Forum :: Lounge :: Pointless topic try outs.

I don't know? I keep seeing pointless topics, posts that break rules & regulations and copy-paste galore all over this shit. Those who can't figure out how to copy-paste are using 'screaming tactics' to help new users. Old posters can't debate a disagreement without pulling their pants downand yelling at each others cock sizes.

I know the mods are letting up a bit of slack, but this is just too much? There's a lot of stuff that should be deleted, maybe it's time to hire a few extra mods.

This isn't pointless, although chances are it will be overlooked =p

(Anyways this post isn't just to the mods, all the people who think/realize that they do the above need to grow the fuck up)

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The main focus is keeping content on the board. Not bad content, that crap can easily be deleted/locked, but legit. Can't go around deleting every little thing because some trolls start bringing a thread to an off-topic state. I'm trying my best to keep a little bit of balance, and I think the other mods are too.

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Wish upon a star!

@ Klutz; I was thinking the exact same thing, it just seems like theres to much pointless topics that should be locked & or deleted

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Well in fairness, if theres a forum/site thats dedicated to private servers of an MMO which an unbelievable amount of brainless idiots and children played then your guaranteed to get a lot of idiotic posts.

Think of how many of the "less intelligent" players of EO said "OMG i wish i was admin of eo! i would be better than vult-r!"

Hell, i even wished for it myself back when i still had no clue about computers in general apart from surfing the internet and playing EO.

Its frustrating to see so many useless and pointless topics. Most of them are made simply because people are too lazy to search.

But we cant really complain, because its gonna happen anyway.

I'm splitting up my reply into multiple parts.

(1) Administrative and Moderation staff are tasked with keeping the forums running with a degree of excellence that's parallel to what its userbase expects. In the case of EOSERV we have a lot of new members with a lot of questions to be asked, and staff as such take a very light handed approach to the day to day moderation. It's a fine balance, if we do too little, the community suffers. If we do too much, we apply too much pressure to the users and the community disbands or activity slows. In the case of EOSERV we could probably do a little bit more or a bit difference in some areas, but at the moment no such plans have been made to do so. Users that are in clear violation of any rules or common courtesy practices are dealt with as necessary.

(2) Questions asked on a recurring basis will never be resolved by searching. Nobody seems to understand this. The search function is there, but these forums serve a purpose as well and everyone posting a stupid shit reply like "use search" is in turn making the search function absolutely useless. Imagine searching for a topic and the only replies in that thread are "use the search function". Fucking useless.

(3) Personally, I only ever visit the Lounge. Seems pointless, I know, but I have never been involved with EOSERV, Seose, EOSEP, Kalandra or any other third party projects and as such can't actively contribute to their threads (nor can I immediately remove posts since it is difficult in some instances to pick legitimate advice from the bullshit).

(4) I'm already seeing marked deleted threads very often as-is. If we start pulling any more we wouldn't have much left around here.

(5) I promise that I did read this thread in its entirety before replying, but didn't make a whole lot of sense of it. Maybe i've become accustomed to the fairly standard thread quality that EOHax was and EOSERV is currently known for.

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