[Announcement] New Subforum.

Jay

Jay

Zero Esc said:
I don't like it because it's different and things that are different are bad and scary, so change it back because I want everything to be the same.

It's cool.
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No, it's not that and it's not what I'm insinuating. Don't be like that AND a casual gamer.

I don't mind the add-on and honestly hope other folks like it. I might even peruse it when I feel like it without needing to see the content from the NEW POSTS option.

I however do mind the non-stop spam on movie content that I don't care for and I'd like it removed from my New Post feed as at this point over 50% of all new content is coming from that sub-forum. It's spam and I want it gone. I'd simply like to ignore that forum in that context just like I did to other sub-forums such as Politics & Religion. Such as it is, it doesn't work as the feature is broken.

YEY ME.

I'm sure other folks would like the same and a forum fix would be nice. Heck, I can't even quickly go to that sub-forum and click on MARK ALL READ because guess what, IT'S NOT THERE.

New site content is neat as long as it doesn't fuck up the forum experience for its members and at this point, it is. Nothing personal to Dave or anyone else involved. It is.

I don't think my opinion on this is unreasonable.

Furthermore, the politics forum cannot be ignored now as well, so I guess more broken features to look at.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

I actually agree with Jay on this, especially since there's a lot of... uh, not to be mean, but really weird bizarre movies that no one has ever heard of, much less seen, being posted in there.
 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
There is going to be an update to the addon that addresses the New Posts thing. I talked to the dev and he assures me it's only going to be about a week, if that. It's a case where it's conflicting with another addon. So be patient, it'll get fixed.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I wasted ten minutes looking for a specific gif that I can't find, so just pretend I posted something funny that sounded like a complaint at Dave.
 
strawman

strawman

Well, I may be in the minority here, but I'd rather see significant plot points in the movies, movies, movies section spoilered. It would be nice if I could read a movies reviews from members here without having significant parts given away, without clicking on spoiler buttons.

It doesn't seem like we have much spoiler discussion happening in the movie threads right now anyway, so adding a spoiler tag for the occasional thin sounds good.

When a movie demands extended discussion with spoiler info, then maybe someone could post a message with big text converting the remainder of the thread into open spoilers, perhaps a few weeks after the movie has been released. This way we don't need multiple threads, it gives a good chance for people to read several spoiler free or hidden reviews prior to the open spoiler discussion before they've seen it.

Or rather than going by weeks we could just go by pages, posts on here first page should be spoiler tagged after the first page it's fair game, open spoiler season. That way old movies would still provide functional reviews and if extended discussion occurs the participants will be able to stop spoiler in their stuff pretty quickly once the first page is full.

Well, I can hope, anyway.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

I agree with stienman.

I suspect that the movies sub-forum is going to naturally become where people talk about movies in general instead of the general media sub-forum, so I think we should do one of two things.

1) Have some metric for when movies threads can go spoiler-tag free. I like the first page, or first 20 posts idea, or once the theater run is done, or when the DVD comes out, or somnething. This would be my preferred option, because people should be able to find spoiler-free reviews of specific movies, and it's not too different from what we already do.

2) If that's unpalatable, have a permanent sticky thread in the movies sub-forum for spoiler free reviews of movies just seen that is explicitly not for discussion/arguments/etc., just personal reviews. Functionally, this would split the current thread in the media forums into two: spoiler discussion would go into the individual threads in the movies sub-forum, and non-spoiler reviews would actually be moved to the sub-forum that's actually about movies.

Open to other suggestions as well, of course.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I would also like some guarantee of no spoilers before a given point.
I have a big problem keeping up on movies (time/money, but mostly time), and so I don't want a movie ruined (old OR new) just because I didn't go see it on release day, or on demand release day, or DVD/Blu-Ray release day, or even bargain bin release day. The same holds true for movies I just haven't heard about, but might've discovered years after release.

--Patrick
 
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