"View new posts" and Dcemu newsposters

[Shadowblind]

You guys act like the Bots are the only thing wrong with this forum these days.

The Forum is now dull

What I suggest is we git rid of the bots, get more Newsposters (So we can make it easier on wraggs), we make community project (DCEmu Magazine, video game, etc.) to make the forum intresting. Look, I am not saying add JUNK (though i am not saying to not add it )But, we still need to spice up these forums

I can give a shi* over the play asia crap because i just ignore it, and that at least gets wraggs money so we can even have a DCEmu

Pft. I can't even imagine these forums not dull. What is this, IGN?

Sadly, though, I'm more often then not insanely bored. So I come here often.

[ninja9393]

Pft. I can't even imagine these forums not dull. What is this, IGN?

Sadly, though, I'm more often then not insanely bored. So I come here often.

The boards were not dull a 2 years ago, hell a year ago. We had funny threads, New PSP scene, Games that the community helped with (ie Halo 2d, Sora's Adventure etc)

We can have that again if we sort out some issues

[Safari Al]

I recommend waiting for the wii scene to get larger, see how things go, then judge. I really want the psp scene to start back up. I just stared developing for it

[Shadowblind]

The boards were not dull a 2 years ago, hell a year ago. We had funny threads, New PSP scene, Games that the community helped with (ie Halo 2d, Sora's Adventure etc)

We can have that again if we sort out some issues

All of which left this site, mainly in the forms of the members. Vetta, Gunntims, gizmo, and other major members were either banned or left or just stopped posting. Your one of the few who still remain from the golden age.

Issues? They can't be sorted out. Some are because of those who run the site, while other issues ARE those who run the site. before you ask, I have no problem with these mods. I have a problem with they're decisions. Im pretty sure even the mods don't like what they've been having to do...

And lets face it: We can do nothing. And the people who can do something aren't allowed because of the people above them.

Theres no way back, and the cure is worse then the disease.

[ninja9393]

All of which left this site, mainly in the forms of the members. Vetta, Gunntims, gizmo, and other major members were either banned or left or just stopped posting. Your one of the few who still remain from the golden age.

Issues? They can't be sorted out. Some are because of those who run the site, while other issues ARE those who run the site. before you ask, I have no problem with these mods. I have a problem with they're decisions. Im pretty sure even the mods don't like what they've been having to do...

And lets face it: We can do nothing. And the people who can do something aren't allowed because of the people above them.

Theres no way back, and the cure is worse then the disease.

Well, you put up a good argument

I hope though DCEmu makes major changes and the site will be great again (i think)

Like this site Sarcastic Gamer. It was in the same situation, problems like these, Then they fixed up the forum added a few cool features and BAM! it is awesome again

I have Hope

[quzar]

before you ask, I have no problem with these mods. I have a problem with they're decisions. Im pretty sure even the mods don't like what they've been having to do...

And lets face it: We can do nothing. And the people who can do something aren't allowed because of the people above them.

I don't know about any other mod, but I havn't been having to do anything. The only thing I've been ideologically opposed to is having to NOT do stuff.

About the bots: there is NOTHING anyone but wraggster can do. We can't ban the bots (we tried), deleting or moving posts is pretty pointless since it's a continuous stream that is disruptive, not the old ones, and we can't really do anything else at all.

About ads: prior to the PSP section, there were no advertisements masking as news. Posts about new games would not be referrals.

It seems that the issues you all have are more to do with the fact that the PSP 'scene' is getting old and people are moving on. You blame this site as if the site itself was responsible for new stuff and the lack of new stuff must be because nobody can post with the bots around.

[Shadowblind]

About the bots: there is NOTHING anyone but wraggster can do. We can't ban the bots (we tried), deleting or moving posts is pretty pointless since it's a continuous stream that is disruptive, not the old ones, and we can't really do anything else at all.


It seems that the issues you all have are more to do with the fact that the PSP 'scene' is getting old and people are moving on. You blame this site as if the site itself was responsible for new stuff and the lack of new stuff must be because nobody can post with the bots around.

That points to the third part of my post.

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If no new stuff come out, then we have to amuse ourselves other ways until they do. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone really knows what we can do to make this site dynamic again. If we add something like JUNK, the more 'unstable' members will flip out and start posting crap like that in other forums too, ending up in a total mess (again.)

Maybe a community project? I remember back when I had the illusion that I was actually "helping" with Sora's Adventure (the LUA game...) I was happy as a n00b.

The bots sure do add a **** of a lot of annoyance to these forums though.
@Wraggster: Do you even LIKE slashdot? As fun as it is to hear about every space capsule being launched into space...

[Mark30001]

Thanks whoever made a duplicate account here (I know who you are) and created that "Miyamoto makes claim that bots are ruining forums" thread. I thought it was hilarious.

[bah]

Im not upset at all that the PSP scene has slowed down, I have pretty much all the systems I really care about emulated nicely and all my other needs are covered by some great homebrew apps.
I would like to be able to find releases when they come out and discussion of things I find interesting though.

It'd be nice if ZX's and other peoples releases were active in the 'new posts' section long enough to be seen. The bots prevent this.

I see where you're coming from with the ads (they're not news etc), but the volume of them is so much lower its easy to ignore them in the forums.
People often seem to post in random sections so the 'show new threads' makes keeping up to date with thing much easier than checking all sections.

At least it did till the bots came to town.


The spam bots are even more damaging to the value of the site than when releases were more frequent as all people see is pages of spam. Then they make like a tree and get out of here.

EDIT: Make like a tree and leave. I sound like a damn fool when I say it wrong.


EDIT2: I bought a PSP because of the content of this site, got help using the gif eloaders, then the 2.0 downgrader, more recently the custom firmwares. Those apps and all the homebrew they have allowed me to enjoy came via dcemu.
I've downloaded firmware files from PSP hacks and a few things from qj when links here weren't working, but I've spent more time at DCemu today than I have any other PSP homebrew site $#@!ulative.

I like to think along the way I have helped a fair few others also.


If wraggs thinks 99% spam is a good thing, why not just add http://pspupdates.qj.net/rss.xml and give up on psp-news altogether then....
*Sigh*

[gdf]

Sarcastic Gamer, you say, added some new features and had a general cleanup?

I think this is what we should do here, except remove some stuff, like the massive box of tags, the stupid buttons everywhere and all the complicated crap the just sort of gets in the way. Strip it down, remove some forums, merge some forums, help the mods out from time to time, stop with the damned newsposts and gradually start to re-introduce some form of Junk. I suppose that process has already been set in motion with the loosening of restriction of discussion in Off Topic, but I don't think it's going anywhere...The community is more mature now, because most of the wankers were driven off because the rules were tightened up (sadly that also caused many of the better members to disappear because it was boring). I think we've had the monster shift (closing Junk), and I suppose this is the hangover when irritations like the bots seem like more of a problem. The rebuilding process starts right now.