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Subject: I think the description of The Flood needs to be changed.
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Description of The Flood:

Off topic forum. Use at your own risk. Say your stupid things here.
I think that last statement needs to be taken out. Because some people think that since it is off topic, they can go and spam in that forum, when they aren't supposed to.

  • 07.16.2005 5:56 PM PDT
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I agree, too many stupid posts like "HOT CHICKS!!!!!!!" "OH GOD NO I'VE GOT THOSE RETARDED GF PROBLEMS AGAIN!" or "DAUHGILEATNHW87AOT47N" and sometimes "MC VS DARTH VADER! WHO WILL WIN?!!!?!?!!?!?!?!"

I don't bother going there often to talk about other games, xbox360 and all that stuff because my posts get covered in crap. Why are there so few Ninjas?

Edit:THIS SUCKS! I posted this asking how many copies of halo2 were sold and all of the statistics of sales and noone replied! It slipped to the second page in less than a minute because of all the halo3 rumors and golden warthog videos!

I WAS thinking of posting it in the underground, because I knew all the Bungie peoples would know all of the answers, then decided based on my recently moved posts there that it wasn't the best idea. Damn... that sucks so badly! Same happened when I asked what broadband deals people had in Zanzibar but it got lost in all the "smg vs br" and "unfair sprawn points" threads.

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  • 07.16.2005 6:04 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

It's not that there are so few ninjas, its that they spend their time modding more important forums, such as this one. The Flood doesn't have to be watched so closely, because stuff that would get locked here is ok over there. Besides, nobody makes you go there. You might wanna avoid the Flood, Zanzibar, and NM if you dont like seeing those stupid topics about modding and people not liking the new maps.

-Nedus

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  • 07.16.2005 7:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nedus
nobody makes you go there. You might wanna avoid the Flood, Zanzibar
I want to actually be able to use the flood though, for anything non-bungie - other games, xbox360, computer tech' support etcetc but theres too much spam and some dumbasses reply and the retarded posts shoot to the top leaving the good stuff 6pages back. There should be more ninjas! I would love to see the Flood have good posts that have a point rather than just crap and people issues.

  • 07.16.2005 10:18 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

The Underground really needs a change as well...

  • 07.16.2005 10:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: Yoozel
The Underground really needs a change as well...


I agree. Instead of "Discussions about anything and everything Bungie", it should be changed to "This is NOT a Halo board!"

  • 07.16.2005 10:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Yoozel
The Underground really needs a change as well...


I agree. Instead of "Discussions about anything and everything Bungie", it should be changed to "This is NOT a Halo board!"
Or Anything Bungie BUT the Halo series.

  • 07.16.2005 11:16 PM PDT
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Probably - but upon doing this, the Forum would be completely spammed up by threads like "zomg are blovd flug froum yd u chng it bngie!!!!11 wtf u r -blam!-". That's probably me being too negative, but I'm quite sure they'd have something to say.

  • 07.17.2005 12:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: Joe Halo Master
Posted by: Twinfire0
Posted by: Yoozel
The Underground really needs a change as well...


I agree. Instead of "Discussions about anything and everything Bungie", it should be changed to "This is NOT a Halo board!"
Or Anything Bungie BUT the Halo series.


Or a completely foolproof system of listing every game.

  • 07.17.2005 12:48 AM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

I think something along the lines of;

The Underground, discussion of classic Bungie games.

The Flood, general and off topic discussion.

  • 07.17.2005 12:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: Yoozel
I think something along the lines of;

The Underground, discussion of classic Bungie games.

The Flood, general and off topic discussion.

The Underground does need a name change too. Look a it. It has five threads that Are Not locked.

  • 07.17.2005 1:46 AM PDT
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Even if they did take that last line out the damage would still be done. It would however help with people new to the site.

  • 07.17.2005 2:10 AM PDT

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Well if they changed the Underground then wouldn't they want to make a Bungie General board as well?

  • 07.17.2005 5:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: Joe Halo Master
Anything Bungie BUT the Halo series.


Spot on.

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  • 07.17.2005 6:02 AM PDT

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I completely agree. However, I believe Achronos has said he's unlikely to change the Underground description so would he change The Flood's? Perhaps.

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  • 07.17.2005 6:11 AM PDT
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As a forum goer for the flood and here, I agree that the Flood should be changed also..

If you look at it right now, I predict there are many Halo and Xbox threads currently.

One time, I told a person to read the rules because he was spamming and posting crap in that forum. You know what he replied?

"W3lll!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A FORUM FOR STUPID THINGS RIGHT?????? @sss!!!!!!"

That wasn't exactly what he said but I knew that he and other tons of people don't understand this statement.

  • 07.17.2005 10:04 AM PDT
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All of the forums descriptions could go more in depth. It is the order that is making the Underground seem unbearable most likely.

  • 07.17.2005 10:13 AM PDT
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I agree that some of the descriptions need tweaked. We have to remember that bungie.net has over a million registered users (how many are active i'am not sure) and we have only eight main forums plus many chapter forums but alot of new (and some older) users dont even realise there are chapters in the first place let alone join any. I think we need to create some more new forums for more specific aspects of the current ones e.g. In Zanzibar there could be three sub forums custom games, matchmaking, and Aspects of multiplayer. Well you get the idea.

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  • 07.17.2005 10:36 AM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

We have a ton of users, but I do believe the most of them have just signed up to check their stats rather than post on the forums.

The problem with 'Bungie General' is people think you can talk about Halo because it is 'general' when what is implied is like Bungie lore and stuff... Not Halo.

  • 07.17.2005 11:02 AM PDT

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Probably - but upon doing this, the Forum would be completely spammed up by threads like "zomg are blovd flug froum yd u chng it bngie!!!!11 wtf u r -blam!-". That's probably me being too negative, but I'm quite sure they'd have something to say.


Well, a great number of Flood posters would welcome the change. The only ones you'd see complaining about it would be the morons who spam it in the first place.

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  • 07.17.2005 11:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: Yoozel
We have a ton of users, but I do believe the most of them have just signed up to check their stats rather than post on the forums.

The problem with 'Bungie General' is people think you can talk about Halo because it is 'general' when what is implied is like Bungie lore and stuff... Not Halo.


Ha. Yes. I remember seeing threads in there where people would say stuff like, "U cant tell ME were 2 go this is 4 Bunge general and that mean HALO can b posted hear 2. Piss off!" and then they would get a response from the mods somewhat like this, "We can tell you where to go and we will. Read the rules and the stickies some time. Thread locked." I always get a good kick out of that. No matter how comical it can get, they still ought to change the subtitle for The Underground to something else.

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  • 07.17.2005 2:23 PM PDT
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Didn't Achronos mumble something earlier about not being able to change the descriptions? I'm all for the cutback on stupidity but I'm willing to suffer through more spam topics if need be.

  • 07.17.2005 2:52 PM PDT

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I doubt those people pay much attention to the discription. After all how many people have you came across in other forums that either don't or simply refuse to read the ruels?

  • 07.17.2005 2:53 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

If anyone has even been to the Blizzard forums and posted, I love (and hate) how you have the rules right in front of you and have to enter your birthday to go make a post. At least it'd make people well aware that there are rules.

  • 07.17.2005 5:17 PM PDT
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Locked posts strike again! Yoozel, if some random person asks "how do i change my avatar?" in the Underground, instead of telling them how and locking it can't you just delete it and pm them the answer or something? I just opened the flood in a new window and theres a lot of weird people...

'i am stupid'
'why the blam are there different screws?'

This is getting way more retarded than usual, I want to see posts like: 'what other games do you play and why do you like them?' or 'what is your favourite browser?' or 'my computer sucks - what internet security do you recommend?' rather than pointless crap that makes no sense.

  • 07.17.2005 6:07 PM PDT

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