Shitty 'What if' threads

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rocket said:
if that sub gets nuked can we save mauvman's amazing thread
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This. This is pretty much my favourite thread.
 
ChurchOfGodBear said:
Why do we need to invent scenarios for Chris to be in? Isn't he interesting enough on his own?
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I think people feel that because the forum exists, they must post in it. Like I said, there's potentially good hypotheticals but 99% of the time, as you say, it's people trying to contrive of situations for Chris to be in.

I'll toss around the idea of getting rid of "What if?" with the staff, maybe we could do something about it.
 
Or perhaps a moderation of the "What If" subforum just like what is done on the Updates subforum?
 
Alan Pardew said:
Or perhaps a moderation of the "What If" subforum just like what is done on the Updates subforum?
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That's the same as deleting it. How often does a truly good what if roll around?
 
exball said:
Alan Pardew said:
Or perhaps a moderation of the "What If" subforum just like what is done on the Updates subforum?
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That's the same as deleting it. How often does a truly good what if roll around?
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what if there were good "what if's"
 
exball said:
Alan Pardew said:
Or perhaps a moderation of the "What If" subforum just like what is done on the Updates subforum?
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That's the same as deleting it. How often does a truly good what if roll around?
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Not often. The amount of energy required to keep the Updates forum moderated in the way it is already stresses out the staff. Adding more stuff for mods to approve is stretching it.

The problem is the quality expectations versus what people are actually able and willing to post. There's people that point at the forums and go, "ah what stupid what-if topics, everything is shit". But, like, that's the entire point. The What If board is unabashedly the place where people post when they want to start a topic but don't have anything particularly poignant to say. It's not really a bad thing. It's just what you get when you go to that forum.

Right now we delete and lock threads based on the nature of the conversation. If it's gross, or retarded, or ween, or people are fighting, then the mods recognize it as a toxic thread and take care of it. What people are suggesting from both within the board and from the outside is a step above that, from cleansing purely toxic threads to actively enforcing quality control. There's a point to that, but really, it's a forum about Chris. I don't know how much we can expect from people. Personally, I don't care if people shit-post in What If. There's a four tier system that works pretty well.

If you have something important to say, it goes in Updates.
If you have something you want to say, it goes in Discussion.
If you have something that could go unsaid, it goes in What If.
If you have something that should never be said, it goes in Spergatory.


Now we'd be telling people what they shouldn't bother talking about. If one asks a question nobody cares about, we'd end up deleting it and telling them to make a better topic or don't post. That's never happened before on this board because nobody takes shit seriously, which is a good thing.
 
(I don't know if this would be the best place to bring this up.)

Did something happen to the What If section? I'm new here, and I've never been too into the What Ifs when I used to lurk, so I'm not sure if this is normal. When I try to get on it, I get a white page that simply says "He'd shit himself and do nothing"
 
Mondo Zappa said:
(I don't know if this would be the best place to bring this up.)

Did something happen to the What If section? I'm new here, and I've never been too into the What Ifs when I used to lurk, so I'm not sure if this is normal. When I try to get on it, I get a white page that simply says "He'd shit himself and do nothing"
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Presumably Null nuked the What if forum
 
RIP What If?

2011-2014

It shat itself and did nothing
 
But what happened to Mauv's amazing thread?
YOU DUN GOOFED, NULL
 
spaps said:
But what happened to Mauv's amazing thread?
YOU DUN GOOFED, NULL
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Null is oppressive and mean, like North Korea.
 
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