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: What do you think of the forum's current "state"?
This forum is chaotic. 7 13.21%
Everything's fine. 15 28.30%
This forum is dying. 17 32.08%
This forum has never been more alive. 4 7.55%
Too much spam. 13 24.53%
Too many iditots. 22 41.51%
This forum is too strict. 4 7.55%
This forum is not strict enough. 7 13.21%
There's too many people. 1 1.89%
There's not enough people. 20 37.74%
: 53.

 
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  #1  
05-12-2006, 09:14 PM
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The current "state" of this forum

What do you think of the current state of this forum? (poll is multiple choice)
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05-12-2006, 09:47 PM
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I think this forum is groovey.
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05-12-2006, 09:50 PM
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I only selected "There's not enough people."

I joke about the forum dying, but it's really just in a lull caused by the lack of OW... anything, really. No news in a long time. At least not anything in substantial. As long as we have members posting, the forum won't "die."

That being said, OWI seems to be pretty damn dead. For the time being, at least.
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05-12-2006, 10:05 PM
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I change my vote to too strict gosh dang it.
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05-12-2006, 10:52 PM
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Voted for Not Enough People, but I think it's the lack of interesting threads. People might have their own ideas for a thread, but they give it up, thinking it wouldn't be a huge success, or even end up in an argument.

Or people just lack of interesting ideas... So this leads back to the Not Enough People vote... More people, greater chance of ideas, greater amount of good threads.

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05-13-2006, 12:25 AM
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Heeh I have plenty of weird ideas for threads... But theyare weird as i said


Anyways, I chose too much spam, too many isiots, and too few members... I also chose the forum is fine. Cos even though its a bit dead or whatever, it still doesn't stop me from my main interests here.
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05-13-2006, 03:58 AM
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Way too chaotic.

Several of the great members have left, and most of our ''old'' members now feel it is their duty to spam up the forum. And noone's trusting eachother because of Wired, and also because of him I'm a bit skeptical about some newbies who seem to know this forum's past so great and type with perfect grammar.

The lack of posters is a problem, but not a big one. I say leave it for now, but when we've got barely any left it's time to think about re-doing this forum.

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Bwaha, no need to worry, CS. We reeeaaaally don't want or feel like creating another account. Ever. Strangely, I've been skeptical of new members as you described because I think it's someone "trying to make a point" or seeking revenge on some level or something.

Anyway, I chose not enough members but everything is fine. It could certainly be much, much better though.
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05-13-2006, 06:12 AM
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I'm not saying you would make another one, I was trying to say it's just raised allot of Dino suspects around here. Well, for me atleast. It'll go away in time though.
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05-13-2006, 06:24 AM
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Several of the great members have left, and most of our ''old'' members now feel it is their duty to spam up the forum.
Don't worry. We still can't match the sheer amount of stupidity that all of the younger members churn out on a daily basis. We're very inadequate, apparently.

Rest assured that I'm continuing (because... you know... I never stopped) to take care of multis. You should be suspicious. There have been a few since the Wired incident, and I'm not going to kid myself and say that it's not (at least partially) my fault. So I'm not going to whine about it. I'm taking care of it.
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05-13-2006, 09:05 AM
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What kind of sick bastard would create a multi? I certainly have no idea.
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05-13-2006, 09:14 AM
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Yeah OANST. I heard most of the multis were made on April. Damn whoever did that.

Edit: Luke, I'm not saying the spamming ones are you and whoever else was involved. Wired flamed, but not really spam. I'm talking about people talking a load of shite in threads, or changing the subject completely. Such as the Harry Potter discussion breaking out and PETA.

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That sentence doesn't even make sense.
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05-13-2006, 10:10 AM
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Say.... Why doesn't Alcar/Abe Babe promote OWF? Maybe we could hope for a handfull new members?
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05-13-2006, 10:48 AM
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I origionaly chose "Chaotic", but then changed it to reflect why I see it as chaotic.

IMO:
Too much spam.
Not strict enough {which would result in spam}.
Too many idiots {who do the spamming}.

I may be narrow minded, or "NAZI"ish in internet terms, but I remeber OWF being more... user friendly.
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05-13-2006, 11:13 AM
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Well.. We aren't many activee members left... Actually.. I think Fancorner and GD is much more active than off-topic now :-/
But we need to promote the forums if we want more members soon... The only new members coming here are either old members, multis and idiots
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05-13-2006, 12:22 PM
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And yet, complaining about spam and idiots does nothing to help.

Really, all it does is scream to potential members "Hey, this place sucks!"

Just a theory.
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05-13-2006, 01:49 PM
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Hmm... good theory Majic.

Of course, getting a survey off current members lets Mods/Admins/Users know what areas people really want changed.
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I find it interesting that the most popular options are: "to many idiots" and "not enough people". Doesn't that contradict? [Or something? ]

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05-13-2006, 02:06 PM
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lol it does... Hmmm... Well, prolly cos we dont have enough good members...

Everyone is leaving these days O.o
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Way too chaotic.

Several of the great members have left, and most of our ''old'' members now feel it is their duty to spam up the forum. And noone's trusting eachother because of Wired, and also because of him I'm a bit skeptical about some newbies who seem to know this forum's past so great and type with perfect grammar.

The lack of posters is a problem, but not a big one. I say leave it for now, but when we've got barely any left it's time to think about re-doing this forum.
Aww man am I being framed here?


I vote that this forum is dying cause it ain't nothing like it used to be
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05-15-2006, 08:36 AM
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Well, I chose not enough people, but I kind of like it that way... I said this on the anniversary thread, but since there are only like a couple hundred people, you know, we're all sort of closer together. After a while, you start seeing the same people over again. That beats those forum communities with millions of members. I like that.
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I voted 'not enough members' but I wish I could change my vote to also vote for 'this forum is dying'. It pains me to say it, but I think it is.
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05-16-2006, 11:43 AM
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It's only dying because we think it's dying. PLEASE!!! OWF, don't die!!! My life will be hell and my death will be...even worse, if you take away this only bit of hope!!! *breaks down in sobs*
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05-18-2006, 05:09 AM
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Jesus Christ you're all a bunch of depressed emo corpses. The forums are not dying, in fact, statistically, they're operating near the levels we receive when an Oddworld game has been released.

Now stop your wingeing and post something more meaningful.

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05-18-2006, 08:09 AM
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That's what I said. This forum...will...not...die...
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05-18-2006, 10:49 AM
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I like to state something...

OWI is not dead, they are still working on something


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Jesus Christ you're all a bunch of depressed emo corpses. The forums are not dying, in fact, statistically, they're operating near the levels we receive when an Oddworld game has been released.

Now stop your wingeing and post something more meaningful.

Alcar...
I never said the forums are dying :-/ I Think they are fine, even though it seems like they are slightly less active than they have been... Plus alot of constructive meembers left.
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you like to state something...

OWI is not dead, they are still working on something
Who likes to state something?

It kinda sucks that OWI quit the gaming industry. Although it's good that they're still active.
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you really should get an 'all of the above' option :P


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