It's because people started shitposting non-stop to get higher post counts; users seem to have a deluded idea that high post counts mean something. /shrug

Dropping the post count in ye olde Wibbles actually made it a slightly less obnoxious board - no more 1 letter replies to every thread for example..

Then people started making spam threads in their clan boards to inflate their post count for the same dumb reason. You may remember when spam threads were banned in the global clan rules, it was specifically because of that. People even made clans specifically to make spam threads to boost post counts, and we put a stop to clans using post count as an application requirement.

Someone then decided that clans were declining because people couldn't shitpost (IMO boards full of 20 page threads with nothing but "." posts doesn't constitute activity) so post counts were culled from them, and clans were allowed to shitpost in their own boards.

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It was only a problem in specific areas, reasons stated above.
To be honest unless you were either in a shitty clan doing it, or one of the people having to clean it up constantly then it's unlikely you'd have even noticed it happening.

"Bad content" is pretty subjective y'know. Pretty sure most the things in this board that got killed wouldn't actually be classed as that.

Can you link me some threads which were closed unjustly please The only answer I got to this question was Gorman saying every single closed thread was closed wrongly - can't say I agree at all on this. Maybe you have a different idea.

So far the ideas I've got in the thread is
-All threads should be reopened
-Wibbles should be bought back
-Staff hate fun
-Off topic shouldn't be a dicussion board but a free-for-all of posting whatever

Only one of which (wibbles) seems to be reasonable to me.


As an aside:
I hate how this thread is turning into 'staff hate users and fun', like we're some kind of inhuman robot task force and not part of the same community as normal users. I'm more than willing to change OT rules if someone can give me a solid reason why doing that is better than opening a new board - personally I think maybe this community is just small and garbage at discussion in general.

Why 'NOOOOOPE'? You say there's no need for it because we have clans but that's different. Clans are subcommunities. This is about getting a community-wide board that everyone can post in... Having fun with everyone, not just people in your clique.

In the same way, the Toriprime board serves a different purpose to a free wibbles. Toriprime is a subcommunity of Toribash (consisting of forumers who have money to pay for it).

So I think it definitely wouldn't be redundant to revive Wibbles.
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@Fear, I linked (or told you the names) of the threads that I believed shouldn't have been closed in the last 2 pages of the board.

Hurp, totally missed that one. Yes I can get behind reopening threads like the dream wife and best name threads.

These were closed by someone else while I was
A) new to OT moderation
B) inactive as hell

I can tell you right now that I personally wouldn't close those threads at all. I can also agree the reasoning 'nothing good is coming out of this thread' is shaky reasoning to close a thread too.

@Ele and Gorman

It would be good to find out how many people buy it for the board now and see if what you said is still the case

The TP subforum is pretty active, but it would be interesting to find out how many people bought it for the forum - I also dont think anyone is intentionally making the forum shit.

Also TP is far less moderated than it used to be, which is a good step imo

I don't really remember those times so I can't vouch for it but it makes sense to me.

if you're making a new wibbles board, just disable post count. that's the obvious thing to do

no one cares about post count nowadays, except for new people maybe

Been a long time since that rule got killed

It's because the post count is visible under the username. It makes it seem of importance. If you put the count of matches won by the player, people would have a strong motivation to get that count up for everyone to see.

I don't agree with the preemptive closing of threads before any 'crime' is committed. If the thread turns out to be shit, close it then. Until then, give all threads a chance (so long as they don't break global rules). Don't take action before the fact.

I can get behind your other suggestions.

I'll also add, as a general rule of thumb, that moderator action should only occur when a post/thread is completely shit. Everything that is not a blatant shitpost should be left alone. That's where the bar was originally set (source: Skul) and that's where it should be again.