Waar wrote...
Gubi wrote...
Waar wrote...
About 25% of the way, might want to slow it up.
Hello Waar.
Why do you close the café? Do you bear a grudge against this place?
Short answer: Fun.
Full reason: Originally it was due to this being the only thread that was a danger of breaking the forums(due to length). Then it became about angering the previous generation of chatroll/chat topics kids who had formed a cult dedicated to my downfall at some point. Now it's become a tradition and it helps every now and then that you guys act a little entitled, which leads me to remind people this place is a gift.
edit: 25% of 1000 pages is 250, correct? I haven't slept but it feels like I'm on the money.
I understand the breaking the forums part, and that's pretty reasonable. It is true that huge threads kinda wreck havock.
But why make it a tradition if it contents none other than yourself? Is this the traditional ritual of giving a virgin to the dragon so he leaves the village alone? There are plenty of threads that grow upwards of a thousand pages, some double of that, but they aren't closed.
Reminding people that the place is a gift is certainly a valid point, we are after all using a free forum for which we pay nothing (although there are ads in the reading part of the site, but I digress). So truly we are grateful, we like the site, we like the forum, that is why we are active here. So why close a thread arbitrarily? What could we have done that sends the message that we do not care for the site or that we feel entitled to something more than cordial relationships and correct service?
Sure we moan about the maintenance and we moan about the bugs, but when something is fixed we laud it and when an iniatitive is good we support it. Why would you feel a need to remind people that the forums are gift? More precisely, why the café? Or do you regularly close other threads with the same objective in mind?
We don't want special treatment. If you want to instore a thread page limit, its easily doable and enforceable, and people will mostly be ok with it, so long as it's to protect the intergrity of the forums and facilitate usage.
Sorry long post but I wanted to try and convey my point of view on the situation. Could I have your own, if you've got the time?
Edit: Also why is it fun? Do mods have a secret kink for closing threads? XD