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Subject: Can someone explain why these forums are so Awful?

Posted by: spartain ken 15
You guys care too much.

This is serious. The more I visit sites that have real forums, this place seems lame. You cant use your own avis, you cant embed links in your posts, you dont even have a standard smiley set. The Bnet Forums are awful.

Why not implement some features that make this place seem like it was actually built in the 2000s? I really dont see what the harm would be. Every other forum I frequent has these options and they run fine.

If people abuse it, ban them, it really is that simple. You think a mass amount of people are going to abuse it? Thats pure conjecture and you wont know until you actually implement some decent features. I'd like to see it happen.

The layout is the only redeeming feature. The way the forums here are laid out are the best I've ever seen but I got over that years ago. It doesnt make or break the forum experience.

SO yeah, Custom avis for everyone, post embedding, and smiley sets....

  • 12.04.2011 8:14 AM PDT

Haha! You so funny!

  • 12.04.2011 8:16 AM PDT

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I don't really care for those things you listed so it doesn't bother me at all. Those don't seem to make or break the website for me, its kind of extreme to think the forums are awful for there lack of them.

  • 12.04.2011 8:17 AM PDT

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It is not the forums themselves that are awful.

  • 12.04.2011 8:18 AM PDT

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That's why.

  • 12.04.2011 8:18 AM PDT

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Disclaimer: The latter is a lie.

I lol'd, OP.

  • 12.04.2011 8:19 AM PDT

If there would be sometype of system that censors dicks then I am fine with these features.

  • 12.04.2011 8:20 AM PDT

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  • 12.04.2011 8:21 AM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten


Posted by: Phenomenon IV
If there would be sometype of system that censors dicks then I am fine with these features.

  • 12.04.2011 8:21 AM PDT

@spawn031

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

I'm just hoping that Bungie does implement some new features that many other forums have as a standard by the time they announce their next project.

List of current ideas to discuss changing.

  • 12.04.2011 8:22 AM PDT

Smileys might be okay, but are essentially pointless. Custom avatars and link embedding would make it far too easy to troll.

  • 12.04.2011 8:23 AM PDT

What a hipster.

Posted by: antony X1000
Smileys might be okay, but are essentially pointless. Custom avatars and link embedding would make it far too easy to troll.
Not if we had dragons to fight off the trolls.

Some ideas are actually good, like these, and dragons.

[Edited on 12.04.2011 8:40 AM PST]

  • 12.04.2011 8:31 AM PDT

I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.

I tweet?

I agree with the OP, I want colored text back too. In all web supported colors, pink especially.

  • 12.04.2011 8:31 AM PDT

Posted by: spartain ken 15
You guys care too much.

Actual Signatures? I almost forgot about those. I dont get why this place is set up like its 1998

  • 12.04.2011 8:33 AM PDT

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Posted by: spartain ken 15
It is not the forums themselves that are awful.


Agreed.



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  • 12.04.2011 8:47 AM PDT

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Waaaaaaaaaahmbulance contender right there.

  • 12.04.2011 8:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: antidope671
you dont even have a standard smiley set.
And it makes my heart glad.

  • 12.04.2011 8:58 AM PDT

7th Column Supporter.

This is a pretty good example. Most of the community is made up of people who can't be bothered to spell a 5 letter word. If most people were actually competent, contributing members maybe things would be different.
Posted by: dim1997

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Because the Bungie community is made up of immature trolls.

Until people mature, we will never be able to embed stuff.

Ur the one to talk



[Edited on 12.04.2011 9:09 AM PST]

  • 12.04.2011 9:04 AM PDT

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The OP's complaints vaguely remind me of my own gripes against Macs and all things Apple.

Kind of funny.

  • 12.04.2011 9:06 AM PDT

Posted by: spartain ken 15
You guys care too much.


Posted by: DeltaHalo_UK
Waaaaaaaaaahmbulance contender right there.
You're so cool bro

  • 12.04.2011 9:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: antidope671

Posted by: DeltaHalo_UK
Waaaaaaaaaahmbulance contender right there.
You're so cool bro


I NO RITE!

Anyhoo, you're saying that a forum needs to be complicated and cluttered for it to be considered 'good'.
I can't see why Bungie.net needs smileys, and I certainly don't think it should have custom avatars.
You argue that we won't know the effects until we try it, but look at coup - it is a disgusting mess of rainbows and ponies - so long as you keep it to a script it isn't the public face of the forums. Slap all the crap that exists in the realms of coup onto Bungie.net as a real tool, and suddenly Bungie's public website looks like a unicorn ate too many Rainbow Drops and vomited everywhere.

  • 12.04.2011 9:18 AM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

I'm not sure if OP is serious with this, but he obviously doesn't remember when people figured out the secret to posting pictures. Lots and lots of waffles of the blue persuasion.

  • 12.04.2011 9:43 AM PDT

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I don't want a smiley set.

  • 12.04.2011 9:46 AM PDT