Please Don't Ever...

[Voros]

...put multiple humourless notices or a rambling mini essay at the top of the forum.

 

[Endless Flight]

How about “Happy Meme Hour” announcement for every day between 5-7?

 

[Ladybird]

How about “Happy Meme Hour” announcement for every day between 5-7?

It's always 5 - 7 somewhere!

 

[TristramEvans]

It's always 5 - 7 somewhere!

 

[TristramEvans]

...put multiple humourless notices or a rambling mini essay at the top of the forum.

But how else will the forum members know the distinction between pico de gallo and salsa cruda?

 

[Endless Flight]

Elm Street is literally just past the house to the right of us.

 

[Bunch]

Elm Street is literally just past the house to the right of us.

You're so dead.

 

[Endless Flight]

You're so dead.

I’m Jason, remember.

 

[Tommy Brownell]

How about “Happy Meme Hour” announcement for every day between 5-7?

I feel like the site owner is picking on me.

 

[TristramEvans]

I feel like the site owner is picking on me.

You do realize that the follow up to the Dank Memes thread is now going to have to be titled "The Official RPGPub Tommy Brownell Tribute Thread"

 

[Tommy Brownell]

Save it ‘till I’m dead. Way 2020 is going, you should be clear to use it by March 2021z

 

[TristramEvans]

***must resist urge to post Marvin the Paranoid Android meme in response***

 

[David Johansen]

Silly, thematic announcements might be appropriate. "Attention, all mutants, heretics, and optimists are to report for immediate termination!" or some such drivel.

 

[Voros]

You gotta wonder what someone brand new to the forumwars makes of those posts at the top of the forums eh?

 

[CRKrueger]

You gotta wonder what someone brand new to the forumwars makes of those posts at the top of the forums eh?

Based on the two forums you’re probably talking about, the notices plastered all over the place have nothing to do with RPG forumwars on the standard topics. It’s all politics and US Culturewar crap, in which case they’re probably used to it. This place would possibly be more confusing.

 

[TristramEvans]

Based on the two forums you’re probably talking about, the notices plastered all over the place have nothing to do with RPG forumwars on the standard topics. It’s all politics and US Culturewar crap, in which case they’re probably used to it. This place would possibly be more confusing.

Here, it would be a rant about geese, talking about Swo and Geedis, capped off with a dad joke

 

[Bunch]

Based on the two forums you’re probably talking about, the notices plastered all over the place have nothing to do with RPG forumwars on the standard topics. It’s all politics and US Culturewar crap, in which case they’re probably used to it. This place would possibly be more confusing.

Forumwars have evolved/devolved!

 

[Endless Flight]

It’s never evolved. It’s always devolved. I think the second law of thermodynamics should apply to forums as well (although forums aren’t really closed systems). I’d like to think I’d be shocked by what I see out there but I’d be lying if I said I was.

 

[Nobby-W]

Petty forum wars and burning hot flamewars have been around since the days of bulletin board systems and usenet, probably even as far back as proto-systems like PLATO. That's an awful lot of entropy, but open systems can exhibit much more complex behaviour than closed systems - folks and memes can come in, stir up their own internal shit, leave their mark on the community, and then exit in a mutated form.

 

[Voros]

Based on the two forums you’re probably talking about, the notices plastered all over the place have nothing to do with RPG forumwars on the standard topics. It’s all politics and US Culturewar crap, in which case they’re probably used to it. This place would possibly be more confusing.

Ha, yeah probably. I just imagine someone googling to find discussions of rpgs and stumbling across places where actual rpg discussion seems tangential at best.

But I guess most of those joining forums these days trend over 40 and have dim memories of the pits of flamewars and nonsense most forums have always been.

That's why I appreciate the Pub so much, most of the time it makes discussion of the hobby a form of relaxation instead of a stress.

 

[David Johansen]

...put multiple humourless notices or a rambling mini essay at the top of the forum.

Unless they're really, really, obvious and funny.