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Post by Xephra on Dec 22, 2005 17:54:06 GMT
That's fine with me.
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Post by Admin on Dec 22, 2005 19:05:14 GMT
Okay Oliver. But if SSD is becoming a Community rather than a 'Graphic Resource Board', why not expand and adapt into other forms of art. If you want to become a Community, you can't cling to Graphics and Codes forever. Ultimately you're holding people back from a wide aspect of things that can be enjoyed. True, that we're more of a community but at the same time, the resources area cannot be abandonned and the majority of members primarily visit us for those. Adding a literature board doesn't make us any more or less of a community than we are now. The problem with the idea is that they die out, at the moment it seems like the right thing to do because people are or are going to post literature. Which I have no problem in letting people do, people have been doing that quite happily. Filling show off with lots of pieces won't make it happen any faster. I've yet to see anything that resembles anything that I'd consider to be interesting, but thats my opinion. I'm not saying that we're never going to have a board, it's a possibility like most things, I'm not a writer myself, UC is really the best person to talk to regarding this. Finally, I could add a lot more general boards to this place to make it more of a community but then you find it sucks the content out of chillout. There has to be a line.
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Post by Assassinator/Young Everest on Dec 22, 2005 19:07:31 GMT
Okay Oliver. But if SSD is becoming a Community rather than a 'Graphic Resource Board', why not expand and adapt into other forms of art. If you want to become a Community, you can't cling to Graphics and Codes forever. Ultimately you're holding people back from a wide aspect of things that can be enjoyed. True, that we're more of a community but at the same time, the resources area cannot be abandonned and the majority of members primarily visit us for those. Adding a literature board doesn't make us any more or less of a community than we are now. The problem with the idea is that they die out, at the moment it seems like the right thing to do because people are or are going to post literature. Which I have no problem in letting people do, people have been doing that quite happily. Filling show off with lots of pieces won't make it happen any faster. I've yet to see anything that resembles anything that I'd consider to be interesting, but thats my opinion. I'm not saying that we're never going to have a board, it's a possibility like most things, I'm not a writer myself, UC is really the best person to talk to regarding this. Finally, I could add a lot more general boards to this place to make it more of a community but then you find it sucks the content out of chillout. There has to be a line. Ollie, we're miles from that line. Chillout is buzzing. Everyone is voting for this board. If it doesn't stay active then close it, just give it a chance.
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Post by Xephra on Dec 22, 2005 19:07:49 GMT
I understand your view. So, we can wait and see, if this is just a fad. Or if there is a strong base?
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Post by Happy! on Dec 22, 2005 19:09:05 GMT
You know Ass is right. Is not that hurt full to open a board than close it <_<
I mean people might have some intrests to that.
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Post by n!ck on Dec 24, 2005 20:05:35 GMT
Oliver, this really needs to be done. Maybe just as a sub-board?
I'm really get sick of half the threads in Chillout being people's poems and other crap that I don't want to read. I feel like I have to waste my time for it, and it makes me not want to come here at all.
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Post by Signore Kai on Dec 25, 2005 9:33:21 GMT
Oliver, this really needs to be done. Maybe just as a sub-board? I'm really get sick of half the threads in Chillout being people's poems and other crap that I don't want to read. I feel like I have to waste my time for it, and it makes me not want to come here at all. I think you should change that "crap" of yours. Just because you don't want to read it doesn't mean it's crap. i don't want to read what you wrote. Is it crap then?
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Post by Ovi on Dec 25, 2005 11:34:38 GMT
Ease up Nick. What wrong ?
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Post by n!ck on Dec 25, 2005 14:55:12 GMT
Ease up Nick. What wrong ? Not enough sleep + idiot relatives = cranky nick.
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Post by Ovi on Dec 25, 2005 14:58:31 GMT
Ease up Nick. What wrong ? Not enough sleep + idiot relatives = cranky nick. Ah, I see. It's good to be cranky sometimes. But not always.
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Post by Signore Kai on Dec 25, 2005 15:39:36 GMT
Ease up Nick. What wrong ? Not enough sleep + idiot relatives = cranky nick. I see.. I apologise.. Get some rest.
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Post by n!ck on Dec 25, 2005 18:23:32 GMT
Not enough sleep + idiot relatives = cranky nick. I see.. I apologise.. Get some rest. I did. Slept in. Got some good presents.
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Post by Assassinator/Young Everest on Dec 25, 2005 22:23:13 GMT
Not enough sleep + idiot relatives = cranky nick. Ah, I see. It's good to be cranky sometimes. But not always. Can you list the pros of being cranky please?
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Post by whitney2 on Dec 26, 2005 2:15:58 GMT
Ah, I see. It's good to be cranky sometimes. But not always. Can you list the pros of being cranky please? Cranky --> confidence --> bigger ego --> taking people down easily.
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Post by Signore Kai on Dec 26, 2005 2:47:59 GMT
Can you list the pros of being cranky please? Cranky --> confidence --> bigger ego --> taking people down easily. Lol..? Enough of spam. Ollie / UC, can we have this literature board please.. ?
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Post by Ovi on Dec 26, 2005 3:44:21 GMT
Ah, I see. It's good to be cranky sometimes. But not always. Can you list the pros of being cranky please? Only one. And a great pro: - Reputation as a mean bum
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Post by eternity on Dec 26, 2005 10:29:28 GMT
Ollie and UC are on vacation right now, they'll be back soon
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Post by Signore Kai on Dec 26, 2005 14:03:19 GMT
Oh yeah. UC would only be back on new year. Grr. Let's flood the chillout board with poems meanwhile. Mwahahahhahahaaha.
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Post by Morgoth on Dec 26, 2005 21:11:16 GMT
Assassinator said we should do some expanding. We don't need to expand, we have a dozen thousand members and many posts a day, the forum is fine as it is. There is a point at which you should stop expanding, otherwise everything gets so stretched there is nothing holding it together. A literature board would do precisely that, this isn't SolidSnake Library. Remember that every post in a sub-board is a post lost from Chillout, which is in need for more intellectual and creative threads.
Xephra said this is a community. That is entirely right, but the whole point of a community is that it is a group of individuals brought together by a common cause: in this case, web design. You can't have a general 'community', that's just a group of people talking about everything. SSD is a design community, the members are brought together because of their interest in designing. Common interest: that is how a community forms, not compromising for everyone.
A literature board will bring more posts about literature, but it's like I've said before: if you make a cake baking board, there'll be more posts on cake baking. Such activity is false, and only there because it's there. Taking away from Chillout won't help anything in the long run.
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Post by Assassinator/Young Everest on Dec 26, 2005 23:37:56 GMT
Morgoth- It is not expanding the site. I have come to realise it is merely catergorizing the posts in chillout, which there are now a numourous amount on the topic of literature. Chillout is being swamped by this stuff. You said commen intrest, that's what brings people together, is that not what's happening here? We are all grouping together for a literature board, it's what people want. This will not turn SSD into a general board where people can talk about anything, I am merely suggesting we keep the literature posts out of chillout, they need a place to be discussed properly rarther than people bunging them in there hoping for them to get noticed in the huge swell of unintelligent posts. The literature sub-board will not bring more posts about literature, it will be a place where people posts their threads about literature that are already appearing in chillout, it's merely a seperation. If you made a board about cake making then no one would post in it, maybe that was a bad example you chose but I certainly wouldn't start posting in a board about cake making, I'm just not intrested in it and I'm sure it isn't a commen intrest throughout the members here. Literature is. Do you see cake making on deviantART? No. Do you see an array of literature? Yes. It's a form of art, it's a skill. I'm not asking for much, just one little sub-board to seperate out the (not so funny) videos from the literature, don't campaign against the majority, don't fight what everyone wants because you'll lose. No harm intended against you, I just needed to reiterate what I and the members here want.
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