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Post by talsept on Jun 28, 2006 11:05:52 GMT
i love playing forum games that other people have on there forums and it makes the forum interesting and it would be cool if this place had one as well. please think about it?
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Post by Josh on Jun 28, 2006 12:22:54 GMT
What do you mean by Forum Games? Like Flash games? Or do yu mean the dumb "Let's count to a thousand' type of game?
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2006 12:29:07 GMT
We allow games to be posted in Chillout, if they have a good point to them. Something that gets you to think for a while. Spammy things like counting and one word story threads we don't allow.
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Post by Spektral on Jun 29, 2006 5:10:54 GMT
Augh, the Forum Games boards suck. They're full of spam and when put as a sub-board the original board always displays the on icon.
Plus it requires a lot of attention as there will be the common village idiot posting "COUNT TO INFINITY" threads. =P
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2006 9:25:04 GMT
Augh, the Forum Games boards suck. They're full of spam and when put as a sub-board the original board always displays the on icon. Plus it requires a lot of attention as there will be the common village idiot posting "COUNT TO INFINITY" threads. =P We did have one here last year, it was fine for a few weeks, then it lost its spark.
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Post by Smangii on Jun 29, 2006 22:53:36 GMT
You could set it so that the post count doesn't raise, but then it'd be a waste of time. Well, unless you're willing to waste your time
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Post by virtuoso on Jun 30, 2006 17:31:11 GMT
You could set it so that the post count doesn't raise, but then it'd be a waste of time. Well, unless you're willing to waste your time Post Count isn't a matter. The fact that forum games is just a spectrum of Immature Spam is the problem.
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Post by dekkadent on Jul 6, 2006 5:35:58 GMT
there are more to forum games than just spaming and simple little games, like forum rpgs are fun, and outdo the person above you games are fun, its just what you like, start a few a week and people will catch on!
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Post by Josh on Jul 6, 2006 12:47:08 GMT
I've seen it at many forums and all it ever is is a spam fest, even if the post count is disabled. We had an RPG thread a while ago, I didn't get into it, but it hit like 15 pages and died. I have also been at forums where they introduced this type of thing and the spam quickly spread to other areas of the forum, it just doesn't work.
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Post by ScottCool on Jul 6, 2006 15:58:02 GMT
Well,The spamm will be bad but there are staff here(I dont think you wana spend all your time locking threads)
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Post by Bill on Jul 6, 2006 19:29:14 GMT
Well,The spamm will be bad but there are staff here(I dont think you wana spend all your time locking threads) Assuming you are insisting that they add one on here (I'm inferring this from the simple word "but"), tell me what the true point of a forum game is. Is there something I miss that makes them special? Do they have some intelligence, deep meaning that I am thinking too shallowly to notice? Is the point of them more than just to boost your post count with a simple word? I honestly don't know. Somebody help me with that one.
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Post by refusedviolation on Jul 6, 2006 22:04:30 GMT
I've seen it at many forums and all it ever is is a spam fest, even if the post count is disabled. We had an RPG thread a while ago, I didn't get into it, but it hit like 15 pages and died. I have also been at forums where they introduced this type of thing and the spam quickly spread to other areas of the forum, it just doesn't work. Agreed There is no reason to make a board for Forum games, it is just an excuse to spam.
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Post by Spektral on Jul 7, 2006 1:05:47 GMT
Augh, the Forum Games boards suck. They're full of spam and when put as a sub-board the original board always displays the on icon. Plus it requires a lot of attention as there will be the common village idiot posting "COUNT TO INFINITY" threads. =P We did have one here last year, it was fine for a few weeks, then it lost its spark. That brings me to my next point, it's fun because the first few games are unique, then you get people posting the same threads over and over.
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Post by Me on Jul 7, 2006 4:29:40 GMT
The real thing that will be ruined with Forum Games is professionalism.
If SSD implements them, it will have turned from a nice place to discuss things from sports to graphics to coding, to a more childish place, as, whether or not they games have a meaning before they begin, they soon after lose it.
I have seen many threads deleted by Oliver simply because they don't bring up a discussion.
Some games may last awhile with some meaning, but it isn't worth the stress added to the moderators of SSD, seeing as it seems to be going on fine without forum games.
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Post by jest on Jul 8, 2006 5:49:57 GMT
On my forum Thread Games are a big part of it. We're full of creative people who make creative games. It's not just the stupid "Count to 100" it's more like "Write a story paragraph by paragraph" .
Ofcoarse I doubt something like that would work on a graphics community as well. I love thread games. I think most forums give them a bad name though. =P Most of the "count to a million" ones I've seen I hate. Though my forum has one where we count with images, you find an image with that number in it. It's actualy very interesting.
Stuff like this can be posted in Chillout I assume though. =P Just don't hate on all thread games as if they're spam. =P
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Post by Kari on Jul 8, 2006 6:30:26 GMT
I quite like the "write a paragraph" for a story game. If someone wants to whip something up, then I'll be happy to watch over it. Of course, it'd have to be an actual paragraph that people contribute -- or a couple of them -- rather than just a couple of lines or one sentence.
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Post by gimli10567 on Jul 9, 2006 20:42:58 GMT
That kind of game does sound like fun, I posted a few forum games in chillout, they were good ones but people didn't want to participate, they never got past a page or two.
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Post by Mitchell on Jul 10, 2006 17:28:09 GMT
The RPG we had a few months back was excellent. Went on for quite a while before people finally gave up on it.
I also like the "Guess the Item" games where someone posts a 100x100 cropped-pic of an item and someone has to try to guess it. Only problem with that game is that people start getting out of hand and guess stupid items.
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Post by gimli10567 on Jul 10, 2006 22:06:33 GMT
Mitch, I started a thread like that a while ago. I say we start another role playing thread.
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Post by whitney2 on Jul 20, 2006 3:49:49 GMT
I quite like the "write a paragraph" for a story game. If someone wants to whip something up, then I'll be happy to watch over it. Of course, it'd have to be an actual paragraph that people contribute -- or a couple of them -- rather than just a couple of lines or one sentence. If only the literature board were a board of its own and not located within the depths of Show Off... Hint hint, Ollie.
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