Out of Pod Experience

I stumbled across this online while interacting with the public and it asks the question: Is anything actually happening on these forums?

My studies have indicated a lot of people are happy that there is a lot of activity on these boards indicating a general "good-health" feel to the EVE-O-OOPE forums.


The expectation that a lot is already happening is higher than the expected boredom and generally people are prepared to wave the flag and participate.


It would appear that at the fringe of the expected activity there is a blemish, but it is easily overlooked. Alongside the infrequent typo.


What are your thoughts?


Is this forum healthy? YES/NO




Vote Yes on Thought 132.

No.

For one, I'm rather tired of all the avatar threads in here.

A few years ago this was a pretty interesting forum with a lot of threads getting my attention, and maybe even a post or two. These days most threads strike me as rubbish (no offence) and all I can think is "it was better in the old days..."

Don't know if the quality really has gone down or if it's just me not being interested in what other people post, but I do know that I've become rather picky about which threads are worthy of my time.


One thing that really bugs me are OPs where neither the thread title nor the mouse-over summary say what the thread is about (also, when posting links, give it a name and not just the URL).

Also, I wish misplaced threads from other forums (usually GD) would be moved elsewhere, or at the very least tagged as moved so I could just ignore them.

Basically, if something isn't important enough for you to post it in the right place with a good description, it's probably not important enough for me to read either.



Now get off my lawn.

I think people are getting a bit sick of the same old subjects and arguments.

For example, it's been 9 years of threads about reducing hisec income and increasing 0.0 income. No matter how many times CCP follows their demands, a new thread about it is made the next day.

9 years of that ****.

I see your point.

Without trying to put a smile out by saying I think a solution would be to nerf low-sec, general discussion is generally about the status quo, although it would have been interesting to find out which transactions had occured in null-sec via GD. Like a running column of system changes taken from Dotlan.

I tend to post in the Fiction forum (not IGS) and even less people want to show up. Most know the same arguments / discussion / topics but refuse to appear in that context, especially for a second time.

It does have the same forum-fu and backdated analysis but its definately a general discussion of what could have been or could be in EVE.

Btw, did you manage to book a seat at Braben's table or were they sold out before you got back there?

Prrrrrffff GD Is rubbish Now since they dumped my Threads in here

I don't want to post in you're crappy OOPE section I was forced too :|

+1 Especially if the link leads to a slow-loading, possibly good or possibly not Youtube thing. But if the surprise element of the anonymous link is a part of the joke, that's OK. If you do it rite.

OOPE's been a little boring lately, but it's still always my first stop. Healthier than GD I'd say. GD and it's "nerf this" or "buff that," "carebears vs. tear collectors," patch whine threads, over and over. Half of the people responding to the OP have nothing to say but "no, you're wrong." I'll take the tripe and goofy b.s. people post here over that stuff.

It's all a lie! The Eve forums are dying from a secondary infection that started after trolls weakened it's moderating