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Offline Svevan

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Discussion of Forum Rules
« on: February 15, 2008, 07:12:54 AM »
This document will be updated as rules are re-added.

There will be only one thread per game. Please do not begin threads focused on a single level, character, item, feature, etc, unless the game is large enough to warrant (please ask a mod before you do). Please also avoid padding threads with posts that do not pertain to the game being discussed. Side topics can always be split by a mod and made into their own thread in General Gaming or General Chat. Please PM a mod for help with this.

Please include the name of the game in the thread title that you are beginning. Please do not label the thread with anything extraneous; we are trying to be organized now that there are a lot of games and a lot of people playing games. There is no need to use thread titles as if they are newsposts.

Examples of poor thread titles:
Superman 64 being developed by team that did Virtual Chess 64 zomg lawler skates
Superman 64 mega-awesome-thread of HAWTNESS

Examples of good thread titles:
Superman 64, developed by Titus Interactive
Superman 64
etc.

We don't want to be strict but the shorter and more descriptive, the better. Please keep thread titles about accessories equally descriptive.

Last and most important, please stay on topic!

Thanks.
« Last Edit: February 16, 2008, 02:00:18 AM by Svevan »
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« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2008, 07:17:00 AM »
such and ingenous idea
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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2008, 09:03:16 AM »
Last and most important, please stay on topic!

Dang it, looks like I'm not allowed in Nintendo Console Discussion.  :(
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« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2008, 10:11:07 AM »
I don't really support the whole unified thread names idea.  It takes away our community's character. Something that without it, the old forums weren't worth a damn.  We may have new forums now, but I don't want to kill our character over it.

I think this might be fixing something that wasn't really broken.  As long as the name of the game was in the title some where, we were doing okay.
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« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2008, 10:17:31 AM »
Boring.
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« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2008, 06:23:49 PM »
As I said on the ToS topic, I do not agree with this
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« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2008, 07:47:55 PM »
I don't think ours is a big enough community to warrant worrying about this, especially at the expense of the fun that makes the forums worth visiting in the first place.

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« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2008, 09:05:24 PM »
NWR is against fun.

Nintendo is against gaming.
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« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2008, 09:09:00 PM »
Thumbs down.
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« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2008, 10:41:13 PM »
I don't think ours is a big enough community to warrant worrying about this, especially at the expense of the fun that makes the forums worth visiting in the first place.

Maybe they want a more clean, structured forum to encourage continued community growth?  Sometimes it's hard to jump into a new community when their forums are full of in-jokes and crazy antics.
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« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2008, 10:48:07 PM »
But the ones who can see thru it are the ones worthy of belonging.
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« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2008, 11:11:46 PM »
But the ones who can see thru it are the ones worthy of belonging.

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« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2008, 12:26:06 AM »

Moderator's Note: Feel free to swear now; anyone can censor swear words in their account options if they want, but if you de-censor your own swear words then everyone has to see them. So please, swear like you mean it.
I'm all for a little swearing, but is it possible to limit it to something like 2 or 3 words per post?  It's going to be fairly annoying when the twelve year olds find out.  The **** will hit the proverbial fan.
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« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2008, 12:48:51 AM »
In all honesty, I agree with this new set of rules.

NWR is a great community and all, but lately I've been getting a tad annoyed by some things. A lot of threads lose their appeal because of too many irrelevant one sentence posts or failed attempts at humor. Most of the time, the thread is wasted on this. Not saying that we shouldn't be funny or be witty with our posts, but the point of discussion threads is to contribute ideas and opinions to a subject.

And before anyone says "butz dis is the interwebs! wi can do this LOL!", yes, we are on the internet and yes, you can get away with A LOT of stuff, but we are on NWR, which is a closed and private place on the net. If NWR says you can't do something you either accept it or move on. We all sign the ToS, and if we disagree with them we are kicked out.

Its as simple as that.
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« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2008, 12:56:14 AM »
I've got no problem with the spirit of most of these rules, but the actual implementation and enforcement of these rules has the potential for squelching awesomeness out of our discuourse. As a forumer, I remain skeptical.

For example, those two "good" thread titles are really, really DRY.

A forum full of the following examples would lose some of our magic:

Superman 64, developed by Titus Interactive
Superman 64


What about a thread title like
I've bought Superman 64... what have I done?!?!

What would be wrong with something like that? It's got the game name there and it's topical and it's actually a thread title with some personality.
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« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2008, 12:59:49 AM »
I'm with Kairon, guidelines are a good thing, but they don't need to be (and shouldn't be) enforced as strictly as they've been so far.
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« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2008, 01:04:14 AM »
The way I see it, this new rule is just saying to make a clear and understandable title when posting rather than to make a mess.
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« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2008, 02:21:57 AM »

Moderator's Note: Feel free to swear now; anyone can censor swear words in their account options if they want, but if you de-censor your own swear words then everyone has to see them. So please, swear like you mean it.
I'm all for a little swearing, but is it possible to limit it to something like 2 or 3 words per post?  It's going to be fairly annoying when the twelve year olds find out.  The **** will hit the proverbial fan.

That'll go on our list of things to discuss. Thanks, Vudu.
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« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2008, 02:23:30 AM »
Was this some ingenious idea to shut down new rule discussion by separating our responses from the actual rules themselves?  I am far too lazy to click on another section of a forum to read what I am complaining about.
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« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2008, 02:28:32 AM »

Moderator's Note: Feel free to swear now; anyone can censor swear words in their account options if they want, but if you de-censor your own swear words then everyone has to see them. So please, swear like you mean it.
I'm all for a little swearing, but is it possible to limit it to something like 2 or 3 words per post?  It's going to be fairly annoying when the twelve year olds find out.  The **** will hit the proverbial fan.

That's what warnings/bannings are for.  Stop encouraging censorship! ;)
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« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2008, 10:46:12 AM »
First the site loses its personality... now you're forcing the forums to?

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« Reply #22 on: February 16, 2008, 07:22:43 PM »
Mods shouldn't be messing in this kinda stuff. The posters can take care of themselves in this department.  I think we're regulating something that wasn't in need of it.  I always had no problem figuring out what game was for which thread because they still had the game title in it, even when I was n00b I wasn't thinking about how disorganized the site was.
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« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2008, 07:31:38 PM »
can we get rid of the "poll" rule or expand into reasoning into valid ways of wanting peoples views, in the 4 years of visiting.. seen 100s of times were regs try to boss newbies around, yet at the same time they get away with polls and oversided avatars
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« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2008, 06:40:08 AM »
If you see that kind of bossy behavior please let me know.  You can just send a PM, I'll diffuse the situation.
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