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#1636 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 06:54:05
Brian OA wrote:Currently it's just passive, but I'm still not fond of having role-playing and private conversations floating around. I'd be okay with that here though.
I don't see the problem with it. I don't see why we need to change how we act just to make it easier on newcomers.
It's not just for the newcomers. As much as I like most people here, posts like that are effectively shitposts. You might as well just post 'lol' in reply to a funny joke because that's just how much a private exchange that concerns no one would be worth in a public forum.
#1637 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 06:46:09
I've only been around for the three years. Can't really speak for anything before that sans what the oldfags spoke of
I never really felt welcome until Wojjan started talking to me
The rest of the time just felt like I was earning my place or having fun with some of the thread topics. I especially remember having fun with the 'post your dreams' thread
#1638 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 06:32:39
Brian OA wrote:No, that's fine and in fact ideal
The issue is when you try to make a cool kids club out of it
OT was never like that though, was it? No one gets ostracized just because they're a 'new guy' or whatever.
I mean, it was like that when I joined. It was quite aggressive. Downright painful at times.
Currently it's just passive, but I'm still not fond of having role-playing and private conversations floating around. I'd be okay with that here though.
#1639 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 06:25:54
Granger wrote:Hey now, the chans are pretty much only hosts for many different communities. Im rather liking the arts and crafts boards on 4chan... blame the media for calling /b/ 4chan. And yourself for forming such general prejudices based on media informations.
I've visited that feces-filled hole many a time, luckily only in the past, and no boards there are "innocent". The people there are the kind I don't want to have anything with, but you are welcome to bring a few here and change my mind, as I'm not THAT narrowminded on the matter.
The thing that shocked me the most was that board with shittons of gore and whatnot, where people actually cheered and got thrilled by others being dismantled and worse. How can you even be on the same site at those kind of people? Or the /fit/ or whatever it was called, people posting dick pics and generally embarrassing themselves. There were plenty more that I noted, but that was something like 3 years ago and I can't remember it well.
/a/ is likely Osu 2.0, but with more technical nerds. :p
I only browse /a/ and /ic/
I only read the sticky at /fit/ and then moved on
If you go to places like /b/ you're pretty much just asking for a bad time
#1640 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 06:10:17
Granger wrote:Well, i wouldnt say OT wants to be private, but i gotta admit it kinda got something clique esque going on. Not too much but its there.
Pretty much.
I don't see the problem with having different subcultures on a public forum. That is how you attract new people rather than dying out.
No, that's fine and in fact ideal
The issue is when you try to make a cool kids club out of it
#1641 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 05:53:59
fair enough
#1642 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 05:49:48
I don't really think that's a fair description. OT is not 'private', it just has it's own culture, and only a relatively small amount of people who encounter it integrate themselves into that culture.
It does have that big facet that has no place in a public forum though
#1643 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 05:11:44
Meh, i dont really know anything about 8chan anyways. So yeah, no judging. But out of sheer curiousity, what communities would you put the ads on?
Brian OA wrote:This is why I adored bungie.net: you had public forums and you were also given on-site private groups that could be made on any user's whim. You had a place (dozens, really) where you could circlejerk all day about any of your interests and that'd be fine.
Reminds me of the social forum system they use over at Terraria.org , but i havent really made any use of it. Just seems like most of these groups are pretty... well dead.
Steams system is pretty similar to that aswell...
aye, but there's no real central hub of activity, I feel, with those systems. They're like houses that just lead you to the kitchen and you have no clue where the living room is supposed to be so you just make yourself a little sandwich and then leave
#1644 Re: Off Topic » ITT: Pretend we are still writing in osu! OT » 2015-10-20 04:41:04
Well, the issue with OT is that it's listed as a public forum but it wants to be a private group. We have a culture and userbase that wants to be exclusive, but it's been put in a public setting and those mix like oil and water. You try to enforce the public aspect and you get GD. You enforce the private aspect and you get OT.
This is why I adored bungie.net: you had public forums and you were also given on-site private groups that could be made on any user's whim. You had a place (dozens, really) where you could circlejerk all day about any of your interests and that'd be fine. You didn't have to bug public forums with shit content because you had a place for that (also mods would ban you for a week just for replying to shit threads). There was a time and place for anything and everything. OT kind of fills that role, but a line still has to be drawn.
As it stands, though? Yeah, OT is the closest thing you can get to a private group on osu! barring using third-party means like this, skype, slack, irc, etc.
Regarding influx of users? Unless we actively advertised this forum via signatures and discussions on the public forum, we wouldn't get many new users. We still have a potential userbase in banned players (of which I know a ton which are totally cool dudes) like Mara over there. Either way, I think our influx would be small enough that it would not overwhelm our group in any way, and our autism would probably keep the place going for quite a while.
#1645 Re: Mafia » Tuuba Mafia [MAFIA & LYNCHER WIN] » 2015-10-19 19:16:55
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