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The past few days there has been a surge of bumping old threads, usually nonsense ones. I don't mind people bumping the old odd thread, even if it is a nonsense one. However, when there are lots of them at once, it does disrupt the board. I've not mentioned it before as I was hoping it would die down after a day or two, but it has persisted. If it continues, I'll start closing the topics and warning individuals concerned. If that doesn't stop them, they'll get bans. |
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*places this topic in favorites for future bumping* ;) |
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so this is a warning about getting a warning? |
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Smart Alecs = Instant B8 :P |
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masterB8! :p You got it boss!!! |
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yeah, lets keep the front page fresh....old topics aren't the end of the world, but most of em get resurrected without any good reason... |
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Just delete them, you are a moderator. I am completely against mindless, useless threads, We have a sum of about 56.000 topics right now. I bet 50.000 is silly, pointless, and stupid. |
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50.043 are mindless and useless. 50.044 if you count this one. |
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just delete any thread with reflex replying in it. its usually hatespeak anyway. |
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I just noticed phobia was online...I was only joking with the above post so please don't accidently B7 my worthless behind :P |
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ouch, but agreed! |
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BANNNNN HIIIIMMM!!! |
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Wouldn't deleting topics instead of "closing" them save space? |
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I can't...he is a webmaster. You really are stupid sometimes alex. |
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Wow, you think that little about us? :*( |
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I don't think the topics are mindless, and pointless, not you people. |
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Agreed. There has been some talking about some mb-filters, where you can filtrate music-only-topics and so on. Do you know anything abouty that? |
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I think.. sometimes, when it is a funny bump, that justifies it. but other times.. when it isn't a funny bump, that doesn't justify. |
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I can't wait to bump this thread in a couple of years |
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do it with a growling sound! |
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But this is a messageboard made for Electronic Music, isn't it? And the amount of "funny topics" lately makes me hesitant to visit a website, which have given me a lot when it comes to music. That's bad, mmmkay? |
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yeeye. but still.. it can't be ALL about music (then it would die pretty fast). there has to be fun in between the music and the discussions about music and artists (as Ceri said: "I don't mind people bumping the old odd thread, even if it is a nonsense one.") but still.. It floats pretty nicely the way it works today. Threads that people don't appreciate quickly deteriorate and reverts to molecules in the vast ocean that is: Xltronic MB. |
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The nonsense threads don't bother me at all. I know that I am to blame for quite a few of them, but if you don't want them it really isn't hard to ignore them. I don't feel that they are as disruptive as people are making out; it's good to have something to break up the more serious discussions you know. This place would lose a lot of character if we only had serious threads. |
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Believe me. A XLTmb with music-only threads, would be my dream. I think it would have survived, and I think the people in it for the music would be here more. Maybe the solution would be to create a chat-box for people who want to discuss their psychologist, anal sex (*kremt*), or whatever. Still waiting for those filters, though. :) |
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I have suggested that Xltmb could be divided into "music only" and a "everyting else." But the people didn't seem to like the idea. |
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haha! well.. a chat box would kind of kill the magic, I think... and the thing is: music-releases by known artists who are interesting to the people on this MB are far between, so release-discussions would be just as scarce. let's just keep the flow as it is, is what I say. |
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dividing won't be a good idea, no.. that would mean too much clicking back and forth to get everything... the filters.. I think Phob said: "no more temp. fixes," so they won't be here until the next version of XLT. |
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and also.. I think XLT is more a community than a music-mb... people discuss what they want to discuss (with an angling towards electronic music), and madness sometimes reign supreme (but that is only because the human mind is mad in its essence). I think that general discussion with people who like some of the things I like (I don't know anyone in real-life that likes Aphex.. they all like rock and shit (although I'm converting them to Hip-Hop. They are already into Jazz, which is good...)) |
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I think the problem is that people create NEW topics every godamn seconds when we could have like a few really big ones. For example Jedi Chris RECYCLE Raimons and myself are into starwars but people wouldn't wan't to see a new starwars thread (on a electronic music mb) every time theres some new info etc so we try to keep it in the bigass ""Episode will be great!!" topics . However people who are not as much into starwars or in fact hate it start a new thread every week. Anyways more people could follow this i think. Woofer ,nacmat and tolstoyed keept their worldcup football disscusions in one big topic cause they new a new topic every day would annoy people . So for example these "flash game!" or "funny shit" topics could be a bit more compressed ? i don't know. |
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nah.. that would mean too much reading... if you have to read 2304 posts to get the background for the discussion, people fall off... |
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Not me. Theres an old jungle saying.... "When Sido reads , lightning stands still". I eat 2304 posts for breakfast!! =) |
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what's for dinner, then? |
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Reading the xltronic Discography+ Memberlist backwards 666 times in a row. |
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le me help you: Drunken Mastah backwards = Richard D. James. |
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Sido Dyas backwards = Prinsess Diana |
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I agree with you... well atleast in a way. Just look at all the promo-topics up now. It's just too much promo (I mean it's not his fault they're being bumped, nor do I have anything against promo... but it's just too much). |
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yes, I noticed this as well! it's hillarious! hahaha! I'm laughing loudly in an empty office!!! |
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I know, I can hear you! Pipe it down alright? Some of us are trying to work. |
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yes, and I also made a comment in one of those threads. hopefully marlowe will notice that one... |
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see the current situation? That's precisely what I meant when I started this thread... |
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there won't be any work tonight, baby! *summons hot asian secretary-chick to office* |
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I didn't see it, and didn't mean to cause offence - Only, Promo commented on my last two tracks, and made the point that I hadn't listened to his.. As I'm at my mum's with a cable connexion, I got them all this afternoon, and commented on them! So I wasn't needlessly bringing up old topics! I'm off to work now, so my Promo listening is ended for the day. |
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i think either Marlowe has promised Promo he'd check out all his tracks, or this thread sparked an attempt to revive old threads WITHOUT being off-topic (ie: commenting on tracks, which probably is good for Promo, though...) |
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slick :) |
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i'm in fact totally against pointless threads. don't confuse this with non-music threads, which are OK as long as they make sense. but the music vs non-music ratio has to be set to a decent level. i do not agree that less non-music threads would attract less visitors - but it would attract different people.... there are many hardcore electronic music lovers out there who are scared off by the current amount of non-music threads, i know that for a fact and it's a shame. in opposite of other forums we do not have clearly written rules here... we believe in human sense and it's not bad to have had this mb running for several years now with thousands of messages per day w/o any major troubles. but if we would allow all kind of behaviour it would flip out rather quickly - believe me. |
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well.. we are all reasonable people... the threads that survive should be considered more interesting to the community, and threads that die.. well, they're not a problem anymore, are they?! now, depending on the people who are logged on at the time, different types of threads will take priority, while others will fall out. It's the flexibility and the general good sense excersised by the mods (you ARE doing a good job, guys!) that makes this MB so great! |
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yes, but the original post in this thread claims that the current amount of non-sense threads has increased lately. sure, we do close inappropiate threads, but we dont wanna close 20 per day. there are plenty of other forums around, so if you wanna discuss anal-sex do it somewhere else. when you've discovered vletrmx21 - let us know in this place. |
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Asche XL: "Wouldn't deleting topics instead of "closing" them save space?" I often wondered this myself, why not wipe away all garbage? |
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it would save a very little amount of space of course. I don't think the cost of space is the issue here, if anything, it's the cost of the bandwith... It's not a necissity to log everything but I think it is nice. I mean the entire XLT history is preserved, well most of it (very few topics are deleted, from what I know). I mean not all of the history is interesting, but quite a lot is. But I do think the search-function could be improved... But there are other more important things to be done I guess. |
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would you be the pot or the kettle? |
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