Is The Forum Getting More Antagonistic?

[BookTenTiger]

I can't think of something less conducive to meaningful discussion than AI moderation.

What if we also replaced the posters with AI?

 

[Reynard]

What if we also replaced the posters with AI?

Half of us are probably already bots, so...

 

[MNblockhead]

Half of us are probably already bots, so...

Shhh...Now is not the time, but our time will come.

 

[Fifth Element]

I can't think of something less conducive to meaningful discussion than AI moderation.

Like so many things that people propose AI would be useful for, they fail to consider the inherent biases that get built into AI, without the developers of said AI even realizing it.

 

[Reynard]

Like so many things that people propose AI would be useful for, they fail to consider the inherent biases that get built into AI, without the developers of said AI even realizing it.

There's no more certain way of activating Skynet than feeding a neural network billions of social media interactions, for sure.

 

[TreChriron]

You should of seen this place right after it launched. It was literally BIRTHED in an edition war.

 

[Morrus]

You should of seen this place right after it launched. It was literally BIRTHED in an edition war.

My recollection is that everybody was very positive and excited about 3E when the forum was launched in 1999.

 

[Thomas Shey]

My recollection is that everybody was very positive and excited about 3E when the forum was launched in 1999.

Might have been here, but on other boards and USENET that was very much not true; 3e, after all, was a lot of what birthed the idea of retroclones and to some extent the OSR because some people just absolutely hated everything about it (some were people who already had less than ideal feelings about AD&D2e, and 3e was a bridge too far for them).

Only reason I know is I'd been away from D&D for two decades at the time, and what I heard about 3e was interesting enough to make me give it a look, so I got to see a good chunk of the sturm and drang going on.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

My recollection is that everybody was very positive and excited about 3E when the forum was launched in 1999.

I was just about to say that. when the other places I saw had people calling it "magic the gathering D&D" enworld was the place I could come and talk to people looking forward to the new game ideas.

 

[payn]

I was just about to say that. when the other places I saw had people calling it "magic the gathering D&D" enworld was the place I could come and talk to people looking forward to the new game ideas.

Hmm, I dont remember anyone saying that, though Diablo D&D oh yeah....