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If the Dwarf Fortress forums became overpopulated, you would...

Find an alternate DF forum with a community the current size
- 0 (0%)
Just stay here
- 23 (85.2%)
Just move on
- 4 (14.8%)

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What is a forum?
« on: May 08, 2018, 01:56:16 pm »

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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2018, 03:23:10 pm »

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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2018, 04:03:07 pm »

What is a forum?

A miserable pile of shitposts.
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2018, 04:34:25 pm »

It is sad, but not unexpected.
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2018, 04:38:02 pm »

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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2018, 05:50:20 pm »

What is a forum?

A miserable pile of shitposts.
...but enough memes, have at you!
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2018, 08:27:20 pm »

This is the superior medium to be honest. Compare it to behemoth umbrella communities like 4chan or reddit and smaller places trying to be them; or to personally integrated sites like Facebook. People behave more or less civilly here where they have no reason to do so in the former places. It works that way on image boards because (barring a few exceptions) their near complete anonymity means you can do or say pretty much whatever you want as long as it's not literally illegal and you get banned without consequence, and places like reddit because while they do tend to moderate more aggressively you're still probably not going to talk to the same people more than once. That anonymity is valuable to discussion though, since people can't effectively employ tactics like shaming, social pressure, or intimidation to shut people down like happens in real life far more than actual reasoned debate, and social media is a complete wasteland because there's really no difference between what you say on Twitter and what you say in real life, except literal armies of strangers are just waiting to jump on you for it on top of people you personally know. The rare exceptions where people just make an account and use it without attaching any personal information to it still end up just shut out by the format of the site itself. Facebook style sites as an example are increasingly containing contact to just your friends and corporate accounts, and people are wary of interacting with obviously fake or anonymized accounts.

On a forum though, we have many of the same people around all the time and they can recognize each other by something more tangible than posting style. An actual community can form then, since people can get familiar with each other in a way that is impossible in less personal mediums. But, the only consequences of what you say on an internet forum are contained to the forum itself. The subset of people who can actually do something to you other than call you names is vanishingly small. The format has its own problems, but I can't say that it's been done better either.
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2018, 10:19:54 pm »

It really irritates me when people on reddit complain about general post quality of their subreddit.  Or when they ban certain kinds of posts or make separate "circlejerk" subreddits.  Like its too hard to not click on posts or scroll past them.  They already sort posts by popularity by default anyway (which I also think is really idiotic).
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2018, 02:36:59 am »

Question: You bring up anonymity on large sites. What if, for whatever reason, these forums become so populated, that that was true here also?
What would you do.
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2018, 02:40:30 am »

Here is a relevant post on the Spyro subreddit:

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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2018, 03:46:23 am »

I would probably stay here, and maybe try to convince Toady to block off further registration until population "boils off" and returns to normal. Maybe even mass-ban the imbeciles to speed up the process. He might gladly do it, as the less time spent moderating a large forum, the more can be devoted to DF.
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2018, 05:49:59 am »

I would probably stay here, and maybe try to convince Toady to block off further registration until population "boils off" and returns to normal. Maybe even mass-ban the imbeciles to speed up the process. He might gladly do it, as the less time spent moderating a large forum, the more can be devoted to DF.
Yeah, we totally should be elitist and mass-ban folks for not being the core demographic. Nothing wrong with that.
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2018, 05:53:01 am »

That is an extremely complex theological question. I would refer to rule 73.
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Re: What is a forum?
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2018, 06:56:00 am »

I would probably stay here, and maybe try to convince Toady to block off further registration until population "boils off" and returns to normal. Maybe even mass-ban the imbeciles to speed up the process. He might gladly do it, as the less time spent moderating a large forum, the more can be devoted to DF.
Yeah, we totally should be elitist and mass-ban folks for not being the core demographic. Nothing wrong with that.
Making the community lose its uniqueness is a valid reason for mass-banning. Or this: all people who registered after whatever the date was will be restricted to posting in a Quarantine subforum, and have to prove that they are not shit to be let in to the forum at large. Good idea? Better than mass-banning, but takes more effort.
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