What makes this Forum so bad?

[Tocsin_786]

after reading through the comments on : https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601671-worst-community-you-have-ever-been-a-member-of/

 

What makes you think that LTT is a bad community? This is the only forum that i have actively been apart of and it feels great because it doesnt always feel like a forum but rather a good place to spend time. 

[SkilledRebuilds]

The amount of reposts cos idiots can't do a simple search... or look at the forum their posting in...

Or don't care, and still wanna repost thinking THEIR thread will gain the most traction... amongst the already 15 threads available on that particular news item...

 

GTX1080 Founders edition news... for example.

Every single leak = 15 new threads on the same thing by users who want a better REP on here.

[Charger]

4 minutes ago, Tocsin_786 said:

after reading through the comments on : https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/601671-worst-community-you-have-ever-been-a-member-of/

 

What makes you think that LTT is a bad community? This is the only forum that i have actively been apart of and it feels great because it doesnt always feel like a forum but rather a good place to spend time. 

Well not that I have anything against this community but these are somethings I have noticed but they are not exclusive to this forum.

 

Spam, members attacking members, members attacking staff, a general dislike of new members, members disregarding forum rules, repetitive threads even when the same topic is less then 2 topics down, buggy forum software.

 

But really most of these have been problems on every forum I have been a part of.

[Tocsin_786]

38 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

The amount of reposts cos idiots can't do a simple search... or look at the forum their posting in...

Or don't care, and still wanna repost thinking THEIR thread will gain the most traction... amongst the already 15 threads available on that particular news item...

 

GTX1080 Founders edition news... for example.

Every single leak = 15 new threads on the same thing by users who want a better REP on here.

That's all very true and I have noticed it as well. That's why i mostly lurk on the forums now and don't post (haven't posted a lot since I ended my WYR series couple months ago). I guess I still like the forums because of the nostalgia that it has given us from the early days. You can probably relate because you joined around the same time as me. I still have the Christmas hat on from 2013 way back when  

[SkilledRebuilds]

Nostalgia is what keeps me here, certain peeps,... certain threads... absolutely.

I don't post much news, just offer nuggets of wisdom in the troubleshooting section...

News sections are great to read, but also very bad in regards to re-toasts.

 

But I'll still keep coming back,... and I'll take what I can get in regards to news & info from here before looking elsewhere.

[Tocsin_786]

1 minute ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Nostalgia is what keeps me here, certain peeps,... certain threads... absolutely.

I don't post much news, just offer nuggets of wisdom in the troubleshooting section...

News sections are great to read, but also very bad in regards to re-toasts.

 

But I'll still keep coming back,... and I'll take what I can get in regards to news & info from here before looking elsewhere.

Even though the news section can get horrid sometimes. Once the hype topics are out of the way like the GPU news and what not, its actually fairly good at the information that I gain from there. I find things that I never knew were coming to fruition by visiting that sub forum. Its still leaps and bounds better than some other forums that I have visited for troubleshooting things. 

[Charger]

7 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Nostalgia is what keeps me here, certain peeps,... certain threads... absolutely.

 

I'm basically still here because of the anime club and like 5 people in the mechanical keyboard club

[Gale]

The amount of people in here who don't know what kind of threads go where astounds me.

[ixiboneheadixi]

1 hour ago, Charger said:

Well not that I have anything against this community but these are somethings I have noticed but they are not exclusive to this forum.

 

Spam, members attacking members, members attacking staff, a general dislike of new members, members disregarding forum rules, repetitive threads even when the same topic is less then 2 topics down, buggy forum software.

 

But really most of these have been problems on every forum I have been a part of.

If you think people attacking people is bad here go to reddit, the most extremist liberal bullshit people attacking everyone on there. I browsed the Marvel Studios reddit one day and holy shit, they want to kick out every male and every white person out of those movies and want everything to be about extremist racism and sexist and female and black power bullshit, except Captain America cause apparently he needs to be gay now. And if you disagree with their sexist racist bullshit you get like 400 downvotes. 

[killcomic]

Far too many Americans that can't figure out the world is not America and it's not interested in their bullshit.

No disrespect to those Americans that don't fit in that description, of course.

[UL_42L]

4 minutes ago, killcomic said:

Far too many Americans that can't figure out the world is not America and it's not interested in their bullshit.

No disrespect to those Americans that don't fit in that description, of course.

I would quite honestly move to Canada before someone could finish asking if I would like to... if I could.

[Totallycasual]

3 hours ago, Tocsin_786 said:

What makes you think that LTT is a bad community?

Its not. 

[harrynowl]

The members of course  

[Mo_z_Art]

the news section has been getting worse and worse. Its like a dumpsite for links. no one cares for the coc and the right way to post. But I still read it multiple times a day

[AlTech]

 

On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 0:33 PM, Tocsin_786 said:

That's all very true and I have noticed it as well. That's why i mostly lurk on the forums now and don't post (haven't posted a lot since I ended my WYR series couple months ago). I guess I still like the forums because of the nostalgia that it has given us from the early days. You can probably relate because you joined around the same time as me. I still have the Christmas hat on from 2013 way back when  

 

Actually I was gonna tell you but I'm making a game out of Would You Rather. Remind me to tell you more about it in like a few weeks.

 

On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 8:29 PM, Mo_z_Art said:

the news section has been getting worse and worse. Its like a dumpsite for links. no one cares for the coc and the right way to post. But I still read it multiple times a day

Exactly!

 

On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 3:54 PM, harrynowl said:

The members of course  

Oh come on. I'm not that bad am I?

 

On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 2:17 PM, killcomic said:

Far too many Americans that can't figure out the world is not America and it's not interested in their bullshit.

No disrespect to those Americans that don't fit in that description, of course.

Excuse me? GTFO. As an American, I am quite displeased with what you have said.

 

On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 2:53 PM, Newenthusiast said:

Its not. 

It's actually a great community

 

On ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 0:42 PM, SkilledRebuilds said:

Nostalgia is what keeps me here, certain peeps,... certain threads... absolutely.

I don't post much news, just offer nuggets of wisdom in the troubleshooting section...

News sections are great to read, but also very bad in regards to re-toasts.

 

But I'll still keep coming back,... and I'll take what I can get in regards to news & info from here before looking elsewhere.

#firstworldproblems

[minibois]

All the salty people who can't accept that other opinions exist and have to make everything a flamewar.

And when someone is even slightly wrong, this community doesn't politely say it, but has to correct it in the most rude ways possible.

[Tocsin_786]

6 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

 

 

Actually I was gonna tell you but I'm making a game out of Would You Rather. Remind me to tell you more about it in like a few weeks.

 

 

It's been like 4 weeks. What is this game you speak of? 

[AlTech]

3 hours ago, Tocsin_786 said:

It's been like 4 weeks. What is this game you speak of? 

I'm making a client for Would You Rather. Ill make it open source when I have the time to work more on it.

 

the idea is that you can choose to answer would you rather questions made by people and submitted OR you can let the client randomly make a would you rather question with silly answers .

 

and once you finish a question you can move onto the next.....

[Tocsin_786]

12 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I'm making a client for Would You Rather. Ill make it open source when I have the time to work more on it.

 

the idea is that you can choose to answer would you rather questions made by people and submitted OR you can let the client randomly make a would you rather question with silly answers .

 

and once you finish a question you can move onto the next.....

oh thats awesome, feel free to utilize my 300+ WYR questions if you need to! 

[Cvdasfg]

16 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I'm making a client for Would You Rather. Ill make it open source when I have the time to work more on it.

 

the idea is that you can choose to answer would you rather questions made by people and submitted OR you can let the client randomly make a would you rather question with silly answers .

 

and once you finish a question you can move onto the next.....

 

4 minutes ago, Tocsin_786 said:

oh thats awesome, feel free to utilize my 300+ WYR questions if you need to! 

Sounds awesome!!

 

To answer the OP question It's not like it used to be. Back in the days it was much less toxic  . Now I get on every once in awhile check up on things and give some troubleshooting advice. Mostly why I think it's gone hill is that most of the people post the exact same questions over and over and over again. If people did basic research for themselves it wouldn't be so bad .

[SansVarnic]

On 5/27/2016 at 1:17 AM, killcomic said:

Far too many Americans that can't figure out the world is not America and it's not interested in their bullshit.

No disrespect to those Americans that don't fit in that description, of course.

I don't count myself as one of those but may I say that I have noticed more of the opposite in which several members (including those whom were banned) who are not from the US constantly made insinuations about and towards the US. I don't particularly care for those individuals or insinuations and that is my only real beef with the forum.

(I don't count you as one of those.)

 

11 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

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Excuse me? GTFO. As an American, I am quite displeased with what you have said.

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Most definitely uncalled for. His opinion is his own and he has the right to express it just same as you do. @killcomic is correct though, there have been several in the past that attempted to interject US point of view or at least their point of view as to what they interpreted as US p.o.v. to be.

 

 

[Mug]

I reckon it's just the fact that it's become more and more a continuation of the YouTube comments. Back in good ol' 2013/14, it was so much better.

 

Off Topic used to be better too, when it appered in the sidebar of recent posts, people would actually post in it. Now, it's pretty bleak, with perhaps one truly noteworthy thread every week. Most of the old gang is gone, either banned or bored of the samey threads, mostly full of hear say.

 

I think that the fact that most of the forum oldies have gone away has contributed to the toxicity and uselessness of this forum. It's difficult to get help here if you've got a genuine problem, the people who'd reply to those threads and in turn help them out are gone. In their place, children who don't know their ankle from their elbow, thus contributing to a decline into an abyss of misinformation, childish comments and worthless discussion.

 

 

[Tocsin_786]

7 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

I don't count myself as one of those but may I say that I have noticed more of the opposite in which several members (including those whom were banned) who are not from the US constantly made insinuations about and towards the US. I don't particularly care for those individuals or insinuations and that is my only real beef with the forum.

(I don't count you as one of those.)

 

Most definitely uncalled for. His opinion is his own and he has the right to express it just same as you do. @killcomic is correct though, there have been several in the past that attempted to interject US point of view or at least their point of view as to what they interpreted as US p.o.v. to be.

Not wanting to backseat Mod here but civilized commentary please?

 

 

I think it became even worse was when they updated the site. Thats when most of my posts (and mainly the WYR series i did) stopped getting a lot of participation and traction. It used to take a few minutes to see replies on posts. These days I'd be lucky to get 1 or two replies, this post alone took a day to get traction. Back then it would be a matter of minutes for popular and interesting posts to get interaction and some hours to get replies on other posts. 

[SansVarnic]

1 minute ago, Tocsin_786 said:

I think it became even worse was when they updated the site. Thats when most of my posts (and mainly the WYR series i did) stopped getting a lot of participation and traction. It used to take a few minutes to see replies on posts. These days I'd be lucky to get 1 or two replies, this post alone took a day to get traction. Back then it would be a matter of minutes for popular and interesting posts to get interaction and some hours to get replies on other posts. 

I have noticed that as well. I think someone asked (was it you) I don't remember whom, about getting the off topics to appear in the recent topics sidebar and think the mods replied about it saying that off topics weren't suppose to before but the previous forum setup would not let it be an option or something to that effect.

 

[PlayStation 2]

Idiocy, fanboys, hypocrites, and egotistical assholes.