I imagine the flame pit was someone's idea of giving people a place to vent, thereby reducing the amount of flaming in the anime and general discussion threads. So do you think it was a success or a failure?
I imagine the flame pit was someone's idea of giving people a place to vent, thereby reducing the amount of flaming in the anime and general discussion threads. So do you think it was a success or a failure?
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I think you're just cross since you couldn't handle the INTRICACIES of my mind-bendingly difficult puzzle.Originally Posted by Animeniax
EDIT: Ah, but you can't deny that I have provided a plethora of opportunities for you all to flame me during that little stunt, thus keeping this post on topic.
Last edited by bagandscalpel; Thu, 02-28-2008 at 01:00 PM.
KIMOCHI~II
bag is still basking in the supposed cleverness of his one comprehensible post.
This isn't the flame pit bag, keep to the topic of suffer the consequences.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
This shitty thread should be in the flame pit.
Seriously, why do you insist on acting like a retard?. Don't make useless posts.
-Assssin
Last edited by Assassin; Thu, 02-28-2008 at 10:19 PM.
GREAT SUCCESS
Well if you go by posts per thread then yeah its immensely successful because the only section that gets more posts per thread is Gundam. We could always argue over content though but thats another matter.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
GREAT SUCCESS
You too. Once was enough. Say something worthwhile or dont say anything.
-Assassin
Last edited by Assassin; Thu, 02-28-2008 at 10:21 PM.
This is a serious discussion so I think it's in the right section.
I don't really read the anime threads anymore since I can't download and watch them due to my company's draconian internet usage policies. So it's hard for me to say if rampant flaming still goes on in those threads. The general discussion threads are typically pillow fights, but that's understandable since you're discussing some mundane topics instead of discussing the blood boiling action in your favorite anime. So I'm curious if the flame pit has helped reduce flaming.
I appreciate BoC's enthusiastic replies to the topic.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I'm not enthusiastic at all. That's just the way it's supposed to be posted, if you know what I mean.
...And I got warned for doing it because Assassin doesn't watch TV and was therefore oblivious to the (self-proclaimed) clever reference there
Anyway, if the issue in question is whether or not the flame pit has reduced the amount of flaming in other sections of the forum, then the answer would probably be no. It didn't. There wasn't much flaming in the first place. The flame pit is mostly used to post a bunch of nonsense that would otherwise be considered "spam" in non-flame pit sections. Whatever flaming that did occur prior to the flame pit's introduction were all very brief posts that didn't carry on for very long, and they definitely weren't elaborate enough to have dedicated threads.
But some people are much more enthusiastic about it than others. For example: Mizuchi (while it lasted).
Last edited by Board of Command; Fri, 02-29-2008 at 12:38 AM.
I don't even understand the purpose of the flame pit on a forum that is so strict.
On one side you have the ultra effective police that gives you warnings and/or negrep for anything that isn't auto-censored, even if it's pure airheadness (meaning you should read anything you post at least 3 times, or just make you posts empty...).
It sounds a bit like a negative answer, however in a way threads and discussion are sometimes interresting and not spoled by useless remarks. But it comes at a very high price.
On the other side you have the flame pit where unleashed human hatred and idiocy can express themselves. It's so strong that to me it defeats a great part of what the other forums tried to establish with a lot of efforts, efforts going to waste.
But then, that's probably because I use the "newposts" function, the one I use the most on all BBSes I go to, because it makes monitoring discussions a lot faster.
But in gotwoot forums case, I get to see flame pit thread titles that I don't think do justice to gotwoot forums.
Then everything written till here is only my opinion.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Well, the other side of Gotwoot is that it's mostly inhabited by older members who are pretty used to each other's presence (and subsequently have a greater urge for various informalities.....like take the second half of SK's posting history, for example....). As a result there were burn-sessions between veterans and flamepit was an attempt to isolate that.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Well damn, that means I'm missing the reference too. Of course, I don't watch a lot of TV either.I'm not enthusiastic at all. That's just the way it's supposed to be posted, if you know what I mean.
...And I got warned for doing it because Assassin doesn't watch TV and was therefore oblivious to the (self-proclaimed) clever reference there
Anyway, if the issue in question is whether or not the flame pit has reduced the amount of flaming in other sections of the forum, then the answer would probably be no. It didn't. There wasn't much flaming in the first place. The flame pit is mostly used to post a bunch of nonsense that would otherwise be considered "spam" in non-flame pit sections. Whatever flaming that did occur prior to the flame pit's introduction were all very brief posts that didn't carry on for very long, and they definitely weren't elaborate enough to have dedicated threads.
But some people are much more enthusiastic about it than others. For example: Mizuchi (while it lasted).
Adding spam and trolling to flaming, it sounds like the pit at least reduces some of this unwanted material from the anime threads.
Whatever happened to 'zuch anyway? Name change?
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Ahaha! I get it now. I do know the reference, I just missed it then.
I'd like to think the flame pit is one of the few reasons I'm still not perma-banned, but most of the flaming in there feels artificial. I realize nothing will stop me from flying off the handle and flaming the next time I read some ridiculous post in a normal thread. It's like expecting a fat guy to pass up some free McDonalds' even when he's at an all you can eat buffet.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
That's my main problem with it, and the reason I never actually flame anyone in it. I share BoC's view, and treat it more like a nonsensical spam section, because we don't need a section full of uncreative "I win, you phail, gg" threads written by people who like to think they're being offensive.
Then again, we don't really need a spam section either, but I enjoy it because I don't watch any anime anymore, so I feel confined to the Off-topic section of Gotwoot.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
The only dorama I've seen is Garo. I didn't like it that much.
Watch Densha Otoko, then Kekkon Dekinai Otoko. Our kind of people I think, so we can relate.
I think the flame pit would be more successful if more people used it. I get tired of flaming the same 5 people, who I'm now fond of so I don't even want to flame them anymore.
I just checked to see what "Garo" is. I don't think it counts as a j-drama, not unlike Power Rangers.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
You guys make the Flame Pit feel like it's a 'SERIOUS REAL COOL MEMBERS ALLOWED ONLY' place. Or it might be just me. ^^;
For a while it was pretty much the "Animeniax-Abdula-BoC-XanBcoo pit".
I agree it needs more traffic. I even posted a thread in there telling lurkers to post. Oh well, apparently spamming nonsense is considered prestigious.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
Where does one generally download doramas from? Are there fansub groups for doromas in the same manner as anime? I'm not familiar with this stuff.
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