[Redstreblo]

Ugh, please no. 

There is zero chance it would not simply become what GenDisc has been at its worst.

It would need 24/7 moderation, and strict rules about offtopicness etc.

I'm ok with this and I believe general discussion can be better with clear guidelines and moderators that do their jobs properly. Maybe rules should be made/made clearer and a cleanup of gendisc should be attempted before abandoning it.

EDIT: Shade you beet me to it! 

[Colonol Dekker]

I'll put my hands up and admit the sexy nuke additiona, the others not too sure.

I'm not going to let Nuke take the stick for the sexy option when i'm big enough to own up to it.

[Redstreblo]

I'll put my hands up and admit the sexy nuke additiona, the others not too sure.

I'm not going to let Nuke take the stick for the sexy option when i'm big enough to own up to it.

ok, well I hope he doesn't take it badly that I jumped to conclusions    but thanks for admitting it. Sorry to punch you in the face and question your moderating abilities, but:

Whatever the sad status of Gen. Disc., Redstreblo does have a point. Just because many/most threads devolve into chaos quickly, I do not think attempts at a serious discussion should be deliberately discouraged or even outright prevented by the moderators. If they're doing that, they've missed the point of moderating.

 

[Colonol Dekker]

It's not a punch in the face at all to be fair.



Now ban this guy so i can carry on.





Nah just kidding. Apologies for any distress i may have caused :x

[Nuclear1]

Well...in all seriousness, could we wait until the point that the thread has naturally gone silly to be silly with the poll options and thread names and such? 

And least let us try to have a super srs discussion for four or five pages before either a WITTY TITLE resurgence or a retur--ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOCAT!

[Mongoose]

Yeah, it's one thing if a thread has already gone to hell in a handbasket, but to crap all over somebody's thread right from the beginning feels like bad form.

[TopAce]

I just avoid GenDisc. And I'm not the only one.

Off-topicness is all right in my book, but when two individuals about radically different views on the same subject start arguing for their opinions, it mostly gets out of hand. And it's simply pointless because neither can convince the other.

[Aardwolf]

I liked the Meeting Hall. We played Battleship.

[Nuclear1]

I don't think we need another forum...just the ability to distinguish between conversations that are still super srs and the ones that have devolved into:

"god suxx an christians suxx also ur mom suxx"
"god does not suxx bc it is logically impossible for god to suxx lol oh an u r miss odge an istic lol"
"i boned ur mom last nite lol an bwoke my back lol"


(50 points for picking out who those people are )

[Angelus]

Might be stupid idea but, adding the word "Moderated" at the beginning of the thread title, to inform that it's a srs thread and that derailing and the other usuall things that tend to happen in srs threads are not welcome.

This would of course require, that the Moderators act tougher ( warning people who start derailing, deleting non-related posts...).
On the other hand, Mods would have spend more time watching/ cleaning such threads.

[Colonol Dekker]

Nuclear1 . . . . . Is that last one somebody not a million miles from where I am?

[Wobble73]

Nuclear1 . . . . . Is that last one somebody not a million miles from where I am?

Sorry Dekker, I don't get that? All people are not a million miles from where you are? 

[Nuclear1]

Nuclear1 . . . . . Is that last one somebody not a million miles from where I am?

Possibly

[Unknown Target]

We don't need another forum, and whoever messed with the poll was wrong to do so. I've been tempted to on numerous times, but it's disrespectful to the poster and reflects badly on the moderator. Shouldn't be done, and if you have a problem with it another time, try the report post function; some other moderator might come in and fix it for you.

As for the serious discussion thing...it used to be possible. Why is it not now? Just stop acting like childish twats and report folks who do (and I can name a couple off the top of my head that I'd probably see in my inbox quite regularly if you did).

[NGTM-1R]

The moderation is far too quick to lock topics and far too slow to hand out bans to people who aren't even attempting meaningful discussion.

Discuss.

[Scotty]

I agree.  Personally, I think 1 or 2 day bans for people who get out of line during discussion would be more beneficial than closing entire topics due to one or two bickering individuals.

[The E]

You are aware that that would mean giving moderators the power to tempban people?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Oh god no.  I can see it now. 

You failed to attach your fs2_open.log to the support request.  You are banned for 2 days.  NEXT!!!!!!!

 

[Unknown Target]

All I know is that I know a few members who I'd like to see temp-banned more regularly. Of course, that would require the mods to be more mature with that power.

[Jeff Vader]

Your post in "A Celebration of FreeSpace" did not include a (friggin' awesome) screenshot. Banned for a week!

Seriously, though. I still think the current system works well enough. Pothing's nerfect.