Helping restore Apolyton

[Drake Tungsten]

I just started listening to the OTCast based on Asher's mention of it. Damn you.

edit: Is it just me or does NYE sound like he's in the witness protection program?

[Sirotnikov]

I'm curious how people would feel if Apolyton went Web 2.0?

What exactly would you do to let poly go web 2.0?

A forum is already web 2.0 enough, and rarely needs things which other sites gain from.

We already have audience participation, profiles, news items (threads than anyone can post).

We now also have an awkward bright greenish design, so we're just missing a crazy logo:
Apolytonr

[Asher]

I just started listening to the OTCast based on Asher's mention of it. Damn you.

edit: Is it just me or does NYE sound like he's in the witness protection program?

I think OTCast could be a lot of fun provided it was uncensored and "adult only".

[Japher]

That's true for all media

[Drake Tungsten]

I think OTCast could be a lot of fun provided it was uncensored and "adult only".

They need to stop talking about Civ and stop bleeping your name.

[GarretSidzaka]

I think OTCast could be a lot of fun provided it was uncensored and "adult only".

I would agree with this. ModCast and Polycast are completely edited. We can't even slip one f-bomb by in any episodes, ever. OT cast is all just good fun, and imrand being imran


@Japher
nice

[Garth Vader]

I tried posting at CivFanatics and no Poly for a month or so during one of my bannings. It killed me. I even participated in (and kicked ass in) their sad, sad fantasy hockey pool. There was practically birds chirping in their hockey threads as well, no one there seems to comprehend what sports are.

It's just a very different feel than Poly. It's cold and impersonal. Clinical, even.

From my lurking there, and my mostly lurking here, their OTF seems like it's filled with idiots. Whole threads filled with BK class posts but without the smackdown that happens here. Not what I need to get me through the work day

[Asher]

I still don't know who you are!

Observations:
1) How did you become an admin so stealthily? This is suspicious.
2) Why are you wearing sunglasses indoors? This is suspicious.
3) Why do you have a mountainman beard? This is suspicious.

Bottom line, you are suspicious.

[Drake Tungsten]

Whole threads filled with BK class posts but without the smackdown that happens here.

Dear god...

[TCO]

Name change seems very inoccous to entrenched stakeholders and would help new recruitment. In the past, we were so strong we could tolerate it. But not now. And people don't read past the first word and they are flummoxed by a name that means nothing (to them). I propose Civilization Universe instead.

[Dinner]

We could open a porn subforum. That would bring lots of traffic.

[Grandpa Troll]

Whole threads filled with BK class posts but without the smackdown that happens here.

Dear god...

[lord of the mark]

I love it when people who don't normally post come to criticize and use it to justify why they don't normally post here. Hmmm, then why did they bother to post it.
CFC's off topic puts me to sleep. It reminds of Disneyland where all you keep hearing is "it's a small world" until you want to smash your head into a brick wall to make it stop, despite whatever damage you might take.

Modding like a NAZI is for lazy people. They don't want to think. Anything that might require thought, don't, just ban or delete, or close. (I can understand the concept) Yeah, we could be a tad more strict but it's no treat trying to keep up with all the threads. And you really have to get the feel for the entire thread before you make a decision about a single post. You can't take it out of context. It takes more effort than a lot of people realize. And yes we error on the side of being tolerant. SO sue me. And I will personally admit that sometimes it's tough to pull the ban trigger when you're LYAO. Some of the abuse is playful, some of it is provoked, and sometimes it's a contest that BOTH posters are playing. I don't see the need to ban under some of those circumstances. AND PEOPLE USUALLY BACK DOWN A TOUCH WHEN WE POST A CHILL WARNING. It's not always black or white. (unless you're a lazy nazi) Our way is harder on us also. We open the door to ctriticism. When you're a nazi, people don't bother complaining. That's not an problem here And we don't just take it from you guys, we have to take it from a few weeny on-topic mods that sometimes don't understand. (yes they make some good points but I do feel you have to be in the trenches being shot at before you can truely understand it)

So heap on some more abuse. We're used to it.

Rah, I've generally been supportive of Poly mods, and I've never spent time at CFC. But I can tell you that Paradox Forums has stricter moderation, and yet very lively and interesting discussions, and ditto for QuartertoThree. While I mainly stopped posting to OT cause of time issues, I must say that at some point I determined that despite the high qualities of certain posters, the forum as a whole was generally not very good. I mainly post here on Other Games, or from time to time on a Civ related forum. Other Games is barely tolerable - the Civ related forums are still good though.

Again, I would not criticize something done as a labor of love by overburdened people, and I appreciate what y'all have provided to the community over the years. Let me just say that I don't think stricter moderation would make 'poly worse, and it MIGHT make it better.

[Drake Tungsten]

How will stricter moderation makes things better when the moderators are the ones who are out of control? It wasn't Asher running around deleting posts and issuing death threats.

[Asher]

Touche.