Posts are backwards why? - Page 5

QuestGAV · #41 February 10th, 2004, 08:40 PM

I am going to have to throw my two cents in here. While it may be difficult for you and your current board readership to switch to a new topic, it's certainly hard as hell to completely redefine something that we've all learned since we were toddlers: that you read from top to bottom. Reading up is a huge hurdle to getting involved in these forums and your games. Obviously it's your board and you've got a way of doing things you're happy with; just consider that you're placing a hurdle to customer retention by trying to train people to read from bottom-to-top instead of the natural way.

Sand · #42 February 28th, 2004, 02:58 AM

If fixing the post order is on your work queue, that's all I can ask -- obviously paying the bills is more important than this stuff. I would definite put in a strong request to upgrade when you have time available though!

Another Wanderer · #43 April 2nd, 2004, 03:08 PM

In any case, it seems like most of the Users would prefer to have at least the option to use normal sorting, according to the sorting poll. Myself included, as I find transitions between Shrapnel and any other forum after reading lots of stuff here rather confuzing. Having to shuffle up and down in threads with long Posts is also somewhat annoying. On the plus side, though, this is one of those rather few forums where interesting threads appear regularly.

Atrocities · #44 April 3rd, 2004, 01:59 AM

Having the choice is great, but it would more than likely require the forum to be down for a significant period of time while they update the features. As we all know a down day at a busy forum can cost a company $$$ bucks and loose membership.

I like the the forum system as it is now.

PrinzMegaherz · #45 April 3rd, 2004, 02:16 AM

I like the way this forum works.

It is against the mainstream, like the games that are sold here.

Gandalf Parker · #46 April 4th, 2004, 02:49 PM

The setup choices seem to be for ease of moderation. Not unusual for forums that expect rare Posts with few answers. Kindof a Customer Support setup. Most of the forums here seem to reflect that it was a perfectly reasonable choice. It looks like its only Space Empires, and moving up fast Dominions 2, which make it a problem. Those are spawning the kinds of traffic seen in general public conversation webBoards. Newsgroup levels of traffic.

IF the new Version of the board can be installed without loss of the content already in the forums, and it offers Users a choice, then Im all for it.

Fyron · #47 April 5th, 2004, 12:35 AM

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In any case, it seems like most of the Users would prefer to have at least the option to use normal sorting, according to the sorting poll.

As I stated when that poll was created, it is irrelevant because it was not promoted to other forums on Shrapnel, so it did NOT receive a valid sample of votes from the forum membership. It was only voted on by those that happened to stumble in here, which most people do not.

Gandalf Parker · #48 April 5th, 2004, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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In any case, it seems like most of the Users would prefer to have at least the option to use normal sorting, according to the sorting poll.

As I stated when that poll was created, it is irrelevant because it was not promoted to other forums on Shrapnel, so it did NOT receive a valid sample of votes from the forum membership. It was only voted on by those that happened to stumble in here, which most people do not.

Over in the Dominions2 forum we started pointing people this way when they start a thread on it. I had thought most of the forums where this conversation came up alot were doing the same. I guess we could post a note in the Moderators forum suggesting that.

Fyron · #49 April 11th, 2004, 12:02 AM

There was never any mention in the Se4 forum. That is a rather large chunk of the forum membership right there that never heard of this poll...

Blitz · #50 May 6th, 2004, 10:59 PM

I hate your forums.

I read them every day, and it bothers me every day. If there was ANYWHERE else to get decent conversation about Dominions 2, I would leave forever and not come back. I don't care that your older Users like it this way, I want to look at them the way I am accustomed to, and I really don't care why they are this way. Only the unbelievably addictive nature of Dominions 2 keeps me here.

I am a good customer. I paid for your game, I never bothered tech support. All I want is a few patches and some Boards I can read without effort. If you can fix it without bothering your old Users, great. But it seems that those posting here don't seem to care that it inconveniences us, so I really couldn't care less if sorting properly would suddenly irritate them. Frankly the "just deal with it" crowd in this thread would be justly rewarded for that point of view by just dealing with it done the standard way.

- An annoyed reader of these forums