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Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:09 am
by robofreak
Just as the title says. I was going to go check a thread in the party forum, but the section is gone. What happened to it?

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:34 am
by Exdominus
Stupid admin's deleted it because they thought it was to immature trying to make the saite more adult friendly How can they have that WHEN THEY HAVE A FORUM ABOUT A CHILDRENS TOY

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:36 am
by Venomous Prime
Rex Necros wrote:Stupid admin's deleted it because they thought it was to immature trying to make the saite more adult friendly How can they have that WHEN THEY HAVE A FORUM ABOUT A CHILDRENS TOY


and a PG-13 rating :P

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:42 am
by Shadowman
Rex Necros wrote:Stupid admin's deleted it because they thought it was to immature trying to make the saite more adult friendly How can they have that WHEN THEY HAVE A FORUM ABOUT A CHILDRENS TOY


They're trying to make the site more child friendly because it's a forum about a children's toy.

That still doesn't explain the Party Forum. Nothing really wrong there, or at least nothing that the removal of the few overly adult threads wouldn't fix.

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:48 am
by robofreak
I can agree with making the site more child friendly. I'd just like the forum to be able to handle good discussions as well without risk of them turning into flame wars.

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:56 am
by Shadowman
robofreak wrote:I can agree with making the site more child friendly. I'd just like the forum to be able to handle good discussions as well without risk of them turning into flame wars.


Which is why the Philosopher's Forum was taken down. But the Party Forum was the exact opposite of the Philosopher's Forum. It was just fun and games, there was no threat of a flame war like there was with the Philosopher's Forum.

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:23 am
by Pyrostrata
Imagine my surprise logging on this evening and seeing one of my favorite forums disappeared without so much as an explanation!

Without using the choice grown-folk-words I used when I saw this, needless to say I am a bit irritated. There was nothing there that was offensive for the wee-ones that I saw. Everything there was basically tongue-and-cheek fun that many enjoyed, myself included. Making things more kiddie-friendly in this manner will, no doubt, make people more upset than I.

A Sticky in there explaining what was going on would have been better than just Bermuda Triangling it! Not griping. Just stating.

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:28 am
by Scatterlung
:BOOM:

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:30 am
by Pyrostrata
Meverix wrote::BOOM:

My sentiment EXACTLY!

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:36 am
by Scatterlung
So does this mean we can just start up our old favourite threads in General Discussion?

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:39 am
by Pyrostrata
Appears that way to me, since there is no other forum for the merriment!

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:42 am
by Skice
I PM'ed fender bender and this was his response. I hope it helps.
Fender Bender wrote:The decision was made to disband it, mainly cuz it was almost all spam. We still have General Discussion for anything non-tf related. So if people want to resurrect a specific thread from the Party forum, that's fine. A few threads here and there with spam are okay, we just don't need a whole forum dedicated to it.

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:36 am
by Necessary Evil
This really blows. I mean, we've had it for such a long time, and now they decide to ditch it? :?

Pyrostrata wrote:
Meverix wrote::BOOM:

My sentiment EXACTLY!

That's how I feel too, guys.

Re: Where'd "The Official Party Forum" go?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:17 pm
by Seibertron
After some discussions with staff this week, we decided to get rid of it. There is one "party" thread in General Discussion. Let's keep it to that.