General Chat Needs To Improve

A few examples of current threads:

http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-chat/109259-member-album-o.html
http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-chat/109242-im-here-make-change.html
http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-chat/109247-retarded-thread.html

So, has anyone got any suggestions? GC seems to have been taken over by a group of idiotic 8 year olds (and that's being harsh on 8 year olds).

I think those stupid photos with writing on them should be banned.

Maybe I'm getting grumpy and old.

I concur, although I openly participate in in fact all 3 of these threads (n-n;) but the way i think about it is, if anyone else anything more exciting or relevant to say then by all means come on down. But when I leave the board for 3 months and come back and see nothing relatively new in any of the forums I have to wonder if people are complaining of lack of activity, why isn't anyone just doing something about it?

Now come on the retarded thread is funny.

Demondude's got the classic Flik avatar and I thought it was Alixsar for a second. :aimsad:

Genchat is a cesspool.

People are attracted to stupid, mindless threads.

Like a moth to the flame, also, keep your serious business out of my internets, okay? Thanks.

It's not so bad, not much different than what it has ever been. It's the people who change, not the topics.

also, keep your serious business out of my internets, okay? Thanks. -- The Fonz

I think it's more of a community thing. I guess if most people agree that the current threads are funny and cool and whatnot, then the people have decided. If not, then maybe we should shape up and try to make it better? As Skt said, a bit of collective responsibiliy (not that I've been contributing a lot to that!).

P.S. General Chat is best when it's not serious. But I think there's a difference between funny and irrelevant, and just stupid.

When was the last time the forum was good for you Burt?

Before the summer holidays, I'd say. I was posting quite a bit then (er, for me, anyhow).

Edit: don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it should go back to how it was in 2001 or something. We've been here a similar length of time, and even though it might not excite me as much as it did back in the old days, I know and accept (and enjoy, sometimes) changes and fluctuations. I just think that browsing this weekend was probably the worst that I've seen it. I'm trying to be objective, but I know that's hard and I may be way off the mark.

When was the last time the forum was good for you Burt?

The forum has been a lousy lover imho.

Yeah, there's been quite more pointless spam than usual lately. I'll delete it when I see it. But y'know, there's a warn button too.

I think those stupid photos with writing on them should be banned.Yes. Oh sweet jesus yes.

I think those stupid photos with writing on them should be banned.Yes. Oh sweet jesus yes.

Finally something I can agree with.

Every now and then, image macros are fine. But now a few members have taken it too far and have ruined it for everyone.

Yeah, if these guys want to go to 4chan make them go to 4chan with all the gay porn and disgusting out of taste jokes that go with it. :love:

Although burtspurt I do agree with you for the most part, it's like flood gates are being opened for any person in the world to just post the first stupid thing that comes to mind.

I don't know how that would be improved, unless you could somehow scan each post for certain words but I can already read CBA'd on everyones face.

Maybe the "rules" or whatever should be a bit more specific towards general, or maybe some punishments?

Dear god, you don't know how hard it was not to post a caturday picture as a reply to this thread, you seriously don't...

Maybe just caution some of the 'worst offenders' via PM quietly in a nice way?

that is a difficult thing to try and fight back.

i don't know what would be a good answer, obviously nobody can be on here 24/7 (although it seems like i am) but there's gotta be a way to weed out these threads or make a forum for "spam" which is basically 90 percent of general anyways.

but then again, you'd have to change the definition of general i guess. ARG!

General Chat is the lighthearted forum though. If you make a forum for silly threads, it doesn't have much left.

Please get rid of the macros, if you can. I posted one once in a thread full of them, but they get really tired.

Yeah it sucks, but there's nothing much we can do about it except hope that it passes and in the meantime delete all the crap.

But it has yet to pass for like the last 2 or 3 years >< It just gets worse month by month. I say we havce a age limit of 16 or above :p

or like a split with kids young to like 16 and then 16 and up so the youngies don't feel left out.

i feel weird replying to posts for people half my age >.<

We should make posting image macros a bannable offense. :D

*Deletes all his images* > >

Cat macros are adorable. :love:

All other image macros should be a bannable offense, I agree.

GC has always been not serious, but I agree that some members do post a lot of useless stuff just for the sake of posting. Their posts/threads aren't exactly spam but are on the borderline. The threads have barely a topic so it's not something that can be closed right away until it does turn into spam or ends up as a conversation thread. I agree that it does need improvement... so use your warn button people.

Cat macros should be equal to other macros, but I think macros should just be treated like spam is rather than being a straight bannable offence. Delete it, and if they persist, warn 'em, and so on and so forth until pink title time, but I doubt anybody will be that stupid to get to that kind of level.

Demondude's got the classic Flik avatar and I thought it was Alixsar for a second. :aimsad:

I thought that too, and then I read the post and though "Wtf, this isn't cynical at all." :p

This forum would be greatly improved by making the creation of "x vs. y" threads a bannable offence. :p

if you don't have any good threads to post in and really want some, then you start them. or get other people to. It's what I do x.x;

Demondude's got the classic Flik avatar and I thought it was Alixsar for a second. :aimsad:

I thought that too, and then I read the post and though "Wtf, this isn't cynical at all." :p

This forum would be greatly improved by making the creation of "x vs. y" threads a bannable offence. :p

Face for admin!

The best way to make GC better is to create better threads yourself.

I think GC has been pretty bad lately, but I'm too lazy and busy to make it better myself. So I can't really complain since I'm not helping fix the problem.

I am, however, going to do my part to clean up EoFF by banning people who create quote pyramids. Ban them to death.

Demondude's got the classic Flik avatar and I thought it was Alixsar for a second. :aimsad:

I thought that too, and then I read the post and though "Wtf, this isn't cynical at all." :p

This forum would be greatly improved by making the creation of "x vs. y" threads a bannable offence. :p

Face for admin!

Also Face where have you been?

Also 2: You can tell people to "make better threads" til they are blue in the face. I think a "spam" forum would fix it for a while but then it would get out of control.

Demondude's got the classic Flik avatar and I thought it was Alixsar for a second. :aimsad:

I thought that too, and then I read the post and though "Wtf, this isn't cynical at all." :p

This forum would be greatly improved by making the creation of "x vs. y" threads a bannable offence. :p

Face for admin!

Also Face where have you been?

Also 2: You can tell people to "make better threads" til they are blue in the face. I think a "spam" forum would fix it for a while but then it would get out of control.

The day EoFF gets a spam forum is the day Rengori is nice to me.

Goldenboko, why are you still making posts with pyramids? Do you not read announcements? This is not just for EoEO, but for the whole site.

Also, you are off topic.

Sorry, its kinda a reaction when I try to refer to a certain post, I quote it, it just kinda makes sense to me so its become a habit, I'll try to get out of the habit it'll just take a little more time :(

The day EoFF gets a spam forum is the day Rengori is nice to me.

we had b for a day :p

Btw, 3 is the maximum number of quotes within quotes I'll tolerate. People who go over that are getting drunk tanked.

On Topic: General Chat has ups and down, but its always a cesspool, so I really dun know what all the fuss is about.

No offense dude, but 90 percent of the posts on General are from you.

So what does that say?

Warn button. Use it please.

My MSN tells me immediately whenever I get an email, so if I'm around and not busy I usually respond to warned posts as soon as I get them.

I'm more than willing to drop the hammer on people making stupid threads.

I had to leave for a month, and then when I could come back I couldn't get back into it because there hasn't been a single thing I'm really interested in. With the lack of something to get into, the motivation to make threads worth getting into drops and it just doesn't help. If I had my own internet again it would be somewhat different because I could spend all the time I wanted around, but with the limited time it only hurts it more. With another couple weeks downtime coming again any day now it doesn't look good. The way to fix it is for someone to come along and post something awesome, and then that provide inspiration for others to do something awesome, and so on. The problem is how to do that and I have no idea what that is.


I miss talking to all of you in warned messegas :(

I had to leave for a month, and then when I could come back I couldn't get back into it because there hasn't been a single thing I'm really interested in. With the lack of something to get into, the motivation to make threads worth getting into drops and it just doesn't help.

See this is exactly why I stopped coming for 3 months, that and a personal issue with a member in rl. There just isn't anything that's holding my interest and people like gobo are really ruining it.

The spam forum was just a suggestion really, there's got to be a way to filter these out like a "OMG POLL" forum for people who feel the need to. Or the idea of the split younger/older board. I'm 26 and don't need to be partcipating in poo poo pee pee threads every 3 minutes.

Yes I should have better things to do with my time, but I'm unemployed.:mad2:

1) Macros, including cat macros, are spam and should be treated as such. I've always been of this opinion.
2) x vs. y threads are okay so long as they bring about some kind of discussion.
3) "Post your Internet Quiz/Test/etc. results" should be treated as spam. They're pointless as far as I'm concerned.
4) Massive amounts of embedded quotes are indeed spam.
5) I agree that the warn button could solve a lot of the issues people have. Not that I read reported posts often, but other Knights do.
6) Despite all of this, I think General Chat has been pretty good lately, with threads such as the Mafia thread keeping me very interested. Not many non-players get involved but I don't know why not, it's entertaining!
7) Suggesting a spam forum should be considered spam and thus be deleted. :)

See this is exactly why I stopped coming for 3 months, that and a personal issue with a member in rl. There just isn't anything that's holding my interest and people like gobo are really ruining it.

The spam forum was just a suggestion really, there's got to be a way to filter these out like a "OMG POLL" forum for people who feel the need to. Or the idea of the split younger/older board. I'm 26 and don't need to be partcipating in poo poo pee pee threads every 3 minutes.

Yes I should have better things to do with my time, but I'm unemployed.:mad2:

Oh yeah, because I am the cause of general chat's problem. :rolleyes2
You are being very contradictive, if I'm the one ruining everything then stop posting in the threads I make.

Let's avoid at taking potshots at individuals for now, please. If you want to discuss specific members, there are better ways to do it - behind their backs is the best one, of course. If you feel it is of dire urgency that you speak to the forums staff about any specific member then you can use the Private Feedback forum, PMs, email or a chat system.

A good number of the spammers and members posting poo poo pee pee threads are over 16. Very over 16. :</>p

I apologize then.

Loony Bob's suggestions ftw then.

A good number of the spammers and members posting poo poo pee pee threads are over 16. Very over 16. :</>p

THANK YOU.
I felt so oppressed reading all these 'grown-ups attack the young'ns' posts. But I agree, I was tempted to make a "Host your websites here" thread and have a randomly different topic. It's hard not to spam, because it's so easy and it's a good laugh for the one creating the thread, but then it turns into stuff like... ... ...yeah...

Hey, hey, isn't that what General is for? Billy members being silly? If ya don't like that type of thread, why not make one yourself n.n

I like the threads, but of course, I'm sixteen, so I guess that lumps me with the eight year olds that some of the 20+ members don't seem to like?

I really don't see what age has to do with anything. I don't know how old the vast majority of you are.

My cat macro days are over and now I support the campaign to delete them. :)

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I wanna be tanked and I didn't pyramid it. 8-)

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I wanna be tanked and I didn't pyramid it. 8-)

Maybe that's how Miriel wants you to do it you know? Like a long Anaisa-type post with those multiple quotes.

EDIT
Oh Sna-*deletes*

If you try to play around with Miriel, maybe I'll try to play around with you. :fencing:

If you try to play around with Miriel, maybe I'll try to play around with you. :fencing:

And if you try to play around with Roogle, maybe I'll try to play around with you. :twak:

Welcome back fonz. :rolleyes2

In conclusion: If you think GC sucks, make some good threads in there. Or join the mafia game.