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    Default Re: EB Forum Reforms

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    Oh also, the more interesting topics such as the now locked "fertility in EB's time" thread, essentially got closed because of idiots posting comments backed up by nothing and seemed like pure opinion more then any factual basis, (which lobf got really upset over). This happens a lot more often then is realized, such as the "Unofficial Little things we want in EB2" thread, where abou reacted the same as lobf did in the fertility thread due to a stupid comment by someone and that ended up getting locked as well (anger spawns more anger etc..).
    You understand me.

    Anyways- A forum won't survive if it's all business. The team should honestly consider a dedicated "tavern" style forum. I have frequented the Ambrosia Software forums for 5-6 years now, primarily because of the great sense of community that comes from people of shared interests discussing things other than what brought them together. Ambrosia does this by having a forum dedicated to all of their games, and 2 or 3 others dedicated to whatever the forums goers want (It's evolved into a serious discussion forum, a semi-intelligent nonsense forum, and a complete, spamerific, spam-shower-forum.)

    The point is, you can't expect a coherent community if all we can talk about is Europa Barbarorum. Trust that we all love your game- It's not like we saw it advertised on MTV or something. So give the people who need it an outlet (an accessible outlet... not the difficult-to-find, more-difficult-to-keep-track-of tavern social group) and sanction off topic discussion somewhere you can control it. I think you'll find you'd have the support of the community at large for policing spam and keeping it corralled into it's area and away from the serious forums.

    Seacrest out.

    Edit- Oh, and those of you back-seat moderate by posting spam about how a topic should be locked- Shut up. Seriously. You weren't chosen to be a mod for a reason, so don't further derail a topic by talking about how crappy and derailed it is. You suck so hard.
    Last edited by lobf; 01-14-2009 at 06:23.

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