Changes in the Talk Other Category

[SJS]

In a selfish effort to promote more discussion on this forum, starting today you must have at least five posts to view or post in the Talk Other category (containing the Talk Other board only. Video Games and Art Studio are temporarily relocated to General). You can do it. I believe in you.

With that said, posts in off topic no longer count toward your secret total.

[Boygos]

lol sounds good xD

[SJS]

Requirement for viewing off topic has been upped to 25 posts. Spam it some more and I'll up it to 50.

[Oizen]

So you want users other than when KCMM is down?

lol.

Looks like everyone will just talk about it in my stage post on the blog. Oh joy.

[SJS]

Feb 27, 2012 20:51:42 GMT -6 Oizen said:

So you want users other than when KCMM is down?

lol.

I want people to stop spamming and provoking each other. You included.

[Oizen]

Feb 27, 2012 20:54:02 GMT -6 SJS said:

Feb 27, 2012 20:51:42 GMT -6 Oizen said:

So you want users other than when KCMM is down?

lol.

I want people to stop spamming and provoking each other. You included.

Theres this thing I live by called "Its not inflammatory if its true"

as far as I can see, everything I've said is true.

I think I'll make a post about whats going on on the KCMM blog, to help lighten your "spam"

kc-mm.com/oizenx/about-the-vaultforums-being-down/02-27-2012/

[xZedkiel]

I think this is a great way to lessen the spam, though it prevents me from seeing the arguments and discussion. But all in all, good choice Jess.

[lordnoah]

I think the idea was to have a forum that's sole purpose wasn't talking about another forum being down. I think that's reasonable and not something to complain about.

[Segtendo]

Feb 27, 2012 21:59:46 GMT -6 lordnoah said:

I think the idea was to have a forum that's sole purpose wasn't talking about another forum being down. I think that's reasonable and not something to complain about.

This.

People decided to bring it up, which got ugly...

[Miacis]

Feb 27, 2012 20:45:24 GMT -6 SJS said:

It's a hacking forum. An off topic section is a privilege. If people want the privilege to post here they'll have to earn it. Last post (besides this thread) was December 8th. It's not used that often.

First mistake when creating a board: thinking privileges will make people talk more about a certain subject. The only thing you're gonna do is deter people from going in any section.
Or make them flood so that they see the place they were here for in the first place.

I want people to stop spamming and provoking each other. You included.

... If it's really the main reason for that decision, then I can pretty much tell you that it's pointless.
Most of the "spammers and arguers" already have the 25 posts. What you did was just a disguised way to ban Oizen from Off-Topic.

Anyways, seeing as he made a blog post about it, I'll move my updates to there instead.
There's absolutely no point for me to post any updates here if only a quarter of the members can see it.
A restriction on posting (and not just viewing) would have warded off the spam problem without making the KCMM down topic completely pointless. Might as well lock it while you're at it, it would be a more direct and honest course of action.

So, to anyone who'd like to keep being updated about it, just go there:
kc-mm.com/news/about-the-vaultforums-being-down/02-27-2012/

[SJS]

Funny, because ever since I upped the count, people began posting elsewhere. Besides, it's not my job to notify of your downtime.

[Miacis]

Feb 28, 2012 8:27:44 GMT -6 SJS said:

Funny, because ever since I upped the count, people began posting elsewhere.

People were already posting outside of it before you added restrictions, actually.
As a matter of fact, it happenned more or less exactly the same during last downtime and when the boards were launched.

People will get into the hacking boards if there's something interesting to see there. Blocking the access to the other boards is just taking the problem upside-down. Like fobidding some litterary courses so that more people start studying to become engineers, or something like that.
You could unlock Off-Topic right now, and people wouldn't suddenly decide to ignore all the threads they've just posted in. It's just a caricatural view of how things work.
People just go and post where they see fit.

Feb 28, 2012 8:27:44 GMT -6 SJS said:

Besides, it's not my job to notify of your downtime.

"It's not my job" means "I am in right to restrict your ability to do it", now?
I don't think you really understand the issue there.

I mean, really, it's just completely arbitrary and doesn't really have any meaning.

[SJS]

The post requirement for Off Topic will be lowered back to five at a later time. For now, the requirement arbitrarily will remain at 25. It was a mutual (active) staff decision.

Finally got that info box up top working like I wanted. As a result, the post requirement for viewing Talk Other is set back to 5.

[Miacis]

Great. :3

Now, this will probably come as mildly insulting after you took the time to set that up, but is there a way for me to hide that huge header?
I mean, I really do appreciate the redirection to the Blog (we should have done this from the very beginning, why didn't the thought cross my mind ? .-.).

But I don't really care about the last 6 topics I've posted in, so is there a way to hide that huge block?
(And if there isn't, may I suggest to reduce the number of "last topics" and possibly compact the text a little more to save some space?

EDIT: Also, this picture now has a white background...
3.bp.blogspot.com/-3j--L3Ol8vw/TbjgKOYwt3I/AAAAAAAAAaY/-nTorlffOog/s1600/bannnerrrr.png

[ItalianStallion]

Why is there so much bitching going on in here? Damn!

KC blog needs to go back up quickly.