DELETE FORUM GAMES ENTIRELY?!

[shy ♡]

Question: If you have posts in a forum, then it gets deleted, then do you lose all the posts that were in your postcount that were in that forum? If so, then I'm back to metapod if it gets deleted.

See, this right here is why I want forum games deleted.

 

[Not Meowth]

it's such a stupid sand castle

um I think this kind of strengthens Butterfree's point

 

[Zoltea]

Question: If you have posts in a forum, then it gets deleted, then do you lose all the posts that were in your postcount that were in that forum? If so, then I'm back to metapod if it gets deleted.

It would drop the post count. My count dropped 700 when the threads with large post amounts were deleted.

 

[shy ♡]

um I think this kind of strengthens Butterfree's point

um I think I was being ironic

 

[Butterfree]

The question is, why keep it.

Because a whole bunch of people are actually having fun in there? :|

 

[Green]

At the cost of a large amount of 500 errors? And it's not fun so much as it is postcount+?

 

[Zoltea]

At the cost of a large amount of 500 errors? And it's not fun so much as it is postcount+?

So long as threads with large amounts of replies are purged you reduce 500 errors. If Forum games was deleted it really wouldn't do much to reduce the server traffic. Forum games actually probably caused less traffic than "Laugh you lose" since images tend to be bigger than small posts.

 

[Dannichu]

Also can we get rid of You Laugh You Lose permanently :( I soft-deleted since it's like 3500 posts but I don't really want it to come back.

Nooooooo you don't understand how important saving mildly amusing pictures to my hard drive is! When my internet crashes they are the only things that keep me sane. They are the ultimate icebreaker when it's you, a stranger and your laptop! That thread gave me Patient Bear. My life would be so much less fulfilled without Patient Bear! If I find something amusing elsewhere on the internet, I have to share it (and while my Tweeps are great, TCoD is generally a better audience)! I like getting my giggles from that thread because I can say "Hey, [PERSON I KNOW], that was great!" instead of stealing them from some anonymoud person I don't care about. We're sharing love! LOVE!! ;~;

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Well, stricter restrictions on what kind of games you can have? Caption the Avatar, being filled to the brim with tasty interaction, is okay but perhaps Lie About the Above Poster isn't since in many cases it doesn't matter who posted before you?

 

[surskitty]

Nooooooo you don't understand how important saving mildly amusing pictures to my hard drive is! When my internet crashes they are the only things that keep me sane. They are the ultimate icebreaker when it's you, a stranger and your laptop! That thread gave me Patient Bear. My life would be so much less fulfilled without Patient Bear! If I find something amusing elsewhere on the internet, I have to share it (and while my Tweeps are great, TCoD is generally a better audience)! I like getting my giggles from that thread because I can say "Hey, [PERSON I KNOW], that was great!" instead of stealing them from some anonymoud person I don't care about. We're sharing love! LOVE!! ;~;

I love mildly amusing pictures! But from what I remember of it, it was filled with repeats ; ; and at some point it had a metric fuckton of youtube links.

So what really needs to happen is a ulul abridged!

 

[Butterfree]

At the cost of a large amount of 500 errors? And it's not fun so much as it is postcount+?

It's not Forum Games that's causing the 500 errors; it's overlong threads. Forum Games with no overlong threads would cause absolutely no 500 errors. And yes, some people are actually, physically having fun, postcount be damned!

 

[Superbird]

Query: Is it possible to just, like, close these threads instead of deleting them and then toss them into some kind of archive where they can be looked at but not interacted with?

 

[Butterfree]

The thing about forum games is that it's highly, highly unlikely anyone will ever be interested in actually reading what went on in them.

Deleting things with actual valuable discussion shouldn't be done, no, but I don't see the big deal when it's games.

 

[H-land]

I really don't care one way or the other.
On the one hand, a fair number of my posts are in Forum Games, and I've had some good fun with those sorts of threads before, and even if I'm not going to use something, if other people are using it, I usually don't like to get rid of it.
On the other hand, I don't do much in the Forum Games forum (or any other forum, either, to be fair) these days, and if it's causing the server undue stress to the server, that's a bad thing.
There's a few other points involved, yeah, but I guess I wouldn't cry if Forum Games were deleted. I might frown a little, but I wouldn't cry.

 

[Phoenixsong]

...so

1. lock threads that hit a certain length and start them over
2. people who continue to bitch about forum games can hide it
3. profit???
4. /thread?

5. either assign an FG mod to pay attention to thread length since the rest of us don't want to, or ask conscientious FG members to report uberlong threads so they're brought to our attention without us having to wade through the clutter (what do you mean "gmods should just un-ignore forum games" that's a stupid idea)
6. /thread now?

I fail to understand what people aren't grasping here.

 

[ultraviolet]

why forum games should be deleted:

- it is not an integral or unique part of the forum or community, unlike (for example) ASB, The Safari Zone or Mafia, which are also forum games (technically) but they consist of more than a few sentences that often have no relevance to whatever's posted beforehand. I would be happy to prune overlong threads in any of these forums, or any other forum that actually facilitates discussion. But threads consisting of *starts up chainsaw* or "nice signature, 6/10" or "I like you a lot"..? I don't think they're important enough to warrant keeping. Sure, there probably are discussions that pop up in these threads! But they won't ~disappear~ if forum games are deleted. That's why we have... social groups and visitor messages and private messages and instant messages. If there's discussion that you can only have with someone in a forum games thread, it's probably something to do with the game or something probably not worth posting anyway. :/

- People do enjoy it, yes, but I don't think this is grounds enough for a forum full of mostly single-sentence posts to need pruning. I'd really like to see what the majority of votes is, because the impression I get is that it's a forum frequented by maybe twenty people. If there's an even split, then sure, I guess we should probably keep it, however much I personally want it deleted. But I think that most users don't post in forum games, so if we do delete it it's not like we're going to be sucking the fun out of the ENTIRE FORUM.

- we have the cafe of doom, don't we? Can't people just be silly and random in that instead of an entire forum devoted to games that require virtually no thought or skill at all? There is no readability to these threads; I can't think of anyone who would go through and read "Rate the Signature Above you" for the fun of it (threads like this and "Caption the Avatar Above you" are also silly because people's avatars and signatures change, so there's pretty much no point to these threads). People don't read these threads, all you have to do to post in forum games is read maybe a few posts above you and that's all. :| What a waste of time to prune these!

- I'd like to see what the difference would be if we made a Social Group devoted to Forum Games and if that would contribute to forum slowdown. iirc posts in social groups don't consist of anything more than your username and avatar, and I don't think they contribute to post count, either.

- I wouldn't care nearly so much about this if it didn't contribute so much to the forum's errors. Why should other users have to put up with 500 errors or mods have to prune threads so a small portion of members can play... really pointless games that they could do anywhere else? What do other forums do about forum games? Is this just a problem because we're a little forum, or ..?

my main beef is that there's just such a tiny amount of discussion in comparison to what's posted, and the discussion that's there isn't irreplaceable somewhere else. I have to go, I might add more at some point.

 

[1. Luftballon]

5. either assign an FG mod to pay attention to thread length since the rest of us don't want to, or ask conscientious FG members to report uberlong threads so they're brought to our attention without us having to wade through the clutter (what do you mean "gmods should just un-ignore forum games" that's a stupid idea)
6. /thread now?

I fail to understand what people aren't grasping here.

7. do some sort of configuration/write a hack to automagically lock over a threshold. this would probably be easier than getting any actual people to do anything! because... people.

 

[Zoltea]

7. do some sort of configuration/write a hack to automagically lock over a threshold. this would probably be easier than getting any actual people to do anything! because... people.

I was kinda thinking the same thing. So long as the code can be implemented. In pseudo-code something like
if (replies > 3000)
{
Thread.lock ();
}

 

[Espeon]

Would it not be better to limit the post count to 1,000 but not lock the thread so in effect you'd have like uh...

Posts: 1, 2, 3, ... 998, 999, 1000

Then if someone were to post it'd delete from the first reply (post 2) onwards, so that the initial post still exists? Effect would be as such;

Posts: 1, 3, 4 ... 999, 1000, 1001
Posts: 1, 5, 4 ... 1000, 1001, 1002?

I've probably articulated that really badly.

It would allow games to continue as normal whilst not cluttering the forum up with a ton of locked threads.

 

[Worst Username Ever]

Eh, I only use it now and then so I wouldn't really miss it myself, but I say we should keep it. People are having fun there, and seeing how long thread gets deleted from now on, we won't have to worry about the memory they take up. If you don't like, hide and don't look.

Also, let's keep you laugh you lose, maybe just with more strict rules for youtube/video links. (The forum could use [youtube] tags.)