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Originally Posted by dereds
The observably negative impact is a subjective evaluation that starts from the view of what a person wants from a forum and measures contributions to the extent that they facilitate those wants.
Well, yeah. But I mean it's like saying this **** sandwich tastes pretty good, if you like ****. :P
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Originally Posted by dereds
Now in fairness you kinda acknowledge this in your last comment but I think your hopes for this forum, in as much as I understand them, are overly optimistic.
This is obviously true. And I was even already trying to account for that! But yeah, that's why I said I was willing to go along with what people want, more or less.
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Originally Posted by dereds
Rebranding the forum doesn't alter the fact that many contributors here are banned from Alpha and have a history of bad posting. This will have a much greater impact on how discussions go down here than moderators decisions on what is and isn't acceptable.
I agree. I think I've said as much on several occasions actually. I never expected people to change the way they posted, I was just under the impression that the level of vitriol that already existed in the "content threads" prior to my becoming a mod was satisfying everyone, since the !!! threads were mostly dead. I was wrong.
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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib
I hope you're a pro at writing php, because that functionality doesn't exist in the forum software.
I am a pro at writing PHP (maybe I should be more embarrassed about this) and we still can't do it :P