What is it about this forum that attracts so many lunatics?

[Arkhan]

Oh.  When did we start getting daily approvals.  That's better than the 3 months it took for me to get approved.

I almost forgot I registered, to be honest lol

[Joe Redifer]

When the forum went down Nat made some suggestions to Aaron and we were bestowed with slightly more power after he (surprisingly) brought the forums back.  That's really the only new power I think...  Well it looks like we can change people's ignore lists, avatars and censor certain words on the forum, not sure why that stuff was added.

[Arkhan]

Make Magical Chase censor into "Overpriced Bullshit"

[PunkicCyborg]

Nah most forums get their fair share of crazies. It gets worse the more niche the hobby is too. On Sega16 there is so many trolls and bannings, it's like one person banned every other day. The mod there Balloo is really quick to weed out trouble makers. They don't pop up as often on here but hang around longer than most forums so we get to have a lot of fun and the banning is way more dramatic.

[HercTNT]

I really like Joes attitude on this. You really have no reason not to approve someone unless their name is obvious like the example given. After that, its up to the mods to keep an eye out then

deal with them if they don't behave. Like he did with Frozenintears.  After that its up to us to not let the crazies dictate our forum. In that regards I would say we do just fine. Fighting street

is an exception of course, we are supposed to have it out over there.

[soop]

I really like Joes attitude on this. You really have no reason not to approve someone unless their name is obvious like the example given. After that, its up to the mods to keep an eye out then

deal with them if they don't behave. Like he did with Frozenintears.  After that its up to us to not let the crazies dictate our forum. In that regards I would say we do just fine. Fighting street

is an exception of course, we are supposed to have it out over there.

I remember when I registered I had to wait at least a week, and I was desperate to join.  I had to go over to Sega 16 and find someone to nudge someone else.

I was very sad when the forum closed, even though I'd not been around for a bit.

[nectarsis]

I do think a large part of it is the smaller size here...Joe made some good points.  The nut jobs do stick out like a sore thumb.  Add to that the lack of the shoutbox, we get more inane crap in posts that would normally have been answered/shut down in shout.   

Aside from the Ninny retardation, and Regalsin's obvious trolling, and stupidity....there's always been an influx of the scammer/attempted scammers/one and dones (just here to sell..many at EBay+ prices), etc.   Though there def seems to be a higher than normal (per capita) asshat population here.   Throw in the influx of some of teh most thin skinned/whiny/can't take a joke people we have EVER had on here....yet sadly little lulz occur.

[SignOfZeta]

I didn't include "whiny bitches" because that sort of thing is very acceptable in society, although not so much with myself. I tell people here to f*ck off, they get pissed...that's normal, even if the reason I told them to f*ck off is that they are jerks and should know it since they've been hearing it all their lives.

And yeah, "size" probably is the answer then. If they see that there are only a few dozen regulars here, then they know their exhibitionism will be noticed.

Since this question has been answered I will now re-quote you guys, edit the quotes to my liking, delete the originals, and lock the thread. Thanks for participating!










I was kidding about that.

[xelement5x]

Make Magical Chase censor into "Overpriced Bullshit"

OOOh!  We should do like woot where they wordfilter BOC (Bag of Crap) into all sorts of things like Bandolier of Carrots, or Briar of Cheese and so forth.   My suggestion for MC (Magical Chase) would be Mangina Crabs 

[Ji-L87]

I came for the tech-support and stayed for the knowledge, lulz and obey. Oh and sweet deals and raffles.

...also 'cause I'm not registered at any other retro game forum

I support the close-community-sore-thumb idea as well. It doesn't take very long to start recognizing the most active posters and idiots/troublemakers gets scorned quickly and without remorse. I think they might like that.

[Gogan]

Jus be glad Japhei hasn't ever graced us with his prescence. Or has he?

[Joe Redifer]

Just for fun I made it so that Ys is always transformed into Ys.  We'll see how well it works.  

MacYs.

Well, shit, I guess I can't do that.

[Tatsujin]

Nah most forums get their fair share of crazies. It gets worse the more niche the hobby is too. On Sega16 there is so many trolls and bannings, it's like one person banned every other day. The mod there Balloo is really quick to weed out trouble makers. They don't pop up as often on here but hang around longer than most forums so we get to have a lot of fun and the banning is way more dramatic.

Should I enter the world of Sega16?

[Joe Redifer]

Only if you like Sega stuff enough to talk about it.

[nat]

I tried SEGA-16 a bunch of years ago and I made a comment about how a TurboGrafx-CD port of a game compared to the Genesis port and was overrun by a bunch of idiots claiming you can't compare TurboCD games to Genesis games because the TGCD "BIOS" and "hardware enhancements" make it an unfair comparison. I wish I could recall and recount the exacts statements that were made, they were quite amusing. The "wall of noise" I was assaulted with was so overwhelming, I gave up then and there. I like SEGA stuff quite a bit, but I can't deal with a community quite so biased. I'm sure Joe will be quick to chime in and say we're just as biased the other way here, but I'll preemptively disagree and say the majority of the people here love SEGA stuff and aren't under any delusions about the technical ramifications of the SEGA hardware. We've had plenty of intelligent discussions and game comparisons between the two platforms over the years.

Based on my 30-second encounter over there, Tatsujin, I'd say unless you have a tolerance for people that vehemently hate the PCE/Turbo for no tangible reason and are unable to quantify said hatred without resorting to made up "facts" (such as the TurboCD's CPU and graphical enhancements), you probably ought to not bother. I still go there sometimes and read select threads, but I don't participate.

Actually, you'd probably do OK if you only talk about SEGA stuff and never mention the Turbo or propose any sort of comparison between the two platforms.

If we had a faster (immediate) approval system, the idiots would show up immediately, be idiots, piss people off, and be lolb& before you know it.

I've been approving new members every day for weeks now.  I probably even approved frozenintears.  The only ones I don't approve are the obvious ones like PS3repair@ps3repair.com or some such.  Otherwise there's not much to go by so we're going to be getting them kind of regularly now (it can still take me nearly a day to approve when I'm lazy).  Ninny may already be back or have 2 or 3 accounts already approved, who knows?  In fact I'm gonna go approve whoever is in the cue right now.

I perform one extra step before approving new accounts here: I always Google the email address provided (assuming it passes the obvious visual check) and see if it turns up any indication the person has had a sordid history with any other forum or website.

I'm pretty sure I was the one who approved RegalSin, because I do remember Googling his email address and coming across lots of, uh, interesting stuff from other forums. I never saw anything that indicated I ought to leave his account inactive, though.