Positive & Negative Energy Forums

[Kzach]

Put your hand up if you're tired of seeing all the "I hate/love 3e/4e!" threads crowd the general forum.

The signal to noise ratio is pretty heavily favouring noise at the moment and has been for quite a while. It's a month since release and these topics are still crowding out all the rest.

Obviously it's a topic people want to talk about, otherwise the threads wouldn't be so popular. But there are also people like me, I'm sure, who are just over it, period. I'm so over it that I'm considering adding anyone that starts another thread on the subject to my ignore list, whether positive or negative on 4e.

So I'd like to suggest a new rule for ENW. If you haven't got something positive or constructive to say, take it to the Negative Energy forum. This could be a new forum specifically for arguing about the positives and negatives of any system, whether D&D or not.

People could get all their vitriol off their chests here, rant and rave at each other to their hearts content and leave the rest of us alone in peace, to contemplate and discuss subjects that actually have some sort of content and meaning beyond for tat.

Keeps everyone happy. Makes the mods jobs a lot easier. And publishers could have a single source for all the bile they could ever lust for about their products.

So, ENW, what do you think?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Is this some hidden invitation to Circus Maximus?

Maybe we should just stop whining about those "venters". Often enough, the title warns you that the topic will not be too pleasant. And if not, just stop reading after the first post.

Maybe we need to learn and accept that we don't have to personally refute any negative opinion or complaint voiced on he board... That keeps such threads small, slow and totally not your problem.

 

[Wormwood]

*raises hand*

I'm sick of the complaints, but I disagree that server space should be devoted to Stuck Pig Open (a forum which would---by its very nature---tax our already overworked moderating team).

I find that the optimal solution is to ignore the more obvious cries for attention while enjoying the occasional trainwrecks.

 

[Kzach]

Maybe we need to learn and accept that we don't have to personally refute any negative opinion or complaint voiced on he board... That keeps such threads small, slow and totally not your problem.

I try not to enter those threads at all. That doesn't stop them from being a nuisance. Over the last few weeks I've posted several threads on topics that I felt were relevant to players of D&D and were current, and yet those threads were drowned out in MINUTES by the wave upon wave of vitriol flowing through the general forum.

It's hard to ignore threads that take up the majority of the space on an entire forum.

I find that the optimal solution is to ignore the more obvious cries for attention while enjoying the occasional trainwrecks.

Well, IMO, it would make the moderator's jobs easier as it would clearly define for everyone that such topics need to go into a different forum than general. That way, mods don't have to police the entire content of every thread, they just have to police the topic itself.

 

[Baumi]

Maybee a rating system would help where users can give 1-5 start to a threat where you instantly know which gets drowned in flames and which are interesting well-thought out posts.

 

[DaveMage]

Make it simpler - just have a "4E Sucks" thread where all the posters who have a beef with 4E can post. That way it's centralized. We can do the same with 3.5 if necessary.

 

[thundershot]

Make it simpler - just have a "4E Sucks" thread where all the posters who have a beef with 4E can post. That way it's centralized. We can do the same with 3.5 if necessary.

That's a GREAT idea! That way I can safely read through a 4E thread without the occasional potshot from an anti-4E sniper. Honestly, I don't even READ the 3.5 threads because they don't interest me or support my current system. Why would I want to disrupt the people who DO still enjoy that system?





Chris

 

[GlassJaw]

I'm sick of the threads about being sick about the 3ed vs 4ed threads. Just don't read them. Sheesh.

 

[Schmoe]

If you're sick of the noise, then post more signal. Easy enough.

I personally tend to ignore edition-based threads. Lately, that means I can browse the forums much more quickly. I'm sure my boss is happy.

 

[Joshua Randall]

This is a futile and ultimately pointless endeavor. People like to gripe about stuff -- that's why the Internet exists.

If you don't want to read it, then don't.

Now if only there were some way to, how should I put it, IGNORE certain people you find annoying....