Why in gods name is a general talk section restricted from regular users?
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Why in gods name is a general talk section restricted from regular users?
*sighs* YOU people!
Ok, here is why it was done:
The Lounge was taking away "activity" from the Outerworld. Additionally, Mental's Lair was a barren wasteland. By doing this, all general threads go in the Outerworld, and Subscribers/Alphas actually have something to do now.
Nope, but I am/have been active on other forums both smaller and several orders of magnitude larger than this one and this is the only board I've seen where the colour of your username is of any importance whatsoever. Apart from, as it happens, a forum I used to mod for a friend. When we were 14 years old. I'm sorry but all these different user 'ranks' are a childish idea designed to make certain users feel more important and special than other users. However, nobody over the age of 14 actually gives a shit. And that's the problem, you're taking this silly little concept that should have been axed years ago and giving it even more importance than it had before. Get rid of it, I say, and have a normal forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by exclamatio
Every single forum has user ranks, because they are there by default when you start a blank forum. The large majority use colored names to signify the ranks. I have never seen a forum which does NOT do this, and i am currently an "active" member of 26 forums. I can not understand how this is a new concept to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by troublemaker1111
Got my keyboard back now so I can explain what's happening.
The lounge was 1 of the worst things we created so it's gone. Those who liked it would have loved the old outerworld anyway.
The subscriber only section has a few cool bits and hardly any modding.
The last person posting thread was saved from the lounge and given to the high posters area (which does not count posts) as somewhere to play.
Decent threads that would have gone in the lounge go right back where they used to be - the outerworld. I saved a few other recent threads before trashing the rest of the lounge.
Entertainment had also started to become rubbish after the seperate video area was tried out, so that's gone too.
ok ty.Quote:
Originally Posted by troublemaker1111
why in Odins name do have to post in the lounge? It was a pointless section, post here instead bro!Quote:
Originally Posted by Surface
The Outerworld was awesome and anything that could bring life back to it is a step forward in my books. Also there's nothing wrong with ranks, the way I see it is the ranks are there so people/users know who to contact with conerns/ideas/etc rather than "lol i gonn ban u"...
Anyway, bring on the decent posting quality once again tbh!
Default ranks are one thing but what rZ has is some retarded next level shit. It should be normal users, subs and mods and that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rishwin
Some leave... some come back..
just back from my 2nd year of welding trade school here in canada.
havent logged in it seems since like highschool. well time to post whore it up again. playing alot of 1.6 CS , and CS PRO MOD , battlefield2 for xbox just beat
One word. Spamzilla. That gave the evolution alot of activity. Ever since the constant name changing and the stupid rules that were enforced in "the lounge" the activity level in the outerworld and the evolution as a whole plummeted.Quote:
Originally Posted by exclamatio
Eh? I've never seen that section or I just forgot it.
What are you talking about? A basketball team can't win without trainers, coaches, and manager, the team would be fucked up: superiors are very important in a team, we need them.Quote:
Originally Posted by troublemaker1111
Gaining 1,500 posts is not a hard thing to do. I've been here since Oct. 15, 2008 and I have almost 3,000 posts. Out of that 3,000 posts, I'd say maybe 50 is random spam. According to statistics, I am averaging almost 5.5 posts per day. Now think about that. If the average person types 50-70 WPM (words per minute), and the average paragraph is roughly... 200-400 words, it's safe to say that each post with quality takes 4-6 minutes. That means I spend on average, a half hour a day on here. Are you telling me that in your 2 years of being here, you spend less that a half hour on here at a time? If so... then what is really the point of being a member?Quote:
Originally Posted by yjlasher22
Was it REALLY necessary for you to post in the last 5 threads here in a span of 3 minutes, with absolutely USELESS posts?Quote:
Originally Posted by NyCPirate
RZ is dieing because it no longer offers any content that you can't get elsewhere. Other forums have the same, if not better server files to download and the site itself has more stuff to do. Like the rpg games and vBucks, or whatever its called.
People are moving to better and more exciting forums and sites.
If you are annoyed with it then why not actually do something and report it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rishwin
Someone else did this time and he has now been infracted and all his post in the evolution for today that I deemed spam were deleted.
Crash