General post quality

EdGey · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:24

Mod's could always move the more worthy threads from the sin bin to GD, so we don't miss out on anything.

Worth a shot to me!

bhavv · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:27

If u wnt serion discussions, go to speakers corner. I enjoy GD.

dirtychinchilla · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:48

I think it's spelled chode...

G-MAN2004 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:05

Yes, there are many awful threads in GD, but then there are also many good ones that make it worthwhile. Removing it completely would ruin this forum.

The dons need to start banning idiot trolls straight away instead of allowing them to post 3485723573 attention seeking threads first. Like britboy did.

PermaBanned said:
Hmm... if it is, will we get This Instant and Moment back at the end of it?

That's one of the things that made GD bad. Awful thread.

Tibbz2 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:14

dirtychinchilla said:
I think it's spelled chode...

It is, or that is how everyone I know spells it

Fusion · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:16

How many years have people been saying that posting quality has been going downhill? Many. OP, you joined in May 2009 and the debates were raging long before you were here.

PermaBanned · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:19

G-MAN2004 said:
That's one of the things that made GD bad. Awful thread.

Exactly. It acted as a place where you could post whatever was on your mind that didn't deserve it's own thread. Instead, now people actually create threads about those same thoughts.

nydryl · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:21

I didn't like the content of the instant and the moment thread but it did serve to keep a lot of crap out of the main body of the forum.

In a backwards way it was a benefit.

G-MAN2004 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:25

PermaBanned said:
Exactly. It acted as a place where you could post whatever was on your mind that didn't deserve it's own thread. Instead, now people actually create threads about those same thoughts.

nydryl said:
I didn't like the content of the instant and the moment thread but it did serve to keep a lot of crap out of the main body of the forum.

In a backwards way it was a benefit.

True, I suppose.

I spent very little time in there. It's full of cliques, moaning women, bitching, dates going wrong (I wonder why) and then more moaning from women. Utter rubbish.

Robbo · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:30

PermaBanned said:
Exactly. It acted as a place where you could post whatever was on your mind that didn't deserve it's own thread. Instead, now people actually create threads about those same thoughts.

You would have a fair point, but the Instant and Moment thread was the same few posters over and over again, never the likes of britboy/compboyo and all the other trolls.

4T5 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:34

I heard Stephen Fry studies GD for Intellectual stimulation.

Cosimo · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:37

4T5 said:
I heard Stephen Fry studies GD for Intellectual stimulation.

It beats reading from cue cards.

4T5 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:38

I'll set them up, You knock'em down.

semi-pro waster · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:05

GD has cycles or at least appears to, it has for as long as I've been a member here and I'm pretty sure that it was going on from before I joined. I've got no doubt that the debates about quality were happening although as said the way to approach this should probably be to try and improve things via the quality of your posts - lead by example as it were. It won't always work but if people find that the norm is for relatively high quality posting with few grammatical errors and good syntax then the chances are that they'll adjust to fit in rather than the other way round.

Tibbz2 · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:27

PermaBanned said:
Exactly. It acted as a place where you could post whatever was on your mind that didn't deserve it's own thread. Instead, now people actually create threads about those same thoughts.

Haha beat me.

But yeah, locking that thread I think made the situation worse...

OpenToSuggestions · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:28

I do (mostly) like the GD topics but the spelling and grammar used often makes me wonder if we have young adults on the forum who did not achieve too highly in their English GCSE.
My spelling and grammar are certaintly far from perfect but asking an adult to use plurals when needed, the correct there/their/they're and the correct your/you're is not a big ask.

[FnG]magnolia · 18 Dec 2011 at 08:51

Maccy said:
Magnolia should join the mod team, god that would be fun!

Castiel said:
Do it......

This is a terrible idea and not in a "oooh, pick me, pick me!" way. I think I'd just ban everyone in ascending order of how broken they are and then we wouldn't have a forum left, apart from about 6 or 7 normal people. That'd be dull. Although getting back to the OP's point, I suppose the general post quality might improve.

flibbage0 · 18 Dec 2011 at 09:04

mglover070588 said:
I do (mostly) like the GD topics but the spelling and grammar used often makes me wonder if we have young adults on the forum who did not achieve too highly in their English GCSE.
My spelling and grammar are certaintly far from perfect but asking an adult to use plurals when needed, the correct there/their/they're and the correct your/you're is not a big ask.

I still don't understand why it annoys people so much.

If you get the gist of it then let it be.

Richie · 18 Dec 2011 at 09:29

Castiel said:
Just create a 'sin bin' sub forum where you can chuck people who post spam and nonsense and limit their access to other forums for a set time....

That way if people want to Post they can, but the rest of us don't have to trawl through the nonsense threads to find the good ones in GD....

I suspect that it will have a few permanent members such as thewelsmanwhopostslikebritboy and a few others.....

Have a user rating system implemented. I know this has been discussed before and the alleged issue with this is a possible nepotistic outcome but I propose enabling it so that if someone (or an individual post) gets enough negatives (say 10) then they are suspended for a time period. Having it auto-refer to a Mod first to keep some kind of check in place against unscrupulous "voters"

My opinion is the same as most. Although lazy spelling/grammar annoys me, I don't have a problem with genuine mistyping as long as I can actually read a post and understand it but some of the actual post contents can be absolute drivel at time.

[FnG]magnolia · 18 Dec 2011 at 09:33

Richie said:
Have a user rating system implemented. I know this has been discussed before and the alleged issue with this is a possible nepotistic outcome but I propose enabling it so that if someone (or an individual post) gets enough negatives (say 10) then they are suspended for a time period. Having it auto-refer to a Mod first to keep some kind of check in place against unscrupulous "voters"

My opinion is the same as most. Although lazy spelling/grammar annoys me, I don't have a problem with genuine mistyping as long as I can actually read a post and understand it but some of the actual post contents can be absolute drivel at time.

It doesn't work for the reason you mentioned.