The discussion areas of TTD

[mooncusser]

Originally Posted by bill_kate

That the staff follow the rules a bit more than the average user.

The staff here are also users. They mod specific areas and are patrons in the others. They're already a cut above the average user because they know there are rules.

And they're volunteers....

Originally Posted by bill_kate

That the staff address the habitual trolls and try to employ anything that might help.

like what? offer them candy? extra ice cream after dinner if they behave? (rhetorical questions)

Originally Posted by bill_kate

That aliases that are not just fun characters be banned.

destined for inconsistent application of a guideline. one person's fun is someone else's useless and annoying.

[ep620]

Have we found anyone new that cares yet?

[paddington]

There was that one guy that was kind of incoherent. I think he may have called us all psychopaths, but I'm not sure, really. If he'd dropped into the lounge 2 years ago, even Vlad would have eaten him alive.

[dcbullet]

I wonder why R-O has a more active forum than we do with 1/10 the userbase and very strict moderation. Is it because it is a single interest forum?
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[paddington]

Originally Posted by dcbullet

I wonder why R-O has a more active forum than we do with 1/10 the userbase and very strict moderation. Is it because it is a single interest forum?
Posted via Mobile Device

It is because that single use is no longer of much interest to the userbase.

hardly any of the regular posters there are actively downloading anything... it's a Led Zeppelin coffee house, now, rather than a music exchange site.

I'd say it was 90% music downloading and 10% discussion outside the torrent threads 5 years ago. Now it is likely exactly opposite of those figures.

The difference is that TTD is still about music sharing and R-O has evolved into mainly a discussion forum since everyone already has all the Led Zeppelin they will ever need after 7 years of trading it digitally.
Not saying there is anything wrong with that.. that is just how it is.

[dcbullet]

hmmm...maybe, maybe not. I don't think that explains why. I'm not sure that can be known. Just an observation, though.

[paddington]

old people?

[AAR.oner]

Originally Posted by jameskg

What I cannot grasp is why some people would think they will be attacked just because they join in... if some shit is going on between Toys & freezer or me and freezer, that doesn't mean Toys and I are going to jump all over the next person that comes in.

because anyone new who posts more than once or twice ends up gettin the n00b verbal beatdown shit...and to use the word yet again because it seems to really pertain, its incessant

[AAR.oner]

Originally Posted by bill_kate

That the staff follow the rules a bit more than the average user.
That the staff address the habitual trolls and try to employ anything that might help.
That aliases that are not just fun characters be banned.

I do not want a g-rated board and I love a lot of the things that others may find offensive and understand that the line is different for everyone.

I do maintain that there is an element there that is ugly and that it does nothing but bring more of it around. I do not think addressing these would or should equate to a speech regulated police state or would create any kind of boring discussion forum.

It is the lounge and will always be too crude for some, but doesn't need to allow people to do whatever they please.



As far as the back and forths between people, just keep those lovefests to one thread. IE - (Freezer loves James, Wolfie loves toys, anyone who is sick of bill_kate)

They can be very entertaining reads and I have picked up some great new insults to use when I am at an actual bar. Just keep em contained.

I am not for any sort of New Order Board.

Just get rid of the blatant obvious shit.

+1

[bluzman]

Originally Posted by AAR.oner

+1

A common sense solution?

[AAR.oner]

scary, isn't it?

[uni-fi]

Originally Posted by AAR.oner

because anyone new who posts more than once or twice ends up gettin the n00b verbal beatdown shit...and to use the word yet again because it seems to really pertain, its incessant

Not to mention most new users don't realize that you can't d/l 5 shows your first week and keep a positive ratio. Thereby effectively getting bashed with "your ratio sucks and so do you n00b" comments.

[U2Lynne]

I'm playing the Admin card guys. My forum, my threads to mod.

[daddyray]

so stern and proper...we love ya for it Lynne

[The Wicker Man]

Wait, Freezer is real! I always thought he was like games or something...