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Subject: OMG Tom!!!!
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A search is coming, be patient.

If it scrolls slow, I assume you're using Firefox. Open Bungie on another browser.

  • 02.11.2005 4:25 PM PDT

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There is a way to keep track of your posts. Try using bookmarks.

A Search Feature that doesn't suck™ is coming Soon

  • 02.11.2005 4:57 PM PDT
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Still a forum without a search function is almost unheard of. As far as my browser its all MS Explorer 6.0. My screen scrolls in chunks, but im sure some of that is my hardware, this machine is temporary. As for bookmarks to keep track of forum posts? Dear Lord, I suppose you want me to keep money in my mattress too. An Intelligent posting system might make for more intelligent posting. One can only hope.


St. Joan

  • 02.11.2005 7:45 PM PDT

It's difficult to make a search function which doesn't break the forums every time someone sends off a request when there are thousands upon thousands of posts every day. If you hadn't left B.net for some reason over the period of time in which the New Hotness was created, you'd probably have gotten used to it by now.

- Reiginko

  • 02.11.2005 10:41 PM PDT
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So thats it? I should be used to it? To be honest, im damn sad that I haven't had a reason to be here untill now. ::sniff:: Game fans are a nostagic bunch of softies you know. I can't even bring myself to read the Myth thread here. I understand the problems with wider searches but couldn't you allow the user to find their own posts at least? Just put a limit on the number returned. It's just so chaotic and cold as it is....where are the warm fuzzies when you need em.



St. Joan

  • 02.12.2005 12:21 AM PDT

There'll be a search implemented in the near future, and the online team just wants to make sure it always works, and works well. Since the implementation of the New Hotness last year, Achronos and co have had a lot of other work to do, not least of all the implementation of Stats support for Halo 2.

And when you really think about it, the warm fuzzies shouldn't have to come from Bungie - isn't the community warm and fuzzy enough? :D

- Reiginko

  • 02.12.2005 4:01 AM PDT

Yes, Toast, but how often do you see 761 armless and legless corpses in a single hangar? There isn't much milk involved.

- Reiginko

  • 02.12.2005 7:25 AM PDT
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Emmmmm Millk.

  • 02.12.2005 7:50 AM PDT
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The community has lost its warm fuzzies. I am frankly used to whining complaining little know-it-alls. I mean come on, I am member of the Myth community. You can't get much more whiny than that. Yet still the Halo community crosses more demographics than Myth ever did even at its peak. This means more people are playing Halo2 for more reasons. You have wider age ranges, cultures, and interests. The variablity of Bungie games are legendary. I mean we wouldn't be Bungie fans if we weren't interested in multiplayer games. Because frankly, thats what Bungie does best.

I know that Bungie has its hands full, and I also know that they have to be experiencing some growing pains. However, I also know that if you are sucessfull, you shouldn't forget what got you to the top or else you don't stay there for very long. People need ways to find other like mided people to play with or else they WILL get bored and toss the game aside. It is happening as we speak. Once people start tossing your games asside it doesnt take long for them to stop buying them.

If there isn't good way for people to communicate and build communities, then multiplayer games aren't worth crap. This forum system isn't doing it. Its too massive and confusing and in a small way is a microcosm of the net itself. There has to be some way to cut through the clutter. Of course fans themselves will take the initiative in some cases. However, Halo2 is a big universe and its very hard to navigate. Understandably people and corporations have their priorities, and granted we all have to survive in this world, but damn sometimes it all just seems wrong. I miss the warm fuzzies. :(

:::::::end rant mode:::::::


St. Joan

  • 02.12.2005 4:19 PM PDT

This was in the wrong forum, too. The Septagon is website and community related stuff.

  • 02.12.2005 4:24 PM PDT
Subject: OMG Tom!!!!
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Whats the deal with this forum? No search feature of any kind? You should at least be able to find your own posts somehow. As it is the spam on these forums means that if you don't actively check posts every five minutes, you're post is doomed to be lost forever. The scrolling on this site is horrible too. I even get laggy response time from my keyboard just trying to type a post. I applogize if i sound a bit too critical but I have just wasted 20 minutes of my life trying to find a former post, to no avail. A search feature would be sweet.

St. Joan

  • 02.11.2005 3:04 PM PDT
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People post in the wong forums or threads all the time. Where was your hammer then?

St. Joan

  • 02.12.2005 5:25 PM PDT

He didn't use a hammer. And I take offence at the fact that you seem to think that we let misplaced posts through the net. We honestly try to catch as many as we can.

I still can't work out what exactly it is your complaining about, aside from the search thing.

- Reiginko

  • 02.12.2005 5:37 PM PDT
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lol...its a forum. Look up the definition of "forum" in any dictionary and see what it means. I never asked for someone to mysticaly appear and fix all my woes, nor did I think it was possible. I was expressing myself. I was mostly replying because its the weekend, and mb if I kept replying mb Tom might actualy see my original post and it wouldnt be lost to obscurity. I appologize if my existance somehow annoys you. It wasn't intentional. I am realy not a bad person.

St. Joan

  • 02.12.2005 6:24 PM PDT
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No, I wouldn't say you annoy us, we like to answer questions that people may have, if their post happens to be on topic, which yours is. However the search feature was already being built, but we can't really do anything other than wait. Some people have been waiting for months. I won't say to be patient, but it will arrive one day, and they are working on it. So, no, your post won't go unheeded, but the issue of it being addressed promptly is another matter.

  • 02.12.2005 6:35 PM PDT
Subject: OMG Tom!!!!

I don't think you're a bad person. I'm just confused about what you want. I can sort of understand how you can get frustrated by these forums, but they're not all that bad.

If you want to see some old-school stuff happening, the Underground does have its good days, and there are plenty of neat old-school chapters. For example, the Myth Jumpers holds weekly Myth netgames every friday night and saturday morning, Bungie time.

- Reiginko

  • 02.12.2005 6:39 PM PDT
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Im kent brock man, I shat out a squirel. And some one ate it. Y-U-M-M-Y yuuuuuuuuuuumy. I think its yummy cause I thought it was chocolate, not -blam!-.

  • 02.12.2005 7:04 PM PDT
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The issue is with the method used.
If a thread is in the wrong forum it should be moved. Obviously you guys work hard to maintain order, and no one is faulting you for failing to keep things up. That's not the point. If a thread is in the wrong forum it should be moved and a note should be posted stating that is was moved and why. Nothing fancy, just something along the lines of "Sorry, we moved this threat to the other forum becasue XYZ. Thanks." What happend in this case was that the thread was locked and posts were deleted as if some horrible ruckus were being caused.

Oh, eventually, the thread was moved but only after considerable angst. Locking the thread and deleteing posts are typically actions reserved for trolls, not people trying to civilly express their opinions. As such, feelings were hurt. Mildly glib followups, amounting to "hey, what's your problem lady" really only served to exaberate the issue.

Forums are places of communication. Even so, extra effort should be made by everyone to be clear in their communications; especially by the admins, whose position of authority lends weight and purpose to thier actions and statements which would not otherwise be attributable to the common poster.

Ultimately an apology might be nice. The forums are frustating in and of themselves, but to be so man-handled by its admins a little more frustrating that is necessary. Harm may not have been intended, but it was done.

Mordia

P.S. My boyfriend wrote this. He is too lazy to make an account.

  • 02.12.2005 7:09 PM PDT

We generally will move a misplaced post, or post an explanatory note (or message for the thread's originator), unless there is a reason for us not to. In a large number of cases, misplaced posts are simply replicas of other threads which have been moved, and are already on the front page of the forum's index. In such cases, it is apparent that no effort has been taken on the part of the poster to check whether their topic has been discussed already, or is indeed on-topic as outlined in the rules.

In most cases, misplaced posts occur in the Underground, in some relation to Halo 2. Aside from the forum rules, there is a prominently-placed thread directing Halo 2-related questions to the relevant forum. We are doing our best to make people aware of the posting guidelines which are in place to help reduce the clutter and help people receive the help they need quickly. However, when people refuse to acknowledge those guidelines, when there are already dead posts on the front page which discuss the same topic, it becomes apparent that the poster is refusing to consider the rules of the forum.

Sometimes even the combined might of the Nine who patrol these forums becomes overwhelmed with threads which need to be dealt with, and we sometimes take some shortcuts as a result. Just out of interest, what was the topic of the thread in question?

- Reiginko

  • 02.12.2005 7:26 PM PDT
Subject: what was the topic of the thread in question? - Reiginko

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I think it was a complaint to Tom about no search engines in the bungie.net forums. Later on it evolved into a smoldering discussion (not yet flames) about the people in the Bungie comunity and the friendlieness of people here dispite all the spammers/flamers/whiners and Mod's banning them.

  • 02.12.2005 8:50 PM PDT

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