I Need Opinions, How do YOU think the forum should be run

[Forbidden Toast]

Quite honestly, and probably obviously to all of you, I'm not very good at playing the admin because I was never around. I simply AFK'd my @ss out to "I'm going to not post and make excuses later" land and left Boogie Knight to do all the mod work, which really is not fair. Anyone who reads the old forum guidelines can tell that College really made me a lot more relaxed about rules and I simply stopped caring.

Random role-playing ? I don't really care
Cursing ? I don't really care
Dirty References ? I don't really care
Off Topic ? Not really
Vague topic titles ? Whatever
Disagreements with Others: Where is the fine line between a discussion and something leading up to a fight ?

I don't always know the best ways to handle situations, and my opinion is obviously not the only one. I don't really know how anyone feels about me ditching people for long periods of time, and some of you are so new I just don't know much about you at all. This forum caters to a few very active members, but they are of a wide age group ranging from 12-24 or something like that, and that's a good 2 to 3 different generations.

I guess I just wanted other peoples opinion on the matter. How do YOU guys want the forum to run? This place is so small I've been just kicking up my feet and letting everyone just have fun however they want, because that's what I've been doing as well, but I wasn't sure how all of you felt about this. I'm not sure if some people are getting offended by some topics, or if I handle situations in the right manner.


To sum it up:

Please, everyone's opinion.

[Rosalyne]

I think the place is running smoothly anywho~
Not a problem with me~

[Spookty]

No problem. As long as a big flame war doesn't break out, I suppose.

Oh, and we should probably have people tell us their age when they join so we don't accidentally say something really messed up or something.... that would be hard to do. Maybe make sure we don't talk about things that really gross/freak other members out? I dunno.

[Ruka]

I have to agree with both Rosa and Spook. The forum as of now is running smoothly, but I'm the youngest here at age 13. I haven't noticed anything disturbing...wait, scratch that, only once, but thats a veeery long story. I was shocked to the point I was disturbed a little, but again: Long story. I just want to take at least some pre-caution of a few things, but I already am.

Thats all I have to say for my opinion.

[Forbidden Toast]

I'm glad everyone is good with how things are going. Clearly I'm the one who overreacts here and misunderstands things!

Last thing I want to be is the overbearing mother, so carry on.

[Forbidden Toast]

You're all creepy stalkers. I know we can't possible have 11 guests on this obscure forum about a very underrated video games.

I love all of you and I'm guilty of guest stalking too sometimes, but I just wanted to say this is seriously creepy xD; Everyone doing it at once that is!

[Ruka]

Stalkers? What are you talking about? Don't you mean, that you're acting like an Eagle, watching over every little thing everyone does, like I do using the online users panel?

[Spookty]

If there's like, one guest repeatedly checking the online users list, it's probably me. I tend to check the forum a lot when I get bored and restless.

Hey Toast, maybe we could implement some kind of mature content warning? 'Cause I remember that one time where a thread almost devolved into some kind of ero torture chamber or something, and I'm not so sure I'd like little kiddies stumbling upon something like that.

[Ruka]

Spook, I know I'm not Toast, but I manage an invisionfree forum, but I don't think a such thing would be possible. And what topic are you talking about? If it only happened once, then it is most likely to not happen again for a long time, and I'm just asking out of curiosity.

[Spookty]

I don't remember exactly, but the situation sticks out in my mind.

I'd settle for just warning people in their intro threads, since we do make the occasional naughty joke, and I am pretty sure Boogie is a nice healthy red blooded male. That and I'm not a fan of exposing the little beady eyed kids to heavy swearing unless they've already fallen into the habit.

[Ruka]

That would be good in my opinion.

As for swearing...Um, yeah. We have that covered. You have never seen me IRL with my best friend. Its not that bad-bad most of the time (She's the one that does the extremely taboo ones) but we drop it heavy sometimes. Reeeaaally bad habit of mine.

[Forbidden Toast]

I think the spoiler tab would be fine if it's in a thread that normally doesn't have explicit content, and if it's a thread exclusively for something, lets say, a bit more risque, a warning in the thread title might be appropriate. I'm not going to try and find a way to implement any sort of age restriction, because I honesty think everyone can judge their own maturity level on here (or at least I hope) so I don't think that's necessary (or like Rika said, possible).

I just think it was hilarious everyone was ghosting at the same time. Especially since you can tell who the ghosts are by the random posts that pop up from users that aren't shown as online.

Personally I'm used to people swearing because I'm around it ALL THE TIME between home and school and I just don't say words I don't like and ignore them from others and say ones I don't care about, but on a random note, people that can put the f word into one sentence 15 times sound like absolute morons.

Yet I laugh.

[Ruka]

I'm around it all the time too at school. I hear it about 5 times a day at school.

Sadly, I am a person who can acomplish that feat, but only because I know how I could put it into one hell of a weird random sentence. Strangely, I know a girl who has serious issues. She's emo, into drugs, likes to feel pain, and the total amount of times she's used the f word in a sentence was 50 times. I'm just glad I wasn't around at that time.

[Spookty]

No problem. I don't think any little kids would pop up here, but I get pretty pissed when parents scream obscenities at their kids. It's really weird hearing little kids calling eachother fuckers/niggers [which I have heard...] Maybe because kids are supposed to be innocent or something.

Also, I'm trying to decide which PS1 game I want on my PSP first. Not FF 7, too much memory and I really only pay attention to Hojo anyways. I'd download 9 if they had it... Eh. There was a Power Stone remake on the PSP, but I can't find it on their UMD Legacy. I'm thinking either Spyro 2, Spyro 3 or Crash: Warped.

[Forbidden Toast]

I can think of a lot of long games like FF, but if you're looking in the short memory area I think Spyro is the way to go. I don't remember if 2 or 3 is better. Once upon a time, before Tomb Raider started to suck, Tomb Raider 2 was quite possible the best Tomb Raider ever made, followed by 3 which was OK, then it was all downhill from there until they remade the first game. Oh, and Ape Escape, because Specter is awesome.

[Spookty]

Ripto's Rage is my favorite, but I really like Year of the Dragon, too. Stupid new Spyro trilogy making Hunter all retarded...

Heh, most of my memory is being taken up by demos right now. Eh, I'm thinking of getting both Spyro games. Maybe Ape Escape. I remember playing it when I was younger, and I do know who Specter is, but other than that I don't remember much.

[Forbidden Toast]

I have a think for comically intelligent evil monkeys.

[Ruka]

Ape Escape...I've played it once before when I was little, but I didn't get how to play it very well. I still wanna try Ape Escape 3 sometime. Thats the one where the monkeys try to take over Television, right?

[Spookty]

Well, actually I remember that the monkeys had mind control devices and Specter looked vaguely cool... yeah, that's about it. I played the first one on an emulator, but the controls were weird.

[Forbidden Toast]

Spector had a way of being cool and adorably cute at the same time, while trying to be super evil.