Apparently I spoke too soon.
[quote="Amanda"]Taking away the Arcade and Dens takes away the whole social aspect of a community and makes the whole site quite dull to outsiders.[/quote]
We aren't taking away the Den or the Arcade, just the pointless topics inside of them. All of the most popular games have been saved in the Den. And we aren't going to delete Den topics unless they are really, really dumb. I don't want to post any examples of these because I don't want to publicly call out the members who made them.
[quote="LionsAreKings"]But one month is a bit much. If not remove it, then at least shorten it to say.. two to three weeks.[/quote]
You make a good point. I'll bring this up in the next staff meeting.
[quote="Woeler1"]In fact it's already spamming the den. The ''rate the siggy above you'' topic is already on top the whole time.[/quote]
I have noticed that too.
I'll bring it up as well[quote="Woeler1"]I'm not disagreeing on this, but it could have happened way earlier. Instead the forum has always been locking topics. seriously? What is the purpose of locking them if we don't need them. Just delete them in the first place and send the creater as standard PM[/quote]
I think that this may be against the rules. I remember I sent a request one time to a mod that said "Please delete this topic. If not, please lock" and they ended up locking it. So I'm guessing that this isn't the norm on the site. TBH, it would look so much better to remove them although. *makes another mental note to bring it up with the staff*
[quote="Woeler1"] Simply eliminating things in the den will not bring most people back to TLK because that is not the reason they visit here so often. they visit here because the members are nice and to discus things that are all in the den and the members HQ.[/quote]
You're confusing apples and oranges. We are eliminating things in the den to tidy things up, organize the overall section, and remove pointless OT stuff. The primary goal of this isn't to jumpstart TLK discussions.
[quote="Woeler1"]ridiculous, I have no other words for it. So I first have to send a pm to a mod, then wait until he/she replies and then I can create my topic. Just pointless and ridiculous[/quote]
[quote="FlipMode"]Well now, that is stupid...[/quote]
We were trying to avoid the backlash that would have followed if someone created a topic and then it was deleted the next day. That's basically the only alternative to the situation. Plus, there are other forums with this same rule. But yes, I will bring this back up as well.
[quote="Regulus"]Exactly. Most new members join to discuss TLK. In fact, the newer members are mostly the only ones posting in those sections.[/quote]
We aren't trying to encourage TLK posting as much as we are trying to discourage Den posting by people that will not be here longer than 3 weeks. I can think of one member (whom I will not be publicly naming) that created several Den topics, most of which are locked, within the first couple of weeks here and she is no longer active.
[quote="cleargreenwater"]Just don't rig it so new people bore me with a flood of "Simba is pretty" kibble posts in the TLK section, okay?
[/quote]Trust me, I don't want that either. But like Blake said, if this does happen we can reverse it. No worries. Hakuna Matata.
