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The "NEWB" tag, and Deceleration.
Topic Started: Mar 28 2013, 12:53 AM (953 Views)
Infect
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Overlord Of Fail
Ok, you know what, I am going to say it. Decel, the '"NEWB" tag is scaring off new members. Hell, I would not have stayed if I had to put up with that. It does not, to use your own words "Motivate them to remove it" All it does, is make them think that we are a bunch of assholes, isulting new members. I honestly belive you are trying to make it so that no new members join. All this is, is a slowly dying forum, about a game whose creator has dissapered, with no trace. We have 10 or 12 active members, 6 of whom are Mods, and Admins, That is half the forum. If you want new members to join, do not make them feel like we look down upon them, and most of all, do not insult them with the large "NEWB" tag.

Besides that, you have recently shut down one of the most popular threads, because of a minor flame war, the same kind that a few months ago you would have tolerated. There is no reason to be scaring members like this. It was an activity generator. All shuting it down did, was make the forum EVEN MORE slow. All it means, is that you clearly do not want this forum to be active, or, that you do not want it to survive, when you locked the Off-Topic Thread a while back, you damn near killed to forum, at the same time, you removed the shoutbox, effectivly killing most activity. Now, we know you have fixed that, but only because we damn near forced you to.
 
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Shell-Core
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Heavy Assault Frigate
I agree... The "NEWB" tag should be removed, "noob" somehow sound identically related...
 
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Overlord Of Fail
They literaly mean the same thing. And both are just as insulting.
 
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Walrus.
"Newb" is short for newborn.



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Edited by wat, Mar 28 2013, 02:28 AM.
 
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Overlord Of Fail
... That is not what it was meant to represent, besides, most Newborns will not figure that out right away.
 
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I'll remove the newborn tag, because you make such a convincing case to do so. Really.

Other than that, I don't think I'll be reopening certain popular threads. If you'll remember, I made those threads myself in order to generate activity. Unfortunately the activity they generated was not of the type I deem acceptable, and if forum activity is lost because I closed them, so be it. Make your own threads.
 
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This thread is like a zoo. It's hard not to feed the animals (which are trolls [infect]) because they just give such a reason in some cases.
 
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Overlord Of Fail
Oh, sure, I am a troll.

The type you deem acceptble? AHAHAHA. Look, if I were to remake the thread, you would still close it, because "the activity they generated was not of the type I deem acceptable". Do not even pretend otherwise.
 
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Coreling Conquerer

I'm certain my opinion has meaning in such cases.
 
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