With the latest influx of new arrivals upon these shores, I thought a thread like this may ease the transition. Essentially this is a list of things i've personally seen others do that has integrated them into the community. It's not official or anything, just a handy guide.
Note that this isn't a dig at the new people, I just thought it might clear up a few of the idiosyncrasies we have here at warcry.
1. It doesn't matter what forums you came from, you're here now. We understand other forums have different ways of moderating and different content of topics; we are not those forums, we are just us. Generally you come across as impolite if you post incessantly about how different warcry off-topic is from other places.
2. We don't care about grammar or punctuation. Like any forum, there is an upper limit to this though. If a post is totally unintelligible we will challenge it, but slight spelling and gramatical errors are best simply let go. Remember, just because english is something you excel at, others might not have that luxury. People from all over the world can access these forums, english may not be their first language. There may be other factors contributing to badly written posts you don't know of. Generally we don't approve of grammar nazis.
3. Call Greever a lazy drunk from time to time. He loves it.
4. Topic content here is generally light and conversational. We've had our share of religious or political discussions and we try to end them fairly rapidly, as we all have different opinions and those topics make it far too easy to accidentally offend somebody.
5. Your topic WILL be derailed eventually. That said, we don't do it abruptly - if a stream of posts gradually begins to change the topic, go with it. Trying to get it firmly back on topic will just result in it being derailed again. Not to say you have to abandon your threads if they get off topic, just nudge us gently back onto the right topic. We find it far too easy to turn a topic called "what's your favourite game" into an in depth discussion of mongolian spear fishing. It's almost like a challenge to us.
6. Please try not to post memes or image macros. We all use the internet a fair amount and we've seen all of them a hundred times before. That said if you've made something funny, post it. We do still enjoy stuff we haven't seen before.
7. We like our spammy threads. These hark back to the old days of the forum when we regularly had contests to see who could get their name as the latest reply on every thread of page 1. I'm sure some of the old timers still have a few of these screenshots. If you see a spam thread, jump in and spam it up. Just remember double posting is frowned upon.
8. Our moderators do their jobs quietly. For the most part we give them very little to do, but rather than dishing out warnings and bans at the drop of a hat, our mods usually quietly edit the offending posts.
9. This is a fairly small community. Even with the latest influx of people, there are still only maybe 75-100 active posters here. As such you generally don't need to make "hello" threads or anything of the like, just hop into a conversation in progress.
10. Moonpenguin loves penguins. Nightly.
That's all I can think of at the moment, and I hope it's shed some light on how we do things for the newer people. Feel free to add anything I missed.
mrcheese: 8. Our moderators do their jobs quietly. For the most part we give them very little to do, but rather than dishing out warnings and bans at the drop of a hat, our mods usually quietly edit the offending posts.
*Conceals the banhammer in his Morpheus trench coat* If only you knew... :P
mrcheese: 8. Our moderators do their jobs quietly. For the most part we give them very little to do, but rather than dishing out warnings and bans at the drop of a hat, our mods usually quietly edit the offending posts.
*Conceals the banhammer in his Morpheus trench coat* If only you knew... :P
Blah... In the old days my bans were messy and spread across multiple threads.(why do you think they have had to change the site format so many times???)
11. Ignore me. I like to babble meaningless gibberish. Well, don't ignore this post, but ignore the other ones. Especially if I reference cupcakes. If I say anything -ANYTHING AT ALL- about cupcakes, close your eyes and scroll down.
8. Our moderators do their jobs quietly. For the most part we give them very little to do, but rather than dishing out warnings and bans at the drop of a hat, our mods usually quietly edit the offending posts.
We're sorta like the CIA: One minute a person's there and the next... *POOF* ... they're gone and never a word is mentioned again. :)
7. We like our spammy threads. These hark back to the old days of the forum when we regularly had contests to see who could get their name as the latest reply on every thread of page 1.
I believe only Niceven has that one, but I do have one from my gamble with moon!
Once you taught them curse words, they lost their charm. I remember my sister had two, when they faced each other all you herd was,"Fuck, ass,titty, poo." and such words.
Better get more then one, otherwise it's not worth it. Also, another Furby fun fact is that if you drop them on their head they go retarded. They start jumbling words together and slurr and lose proper speaking skills. It's very funny.
Greever: Something you should all see just in case you haven't already.
That hack....The Youtube user who uploaded that, I mean...
He lip-synced the entire vid (although it took him a few weeks to finally admit to it); the real group that did the singing is called 'Moosebutter'......
Anyway, out of curiosity, is there any fantastical story behind peoples' 'lazy drunk' description of you?
This thread explains a few things for me... I have'nt been posting here recently out of fear of shooting myself in the foot again, I've been doing more and mo-
With the latest influx of new arrivals upon these shores, I thought a thread like this may ease the transition. Essentially this is a list of things i've personally seen others do that has integrated them into the community. It's not official or anything, just a handy guide.
Note that this isn't a dig at the new people, I just thought it might clear up a few of the idiosyncrasies we have here at warcry.
1. It doesn't matter what forums you came from, you're here now. We understand other forums have different ways of moderating and different content of topics; we are not those forums, we are just us. Generally you come across as impolite if you post incessantly about how different warcry off-topic is from other places.
2. We don't care about grammar or punctuation. Like any forum, there is an upper limit to this though. If a post is totally unintelligible we will challenge it, but slight spelling and gramatical errors are best simply let go. Remember, just because english is something you excel at, others might not have that luxury. People from all over the world can access these forums, english may not be their first language. There may be other factors contributing to badly written posts you don't know of. Generally we don't approve of grammar nazis.
3. Call Greever a lazy drunk from time to time. He loves it.
4. Topic content here is generally light and conversational. We've had our share of religious or political discussions and we try to end them fairly rapidly, as we all have different opinions and those topics make it far too easy to accidentally offend somebody.
5. Your topic WILL be derailed eventually. That said, we don't do it abruptly - if a stream of posts gradually begins to change the topic, go with it. Trying to get it firmly back on topic will just result in it being derailed again. Not to say you have to abandon your threads if they get off topic, just nudge us gently back onto the right topic. We find it far too easy to turn a topic called "what's your favourite game" into an in depth discussion of mongolian spear fishing. It's almost like a challenge to us.
6. Please try not to post memes or image macros. We all use the internet a fair amount and we've seen all of them a hundred times before. That said if you've made something funny, post it. We do still enjoy stuff we haven't seen before.
7. We like our spammy threads. These hark back to the old days of the forum when we regularly had contests to see who could get their name as the latest reply on every thread of page 1. I'm sure some of the old timers still have a few of these screenshots. If you see a spam thread, jump in and spam it up. Just remember double posting is frowned upon.
8. Our moderators do their jobs quietly. For the most part we give them very little to do, but rather than dishing out warnings and bans at the drop of a hat, our mods usually quietly edit the offending posts.
9. This is a fairly small community. Even with the latest influx of people, there are still only maybe 75-100 active posters here. As such you generally don't need to make "hello" threads or anything of the like, just hop into a conversation in progress.
10. Moonpenguin loves penguins. Nightly.
That's all I can think of at the moment, and I hope it's shed some light on how we do things for the newer people. Feel free to add anything I missed.