For one, those dumbass threads make the Gaming Den look like a bunch of elitist trolls when it's really only three or four people acting like that. I'm hesitant to refer people to this place for this reason.
Two, I'm tired of posts or tangents that are applicable to, you know, gaming being ignored in favor of yet another one of someone's 'oh, look at me hard done by idiots! I am going to complain about it at length'.
I really wish you people would stop posting them. It's irritating.
I hate the 'threads that make you laugh, cry or both' thread
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Posting this as a response to Lago's post because its on the same line of thought (I think)...
What exactly are those threads supposed to do? There is supposedly a difference between trolling and "smiting", but I'm increasingly convinced that line is mostly that its smiting if you approve of it...which thusly is just making it worse...you get a bunch of elitist assholes who claim that they're actually making things -better- by creating the situation Lago refered to.
Great way to make the TGD the place to go for useful gaming advice and examples of design, really.
What exactly are those threads supposed to do? There is supposedly a difference between trolling and "smiting", but I'm increasingly convinced that line is mostly that its smiting if you approve of it...which thusly is just making it worse...you get a bunch of elitist assholes who claim that they're actually making things -better- by creating the situation Lago refered to.
Great way to make the TGD the place to go for useful gaming advice and examples of design, really.
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Re: I hate the 'threads that make you laugh, cry or both' th
I figure the line was crossed ages ago when PR started a thread at Paizo and preemptively linked it. If that isn't trolling I don't know what is.Lago PARANOIA wrote:For one, those dumbass threads make the Gaming Den look like a bunch of elitist trolls when it's really only three or four people acting like that. I'm hesitant to refer people to this place for this reason.
Yeah, it used to be we'd see frustration and give sympathy or solutions.
Now it's just in jokes and badly spelled insults. I think we could do without those.
If you're going to post in a thread referred in one of those threads, I think you should be utmost polite and helpful, not derisive or insulting.
-Crissa
Now it's just in jokes and badly spelled insults. I think we could do without those.
If you're going to post in a thread referred in one of those threads, I think you should be utmost polite and helpful, not derisive or insulting.
-Crissa
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As Draco mentioned, PR introduced trolling into that thread. Roy introduced the practice of quoted "smites." Before that, the idea was that you would post a link in that thread only after the discussion had gone off the rails into insanity. And, if it was a thread you had posted in, you wouldn't draw excessive attention to your own posts.Elennsar wrote:What exactly are those threads supposed to do?
But I'm not sure the transition didn't happen even before PR. After Frank and K left the Paizo boards, any Paizo thread linked tended to generate a lot of complaining about the way those two were treated on those boards. I suspect some people got the idea from that tendency that the topic was really "Threads that make us laugh, cry, bitch, or all of the above."
yeah, i think they were more interesting then too... now it's only interesting to see if someone says something about a thread I posted, and that's about it, even then, it's usually pretty boring...Crissa wrote:Yeah, it used to be we'd see frustration and give sympathy or solutions.
Now it's just in jokes and badly spelled insults. I think we could do without those.
If you're going to post in a thread referred in one of those threads, I think you should be utmost polite and helpful, not derisive or insulting.
-Crissa
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