re likely to get. Some of these sub forums are dead.
Yeah, but that would be a mess for an Akuma user in MVC3 to look for info in a thread that also contains Akuma info for SF4 and SFxT.