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Subject: Zanzibar is getting a bit out of hand.

Relic Conspiracy Theory!

Posted by: JAVA2
If it wasn't for your ass, Titan, I'd never talk to you.


If doubt is thought, and thought is life, then I think I doubt that I'm alive.

I just looked in Zanzibar and I found 4 locked threads on the first page and I didn't even look at the full page. I looked at some of the threads and a lot of them are crowded with flamers. Any ideas on how to solve it?

  • 12.31.2005 4:27 PM PDT
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Too many people are asking the same questions over and over agian. People need to read the stickies, the FAQs but they don't.

I have an idea though moderators. I go to High Impact Halo a lot and one of the things that keeps it clean is the Question and Answer sticky. If we had one of those in Zanzibar, it would really help out the n00bs.

ZOMG i s@1d d4t w0rd n00000b!!1 ZOMFG!!!

Seiroulsy, i would be happy to make it if it would be stickied. Maybe i should go make it right now.

  • 12.31.2005 4:32 PM PDT
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The mods are doing the best they can. But, they rely on the community to help them.

  • 12.31.2005 4:37 PM PDT
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ban em all

  • 12.31.2005 4:37 PM PDT

Relic Conspiracy Theory!

Posted by: JAVA2
If it wasn't for your ass, Titan, I'd never talk to you.


If doubt is thought, and thought is life, then I think I doubt that I'm alive.

Posted by: IrishGrimReaper
ban em all

Ok that is just stupid!

  • 12.31.2005 4:38 PM PDT

Relic Conspiracy Theory!

Posted by: JAVA2
If it wasn't for your ass, Titan, I'd never talk to you.


If doubt is thought, and thought is life, then I think I doubt that I'm alive.

Posted by: NationalSWAT991
Let the moderators do their job. They can delete it but it's probably not that high level. You can't really do anything to Zanzibar right now but watch them suffer.

Just look at the flood forum too. They too have locked threads. But now, they're under close supervision since people misinterpret the description of that forum.

Yeah I know the moderators are doing their job but still we need to help somehow. I mean I'd like to know that theres a way to help out.

  • 12.31.2005 4:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Titan AI
Posted by: NationalSWAT991
Let the moderators do their job. They can delete it but it's probably not that high level. You can't really do anything to Zanzibar right now but watch them suffer.

Just look at the flood forum too. They too have locked threads. But now, they're under close supervision since people misinterpret the description of that forum.

Yeah I know the moderators are doing their job but still we need to help somehow. I mean I'd like to know that theres a way to help out.


Playing Forum Cop--The Art of Contributing

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Posted by: Titan AI
Posted by: IrishGrimReaper
ban em all

Ok that is just stupid!
im sory1

  • 12.31.2005 4:50 PM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

Just try to be a good poster and inform the mods when something bad comes up. That is about the best you can do. Right now there is a huge influx of idiots because it's New Years Eve.

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u men me rit?

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Nobody likes my idea up there ^^?

  • 12.31.2005 5:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: EliteCommander87
Nobody likes my idea up there ^^?


It sounds good in theory. Note: In theory. The problem: You aren't the first who has had this idea.

There were once stickies that did exactly this. There is still the cheater report sticky. It tells people what to do if they are cheated. Knowing this, do you think it helps? It doesn't.

Most Zanzibar members would prefer making their own threads to complain. You can make a sticky for people to put montages. What happens? People still put montage threads in Zanzibar. You put a sticky about what people should do if they are cheated. What happens? People continue to complain, even though they have many times seen others make similar threads, and know that complaining will do nothing.

Want to make a thread that will get stickied? Fine. But don't expect that it will help, and don't think that you will be able to solve the problem.

  • 12.31.2005 5:15 PM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

Mabian I think it would be better to try and fail than not to try at all. Just a thought.

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This is something I learned the hardway. You can't defeat the vulgarity of the masses. It's impossible. I created a group that was dedicated to cleaning everything up. Worked too, for about five days. Then, people got bored with the idea. I even had a mod join the group. Didn't give me that much more influence. Trust me, just leave it alone.

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Posted by: Achilles1108
Mabian I think it would be better to try and fail than not to try at all. Just a thought.


But is there a point to trying for a third or fourth time? If it's been tried before, and it failed miserably (and, in fact, is still failing, since the cheater report sticky is still there), should we make another fruitless attempt? Sure, you will have those who support the idea, but then you have those who simply don't care. Few people actually read over the first page before making a thread. This is obvious because there were several threads about superjumping and "fake reasons I leave feedback"...on the front page all at once.

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Posted by: Vasheeth
This is something I learned the hardway. You can't defeat the vulgarity of the masses. It's impossible. I created a group that was dedicated to cleaning everything up. Worked too, for about five days. Then, people got bored with the idea. I even had a mod join the group. Didn't give me that much more influence. Trust me, just leave it alone.


I, too, was in a group dedicated to trying to stop the flood of topics. Mostly it was meant to get members to inform moderators and inform people of the rules. I left after a while.

But I have observed, and I have learned. Before, if someone posted something like "Join my group" in Zanzibar, I would post in it telling them to go to the Classifieds. When I came back to Zanzibar, some of the members of the group did the same thing I did. But they forgot they are still members. They went around only trying to inform other members of rule fractures. Tensions mounted, and there were a couple of other members who made new accounts to make fun of members who did just this. We weren't exactly pleased.

And now, I use the PM system. I am kind. I don't put anything like "You are supposed to use the Classifieds for that moron." I don't go out on the forums trying to gain attention.

So, do you want to improve Zanzibar? Don't complain about it. Find out the best way to go through with improving it, then do it.

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Zanibar has gotten so out of hand that i just stay in the flood. Plus, there are people who purposefully try to wreck Zanzibar.

  • 01.02.2006 7:57 AM PDT

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Zanzibar and the Optimatch are now hell holes.


I cant post anything without being flammed by someone for no reason.

I say the mods should have 7 minuets to ban has many people in that forum has possible.

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Posted by: EAGLES5
Zanzibar and the Optimatch are now hell holes.


I cant post anything without being flammed by someone for no reason.

I say the mods should have 7 minuets to ban has many people in that forum has possible.


Now that would be fun.

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Posted by: IrishGrimReaper
ban em all


YA!

  • 01.02.2006 10:15 AM PDT

Zanzibar is getting a bit out of hand.

Zanzibar is getting a bit out of hand? Zanzibar has been out of hand for the past year. This isn't some new exiting news story to just hit The Septagon, but a belief widely accepted by the majority of the members here since Zanzibar was created.

So now remind me, why even create this thread?

  • 01.02.2006 11:21 AM PDT
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See, the problem here is that us forum cops and decent folk are outnumbered 100-1 by the flamers and people who are incapable of spelling. Really, we are fighting a losing battle here. The Septagon is the only forum with any decency left.

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Only the paranoid will survive!

Forum Cop is such a silly name.

And last I checked, locked threads were a sign that the forum was in control, not the other way around.

  • 01.02.2006 11:42 AM PDT

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