Improving Gamingforce

A huge part of it is just drawing people here in general. We don't have the insiders of GAF (who doesn't want to come watch Vic Ireland melt down daily?), or the mass hosting of some other forums.

I mean, sure, bitch about driving newbs away all you want, but how many welcome welcome threads are there? 2 a month? Maybe?

We can worry about behavioural problems all we like, but unless we actually have new people popping in at the rate of at least one a week, not much hope in us growing just because we play nice.

Let's make a wet t-shirt contest or something. But with attractive girls not from the internet. That'll do it.

P.S.

Yes, we're usually a little harsh on new people, but we've -always- been hard on people who come in and say they're pandas without fur. It's just we haven't had any great new members for a while. However, it wouldn't take much for us to back off them a bit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I am decidedly not okay with the facebook-ing, or gameFAQsing, or MySpaceing of GFF.

The solution to a problem is not to become just as bad as other shitty media. We've never wanted to be a major center of activity because of the sheer amount of idiocy that requires. We've always stood away from that, and this is no way to make it better.

Sprout, the way to fix a cliquey site is not to start tagging individual members to entries or posts.

The LAST thing this place needs is to start modeling itself on the idiocy that is facebook or twitter. Short messages, devoid of any sort of context and just nothing but superficial garbage. I will take a smaller membership any day of the week (yes, I know, we need more people than we have now) to avoid that sort of forum culture. We've always been above that, and it is probably one of the things we can be really proud about on this board. We don't need more furby to make this place better. Facebook and twitter appeal to people who want their world wrapped up in under a paragraph. Preferably under three sentences. I'd like to think most of the people here are better than that.

So yes, we have to make changes, but I will firmly oppose changes that dumb down our presentation to the point where we might as well be GameFAQs or a Twitter feed.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

There are ways to modernize without dumbing down, RadioMan.

It's not a matter of let us be a buggy while people drive sports cars. It is a matter of if we're going to modernize, let's make sure we modernize in a way that isn't fucking ridiculous. Because that sports car you mention looks a hell of a lot like a Honda Element, and anyone with half a brain is laughing at the poor sap driving it. Even if he is worth a couple million.

I like Pang's thoughts of instead of completely overhauling everything good we have into something terrible, just for the sake of being trendy, we find a way to accentuate the amazing things we do have.

Bring the mom's basement to the front. Incorporate Acer's numerous streams and shorty's ventrilo to the front page, to give them more prominence. If we could somehow begin to actually show people the huge amount of activity that goes on off these boards, we'd definitely have more people sticking around. We don't have to sell our souls to get new people, we just have to market ourselves differently.

We have a nearly constantly busy chat room, we have, what, like... five streams a week of people team watching anime. We have an active group of chatters who watch certain tv shows/sports shows together. We have a huge network of people who are close outside the boards. We have meets. We have games of D&D that are so hilarious and creative I've shown them to people who hate D&D and their first question is: "Is the game always this good?" We have a weekly radio show that is brilliant (except when nutty tries to invite simply majestic). We have one of the greatest Video Game music cataloging sites on the net.

We aren't short on kick ass things, we're just doing a really good job of making sure as few people as possible participate in them. The LAST thing we need to do is make the place MORE glossy and try and make content even more trunctated. Facebook and Twitter have shitty discussions because they're designed to make erudite, intelligent conversation impossible. We should not, and can not, go that route. Spruce the place up, make the kick ass things we do more obvious, do more kick ass things. Do not make it shitty just to make it popular.

The concept is ridiculous.

P.S.

Sprout. The thumbs up and down thing is there purely to avoid short "your idea is stupid/good" messages. They exist to avoid twitter idiocy, not to encourage it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Who said anything about advertising?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Except VGMdb is part of this site, and I meant by pushing what we do on GFF proper.

So the only mention of advertising as you mean it was on Angel's youtube channel.

So, no. Not really what you said at all. Just people talking about how we present things we already have.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yes, instead let us have thirty posts of "I agree" or twenty of "No, you're wrong."

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Agent Di Gun Him

Kinda like this one?

You're wrong.

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Can they have lens flare?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Can we discuss your more esoteric, and almost spiritual, approach to your woefully underappreciated Feasting on Asphalt? I noticed an almost Joseph Campbell-like approach to the subject matter, and it seemed truly close to your heart.

Do you think this had anything to do with your admitted struggles and ongoing search for god via the religion you grew up with being skewed by your experiences through adulthood?

Also, how can I make my deep fried turkey stay moist while using your tremendous fried turkey rig?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Does the inclusion of a police siren make a difference?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

But wouldn't the beads minimize the surface area contact, which is essential to the searing process?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Kosher salt has nothing to do with the hebrew concept of kosher. It has to do with the grain size and shape, and happens to be the salt most often used to make meat kosher.

Thus, kosher salt.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Pangalin

e: aw, fuck you anyways

I was speaking idiomatically.