Then when you mods come to clean things up, can you not say things like "guys, this is in the deals section, can we keep on topic" and instead say something like "yo peeps, chill out with the whack behavior and crazy burger pics!"
Fair enough. While I couldn't care less about the crazy burger pics (so long as it's on topic and not offensive), you're correct about the whack behavior. Please behave nicely towards each other. However, I'd still prefer that a deals forum thread focused on deals and was not used as the discussion thread.
I didn't realize you were a mod, until the others here pointed it out.
Anyways, I think one of the concerns might be - well, this thread might go down the tubes in amount of posting, if we do post elsewhere about non-deal stuff.
And, well - I doubt the other Steam thread you mentioned is anywhere as popular + gets as much posting as this one frequently does. I think that thread might be buried a bit on these Forums, as well.
I understand that, but so what if that's true? You all are pc gamers and as such, you don't need spoon-feeding; you know how to bookmark a page, use a forum search engine, and how to subscribe to a thread. You can easily move the chatter to the discussion forum, and when there's a deal, post it in here. When you log in, check your subscriptions and if you see that the deals thread has an update, pop in to see if it's any good. If not, just keep up with each other in the Steam Discussion thread.
You know it's been like this, a loose conversation thread with deals, for years literally so I just wonder why now it needs to change to please a couple of people.
I do want to talk about games and deals and I generally don't want to intentionally offend anyone, but my mind tends to wander and my conversations tend to stray a bit sometimes. If it's going to be such a huge deal then I just won't even bother. It's not like there isn't plenty of other places to have conversations on the internet and not like I'm not already Steam friends with most of the regulars on this thread anyhow.
I get the point about there being an off topic forum and a PC forum but for better or worse the bulk of the conversation among PC gamers on CAG has always been in this thread, or the previous incarnations of it, for years. It is what it is and it's hard to get people change habits and move somewhere else. Not exactly great having a conversation by yourself either.
I guess whoever complained can feel smug about getting this thread strictly moderated to deals and basically turned into a dull Reddit like format. You'll also have to do a lot of moderating and deleting if being that hardcore strict about non-deal posts is really what you intend to do since I don't think others will leave or change so easily or take so kindly to your intervention.
Who ever complained, it was about malicious posts, not about being off topic. I came in to check the "malicious" posts, and when I did, *I* saw that there was as much off-topic chatter as on-topic. So don't be angry at the tattler for anything other than being sensitive to whatever was reported in the first place. If anyone is upset at my requesting that you all keep a deals forum thread about deals, be angry at me, and me alone.
As Hal pointed out, Cheapy appreciates the site traffic and referral and ad clicks. So don't worry about being "strictly moderated." This thread isn't on any kind of watch list. I'm simply making a request of you all, the same as I'd do if my attention was brought to another thread and i noticed similar off-topic behavior in a Deals Forum thread.
And with that, I'll leave you all yourselves.
ing moron.
