[Centrixo]

Our boundaries for content of posts are nothing unusual for a site that's looking to keep things clean and enjoyable for a majority as opposed to some smaller communities that aren't so bothered with controlling needless flaming and idiocy.

Then can you remove this subtitle under my nickname? because one of your admins pushed their joke too far. please .

i agree this is just a spam thread with no relevent base to build on.

[CP5670]

I remember being here once...

Why do you have a Firefox ad under your title?

[an0n]

Is there any c ................ versation then go ahead and start one.

Always with the buzz-kill.....

[Fineus]

Meh, you love it really

[Flipside]

I remember being here once...

I remember when all this were fields

[Ghostavo]

I remember being here once...

Why do you have a Firefox ad under your title?

Don't you remember when the Firefox craze hit the forums and almost everybody had those?

Damn, I feel old.

[CP5670]

I was, well, away from the forums during that time. I only remember Sandwich having it though.

[Fury]

I somewhat agree with an0n on this.

I think it is unnecessary to create artifical limits like no debating/arguments, it really takes a spirit away from fun of posting. Arguments and debates are part of everyday life, only the scale differs. I don't really see any point in having a separate board for debates as it doesn't even get used enough to warrant its own existence, it doesn't have even 20 topics and last post was made almost two weeks ago. Only three topics have posts made this month. Had it been any other board, it would have been merged back to its original board by now.

We already had civilized rules set here before this stupid board re-arrangement. I disagree with an0n on the point that we should allow people to be able to insult others. No flaming and no insults, that's the line where civilized debates and arguments become uncivilized.

This board doesn't count posts, at first I was against it but since this board draws in countless of pointless topics that won't get closed as per the set rules, I've found it to be a good change. But I say that this is as far as we need to go as long as moderation works as it should.

If general discussion board has to be split, it would make much more sense to have boards for Technology & Science and for Computer Hardware & Software. If that would happen, then I wouldn't have to even read general discussion board anymore.

The day when Kalfireth finally has enough time to review all the input he gathered earlier in the two topics can't come too soon.

[Fineus]

The day when Kalfireth finally has enough time to review all the input he gathered earlier in the two topics can't come too soon.

Ahh but therein lies the problem.

This week I have one coursework deadline, next week I have two more. The week after that I have an exam and that marks the end of this semester at Uni. There's more where that came from but that's a tiny taste. I am busy. So sadly I can't sort through the results until June. But I will.

[Roanoke]

Hmmn, seems like everybody except me is at the uni at the moment.

[Centrixo]

i just finished my learning process at a private training center. i am currently on work experience working as an admin assistant.

[an0n]

* an0n sits banging his head against the wall

The problem is too much micro-management and categorization of subjects.

If you have one board for say Science and one for Technology (just as an example) you lose the topics that are an interplay of both because even mild confusion as to where the thread about the middle-ground thing should go and what is allowed in it is going to cause people not to post.

[Fury]

You misread my post. It was about a single board covering both tech and science.

[Bobboau]

I think you are missing his point.

[CP5670]

Hmmn, seems like everybody except me is at the uni at the moment.

I will no longer be by the end of today.

[Colonol Dekker]

You pups make me feel old, i started here at 17 on my first callsign, now i'm 25.

[Flipside]

That makes me the Fenris of the board at 34 I guess then

[Ulala]

I think I've been here for like 5 or 6 years.. and it does feel like this place has seen better days..

[Flipside]

That's the Rose Tinted Glasses effect though, objects in the rear-viwe mirror and all that. I don't think things were better, only different. before the Source Code Project really started to take off and breathe life back into Freespace, this board was a brown dwarf, a collection of people sitting around waiting for a game to vanish. I know it sounds cruel to put it like that, but, most games end up relegated to a little specialist Forum in the corner of the Interweb after a few years.

Thing about boards that are going through a 'Brown Dwarf' stage is that it's a pretty close knit, tongue in cheek community, everyone knows each other, and they are comforable taking the rise out of each other, however, newbs get ganged up on in many cases.

HLP is changing, that's true, but it's becoming a more high-profile thing, the SCP and its Mods get a lot of attention for it, and the community is growing, despite what people may have said. So what you end up with is somewhat closed community suddenly having to cope with becoming an open one, which is never easy

So ends todays evaluation

[Mr. Vega]

Finally, a semi-intelligent analysis by a moderator. However, I fail to see why our higher profile necessitates and end to the old spirit of this place.