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DELETE FORUM GAMES ENTIRELY?!

Forum games: stay or go?

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Guys what about the Grr and Fwee threads with their >2000 replies? Could a mod quote the last five replies of each and then restart the thread or something?
 
As Mawile stated earlier, why not just delete the forum and make a group for Forum Games instead? Espeon's idea for a forum hack also seems quite reasonable, and one could even limit the number down to, like, 500 instead of 1,000. If that's possible.

About images and videos—Does that really count? Hyperlinked images should only count as coding in the forum's memory, not as actual images. Same with regular links. Of course, that discludes albums, but...is it even possible to link to something from an album?
 
Actually, I kind of don't think those threads should exist anymore. If it's thread length and not thread count that's causing the problems, why not just go back to individual threads?
 
Espeon said:
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.
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that wouldn't really work for actual coherent discussions. for example.
 
I intended for my "solution" to be localised to the forum games only; you can probably get the gist of the game from the 1st post and the other 999 posts in the thread. I seriously doubt the previous posts get read frequently enough for anyone to even care about them mysteriously vanishing off of the face of the earth.

The majority of threads don't even reach 1,000 posts outside of Forum Games and the Serious Business sections from what I can tell, anyway!
 
Superbird said:
As Mawile stated earlier, why not just delete the forum and make a group for Forum Games instead?
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actually that was me :>

is it even possible to link to something from an album?
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yes, and people do it frequently!

I rather like how (so far) this discussion has consisted of ... discussion instead of people shouting at each other like last time.
 
No. HECK No.
The forum games are there for fun (as all games are.) And it's really he one major entertaining non-Pokemon thing here (for the most part).

How did this surfce to begin with?
 
SonicNintendo said:
How did this surfce to begin with?
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Threads with huge numbers of posts in are the source of the 505 errors, we think. Since forum games has many threads with numerous (and useless) posts, it's the most likely area to get targetted for deletion or reform.

I don't really want to see it deleted provided people are getting enjoyment out of it.

ultraviolet said:
I rather like how (so far) this discussion has consisted of ... discussion instead of people shouting at each other like last time.
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WHAT THE HELL YOU BANANA FACED BANANA THING! 20 POINTS FROM HUFFLEPUFF! >:(
 
I know this is a really unpopular opinion around these parts, but turning postcount off in forum games might help.

The people who post there exclusively for postcount would stop, so threads won't fill as fast. Then the people who post there would post there because they want to and not for the postcount. It would probably increase the quality of posts (however slightly).


One problem I think there is is that there isn't enough thought put into posts. If I were to post a thread like "rate the above signature" I'd want a bit more of a response than a rating out of 10, and maybe a short sentence to explain why. I know some people actually say what's good/bad about it and how they could improve but a lot don't.

It might be good to have better threads like maybe a caption competition where people have to think of witty things to say rather than a post with hardly any effort.
I fact I think I should make a thread like maybe a caption competition.
 
The only valid argument against Forum Games is that it causes loading errors. Everything else, like "Forum Games is stupid and I don't like it", is bullshit. Nothing's forcing you to go there. You can put the forum on hide if it's bothering you and be done with it. Just avoid Forum Games, the way you avoid all the other meaningless crap on the internet, and the problem is solved.
 
Rasrap Smurf said:
I know this is a really unpopular opinion around these parts, but turning postcount off in forum games might help.

The people who post there exclusively for postcount would stop, so threads won't fill as fast. Then the people who post there would post there because they want to and not for the postcount. It would probably increase the quality of posts (however slightly).
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The problem with that is that ideally, post count would ... count posts. If a post isn't valid enough to increase post count, why is it valid enough to exist?


Caption contests can be fun \o/
 
I like the forum games area >:( And I don't just spam there for post count, either. Things like the Silence Game are really fun. What about all of those bajillions of threads that are locked/dead in the forums games section? Can't those be deleted while leaving the active games to flourish? And then if long threads are causing problems, every time a thread hits a 1000 posts, it can be restarted and the old thread deleted. That way we keep our fun forum games section and it's not crammed full of junk at the same time :)?
 
surskitty said:
The problem with that is that ideally, post count would ... count posts. If a post isn't valid enough to increase post count, why is it valid enough to exist?
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I think that, ironically, the ones that are posted there only for postcount increase are less valid than the ones that would continue to be posted if postcount were removed.

Though I guess here I'm assuming that the spammiest posts and the postcount++ ones are one and the same, which might not necessarily be the case!
 
Post count counts all posts, not just the good ones. Let's not introduce a system in which we try to rate the quality of posts; we've already tried that and it didn't work.
 
Okay, I think it's pretty conclusive that we can just close/restart threads when they reach a certain point. So the question is just whether a script can be written for that or if someone has to manually do that.

Unless someone is really adamant about closing forum games in spite of these things being done, I think that's pretty much the end of that?
 
Oh, is this why the Grr Thread is closed? Well, I don't really go into the forum games that much, but if they're causing errors, then I think they should be limited or removed if that helps the whole forum.
 
Yeah, I closed it because I tried to view the last page and got an error three times in a row. If it's long enough to be difficult to load, it's long enough that nobody should be posting in it.

... Relatedly, why is there a Grr thread and a Fwee thread? Isn't that what the entire board is for ...?
 
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