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Re: Discussion.

[Icarus Blye]

Re: Discussion.

[SpaceBass]

There is no such thing as wasted spec. Anyone who doesn't have inside information cannot claim to know better than anyone else which spec is "better" than which.

I understand the frustration here with the topic drift. Personally, I cannot fathom the need for a thread about saying goodnight. This is a forum, not a chat room. But the community supports it by keeping the thread alive; if people stopped posting to the thread, it would eventually drift to the bottom and be more easily ignored.

There's no need to single out people or try to categorize types of posts as "good" or "bad." Everyone is welcome to participate here and we do not particularly care to dictate how they do so beyond what is laid out in the Terms of Service. The only way to encourage more constructive participation is to just participate more constructively and ignore the rest.

[Icarus Blye]

I agree, but when the majority of someone's posts are left field thoughts than actual help it tends to irritate and hinder progress. Understood, though.

[SpaceBass]

[Icarus Blye]

Touche my good man.

[Will 2.0]

Everything will continue as follows.

I just beg that things stay in the right thread, it's a lot easier for everyone that way, especially future players

[petunia]

Bout damn time, I say.

[Icarus Blye]

'Eh, I'm beginning to feel all of my efforts are in vain, so it really doesn't matter at this point.

[petunia]

Aw, cheer up, young squire. You're doing a good job.

I was going to edit my post and then point out the usefulness of editing as opposed to double-posting, but Icky got in there ahead of me, so oh well. It's still a good point though.

I just refreshed the forum page and scrolled down just past the stickies, and I count FOUR OT threads on my screen, not counting this one. Seriously, that's too many. There are so many ACTIVE, IG threads to keep track of (more than I'm comfortable with, but that seems to be the nature of this game) that every extraneous thread makes it that much harder to play, and not in a good way.

To reiterate and condense part of what Icarus said, for emphasis: THINK BEFORE YOU POST. This will get you many more friends than non-friends here, and many brownies as well. And you will have much less of this.

[Icarus Blye]

Yeah.

[Misstiggy]

Just to add my thoughts on this matter:

Ic has a valid and reasonable point, none of those threads are necessary, and none of them hold any standing within the game. I agree that they should either be amalgamated or removed.

We all have some sort of a messaging client, I myself have several. There's MSN, AIM, YIM, GoogleChat, ICQ, meebo etc, etc, etc. I see know reason why people cannot discuss things there, if that's not the case then I vote for someone to set up a chat client for people to converse in if they still feel the need.
I myself am guilty of posting in these various threads, but i'm more than happy to get rid of them, this forum is crowded enough without the extra clutter and distraction of "chatty" threads.

As I said, just my thoughts

[petunia]

I couldn't agree more, Tiggs. Unfiction already has a Java chat client accessible from the homepage for those who don't have an IRC client. It puts you in the #unfiction channel, but it wouldn't be any trouble to set up a channel for 48hrs.

[Icarus Blye]

We should set that up so we can get rid of all off topic threads, except for ones involving important issues. I.e. this one. Everything could go except I think the Introductions should stay so we know each other. However, stay with introductions and welcomes. Don't use that as a chat topic.

SpaceBass said it best, this is a forum, not a chatroom. I've been trying to abolish The Lounge and everything off topic since the 48 forum.

[petunia]

'Tis done. Channel #48hrs is open.

For help getting started with chat, IRC and whatnot, see this sticky thread: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14144

For further help with the Java client, there are 2 Announcement sticky threads at the top of the News & Rumors section, here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22055) and here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3829).