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Now, depending on the board you find yourself on, checking to see if a thread already exists for your topic is either required by the board's TOS or just good manners.
Either way, residents of this board, please take five seconds to browse the front page to see what's already been said, and then decide if your post addresses a different enough topic to be considered separate. It saves the moderators work in merging threads, it helps keep the board useable for the variety of topics it covers, and it makes everyone a little happier.
Either way, residents of this board, please take five seconds to browse the front page to see what's already been said, and then decide if your post addresses a different enough topic to be considered separate. It saves the moderators work in merging threads, it helps keep the board useable for the variety of topics it covers, and it makes everyone a little happier.
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ELITE STF SPEED RECORDS (time on optional remaining):
S07: KASE: 12:54 | CSE: 13:20 | ISE: 12:38 All held personally, my POV
LOR: KASE: 13:19 | CSE: 13:47 | ISE: 13:34 None held personally, other player's POV
S08: coming soon
"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." - Jean-Luc Picard
Having a thread for each outage speaks to the bigger problem of game stability.
Also, I appreciate the irony of creating a thread to tell people not to create unnecessary threads.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
You'd have made an interesting point if you understood what was happening.
The current server outage has spawned almost two full pages worth of individual threads. That would be, in the opinion you've presented, one issue.
That's not what irony means....
Creating a thread to point out that there are too many threads is a classic example of situational irony. You are doing the opposite of expectations, with a humorous effect.
(btw, there are several types of irony)
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
Atleast this is my opinion on what irony is...
School's over boys and girls; nothing more to see here!
Moving on...
It's not even ironic that people are making hundreds of threads about the same issue, that's called spamming.
But but but, isn't lots of angry people posting excessive numbers of threads about the same thing FUN?!?!
You get to play around with arguments, see people enraged, and become mad at the server, other people and and and...
Yes I know, it is shameless!
On a more relevant, non-trolling, note concerning multiple thread post of the same problem everywhere, it ensures that people know they are not alone.
So at the very least, we have a certainty that it isn't our fault or the fault of a technical difficulty on the client side.
I've already asked Brandon if I can have a Thread 'Kill Counter' under my avatar....I don't think it'll happen though ;-)
Sorry for the slew of redirects though guys, obviously it's not something we can help
Original Join Date: January 30th, 2010
I agree, as far that goes.
Thing is, not all the threads getting merged are about the same thing.
Regarding the latest outage, i saw threads made to merely to pass the time having fun (nothing wrong with that), I saw other threads inquiring after an explantion for the outage, I saw another thread wondering why NW players were better informed by Cryptic on the issue.......and other subjects too.
While all were inspired by the outage, these are sperate issues.
Burying an earnest question as to why the NW player base seem to get priority over the STO player base in getting information in the general thread posting recipes and jokes to pass the time isn't merging threads for the purposes of keeping things tidy.
It appears to be a way to hide uncomfortable questions.
Burying a post that wonders why d'Stahl hasn't come to the players to explain whats going on, why we are having such frequent crashes and whats being done about it in a thread that is growing two pages a minute with recipes and arabic news articles, also appears to be a way to hide serious questions.
Indeed, merging comments on two seperate crashes together also obscures the reality of whats going on.
Clearly some moderation is necessary, but it really does seem sometimes as if moderation is also getting used to hide the more difficult questions and issues.
If people had a go-to point it would serve to dramatically cut down on the irrelevant one liner posts, "zomg le game is down".
Spammers gotta spam.:rolleyes:
Yet both you and the OP seem to be missing the obvious :
Ppl are expressing their displeasure with Cryptic with these multiple post .
And yes , most of them are perfectly aware of the multiple threads they are making .
The main point is that people have been constantly creating new threads when there is already an active thread about the same exact thing. Meanwhile Legitimate new threads are getting buried before people even have a chance to notice them.
Perhaps the forums need to be expanded to include a few new sections:
Subsections reorganized based on faction
Federation:
Federation gameplay
Federation Shipyards
Federation Academy
Federation Missions
Klingons:
Klingon gameplay
Klingon Shipyards
KDF training facility
KDF Missions
Romulans:
Romulan gameplay
Romulan Shipyard
Romulan Republic Academy
Romulan Missions
New subsections to be added:
Suggestions:
Ships
Missions
UI
Game Mechanics
Environment
Foundry
Events
Star Trek Universe and beyond:
Ten forward
ST general
General chit chat
Contests
Support subsection modified:
Support:
Server Support
Gameplay Support
PC / Technical Support
Graphics Support
Wouldn't help prevent people being too lazy to do a simple forum search before posting, but it would help to greatly organize the forums better without legitimate threads getting buried so quickly.
There should also be a sticky in each of the fleet recruitment threads specifically for fleet information so we can post information about our fleet without it constantly getting buried, then the rest be for general fleet discussions.
I'm not sure why you think encouraging people to show forum etiquette indicates that I've missed the obvious implication that people are unhappy.
However, consider the end game. You express displeasure in hopes of encouraging a change in policy. The people who make that policy are unlikely to see 20 threads spamming the board, they're certainly unlikely to read 20 threads. If they do see 20 threads spamming the board, they are likely to give the existence of those threads only as much weight, if not less, than one thread with 20 posts.
And I salute the restraint shown by the moderators of these forums. If I were moderating these forums and believed that most of the people making multiple threads were perfectly aware of violating the forum rules against spamming, I'd be throwing out "24 hour cooling off periods" to any perpetrators.
No. They only give me entertainment provisions. And that's on a 20 hour cooldown. Which is why I don't create that many threads.
Pop culture references aren't ironic?
Yet your reply is fulfilling that very critique.;)
So a pointless thread complaining about duplicate threads wasting space. people in glass houses, dude.
Pish posh you party pooper. What else can we do when "playing" Star Trek Offline?
- Judge Aaron Satie