Bungie.net Community
This topic has moved here: Subject: Off topic threads (Ironic?)
  • Subject: Off topic threads (Ironic?)
Subject: Off topic threads (Ironic?)

-Quaere verum.

Got a report? Use the report tool or send a pm.
Chairleg Productions presents: 'Console Wars' and 'Games as Art?' (also on Halo Waypoint).

There is a forum section known as 'The Flood'. It is for off-topic dicussion.
It's very simple. Now why is it that people don't use it to put off-topic threads?

Some threads belong in The Flood. Others should be in other different sections.
This problem is mainly apparent in New Mombassa and Zanzibar. I've just looked at Zanzibar and i think the majority of threads there belong in a different section.

I think that perhaps someone should remind people of what the different sections are or.

I would have done this myself but apparently, according to Moderators, it is their job to do things such as things such as this.


The only thing left to say is, is this thread off topic? I'm not sure as there is no place i know of where i can say that.

  • 04.08.2005 10:55 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

The large problem with society is that it is largely ignorant. Once you do something that attracts attention to yourself (such as creating a top selling game) you are bound to be flooded (no pun intended) with people just dying to spout off about anything and every little thing that gets on their nerves. Of course, when you have thousands of people doing this each day in the same forums, you tend to have some spillover into other, un-corrupted forums. Of course, with the Underground, the forum is completely swamped becuase it is the first thing that anyone sees (and automatically assumes that it is there solely for the purpose of their post and their response is the top of everyone's priority).
But this is not to say that the core group of members do not find a way around stupidity and inanity; instead, they take some of the law into their own hands, offering guidance and occasional reprimands to their fellows. This is not to say that we are all without transgressions, for most (if not all of us) have broken some forum rule at one point or another, though most have learned their lessons and continue on to live another day.
However, in extreme cases, we get the few that simply do not understand the sanctity of these near holy relics (the underground, for example) and they continue to spam the forums with trash and drivel, heedless of the flagillation of their comrads.

And to answer your final question, no, this is in the right forum. And it (by my standards) is of appropriate topic for this area.

  • 04.08.2005 8:13 PM PDT
  •  | 
  • Fabled Mythic Member

Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!

Part of the reason is because of the names of the forums. Other forums name their game forums "The Gaming forum" or whatever instead of all of these Bungie names. Now I am not saying they should change it. I think they should stay the way they are. If people took the time to check what forum they should post in before posting, there would be no problem but those extra 2 minutes out of one's life would be too much to ask, apparently.

  • 04.08.2005 8:55 PM PDT

Posted by: Halo53
Part of the reason is because of the names of the forums. Other forums name their game forums "The Gaming forum" or whatever instead of all of these Bungie names. Now I am not saying they should change it. I think they should stay the way they are. If people took the time to check what forum they should post in before posting, there would be no problem but those extra 2 minutes out of one's life would be too much to ask, apparently.


No one will adapt to us so we must adapt to them, no?

  • 04.08.2005 9:29 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Banshee Barron
No one will adapt to us so we must adapt to them, no?


The Masses > Privileged few.

Such is democracy.

  • 04.08.2005 10:45 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Ahh, but this is a dictatorship, eh?

We are just the pawns.

  • 04.09.2005 9:29 AM PDT

-Quaere verum.

Got a report? Use the report tool or send a pm.
Chairleg Productions presents: 'Console Wars' and 'Games as Art?' (also on Halo Waypoint).

I guess it needs to be clearer as to what the individual sections are for.
I don't want the names or anything changed, but i, as do you and others, realise that this issue should be addressed. Perhaps a label below the title banner with a short caption of what the section is about? It does have a small definition, but i feel it needs to be clearer.

Perhaps Bunige should just try that and we can see if the off topic threads die down.

  • 04.09.2005 12:24 PM PDT

Posted by: Gods Prophet
I think that perhaps someone should remind people of what the different sections are or.

I would have done this myself but apparently, according to Moderators, it is their job to do things such as things such as this.

We do, and on quite a regular basis. The delete button is my friend. The problem is that these forums are so heavily used that an hour after a mod leaves a forum nice and tidy, it will be flooded with 2 pages of crap again.

It sucks that any time a non-moderator tells someone about a mistake they've made that they just spout off "you're not my mom, you can't tell me what to do!" I even get that response occassionally because people are sometimes too ignorant to notice I AM a moderator.

  • 04.09.2005 2:48 PM PDT

-Quaere verum.

Got a report? Use the report tool or send a pm.
Chairleg Productions presents: 'Console Wars' and 'Games as Art?' (also on Halo Waypoint).

lol. I know your a mod. (the monty python pic gives it away. It is monty python right?)
anyway, i understand that you have the delete button handy, but that doesn't teach people not to do it. They'll, as you really said, just make another load. We really need to tell them so that MODs don't need to delete threads constantly.

[Edited on 4/9/2005]

  • 04.09.2005 3:01 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Ah, but many of us (semi-policing members) often inform people of their mistakes.
Most responses by us are jokingly made, but some may come with vehlment rage.

  • 04.10.2005 7:47 PM PDT

-Quaere verum.

Got a report? Use the report tool or send a pm.
Chairleg Productions presents: 'Console Wars' and 'Games as Art?' (also on Halo Waypoint).

That's the problem. I guess it's better for moderators, who we know are going to be sensible, to do what needs to be done with the thread.

  • 04.11.2005 1:59 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Who ever said it was a problem that some of us are self-policing?

  • 04.11.2005 2:11 AM PDT