Suggestion about locking threads.

[MadMummy76]

Because they close off-topic threads?

No, because they don't actually mod the discussions just swoop in from time to time. I'd at the very minimum expect the mods of the forum to be part of the community engaging in the discussions.

They lack consistency and still seem to be doing a shitty job at explaining why some threads were closed.

[Erebus]

@Aidy

"Your argument is that if someone talks about games then any discussion about them is on-topic for the forum even if it isn't relevant to games (if he plagiarisers videos is not relevant to games). So if Trump plays games then anything about him is on-topic even if it isn't related to games.

Right?"


I didn't say any of that, Cathy Newman. How about you draw the more reasonable meaning from what I'm writing instead of jumping to the most absurd and extreme conclusion from what I meant?

Yong is a youtuber who makes videos about gaming news and issues. Anything related to his channel would be a relevant topic because most of us would be interested in it since it would most likely be related to gaming or his channel. Regardless, it should be okay to talk about him because he's not political.

If Trump made a statement blaming video games for violence or about passing a bill to ban M rated games, we should be able to talk about that specific thing because it's relevant to gaming. Did I say anything about talking about everything about Trump in my posts in this thread? No.

[Aidy]

Yong is a youtuber who makes videos about gaming news and issues. Anything related to his channel would be a relevant topic

I disagree. The fact that he may or may not plagiarise videos is not a topic related to games, no more than a thread about dogs is relevant to games because boogie2988 has one. If boogie does something about games, sure talk about it...if he fills his yard with tacky Halloween ornaments - don't talk about it. Just because a youtuber is recognised as being a video games youtuber doesn't mean everything they do is on-topic for this forum.

[Erebus]

I disagree. The fact that he may or may not plagiarise videos is not a topic related to games, no more than a thread about dogs is relevant to games because boogie2988 has one. If boogie does something about games, sure talk about it...if he fills his yard with tacky Halloween ornaments - don't talk about it. Just because a youtuber is recognised as being a video games youtuber doesn't mean everything they do is on-topic for this forum.

It's a relevant topic to gamers in general. We don't need anymore justification to post it.

[Aidy]

It's a relevant topic to gamers in general. We don't need anymore justification to post it.

The forum is Exclusively Games, not Exclusively Gamers. And you don't need justification to post anything, but if you post something off-topic then it might get closed.

[Erebus]

The forum is Exclusively Games, not Exclusively Gamers. And you don't need justification to post anything, but if you post something off-topic then it might get closed.

This gaming review and article site is that but the forum doesn't need to follow that theme so literally. Many want an anime section. Gonna deny that because you want to fit the url perfectly? That's absurd.

[Aidy]

Gonna deny that because you want to fit the url perfectly? That's absurd.

I'm not in a position to deny anything, but I don't want an anime section because I don't think it fits the remit of the forum, no.

[Methpoodle]

Fuck me, there's a bunch on whingeing soft cocks on this forum. Talk about games or move on.

Onward!

[Merlin]

mumble grumble

calling me a soft cock I'll show him

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[fenrif]

The forum is Exclusively Games, not Exclusively Gamers. And you don't need justification to post anything, but if you post something off-topic then it might get closed.

I find it silly to talk about games without discussing the industry that creates them, the people that develop them, the law surrounding the purchase and creation of them, how companies treat the customers that purchase them, etc. These are all very on topic for a "exclusively games" forum. They aren't even against the terms of service the mods posted (on the one day a week they show up). But all these things have had threads locked with no discussion beyoned "off topic, locked."

Do the mods even interact with anyone here? I don't think I've seen any posts from them beyond "off topic locked." On the rare occasion they deign to show up here.

[Animusisters]

Breaking the CoC seems to be enough of an explanation.

[Erebus]

Breaking the CoC seems to be enough of an explanation.

That's not the case.

[isturbo1984]

the mods here are a fucking joke.

[Chairman Meow]

I find it silly to talk about games without discussing the industry that creates them, the people that develop them, the law surrounding the purchase and creation of them, how companies treat the customers that purchase them, etc. These are all very on topic for a "exclusively games" forum. They aren't even against the terms of service the mods posted (on the one day a week they show up). But all these things have had threads locked with no discussion beyoned "off topic, locked."

Do the mods even interact with anyone here? I don't think I've seen any posts from them beyond "off topic locked." On the rare occasion they deign to show up here.

I agree with this.

The couple of mods that occasionally parachute in to grace us with their presence (and not usually in a good way) clearly have no idea how to mod forum so perhaps they should stick to discord so we can can get someone who DOES have a clue about about how to run a forum.

I nominate fenrif based on his posts here. Erebus seems good too.

[Kashimi]

I've run several forums and this is by far the most hands-off I've ever seen. I cannot speak to the professionalism of the moderator team, or their qualifying experience, but their lack of community engagement certainly leaves something to be desired.

I can't even guess as to who the moderators on this forum are.

Ultimately we could create a hundred threads expressing our grievances about the moderating team, and we could create just as many suggestion posts to solve those problems, but unless Jeremy sees fit to read these posts, or take this information and act on it, there's not much else we can do.