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Post by Neptz on Jun 4, 2016 19:45:43 GMT
The roleplay and games forums here are rather active. I'd imagine there'd be demand.
And I'd imagine there'd be at least one person who'd mod for one of those forums.
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Post by jacquerel on Jun 4, 2016 20:13:32 GMT
There were several mods for those subforums on the previous MSPAF but they were removed anyway (without asking the mods if it was actually difficult to moderate).
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Post by GreatKaiserNui on Jun 5, 2016 1:20:59 GMT
I think we would be better off keeping this forum going, this forum has the old guard, the new one would likely fall to eternal september.
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Post by Arashi500 on Jun 5, 2016 2:28:52 GMT
I think we would be better off keeping this forum going, this forum has the old guard, the new one would likely fall to eternal september. As much as I like these forums what Blap got going, freeforums.net isn't exactly the best way to host an official forum as has been said before. Having an official forum that's server is privately owned is a much better way to go about things from both an overhead and community perspective. Blap's going to being winding these forums down anyway once the official ones launch, so I'm not sure how much you'll be able to do if you stay much longer past that point. |
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Post by Blaperile on Jun 5, 2016 9:01:40 GMT
I don't think separating "the old guard" from "the new guys" would really be very productive. After all, in the past we never really separated those groups anyway except for separate Skype discussion groups. If we do keep them separated now, if we don't get new MSPA (or related) content soon I imagine discussion would slowly wither away because the same people would just be reciting the same opinions and ideas all over again. But if everyone moves over to the new forum, then we can mix old and new people together. We meet new people, new fans who learn about MSPA and who can bring fresh personalities and fresh ideas to the table. Which means there are new interesting dynamics in our discussions so that they can keep going. And just because those would be the official forums, that would mean those forums would presumably be the ones linked from MSPA itself instead of the MSPA Forums, which means new fans can easily find them and I imagine the rate of new users joining would be pretty high. So again, I believe it's for the best if this place gets locked down when the new forums come up. But I will give existing Forum Adventures and Fan Projects the choice on what they want to do: stay here or move over there (or somewhere else if they desire) because I want to give them the chance to save the audience they've built up here and give them the chance to tell their readers where they're going next. If any section here on the Omegaupdate forums does not have a counterpart on the new forums for some reason, only then I will leave that section open for discussion here. But again, I won't be deleting these forums nor its threads. They will continue to exist, and if the need would ever arise to open them up again (in case of another forapocalypse, but let's hope that doesn't happen again), then I will. And even if that need DOESN'T arise again, they will still always be here to look back on what happened between the 30th of March and  . Plus, like Arashi500 said, freeforums.net isn't exactly the best way to host an official forum and this fandom is better off with a more officially dedicated forum. |
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Post by Neptz on Jun 5, 2016 16:49:07 GMT
I know I'll be moving to the new forums with Ghost when I have the mirror set up, so don't worry.
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Post by PlatinumUmbreon on Jun 6, 2016 2:31:10 GMT
I'm not doing anything for my only Omegaupdate forum adventure, Draconic Inferno. Even though I have a lot of ideas for it, I don't think things will work out in a MSPA adventure format. I'll probably continue it in a story format accompanied by pictures, so those who liked the concept, do expect that! I'll just drive the plot by myself, that's all.
I'm gonna miss this place, to be honest, but it's for the best. It's gonna be awkward realizing I've been kicked back down to 30 posts, though, and having that Mega Umbreon sprite for my avatar (fortunately, I have my Omegaupdate avatar saved on my computer).
Will there be any changes to the original MSPA forums, other than the likely return of the forum games and RP subforum?
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Post by obsidalicious on Jun 6, 2016 3:41:42 GMT
As long as there's no more white text on white backgrounds, I'll be happy.
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Post by GreatKaiserNui on Jun 6, 2016 4:07:36 GMT
As long as there's no more white text on white backgrounds, I'll be happy. Now that's a bit optimistic considering the source material. |
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Post by meganopteryx on Jun 6, 2016 6:06:34 GMT
I remember they randomly removed the ability for people to post images in their signatures. Advertising forum adventures suddenly became a lot harder. If the new forums allow images in signatures, I would be unspeakably grateful. I know it's a small thing, but small things can mean a lot to people.
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Post by thedude3445 on Jun 6, 2016 7:46:02 GMT
Well guess Sandswept won't bother trying to make a revival thread on here yet. Unless it takes several more months for MSPAF to come back I guess.
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Post by turtleoracle on Jun 6, 2016 10:19:12 GMT
What if no new MSPA forums are made ? Should we use this forever, then ? Personally I wouldn't mind. Also hi megan, nice seeing you there  |
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Post by jacquerel on Jun 6, 2016 12:18:45 GMT
What if no new MSPA forums are made ? Should we use this forever, then ? Personally I wouldn't mind. Also hi megan, nice seeing you there A question entirely invalidated by the rest of this thread. Scroll back a couple pages. |
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Post by Wesley Foxx on Jun 6, 2016 14:53:14 GMT
I remember they randomly removed the ability for people to post images in their signatures. Advertising forum adventures suddenly became a lot harder. If the new forums allow images in signatures, I would be unspeakably grateful. I know it's a small thing, but small things can mean a lot to people. We 'randomly removed' it because people kept making signatures that were bigger than their posts. We tried to implement plug-ins that would automatically spoiler overly-large signatures but the naturally variable size of linked images meant that people kept exploiting that to get around the limit. Like most annoying rules that handicap you, they were enacted because some jerks kept being jerks and ruined it for everyone. |
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Post by Arashi500 on Jun 6, 2016 20:30:45 GMT
I remember they randomly removed the ability for people to post images in their signatures. Advertising forum adventures suddenly became a lot harder. If the new forums allow images in signatures, I would be unspeakably grateful. I know it's a small thing, but small things can mean a lot to people. We 'randomly removed' it because people kept making signatures that were bigger than their posts. We tried to implement plug-ins that would automatically spoiler overly-large signatures but the naturally variable size of linked images meant that people kept exploiting that to get around the limit. Like most annoying rules that handicap you, they were enacted because some jerks kept being jerks and ruined it for everyone. Would it be a good rule if you had to put them into spoilers yourself if they exceed a maximum size? |
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Post by Neptz on Jun 6, 2016 20:49:51 GMT
I personally really like signatures and avatars, as I feel like they are quite literally a piece of the user's soul. Whenever I see a signature or a avatar I go "Oh, it's that guy!" Because I know it's him, and it's like the person was a nation, and their signature and avatars were flags. Which made the signatures disappearing all the more sad for me  |
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Post by jacquerel on Jun 6, 2016 20:57:30 GMT
We 'randomly removed' it because people kept making signatures that were bigger than their posts. We tried to implement plug-ins that would automatically spoiler overly-large signatures but the naturally variable size of linked images meant that people kept exploiting that to get around the limit. Like most annoying rules that handicap you, they were enacted because some jerks kept being jerks and ruined it for everyone. Would it be a good rule if you had to put them into spoilers yourself if they exceed a maximum size? There were very clear rules already, it's just that people never followed them and ignored all corrective attempts. |
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Post by meganopteryx on Jun 7, 2016 3:04:15 GMT
I remember they randomly removed the ability for people to post images in their signatures. Advertising forum adventures suddenly became a lot harder. If the new forums allow images in signatures, I would be unspeakably grateful. I know it's a small thing, but small things can mean a lot to people. We 'randomly removed' it because people kept making signatures that were bigger than their posts. We tried to implement plug-ins that would automatically spoiler overly-large signatures but the naturally variable size of linked images meant that people kept exploiting that to get around the limit. Like most annoying rules that handicap you, they were enacted because some jerks kept being jerks and ruined it for everyone. But at what cost? I've never been on another forum that enforced a signature limit. Is it really better to remove something because of a slight annoyance (longer posts) that allowed adventure authors to advertise their forum adventures in a much better format? And personally I think it added more character to the forums. Having many things people can customize and gives them a sense of ownership of things, and makes them feel more part of the community. I think it was just another step towards alienation. |
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Post by sigh on Jun 7, 2016 3:27:42 GMT
It's also really not hard to make a post where the signature is larger than the post itself, for instance if I had any signature at all that would most likely be the case for this very post.
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Post by Sharkalien on Jun 7, 2016 3:44:31 GMT
Couldn't you just ban people who ignored the rule
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Post by DS Piron on Jun 7, 2016 4:24:31 GMT
It's also really not hard to make a post where the signature is larger than the post itself, for instance if I had any signature at all that would most likely be the case for this very post. I think it was more "The signature was longer than a paragraph/whatever a good-sized post would be", or perhaps "large enough to be able to stretch out the post-box container thing on it's own." |
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Post by Wesley Foxx on Jun 7, 2016 6:19:24 GMT
Couldn't you just ban people who ignored the rule Despite rumors to the contrary, we were never so cavalier and laissez-faire with bans. We would dish out infractions and go in and edit their sig to comply. Cindy and Byron and so on were generally against low-content posting and worked to discourage it as much as possible. They felt like your signature shouldn't be half the visual content or more of your post. I personally didn't care that much either way but do generally agree that tall signature pictures are obnoxious and personally chuck them into my adblocker. |
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Post by gimeurcookie on Jun 7, 2016 7:38:34 GMT
Honestly I like going to forums where there is some sort of signature limit. I've been to far too many forums without any limits and the signatures ends up being 2 times bigger then most of the posts people made, basically making it really hard for me to read the forums as I would sometimes have to wonder "Huh this part of the post doesn't make sense with the rest of the pos- oh it's a signature, got it." cause literally 1/2 to 2/3 of the page was just signatures.
Also I agree that banning people over having a big signature (Which the person could have done by mistake) would have been too big of an issue. The mods would have had a lot more people calling abuse and it generally would have been a bigger headache for everyone involved.
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Post by Holly on Jun 7, 2016 9:27:53 GMT
I always liked that the mspaforum sigs were much smaller and more discrete than other forums I've been to. I agree the big and flashy ones are really distracting when reading, and it's liberating to read a forum without any at all.
As for ads/links, I wish you could have sigs, but like... on the side instead of underneath the post.
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thedude3445
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Post by thedude3445 on Jun 8, 2016 1:38:48 GMT
I like the signatures on this site right now. The size that the pictures people use are completely fine with me, like gimeurcookie's Pesterchum one for example. I think the size of sigantures on MSPA were a bit too limiting, though I'm sure other people will disagree. I've only ever been on one forum where there was a specific size limit, and it was only like that for about 6 months before it went back to "yeah don't make this too big or we will hide it". That part probably isn't incredibly feasible for a big forum, but I have seen it done on big ones too.
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