If only we had a semi-private, opt-in section designed to contain all the sh**posting. A ground for playing, so to speak.
To say that GTM is dying is blatantly wrong, as we have had more users come into the forums over time and the activity has increased, which I think is pretty damn good considering we're dedicated to a niche game. I will say, though, that attitudes seriously need to change if we are to make ourselves likeable in the eyes of other forums, which is not helped when there are a select few people calling GTM "toxic" and "altright hatesite" and whatever. That doesn't help, even if it's for a quick laugh or whatever.Kill has hit the nail on the head, though. The forum board as a whole, just isn't thriving as well anymore. The discord is one of our main avenues for chatting to people who have relations to robot combat, and getting people in. People driving away others is not going to help whatsoever.(I know I was taking a period of inactivity due to my personal life, but I feel this has to be said IMHO.)
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I really don't understand why there can't be a playground section. like is it too much to ask to have an area of an internet community can just mess around, sh**post, and say whatever they want (minus racism, harassment, etc). like are we really gonna pretend that gtm as a community is "above" sh**posting just because it's centered around robot combat? because it's definitely not. this is a group of young adult (almost entirely) males having fun, I really don't see why we have to be a bunch of control freaks and push a "culture" that doesn't exist just to inevitably have the playground stuff spill over into other communities.(edit): I was referring to a playground section in the discord, not the forum(edit2): why would we delete the site that's stupid
Quote from: freeziez on May 28, 2018, 10:56:52 AMI really don't understand why there can't be a playground section. like is it too much to ask to have an area of an internet community can just mess around, sh**post, and say whatever they want (minus racism, harassment, etc). like are we really gonna pretend that gtm as a community is "above" sh**posting just because it's centered around robot combat? because it's definitely not. this is a group of young adult (almost entirely) males having fun, I really don't see why we have to be a bunch of control freaks and push a "culture" that doesn't exist just to inevitably have the playground stuff spill over into other communities.(edit): I was referring to a playground section in the discord, not the forum(edit2): why would we delete the site that's stupidMechadino wants to delete this site.
that's stupid