EVE General Discussion

Its been 2 or 3 days since patch day and I've not yet been troubled by a SINGLE thread in General Discussion of any substance or interest. None whatsoever. Controversy? Criticism? In GD? It simply doesn't exist! (in much the same way homosexuals 'don't exist' in Iran.)

Ok, lets be honest - GD never really HAD much substance, but it WAS entertaining.

Newbies - believe it or not, GD used to be a wild, rollicking place. Back when CCP Zymurgist was in charge.
I know, I checked the EVE Search archives. But his laissez-faire Community management style didn't fit into our Brave New World. He was fired, disposed of. Replaced.

But today - after years of effort - it seems that 'EVE Community Management' finally managed to create the content-free format that was so fervently desired.

Today, it is spectacularly dull, dull, dull, at a time when it should be crackling with comments. Useful information is safely sequestered in 100 page threadnaughts that nobody will read.

CCP Falcon, your tireless efforts have finally paid off with an amazing accomplishment. You've tamed GD.
Albert Speer couldn't have done a better job. When corporate axe finally falls, we will look back on your reign with a wistful fondness and a tear in our eye - as the 'golden age' of the EVE-O forums.

I now present you the highest forum honor possible, the double GJ.
GJ! GJ!

It will be locked before you do. The ISDs don't take criticism very well.

So if I read you correctly, instead of being able to bring the content you so admire yourself, you just bring a whine and moan about the community and forum instead.

GJ! GJ!

That showed all us newbies how to do it.

Definitely.

No. The point is that if I went to the trouble of creating content -it only would be allowed to remain if it presented the game and/or CCP in a positive light.

Glancing through the last few pages of the forum it seems that negative opinion threads continue to be locked - about as quickly as this one, invariably, will be.

Generally, if you spend 20 minutes time and effort creating forum content, but it takes an ISD takes 60 seconds to read, post and lock it up? Well, you lose. He just ganked your time AND content.

And, interestingly - it eventually leads to a lack of interesting, readable content. Why?

Hypothetically speaking:

Bad/sloppy posts and/or largely copy-pasted posts are now much more 'time effective'.
If it only 30 seconds to 'bad/copy' post an opinion, vs 60 seconds to moderate it, well, then, you kind of win.
In a David Mitchell 'Peep Show' kind of way.

Sure, your thread got locked, but at least you just ganked the ISD's time, rather than vice-versa.

You could almost create a new sport. The forum equivalent of smashing into Mackinaws with a MWD Stabber.
"Forum-bumping" instead of "minerbumping."

Its the reason why content on this forum has gone downhill.
Good, critical posting is banished, leaving just positive fluff, stickied threadnaughts, and strings of locked 'bad' posts.

BORING.

Herr, I cant speak for all but I come here (GD) to escape RL, not discuss it.

There is however, OOP section. You may have better luck there.

All I hear is a whiny whinge

Go tell your ma

I just checked for ice anomalies and this thread popped up. WTF?