Alternatives to Wordforge

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Sokar, Apr 11, 2012.

  1. 14thDoctor

    14thDoctor Oi

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    I care. It makes me feel all tingly inside. :)
  2. Caboose

    Caboose ....

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    Yea, those suck. Contents of them suck as well.

    Have I thanked you lately? :wub:

    Seriously though, yea, I checked it out and while there's some interesting people over there I'm not going to bail on you. This is my home as long as you run it man. We've been friends far too long to allow some percieved bullshit to come between us.
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  3. Azure

    Azure I could kick your ass

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    Its not so bad here.

    What ticks me off the post is the inability for people to post a correct thread title. If you're posting a news article and want to generate discussion, I won't bother clicking on your thread if you can't post a proper thread title.
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  4. Asyncritus

    Asyncritus Expert on everything

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    "Hey, check this out, dudes!" is a proper thread title! :bailey:

  5. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    So is, "Click here to see big bouncing titties." Although if there aren't any titties, be they big, bouncing or otherwise, after the jump, well... you're gonna have a bad time.
  6. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    This thread seems to be about other websites.

    Shouldn't it be move to Faceman Presents: The Gray Room?
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  7. skinofevil

    skinofevil Fresh Meat

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    You don't know other websites. Real other websites.
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  8. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Man, :rotfl: is right! :lol:
  9. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    They need to condense their forums a bit before I'll post there. :diacanu:
  10. Soma

    Soma OMG WTF LOL STFU ROTFL!!!

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    I know WTF they have like 100 of 'em. :soma:
  11. Caboose

    Caboose ....

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    Damnit Sokar, now we'll have to deal with these guys there! :jayzus:

    :lol:
  12. Asyncritus

    Asyncritus Expert on everything

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    And the greatest irony of all? Those who are over there as "refugees" (as opposed to those who just want to post there as well as here) have "fled" because rep war doesn't work so well here any more! :D

    "Well, since Wordforge doesn't allow us to gang up on people with rep any more, we're going to go to a place where that's never been allowed! That will be so much better!" :lol:

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  13. Clyde

    Clyde Orange

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    Gang up on people with rep? You were against the rep reset, as was I. Are we both in favor of rep gangs?
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  14. Asyncritus

    Asyncritus Expert on everything

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    I was not aware that you were one of the "refugees" who have left Wordforge because of the change in rep...

    And I certainly am not.

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  15. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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  16. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    Meh.... They're welcome to do whatever. Things move so fast over there that you blink and their idiotic bleating would have scrolled on by.
  17. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    It is the height of presumptuous arrogance to assume that all of this is over rep, especially when it has been pointed out many times by several people that the real problem here is the staff fucking with things that aren't broke in order to appease a certain set of posters.

    The more you strip things away, the more you expose the endless repetitiveness of 20 or so posters rehashing the same tired discussions for 8 years straight.

    Not everyone enjoys doing the same thing over and over again forever.
  18. foil1212

    foil1212 Jose "Mom Fan" Alvarez Staff Member Moderator

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    Click post, negrep. Click post, negrep. Click post, negrep. Click post...
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  19. actormike

    actormike Okay, Connery...

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    Yes, the staff fucking with things that aren't broken.

    Things like rep...and...what else, exactly?
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  20. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    Are you suggesting that those who neg repped people never did anything here other than that?

    I just want to check before I point how fucking absurd that is.
  21. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    Never saw them.

    Firefox with the appropriate plugins takes care of all that shit.
  22. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    :crickets:
  23. foil1212

    foil1212 Jose "Mom Fan" Alvarez Staff Member Moderator

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    That's not what I said at all. The act of opening a post, clicking a button to "disagree" and doing it again, and again, and again, is "doing the same thing over and over again forever." I mean, how many days did you waste 75%+ of your rep into doing that? How much time did you spend repeatedly digging up old posts and negrepping them?
  24. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    It takes about 4 minutes.

    You should know that. You were involved in rep bombing someone with us once.
  25. Tamar Garish

    Tamar Garish Wanna Snuggle? Deceased Member

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    Absolutely right...


    Whoosh!
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  26. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    Sweet.

    Let's kick it into a black hole.

    Wouldn't want this mad rush of new users to see alternatives to Wordforge.

    :jayzus:
  27. Tamar Garish

    Tamar Garish Wanna Snuggle? Deceased Member

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    Hmm...

    Random enforcement on profanity:

    Better keep your mouths shut entirely about people's families:

    Better knock off those threats of bodily harm/death:

    No more mocking people for their religious beliefs or going off on the Muslims:

    No more rep games at all:

    Don't talk about your personal business or anything you might personally gain from:

    Private Information? Even posting your own is against the rules...

    Leniency? Not much...

    Duals!? Never...

    Plus, ads and begging for money from the members.


    So...exactly how is this place anything at all like Wordforge?

    Seems to me if you go over there and pull your usual behavior you won't be there very long. Hell, you can still do more with rep here then there. Even though there are no points removed, you can certainly disagree with someone all day long and we won't stop you.

    If you want to leave, leave..we can't and wouldn't stop you. But don't try and pretend that place is anything like this one. :jayzus:
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  28. foil1212

    foil1212 Jose "Mom Fan" Alvarez Staff Member Moderator

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    I realize. It's still counteractive to what you said in the post above. Regardless of how long it takes, you're still doing the same thing over and over.
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  29. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    I see the Novelty Poster continues his search for a message board that does things his way.
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  30. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    Not enforced. Way more cursing from people over there than here. I tested that one right out of the gate because if I can't talk the way I normally do, I would have moved right on to the next site.

    Doesn't bother me. I couldn't care less about any of their families.

    No loss. Die in a fire is a Wordforge thing. Another played out Wordforge thing.

    Several threads over there right now that are anti-religion. Doesn't seem to be enforced either. One of the things I'm most tired of here is the constant onslaught of 'Christians make me cry' threads. Worn. The. Fuck. Out. If this cuts down on that shit, I can live with it.

    If you repeat "you guys are just mad about rep" enough, surely it will come true. So keep on trying.

    And there are a number of high post users there that have been clearly negged into the red.

    Should they should allow advertising pitches?

    Good. Huge reduction in drama threads. My business is none of theirs.

    Whatever.

    GOOD. FUCK DUALS.

    I'll have an opinion when I'm forced to contribute money.

    It's not. It's more active and interesting. I already know all of the opinions here.

    I post over there exactly as I do here. Everything has been great so far.

    One more time... I don't care.

    I'm not leaving, I just found a place that's more interesting.