Man, that thread blew up all sorts of directions. Dunno what caused it to get closed a second time, but I wanted to respond to a few things that I saw running around in it. I'm actually quite surprised that it lasted as long as it did, and then when it did, was just as surprised when it suddenly got closed again.
First, to the members of this board, thanks for the votes of support. I appreciate that and I'm sure lilboo does as well.
Linkin, directed at you: I didn't really mind the FAQ consolidation you did. Gothic Walrus pointed out some of the issues with it (which seemed pretty valid), but I never thought about decreased traffic or anything like that as a precipitating problem. But hey, if some users point out worthwhile problems with that, then they are entitled to it. I guess this might get mitigated/handled better with the fabled CAG 2.0, so there's really nothing more that needs to be said about it.
Also, as for closing topics, I made it very clear what you should do. Or, at the least, what I'd like you to do, which would be to provide a link or something that pointed the OP in the right direction. I like what you are doing, I just felt the execution could have been better.
You're so bent on thinking your heavy-handed moderatting was completely without flaw, and that's clearly not the case. I'm not the only critic. However, that doesn't mean you have to take your ball and run home with it either. I primarily wanted to give out some suggestions. I fail to see the problem doing that.
Bmulligan: You know, you've thrown out a lot of really negative comments my way lately. There's no need for that and you're not helping the board. If you don't like it here, well, the door is ....somewhere. It's probably big too and might even have windows.
UltimoRey: You're completely right about the Wii Code thread being inactive due to the fact that Nintendo made it essentially useless. When the thread was made, we all thought that it would serve as a universal code system for multiplayer. That wasn't the case, and instead is now relegated to - generally - lame usages. I mean I guess it works fine for Metroid Prime 3, but overall, the code is so under-supported by Nintendo that it's fallen out of grace.
As a suggestion for codes, we might want to consider an all-inclusive thread, but that doesn't work well since people like to have a "XXXXGame FC List" thread specific to each game. An all-inclusive thread is really just a centralized step above telling everyone to put all of their codes in their sig/profile. So I guess that wouldn't work well enough, hence the need for game specific threads. Maybe this will be better handled with CAG 2.0 as well. It would be great if there was a way to let users have some level of access to modify a topic, so that anyone could come in and update as needed. But eh. We'll cross that bridge later.
To the mods in general: The message here isn't that we hate everything you do. Rather, it is that ...well, none of you really follow this board much. That's fine and all, but if that is the case, then your interaction seems a little out of place. Io is the current FG here, but I'm not sure just how much he does. Regardless, I found it strange that things like this are left open, but valid threads have been closed. You can't tell me that's nothing more or less than dropping the ball and/or miscommunication.
This points to you guys...not really handling certain things well. There's no real nice way to say it other than to be direct. Because of this, we'd either appreciate someone knowledgeable here being given some kind of authority. Whether or not that happens is up to .... well Cheapy I suppose, and whoever else gets a vote on the matter.
All of these things said, do not start to think we take our board for granted. It's quiet at the moment, but we still like it here. That's all.
First, to the members of this board, thanks for the votes of support. I appreciate that and I'm sure lilboo does as well.
Linkin, directed at you: I didn't really mind the FAQ consolidation you did. Gothic Walrus pointed out some of the issues with it (which seemed pretty valid), but I never thought about decreased traffic or anything like that as a precipitating problem. But hey, if some users point out worthwhile problems with that, then they are entitled to it. I guess this might get mitigated/handled better with the fabled CAG 2.0, so there's really nothing more that needs to be said about it.
Also, as for closing topics, I made it very clear what you should do. Or, at the least, what I'd like you to do, which would be to provide a link or something that pointed the OP in the right direction. I like what you are doing, I just felt the execution could have been better.
You're so bent on thinking your heavy-handed moderatting was completely without flaw, and that's clearly not the case. I'm not the only critic. However, that doesn't mean you have to take your ball and run home with it either. I primarily wanted to give out some suggestions. I fail to see the problem doing that.
Bmulligan: You know, you've thrown out a lot of really negative comments my way lately. There's no need for that and you're not helping the board. If you don't like it here, well, the door is ....somewhere. It's probably big too and might even have windows.
UltimoRey: You're completely right about the Wii Code thread being inactive due to the fact that Nintendo made it essentially useless. When the thread was made, we all thought that it would serve as a universal code system for multiplayer. That wasn't the case, and instead is now relegated to - generally - lame usages. I mean I guess it works fine for Metroid Prime 3, but overall, the code is so under-supported by Nintendo that it's fallen out of grace.
As a suggestion for codes, we might want to consider an all-inclusive thread, but that doesn't work well since people like to have a "XXXXGame FC List" thread specific to each game. An all-inclusive thread is really just a centralized step above telling everyone to put all of their codes in their sig/profile. So I guess that wouldn't work well enough, hence the need for game specific threads. Maybe this will be better handled with CAG 2.0 as well. It would be great if there was a way to let users have some level of access to modify a topic, so that anyone could come in and update as needed. But eh. We'll cross that bridge later.
To the mods in general: The message here isn't that we hate everything you do. Rather, it is that ...well, none of you really follow this board much. That's fine and all, but if that is the case, then your interaction seems a little out of place. Io is the current FG here, but I'm not sure just how much he does. Regardless, I found it strange that things like this are left open, but valid threads have been closed. You can't tell me that's nothing more or less than dropping the ball and/or miscommunication.
This points to you guys...not really handling certain things well. There's no real nice way to say it other than to be direct. Because of this, we'd either appreciate someone knowledgeable here being given some kind of authority. Whether or not that happens is up to .... well Cheapy I suppose, and whoever else gets a vote on the matter.
All of these things said, do not start to think we take our board for granted. It's quiet at the moment, but we still like it here. That's all.
to find anything anymore. It seems like 8 threads got pulled into one FAQ thread that contained other FAQ threads. I understand that things get lost and people are asking questions that have been answered before, but it's an internet forum, there's going to be new people coming in and asking questions.