Ask The Staff: Non site-related questions!
- Thread starter Sporge27
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I'd like to clear a few things up regarding the cycler's issue.
Chatting in general is fine, as long as it relates to a topic. The aforementioned "Cycler's Chat Thread" which I ended up locking was locked because it was nothing more than spam. People were repeatedly making posts unrelated to cycling, being silly and conversing in a way which is much more suited to a chat room than a forum thread.
Now, if the thread was a discussion, of people actually discussing cycling and its intricacies; that would be a different story.
Sure, we want you to make friends here and we want you to interact with them but making 11 pages of non-content posts in a few hours is not the way to go about it. This is why we have the IRC Chatroom and Mumble server.
Chatting in general is fine, as long as it relates to a topic. The aforementioned "Cycler's Chat Thread" which I ended up locking was locked because it was nothing more than spam. People were repeatedly making posts unrelated to cycling, being silly and conversing in a way which is much more suited to a chat room than a forum thread.
Now, if the thread was a discussion, of people actually discussing cycling and its intricacies; that would be a different story.
Sure, we want you to make friends here and we want you to interact with them but making 11 pages of non-content posts in a few hours is not the way to go about it. This is why we have the IRC Chatroom and Mumble server.
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M O L K O
Nu Wave Order
Those people in that cycle thread, who were posting 'spam' are the ones who talk to each other every day. That is why it was considered 'cycle related.' You have taken that option away from us, talking to each other, in there cycle threads so that is why they made that. I hope that clears that up.
I understand the reasoning behind the thread, but it is not permitted on the forums. As stated, we have multiple other places for you to chat in that manner. We have many friend groups on TBT, some of which I am a part of, and they manage to talk to each other every day through means other than creating a giant non-content thread on the forum.
You are free to talk to each other on the forums, as we are talking to each other now, but personally I don't see great conversation coming out of the thread that was made before anyway. It was a mess.
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I'm mostly avoiding this situation as cycling doesn't concern me, so I'm pretty neutral towards everything. However, I noticed something that has me wondering; Why is it that for months before Oath2order made 'that' thread, people chatted on cycle threads and the mods never even said a thing about it being discouraged. It's almost as if the thread Oath made "stirred the pot", as it were.
I can't comment on any other cases of chatting on cycling threads as I don't know what's been going on there, I only handled the Cycler's Chat Thread. A few months ago we implemented forum rules which included one about post quality where one-word posts and GIF replies were frowned upon, that may have something to do with it?
Actually, there have been threads that have been closed in that forum before for just being mindless chatting--lots of one word posts and things that actually added the Post Quality things to the rules. Personally, I hadn't realized how bad they had gotten (The occasional is okay afterall) and only when I looked more (there have been reports for a while about spam but usually it'd be inbetween some or older so it wasn't a big deal--more recently, it was just PAGES of it and at that point, I felt the need to stop in).
As I've mentioned though, I never saw Oath2order's post before I made my post--and even if the forums were disabled for TBT Bells, my post would've still been made so while that may not be the same for other moderators, that is my reasoning for my post and feelings on the subject.
Soot Sprite
~dirty~
Um, I think my question got overlooked or lost in the crowd>~<
How do I post a picture through the mobile site? D: I wanna participate in The Bell Tree Fair, but I cant if I dont know how to post pictures>~<
How do I post a picture through the mobile site? D: I wanna participate in The Bell Tree Fair, but I cant if I dont know how to post pictures>~<
I wouldn't because the member "You" may not be looking for people to play with anymore. You could sent them a private message to see if they want to play though.
If your intention was not to play Elsword with them, you could start a new discussion and discuss the game with other members who may play. If you do start a new discussion, put some thought into it
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SweetSpark
Senior Member
Honestly, when I made that thread, I did not expect it to get out of hand so quickly. Neither did the other cyclers who thought it may be a good solution. I honestly have only been trying to find for the whole mess, while trying to make everyone happy at the same time. That didn't work out haha.
We seem to have found a solution now, thanks to Jennifer. Sorry for any trouble I may have caused.
Have a good day!
We seem to have found a solution now, thanks to Jennifer. Sorry for any trouble I may have caused.
Have a good day!
kittenrobotarmy
JOLLY COOPERATION
How come when I put in a GIF avatar it shows up as a not-moving avatar? An example is my avatar right now. It should be moving.
kittenrobotarmy
JOLLY COOPERATION
No, I copy the image URL. Should I try uploading?
Prof Gallows
Retired Staff
You need to make sure that the gif you are uploading isn't over the size limits. Our site automatically resizes images, and if a gif is too big, it won't work because it gets resized.