FernandelToday at 5:40 PM
@d&f yes. "Unremovable banner" is a meme at this point
As is "let's wait until Ford is back from his shower"
You know, the implication being that Ford will clean up Squishy's announcement mess
d&fToday at 5:41 PM
hmm well i would be willing to bet an arbitrary amount of money that "10% of all posts in N&P will be infracted for 25 points each going forward" would get more anger than "we have now re-enabled hugs"
FernandelToday at 5:41 PM
The dynamic of how people complain is just as interesting and relevant as to why people complain
keiosToday at 5:41 PM
sure, not 'evil' but 'bad at dismissing banners' shall we say
indeed, the best way to treat the forum is a big social experiment
shinaobiToday at 5:42 PM
you say that as if dismissable banners
do not also generate immediate anger
because they do
they all do
d&fToday at 5:42 PM
well i am not saying that banners don't generate baseline anger
shinaobiToday at 5:42 PM
if you announce it they will anger
d&fToday at 5:42 PM
just that the content of the banners might also
modify the amount of anger
shinaobiToday at 5:42 PM
not at the announcement
ApotheosisToday at 5:42 PM
indeed, the best way to treat the forum is a big social experiment
i think that's what squishy does
to an extent
shinaobiToday at 5:42 PM
at the banner
d&fToday at 5:43 PM
and that therefore not all announcements generate exactly the same degree of anger
BlazinghandToday at 5:44 PM
i think we all agree that some announcements generate different amounts of anger than others
FernandelToday at 5:45 PM
Define "anger". Some banners are deliberately written to provoke. Whether that's always a bad thing is another question.

Like, the amount of shitheels that revealed themselves in the announcement threads started by Squishy is a bit :thonk~4:
ApotheosisToday at 5:45 PM
remember bigotry and tone thread
?
FernandelToday at 5:45 PM
Not saying this is, like, intentional or some equally ridiculous shit
BlazinghandToday at 5:45 PM
some announcements generate different amounts of negative feedback than others, then, I should say
ApotheosisToday at 5:45 PM
that one was intentional lol
d&fToday at 5:45 PM
let's use "amount of negative feedback" as the proxy here
FernandelToday at 5:45 PM
But if those threads didn't exist we wouldn't be talking (that much) about a lot of these issues
d&fToday at 5:46 PM
i think in this case the amount of negative feedback is quantifiably different
ApotheosisToday at 5:46 PM
sort of, anyway
Lord ChungusToday at 5:46 PM
I'm just sad I wasn't around for the Bigotry and Tone thread
cause apparently some of the worst responses got deleted?
FernandelToday at 5:46 PM
Oh yeah
ApotheosisToday at 5:46 PM
that's where the pink flamingo thing came from
FernandelToday at 5:46 PM
There was some awful shit in there
shinaobiToday at 5:46 PM
nnnnno it's not
the pink flamingo thing came from a different thread
ApotheosisToday at 5:46 PM
no wait you're right
the odd problem thread
FernandelToday at 5:46 PM
Pink Flamingo was another thread
ApotheosisToday at 5:47 PM
they were around the same time so i got them mixed up
FernandelToday at 5:47 PM
Yeah, that was a good thread too
Because it deliberately provoked
Got people to talk about an issue
shinaobiToday at 5:47 PM
'good'
FernandelToday at 5:47 PM
I mean, in retrospect
At the time it was a clusterfuck of epic proportions :v
shinaobiToday at 5:47 PM
call me cynical but threads that just rub in my face the fact that a whole lot of this forum just
is cockbags
I do not like them >8[
FernandelToday at 5:48 PM
Heh
The advantage of being staff before CC is that you already knew that
Nothing like having to read fifty pages of a quest to understand why people are fuxkinc lynching each other :v