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Intra-forum relations.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is Technology ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

    I mean it's kind of handy since the linktrail lets you jump between the two (in one direction), but still.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited June 2008
    Never going to become its own forum.

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  • Cynic JesterCynic Jester Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is & ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is & ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

    What?

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator mod
    edited June 2008
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is Technology ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

    I mean it's kind of handy since the linktrail lets you jump between the two (in one direction), but still.
    If tech became its own forum, G&T would have to lose its T and they would have to force all tech threads into the tech forum.

    That's way too much work for such a niche subforum.

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  • mrsnackroadmrsnackroad Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Rolo wrote: »
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is & ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

    What?

    I have to agree with Jester - the glorious joy of Ampersand tends to be overlooked in favor of both games and technology.

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  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I like this thread.

    I started posting in D&D and kept posting in D&D. Everyone always goes on and on about SE but I don't see it being that bad.

    Just haven't gotten around to posting there, much. It's hard to keep up with so many threads.

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  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is Technology ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

    I mean it's kind of handy since the linktrail lets you jump between the two (in one direction), but still.
    If tech became its own forum, G&T would have to lose its T and they would have to force all tech threads into the tech forum.

    That's way too much work for such a niche subforum.

    I'm confused, I thought that was the whole point of the sub-forum.

    If it's not where all the tech threads go... what is its definition?

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator mod
    edited June 2008
    Tell that to the people who put a firefox 3 thread in G&T proper

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited June 2008
    Lewisham wrote: »
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is Technology ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

    I mean it's kind of handy since the linktrail lets you jump between the two (in one direction), but still.
    If tech became its own forum, G&T would have to lose its T and they would have to force all tech threads into the tech forum.

    That's way too much work for such a niche subforum.

    I'm confused, I thought that was the whole point of the sub-forum.

    If it's not where all the tech threads go... what is its definition?

    You can still make tech threads in G&T proper should you so desire.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Generally speaking the subforum, in my experience, is H/A Tech edition with assistance on purchasing X type of Y electronic or what programs are windows essential. Things of that vein.

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    Generally speaking the subforum, in my experience, is H/A Tech edition with assistance on purchasing X type of Y electronic or what programs are windows essential. Things of that vein.

    Also the T sub forum got rid of those pesky Mac freaks from G&T proper. Win/win. :P

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Seta 3000 wrote: »
    fyrewulff is mad because the g&t chat thread assholes kicked him out of their clubhouse

    I have no idea what you're talking about, and like I'd want to be associated with the former chat thread site as they have no problem posting pictures of underage girls, and just act like a bunch of easily offended and high school dramatic weeaboos anyway.

    It was still a great decision to get rid of the chat thread.

    The G&T chat thread has it's own forum now? Haha! Twats. G&T has been consistently brilliant at generating one-thread cliques that eventually do us all a favour and piss off to start their own forum. And by brilliant I mean lame.

    actually, you remember the G&T podcast, that Khoo asked the makers of to rename it as they'd started releasing it via iTunes and was worried about branding and whatnot? It was a Website (not just a forum, but a fledgeling gaming site, which, incidentally, Fyre was brought in to code for) spawned from that, and since it was founded by the G&T Podcast crew, many of the G&T Chat thread posters went there as well.

    as for Fyre's little thing about underage girls being posted, it was actually one guy, who was then reprimanded for it by the forumers and the pictures removed.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Lewisham wrote: »
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    Speaking of inter forum relations.

    Is Technology ever going to become it's own forum or are we always going to have to go through G&T first?

    I mean it's kind of handy since the linktrail lets you jump between the two (in one direction), but still.
    If tech became its own forum, G&T would have to lose its T and they would have to force all tech threads into the tech forum.

    That's way too much work for such a niche subforum.

    I'm confused, I thought that was the whole point of the sub-forum.

    If it's not where all the tech threads go... what is its definition?

    You can still make tech threads in G&T proper should you so desire.

    I've mostly stuck around D&D in recent months, but what was the purpose of making a tech subforum within G&T anyhow? I missed whatever went down to birth the idea

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    because G&T has so much traffic in Games threads that technology threads got immediately pushed to page 2 or 3

    it's basically "Games and there might be tech threads there if you use the search function"

    now they have their own little convenient forum, should you choose to use it

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Monoxide wrote: »
    because G&T has so much traffic in Games threads that technology threads got immediately pushed to page 2 or 3

    it's basically "Games and there might be tech threads there if you use the search function"

    now they have their own little convenient forum, should you choose to use it

    hmm, gotcha

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'm going to ask the same tired question because I keep forgetting the answer. If SE isn't segregated, why do they have their own gamertag list, WOW thread, MGS4 thread, comic book thread, and (i don't know if this was rectified since I haven't seen it for a while) several TT games threads?

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  • Regicid3Regicid3 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Because SE++ people do not mingle with G&T people well. SE++ people are talented assholes, G&T are . . .

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    Because SE++ is an everything forum.

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Because SE++ is an everything forum.

    then why go anywhere else except to form segregation and cliques?

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    I'm going to ask the same tired question because I keep forgetting the answer. If SE isn't segregated, why do they have their own gamertag list, WOW thread, MGS4 thread, comic book thread, and (i don't know if this was rectified since I haven't seen it for a while) several TT games threads?

    because SE++ still play WoW and MGS4 and read comic books and play games on XBox Live/etc

    but at the same time SE++ also likes to put stuff in butts which is more important than any of the above

    and that makes all the difference in the world

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Because SE++ is an everything forum.

    then why go anywhere else except to form segregation and cliques?

    ohhhh this is what you meant

    as in the threads themselves forming cliques?

    I honestly don't think I have seen that problem

    if you see a thread about a topic you don't care about, you are not going to post in it while others who are interested in it are going to post in it and that means you are automatically not involved in the thread

    how is this hard to understand

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  • mausmalonemausmalone Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Regicid3 wrote: »
    Because SE++ people do not mingle with G&T people well. SE++ people are talented assholes, G&T are . . .

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    From the time I used to post here semi-frequently, I would've ended that sentence with "... largely unaware of SE++'s existence."

    SE++ is the clubhouse inside the house. It's a couch fort.

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  • Regicid3Regicid3 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    People there like to call my Reginumbers.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    SE++ can only be understood with practice.

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  • Regicid3Regicid3 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    SE++ is like Something Awful-lite.

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    quite frankly I am not sure what PikaPuff is getting at and I am going to go ahead and blame my incomprehension on this piss-poor excuse of an iced latte my coworker gave me

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Because SE++ is an everything forum.

    then why go anywhere else except to form segregation and cliques?

    ohhhh this is what you meant

    as in the threads themselves forming cliques?

    I honestly don't think I have seen that problem

    if you see a thread about a topic you don't care about, you are not going to post in it while others who are interested in it are going to post in it and that means you are automatically not involved in the thread

    how is this hard to understand
    I'm asking why there are other forums if SE is the everything forum? Why have other sections if SE already has all sections covered? Why would SE need to go to other forums and have inter-forum relations if they could just make their own thread? SE might mingle into other forums, but when things don't go their way or they don't like the people there and don't feel like mingling, they can just make their own thread in their own forum.

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    ah in that case my first answer is probably the one I'd make to that

    as in, while SE++ talks about all the other stuff the other places talk about, it also talks about stuff that the other places don't talk about

    at the same time, SE++ is not an on-topic forum, which I guess means that you are not forced to stay on topic as much as you would be in the other forums

    so really the threads in SE++ all end up looking like one another at one point or another, usually until someone who's just read the OP and not the rest of the thread makes a post and then the topic comes back for a few pages and then the whole cycle repeats itself

    in conclusion, SE++ threads in the other forums would basically just lead to SE++ having chat threads in every single forum and that is just silly

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  • mausmalonemausmalone Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Because SE++ is an everything forum.

    then why go anywhere else except to form segregation and cliques?

    ohhhh this is what you meant

    as in the threads themselves forming cliques?

    I honestly don't think I have seen that problem

    if you see a thread about a topic you don't care about, you are not going to post in it while others who are interested in it are going to post in it and that means you are automatically not involved in the thread

    how is this hard to understand
    I'm asking why there are other forums if SE is the everything forum? Why have other sections if SE already has all sections covered? Why would SE need to go to other forums and have inter-forum relations if they could just make their own thread? SE might mingle into other forums, but when things don't go their way or they don't like the people there and don't feel like mingling, they can just make their own thread in their own forum.

    Why should SE++ be allowed to exist if its entire existence is intended to have their own versions of threads that already exist in the other on-topic sections? (EDIT: That's hypothetical .. I'm not actually advocating nixing SE++)

    The strange thing about SE++ is that it's an everything forum, when it should really be an everything else forum.

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    mausmalone wrote: »
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Because SE++ is an everything forum.

    then why go anywhere else except to form segregation and cliques?

    ohhhh this is what you meant

    as in the threads themselves forming cliques?

    I honestly don't think I have seen that problem

    if you see a thread about a topic you don't care about, you are not going to post in it while others who are interested in it are going to post in it and that means you are automatically not involved in the thread

    how is this hard to understand
    I'm asking why there are other forums if SE is the everything forum? Why have other sections if SE already has all sections covered? Why would SE need to go to other forums and have inter-forum relations if they could just make their own thread? SE might mingle into other forums, but when things don't go their way or they don't like the people there and don't feel like mingling, they can just make their own thread in their own forum.

    Why should SE++ be allowed to exist if its entire existence is intended to have their own versions of threads that already exist in the other on-topic sections? (EDIT: That's hypothetical .. I'm not actually advocating nixing SE++)

    The strange thing about SE++ is that it's an everything forum, when it should really be an everything else forum.
    Yeah there's a lot of threads in SE that wouldn't fit anywhere else.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Every forum on the internet has an off-topic sub-forum.

    SE++ just happens to be special.

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  • AegeriAegeri Tiny wee bacteriums Plateau of LengRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    SE++ threads, even when they overlap elsewhere, do not have to keep on topic and can go any direction (it's a chat forum after-all). Talking about putting it in the butt, particularly in how Kobolds may put it in the butt can be an important part of discussion that isn't suitable in a more on-topic forum.

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Aegeri wrote: »
    SE++ threads, even when they overlap elsewhere, do not have to keep on topic and can go any direction (it's a chat forum after-all). Talking about putting it in the butt, particularly in how Kobolds may put it in the butt can be an important part of discussion that isn't suitable in a more on-topic forum.

    Which still means that SE's group is seperate from other groups.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    Because SE is better than you
    There problem solved

    It's really because SE++ is more of the conversation you have with your friends when you're just chilling
    Start out talking about the new game and all of a sudden you're talking about ham and then the virtues of different pornography
    Whereas G&T type threads are more of the table of nerds, no offense just the first thing I could think of to describe it, who focus on that one piece of conversation until tomorrow and then talk about something new
    And some people prefer one to the other and fuck you for not liking it

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I didn't say I didn't like it, I'm saying it seperates groups. This thread is saying the forums aren't seperated, but they are.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    No, it doesn't. No more than any of the other forums separate groups based on who likes to play games and debate and maybe draws some on the side.

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  • Seta 3000Seta 3000 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I'd like to put out there that Wiggin doesn't represent everyone

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator mod
    edited June 2008
    The forums are only separated because you view them as such. Each one has its uses, you just have to learn them before you can properly utilize them.

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    PikaPuff wrote: »
    I didn't say I didn't like it, I'm saying it seperates groups. This thread is saying the forums aren't seperated, but they are.

    they aren't designed to be, no

    but by the sheer nature of social interaction (in any form), divisions (at least in PERCEPTION) happen

    people who communicate regularly (and click in terms of personality) with one another are going to have in-jokes and stuff that is unique to only them, whereas those who do not communicate with them as regularly will feel a bit left out of the loop

    it's not intentional, it's just how some people see it when they mentally draw lines in the sand

    to perceive it as the formation of a clique is erroneous simply because cliques actively exclude people from their inner circle

    while this natural "social circling" is perfectly normal and anyone can get join it, all it takes is continued interaction and, obviously, the development of friendships and connections... and the willingness to ignore the existence of those aforementioned lines in the sand

    the division in the case of an online forum is just more apparent because you can clearly see where the circles' boundaries are, instead of having to navigate nuances and such at a larger, in-person social setting

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