also lol at most toxic guy around calling others out on this sh**
So you say new members should stay away from the discord but instead stay on the forum that doesn't offer them anything? I don't pay too much attention to the gtm discord so I don't know what exactly is going on there. I can see some new members acting really newbish and I sometimes sit in front of the screen and shake my head but I try to stay silent most of the time and keep a neutral point of view towards em. It can be annoying and it's easy to make fun of them but if the forum is kinda dead why don't we/you try to take the new members and properly introduce them to the forum and help them out?Some of them may only stay for a few days or weeks but there can always be one guy that has the potential to turn everything around to create the next big thing.
DSL-IRL is the libtard’s meta. Go drink more soylent, retard! #BLUELIVESMATTER
im just waiting for meganerdbomb to come along and kick things into gear.
What is Robot Arena 2 dedicated too? Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to be a robot combat video game. In the past, you could have argued that "A vehicle-fighting game separate from anything else." But that was back when people played unrealistically, and robot combat was at its nadir, but these things are not true today. Most newbies over the past few years have been building realistically, why? An important reason is that most newbies have been robot combat fans and want to build in real life. Robot combat people are involved in communities related to robot combat. Robot combat people have loyalty to these communities and sometimes swear by the community consensus.There are few Robot Arena 2 fans who play our game for the sake of the game. The amount is few due to the game no longer being alive. The game is not on store shelves, advertised, or officially supported. The only way a fan community grows for a dead game is by word of mouth, and the word on the street at best says GTM is meat grinder full of bad behavior that will spit you out like you're trash.
Quote from: Dreamcast on May 24, 2018, 10:16:54 AMWhat is Robot Arena 2 dedicated too? Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to be a robot combat video game. In the past, you could have argued that "A vehicle-fighting game separate from anything else." But that was back when people played unrealistically, and robot combat was at its nadir, but these things are not true today. Most newbies over the past few years have been building realistically, why? An important reason is that most newbies have been robot combat fans and want to build in real life. Robot combat people are involved in communities related to robot combat. Robot combat people have loyalty to these communities and sometimes swear by the community consensus.There are few Robot Arena 2 fans who play our game for the sake of the game. The amount is few due to the game no longer being alive. The game is not on store shelves, advertised, or officially supported. The only way a fan community grows for a dead game is by word of mouth, and the word on the street at best says GTM is meat grinder full of bad behavior that will spit you out like you're trash.WeLl, yes, there's obviously a huge overlap between RA2 fans and the Robot Combat community as a whole, but we are still ultimately an RA2 community. Also, it seems like all the bad reputation is coming from activity on the Discord, hence why it's time to delete the Discord.
Whether you guys agree with it or not, the discord is just not some off-topic ground like some of you guys think, it's very much a part of GTM at this point. For new and more active users it is 100% the more preferable venue being both more active and more interconnected with other discord communites. Your actions and relations on the discord very much carry over to the main GTM forum as well as those outside it.If some of you guys didn't know yet, GTM is a hated community. The whole "gtm is toxic" meme isn't made up, we are by far the most disliked community in the robot combat/ra2 scene. And before any of you asshats say "lol who cares what they think" just keep in my mind people aren't jumping into GTM completely fresh off the bus. Literally every member we've had join in the past year to year and a half has been part of another robot combat related community. People both in and outside of our community take their opinion on us from what they experience both on the forum and the discord, and whether we want to say it's representative of us or not, 90% of the time it's not a positive experience in regards to the discord. People know about GTM and RA2, it's not that we're some obscure site that kids can't find or don't know about, they just don't want to join when they hear how horrible our userbase is (or when they do join our userbase scares them away)You guys don't have to agree with us any of this, I don't care. But we've tried our best these past months to improve our relations and reputation both with the wider robot combat scene and also with each other. Some of you guys aren't doing anything but sh**ting all over what we've made progress on, and at this point we're done with trying to change this communities attitude. If you aren't willing to change the way you act then I don't see any other solution besides permabanning you from both the discord and forums. Also fyi for a few of you, the majority of users on this site aren't edgy lolmeme sh**posters. It only seems that way when you literally force them out to other communities with constant garbage posting and '''banter'''. I realized that far too late on the first discord server, and I now realize I picked the wrong side in the drama.
Just delete the Discord and make GTM forum-only tbh. Member created discords can exist, but unofficially.Also who cares what the "community" thinks of GTM? We're a video game forum dedicated to RA2, not a robot combat community. How many total conversion mods have other communities released? 90% of the people that come here from other communities contribute absolutely nothing to the forum anyway. And, yes GTM is a FORUM, not a discord community, and it should stay that way. The discord is killing activity on the forum imho.
GTM is now far larger than just supporting Ra2 content, whilst it may be primarily focused on it. Staff are looking for every way to appeal to more and more people outside it. This isn't 2011 anymore dude.
MNB is hitting the nail on the head IMOQuote from: Hoppin on May 24, 2018, 12:25:26 PMGTM is now far larger than just supporting Ra2 content, whilst it may be primarily focused on it. Staff are looking for every way to appeal to more and more people outside it. This isn't 2011 anymore dude.This is plain wrong. Almost all the activity on GTM (the forum) is tournament threads and the occasional camwhore thread post.GTM has it's niche and trying to expand to become a general-purpose robotics forum, when that role has already been filled by multiple other sites/communities, will hurt the site more than help.If you do want to expand GTM, the first point of contact is the forum. The only way to get to the discord without a direct invite is through the forum. If you really do want to expand GTM, you have to expand the forum userbase, and nobody's going to want to use a dead forum that's mostly used for archiving tournament signups/SBVs. Discord activity has taken all/nearly all the non-tournament content away from the forum.
For once the mods did something right