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[jojo]

[META] New Posters who don't want to get flamed - pls read

[Kraker]

I fully support.

Well thought out thread giving good advice to newcomers.

I would not be completely against those who post something like the demon in the picture, since it's not on the first page and can be tough to find with the search function. I get ticked off by the newcomers who say they looked yet there was literally a thread on the exact same thing on the first page.

One thing I advise newcomers to do is to PM rose or someone they deem likely to be helpful about making a topic if they are unsure about it.

[rose]

Well that is one opinion. It is not my opinion and I don't support that way of dealing with other players.

The other way, and my preferred way, is for people to please not flame other people. No one has to reply to any thread, ever. It is a choice.

If someone asks a question you feel is beneath you to answer or you feel that they should have searched, or whatever judgmental attitude you want to bring, please, just don't respond. If you can't be helpful or at least polite, maybe you might think about just not answering. Please.

Or, you could please consider just answering with a simple comment that says this has already been discussed and post a link to that thread. It is pretty simple.

You can see that I am trying to address the level of trolling and flaming by asking people to please not to respond to flamers or trolls.

Because a player started this thread, I am now also asking people to please consider not flaming in the first place. Thanks.

(edited because this sounder angrier than I meant it to be. I'm not angry at anyone. Sorry if it came across that way. )

[dalphx]

Re: [META] New Posters who don't want to get flamed - pls read

[rose]

Also - there is a general place for questions in the reference section. You can always ask questions there.

Here is the link

I'm not objecting to people having fun.

I'm asking people please to not be mean, to not flame and to not try to control the other players. If someone starts a new thread...so what? Is that the end of the world? Does that make them morons deserving of contempt? I think no, it doesn't.

Thanks guys.

[casemyo]

you know, it could be a lot worse... anyone ever glanced at the imdb forum for this movie?

[rose]

No I've never read any other forum about this promotion. Just keeping up here is all I can manage.

Seriously though, I think this community here at unfiction has its own standards, norms, whatever you call it. Not that they are written down in any sense more than the simple phrase "Play Nice."

[Uninvited]

The "new posters" part, got me excited

[casemyo]

[CloverfieldClues.com]

JoJo, this is a lost cause.

The first sticky post on the front page is: Forum Rules and Guidelines - READ THIS BEFORE POSTING

[rose]

[Euchre]

There is already a way...

[jojo]

Let me clarify: I am not condoing flaming. I don't do it. When people ask questions, I politely tell them what they're missing and/or send a link. I agree with the overall policy of encouraging participation and discussion.

But my point is that the people that get flamed are far from innocent, helpless victims. There is some element of egomania/laziness in assuming that you've figured out something that 3,000 others couldn't and that you're so important that you can't be bothered to use the multitude of resources available at your disposal to determine whether it's something new or not. Particularly when the same parties tend to do it over and over again. It detracts from the open discussion because (a) it clogs up the threads with useless posts and (b) requires someone to spend time hunting for the information the trout poster is missing, rather than analyzing clues.

Yes, it may be futile, but there's got to be a way to resolve this issue amicably, which was what I was trying to do. Perhaps I didn't clearly communicate this, but I'm not trying to generate any sort of flame war or be hostile towards newbies, I am trying to help them out.

[Giskard]

I understand your frustration Jojo, and you've been doing good work trying to guide and help along new people, but with something like Cloverfield, which attracts so many, many different folks, it is very hard to keep things structured and organised as well as you would sometimes wish.

We deliberately do not apply lockdown/smackdown tactics as mods & admins, because the atmosphere that that creates is potentially even worse. In an ideal world, everyone coming in here would read the posting guidelines before anything else, and will [search] everytime before they post, but realistically, we know that that just isn't happening.

We hope that people here will follow the good examples that others set. If they don't, we might address that issue with them (or they might just leave by themselves), if they do then, yay, it makes these forums a better place!

Keep up the good work...

[buildingblock]

lol maybe the monster is a gargoyle and the movie will turn out to be a spin-off of the 90's animated cartoon 'gargoyles'.

I think its necessary we keep bumping this thread so newbies see it, at least for a while. All in all a good idea jo jo!