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Maybe a PM to everyone on the forum to enlighten them how this is supposed to work would be in order. (That's pretty drastic, but I assume the admins have some sort of button to PM all users.)
Yesterday Tube put http://forums.penny-arcade.com/announcement.php?f=63&a=48 up.
I think people should check out the forum index every once in a while.
Oh god the irony. Yeah, I often get stuck just checking out threads that I've subscribed to. That might be a problem for a lot of people actually.
I have difficulty believing that there are very many people who never look at the main thread list for at least one, if not several forums.
Anyway, I like looking at all of the sub-fora anyway, you never know what you will find. I still can't post any awesome threads yet, I'll have to post more often.
Mind you, I've just found out how to rate a thread, so I'm slowly improving.
For paintings in progress, check out canvas and paints
"The power of the weirdness compels me."
Aaaand apparently posting in a thread auto-subscribes you to them.
Oh god I've got dozens and dozens of pages of thread subscriptions to delete.
You can change the default in your options somewhere.
I mean we are in the Awesome Post forum, it's supposed to be on topic, well at least to the extent that the intial posts are awesome.
It tends to make the thread titles a bit too long.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
But some aren't...at all.
Magic Online - Bertro
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=57651
Yes, once a thread has been voted as not awesome it gets cleaned up, but that doesn't mean in the future that people won't post lame threads. Since it's a somewhat democratic system on deciding what's awesome, I think there should still be a question mark in the title.
Magic Online - Bertro
Which honestly should unlock the thread so we can mock the dumbass
To help people see what we think is awesome, and what we think is shitty?
Sign me up
But it's annoying.
have you considered that people are voting down not because of some overarching anti G&T conspiracy but because they just don't think it's awesome?
durrrrrr
(I don't know of anyone that would do this as it's idiotic and serves no purpose)
Games are for nerds, you see.
nerds and fags
down with G&T, quite
Who said anything about a conspiracy?
There's just some guys who go "Hurr hurr GnT sux" and automatically vote it down.
And I mean, even if it's not super good, like, 3 star posts, it gets shoved into 1 star.
I'm just talking about a pattern I've noticed.
You're the one who seems to be getting offended.
let's just leave this be
no need to turn this into a G&T vs. SE++ flamer war here
pls provide evidens of clame
I don't like people being jackasses, this forum has quite enough of it
As the ringleader, I need to step in and say that we're taking applications. We're finding that G&T awesome posts aren't being shitcanned fast enough, we'd like to see the time down to 12 hours tops.
To apply, PM Pata complaining about this tiny forum and describe how little impact it has on, well, fucking anything.
SE++ provides the higher concentration of awesome posts due to the nature of the forum.
I dont think anyone gives a flying fuck which forum has the most awesome posts, though I do get the sense some GnTers have been reporting decidely non-awesome GnT posts to try and close the gap.
An awesome post in GnT is usually, as mentioned, something that requires extensive context or background. While an SE++ awesome post can and often is a brilliant one liner or forum macro image or something.
It's not some conspiracy, its the design of the forums themselves. IF SE++ think they have somehow achieved a 'victory' by having the higher proportion of the awesome posts they are as stupid as the GnTers who constantly try to downplay SE++s innate capacity for hilarity.