Speaking of, I remember people were debating whether it’s normal to go in from the side… or the front. To this day I think anyone wiping from the front is a fucking alien that needs to do more research. Seriously if you wipe from the front you’re just being a stick in the mud.
Cause that thread goes into the 1K post range and the Lounge thread goes up to 50 max maybe more.
As far as GD as a whole is concerned, after being here for about 8 years now, it’s the ONLY place I visit daily after joining and leaving various forums. Why is that? easy, it’s the people who post here who keep bringing me back. Over time things have softened up here and yes we won’t see old GD (or SRK for that matter) come back but it’s fine. if you’ve been here for years now you have seen it all here in one form or another. How can we improve on something that despite new rules, new look, and a larger community, still has worked after all these years? Well it’s based on who is posting. That is why it’s hard to make GD better because despite so many general threads, bad news stories with even worse puns, it’s the quality of the posts that make all the difference. What other site allowed us to derail a thread into Tiering Disney songs or making puns about bad yet funny news stories or setting up a vs thread in the form of the battle polls (granted it has many shenanigans but I digress)
That being said, I don’t want this place to have some things other sites allow that devolve them into LOLRANDUM XD stuff or stupid trolling threads. The really big issue I have had is posting gifs…especially HUGE once and multiple ones at that. THAT needs to go…I mean it makes IMM to a degree meaningless along with Image macros and to a lesser degree youtube vids but that’s not seen much. at the least, PLEASE enforce some kind of rules on that. A file limit, limit of images/gifs in a single post or no quoting images/gifs. Yes I am guilty of posting a few gifs like others have done but GD (and SRK as a whole) was fine before that. Also a minor cleanup of the Stickies would be nice.
GD has changed in many ways…yet at the same time, it hasn’t changed much at all nor does it need to.
We need a dislike button. Some of you say some outlandish shit.
Quality of the posts have gone down, and there’s nothing you can do against it. The only way to recapture some of the old feelings are by going in the lounge threads, or, as someone else mentioned, a thread where there’s somewhat of a micro community thing going on with some of the older members.
I miss some of the threads that were here, the threads that uniquely described the reactions of a very varied group of posters. There’s no good way to explain it. I get the feeling that in recent years SRK has been taking itself too serious, too corporate, whereas in the old days everyone would dish out their opinions without holding back or feeling as being under scrutiny. That rawness has gone.
Could somebody please link to the SNAAAAKE’s mom thread?
Who the fuck holds back his/her opinion here? No one. Everyone says whatever they want to say.
I’m going through more threads and all I see are picture-only posts or some with video responses. Sometimes they are funny, about 98% of the time they are not. Why isn’t this just taken away like old SRK?
I say ban people that call out trolls. You know, the tools that go into what could possibly be a good thread and say something like “+1 for ok troll attempt” or “troll thread”. Fuck those people.
I’m not sure if it’s something that can be improved on since it has more to do with GD posters rather then GD itself but for the 10 years or so I’ve been on SRK specifically GD the one thing that’s bothered me the most is how 99% of yall can’t ever admit to being wrong and/or incorrect about anything. Instead of saying shit like “you know what you’re right” or “I never thought about it that way thanks” all you guys ever do is tell everyone else who doesn’t agree with your opinion how wrong they are in paragraph long rants. As if admitting to being less than perfect is a forbidden sin that will banish you to the deepest darkest section of SRK never to be heard from again AKA the comic book forum.
So if it’s possible my vote goes towards a bit more humility all around.
I disagree with this. Less humility, more arrogance and stubbornness all around. Fuck’s sake, if everyone backed down from a mindless argument, it won’t even be the Internet anymore.
Bring back joker/neophyte bitch mashup pics those were hilarious.
Besides lots of people obscuring otherwise fun conversations with “no u iz rong cuz i sed so” my other main gripe with GD is spoilers everywhere, I mean why have a spoiler rule sticky if it’s not enforced at all and everyone breaks it in every thread? Mods have been pretty lazy about it. And the people too lazy to ever use a spoiler tag have the nerve to say shit like “well if you don’t want it spoiled don’t view the thread”. So if for example I want to talk about last week’s episode of a show but haven’t seen the one that came out 2 hours ago I have no right to expect a decent conversation? GTFO.
If people could make trivial threads w/ out “OMFG Y U MAKE THREAD :RAGEFACE:”
That would be cool, you know, so people could actually have the chance to chat and let discussion develop.
The 50 page limit for threads in GD needs to be vastly increased, and constant one word/image responses need to be dealt with. (In moderation, hell I’ll post the occasional ‘Shots Fired’ for the sake of it. But at the same time no one wants to see 3 pages of one word responses.)
GD can still be fantastic, stuff like the Pony thread or LI Joe BRZ’s thread makes me believe that. Mind you, this is coming from someone who only started lurking late last year so I’m sure I’m probably wrong.
Either we have arguments or just spam, there is no in between lol. Only time I see real constructive convo is in the CHARACTER specific forums. Everything else is trash and reaaaaaaally bad troll attempts.
There’s a difference between differing of opinion and being flat out wrong. One can feel one way and you feel another but that person isn’t wrong. If you can bring up facts to disprove what they are saying it’s a completely different thing.
Oh definitely, there are a few people here who can prove others wrong with concrete evidence about something without coming off as a condescending dick. However, there are countless others who lose their shit and rage post like insecure 13 year old know it alls the minute you tell them you have a different opinion then them.
I’m all for lively debate and it’s fine for a few of you to get tight once in a while that’s the nature of the interwebz but let’s be real most of the arguments made here aren’t worth anyone’s time making let alone reading, and obscure otherwise fun conversation.
I barely read other posts that aren’t my own. I find poor grammar and lack of organization appalling and will not subject myself to the torture. One thing that STILL baffles me here is people still getting words wrong. Example
Loose vs Lose
I’ve known the difference between these two words since I was six. No one here has any excuse to get this wrong. If anyone reading this is guilty of making this mistake, you should get fucked.
I think their/there/they’re is way more common.
As well as people saying “Should of” instead of “Should have”.
I know the difference between “further” and “farther”, but I still fuck it up a lot. Somewhere, the connection between the word bank in my brain and the associated definitions gets jumbled.
Being someone who prides himself on correct grammar, I don’t think it’s healthy to be a grammar nazi on teh internetz you have to allow for some leeway otherwise you’ll frustrate yourself using teh intertubez. Also Razor no offense but what’s the point of being on SRK if you don’t read other people’s posts? that’s kind of the point of a forum waits for corny twisting of my words by Goody =P.