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TOO MANY FORUMS

Discussion in 'Drama Llama Holding Pen' started by OrfBC, Dec 10, 2012.

  1. Carnifex Hard Cider Gal

    We'd need a new forum for that.
  2. Bill Dungsroman Magister Mundi Elyscape

    People never complain on other forums! (It's crazy)

    Whereas I do not like the Dark Souls forum despite using it and likely posting a lot in it hrewhrewhrew I do like the new structure because I am OCD and structure pleases me in a way my Paxil prescription could never.
  3. Mark M Elitist Negative Nancy

    But if they never see the politics section, how will they know about our complaints?
  4. roBurky Despondent Fancybear

    Message boards are weird.

    There must be a way of doing this kind of thing that isn't reliant on so much admin-level sorting and categorising.
  5. balut Magister Mundi Elyscape

    In the sangry grimdark future of Broken Forum, there are only subforums.
  6. tylertoo Oh, Come On

    Did I read somewhere that in the LP forum, you can turn off the categories you don't care to read and only see the categories you do care to read? If this is true, how?

    Or maybe I just dreamed it. I want a non-dating LP subforum.
  7. Alligator Despondent Fancygator

    I remember reading that the categorization had been turned off for the creation of new threads, but I don't recall anything about filtering.
  8. Umazes Hatoful Pigeon

    Location:
    Canada
    I know there are filters if you click on a prefix, but I don't know how to change it so that it shows every category except dating games.
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  9. OZ 4.0 Despondent Fancybear

    Location:
    NJ
    If you click on one of the labels, it shows only threads with that label. I don't think there's a way to filter out one or more particular labels.
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  10. tylertoo Oh, Come On

    That works, thanks.

    This is now my favorite LP forum.
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  11. OZ 4.0 Despondent Fancybear

    Location:
    NJ
    Funny thing, that. It's exactly the one I read.
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  12. Shake Keeper of the Elemental Materials

    Location:
    Vashon, WA
    People are being too nice.
  13. Elyscape Hatoful Pigeon

    Location:
    San Jose, CA
    FUCK YOUUUUUUU
    Lizzy W, Umazes, Jacquelle and 2 others like this.
  14. shift6 Magister Mundi Elyscape

    DAAAAAAY BY DAAAAAAY
  15. Aeon221 Despondent Fancybear

    Location:
    G:\HAW HAW HAW
    Lum on Flexile Dark Standalone MAKE IT NOT GO BLINDING WHITE WHEN YOU COLLAPSE A SUBCATEGORY OH GOD MY EYES.
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  16. Ingmar Armchair Designer

    Location:
    California
    After a day of using this I love it much more than prior method. Verdict: keep it. Adding more subforums would be great - I still think some of the forums feel cluttered, Entertaining Diversions would be an example, with movies, books, music, all jumbled together - but apparently it burns some people like elven rope.
    Mirriam, Lizard_King, roBurky and 4 others like this.
  17. Ozzo Noticed By Drunken Admin

    EDIT: Fucking die, brain.
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  18. RyanMM Magister Mundi Elyscape

    Location:
    Ferndale, MI
    I completely disagree. My favorite part of BF is the fact that TV/Movies/Books/Music are not separate forums. That was one of my bigger annoyances with QT3.
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  19. roBurky Despondent Fancybear

    One nice consequence about having one general place for all 'other entertainment' is that there's less chance of something getting excluded. Some forums just don't have any discussion of comics, for example, because the forum's movies/music/games division doesn't have a place they would fit in.
    Jacquelle, Elyscape and Anabanana like this.
  20. Ingmar Armchair Designer

    Location:
    California
    Another hidden benefit of breaking out to lots of subforums is it makes it easier for Lum to delegate moderation once it all just becomes too much, which it does for every forum administrator in the history of the Intertubes.
  21. robsam Oh, Come On

    I suspect you view everything from your end based on your snarky reply to Hanzii.
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  22. Elyscape Hatoful Pigeon

    Location:
    San Jose, CA
    What does this even mean.
    MulMizu, RyanMM, Shake and 3 others like this.
  23. Ozzo Noticed By Drunken Admin

    In that case, let me just start using the What's New feature exclusively!

    I posted why I thought the new subforum could become an organizational issue. The response I got back was to just use the What's New feature. An option, maybe but it still doesn't solve the organizational issue.

    My brain-dead response. I was trying to say using the What's New feature should be the only "proper" way to access the forums.
    Fuck using brains. Seriously.
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  24. Elyscape Hatoful Pigeon

    Location:
    San Jose, CA
    I see.

    You are aware that What's New includes new posts to old threads, yes? I don't use it, but it's not like it limits you to new threads.
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  25. XPav Elitist Negative Nancy

    Location:
    Grogaboo hunting
    Ooo Oo Oo can I moderate the tech forum? It'll be my first godly power since I had cosysop privileges on a WWIV BBS long, long ago. That, and my unconstitutional 2-year reign as President of the High School Computer Club. You just forget to hold elections and make sure Chopper Commando works, and no one minds you being a dictator!

    In conclusion, I am perfect to moderate the tech forum. Because, you know, of the threads, and all the people accidentally posting there.
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  26. Ozzo Noticed By Drunken Admin

    I had a point I was trying to argue (or at least I think I did) but I don't even know anymore.

    Maybe once I regain the ability to string together a cogent sentence... >.>
  27. Bill Dungsroman Magister Mundi Elyscape

    What, no anti-Flexile Dark Attack Brigade. I GUESS IT'S OK WHEN AEON SAYS IT.
    Saccaroa, Soli-chan, Raife and 5 others like this.
  28. RyanMM Magister Mundi Elyscape

    Location:
    Ferndale, MI
    I thought that just went without saying at this point.
  29. Bill Dungsroman Magister Mundi Elyscape

    We have new folks to indoctrinate into our bizarre, randomly bigoted ways of life.
    Saccaroa, Soli-chan and RyanMM like this.
  30. OZ 4.0 Despondent Fancybear

    Location:
    NJ
    If they haven't caught on by now . . .
  31. Mark M Elitist Negative Nancy

    It's never too late to inculcate bigotry, no matter how nice the people are initially.
  32. Sarkus Hard Cider Gal

    I'm completely plastered at the moment, but I still don't like the changes.
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  33. Hanzii Magister Mundi Elyscape

    We need an Android vs. iOS subforum and mkozlows and me should moderate it on alternating days...
    (PS I find it so difficult to remember the order of m's and z's in your name, that I'm often contemplating just writing Mr Mxyzptlk instead...)
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  34. Vesper Level 90 Paladin

    Location:
    Waukesha, WI
    I, for one, welcome our Forum Splitting Overlords.
    [IMG]
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  35. Aeon221 Despondent Fancybear

    Location:
    G:\HAW HAW HAW
    All you dark skin haters need to step it back!
    Saccaroa, Soli-chan, Elyscape and 3 others like this.
  36. Sheepherder Armchair Designer

    Location:
    Canada
    XPav 2016.
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  37. malphigian Oh, Come On


    What you want a Disgaea forum now? I don't even know who that's for! Cute anime characters AND needlessly complicated strategy gameplay? Too hard to categorize here, sorry.
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  38. mixuk Hivemind Coordinator

    Seriously: I'm unable to understand what the problem is that we're solving by adding more forums. Can anyone enlighten me?

    And "why not?" or "why do you care?" is not an argument.
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  39. Hanacker Armchair Designer

    U MAD BRO?
    Aeon221, Mark M, balut and 2 others like this.
  40. SuperJay Already Beat BF's New Expansion

    Location:
    A2MI
    Why not? Why do you care?

    No seriously, why the hell does it bother you that some people who play a game have a subforum for that game? Because there's one whole extra link in the list of game forums now? Cry me a fucking river.
    Mirriam, NyimaR, Ingmar and 4 others like this.