On Removing Clutter

Yeah, saw that coming. >>

I have been here for every single page of this thread, Valor. I know what I'm talking about. I know what you're talking about. Don't try and talk down to me.

And what I meant was, now that you've had your way with the US vs. World and getting rid of the counting threads. However I will admit that locking huge threads and making new ones to continue them so they don't end up like that and crash the forum every time someone looks at it is a good idea.

I wasn't here to debate or get attacked. I only wanted to state my opinion. Now that I see that that's not welcome here, I'll leave.

Is there really any slowdown from the other ones? Us vs. World seemed to be the only one, but it was towering over all of the other ones by 800 pages. Is that likely to repeat itself? And even if it is, then will there be too many of them to delete in a few minutes?

Well. You can whine all you like about the "quality of the forum", but why should you honestly care about the "quality" of the forum? We're not entering it in a freaking beauty contest. If "intellectual members" come here and are ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIED to find that THERE ARE SOME PRETEENS ON A POKÉMON FORUM WHO HAPPEN TO ENJOY PLAYING SILLY GAMES and that makes them LEAVE AND NEVER COME BACK, they're honestly probably elitist assholes anyway. Do the members here magically change if they stop playing games? No; they're utterly insignificant, just something you do when you're bored and waiting for somebody to reply to the other posts you've made recently. If the games are removed, they'll just go do the same thing at another forum, or pass their time in some equally insignificant, silly way. All removing the forum games forum would do is create a laughable illusion that no, our members would never spend their free time doing that! as if it would actually help anyone. No, I don't think that keeping the forum games forum is a matter of great principle either, and yes, they can just as well do it elsewhere, but I really don't see the point of removing it either, in terms of "forum quality" or "TCoD's reputation". It does not get in the way of anyone who does not want to see it, unlike spambots posting viagra advertisements. It does not force anything unwanted upon other users, unlike the posting of porn. If I had reason to believe that a great part of the forum's population derived honest enjoyment from repeatedly pressing a pink button with a picture of a bunny on it, I see no reason why I mightn't just as well put a pink button with a picture of a bunny on it somewhere in an unobtrusive location where those who want it can find it and click on it as often as they like, even if it seems stupid and pointless to me.

If the Forum Games forum is actually seriously slowing down the server in a problematic way, it is easy to just schedule regular pruning of old/overly long threads in that forum. There is no need to be all up in arms and OH NOES WE MUST SAVE THE SERVER FROM THE OPPRESSION OF THE FORUM GAMES FORUM BY DELETING IT FOREVER. I'd do it if I had good reason to think it needed to be removed altogether, but right now it doesn't seem like it would be anything more than just taking some enjoyment away from a good portion of our members.