CREATION'S PROFILE

Creation, you are most definitely allowed to have a different opinion than I am and I would never discourage that. I would not want to be a part of a community where people can't disagree with each other. =)

Well, that's cool to read because I got to say your previous post didn't give this impression :D.

However, most people I've seen yelling about blogs were people irritated that their own blogs had been pushed off the front page.

That'll make me a good advocate then since I seldom blog myself :).

I don't think they're yelling, I think that's an exaggeration ;). Just because we disagree with something doesn't mean we're breaking furniture and smashing guitars at home. Disagreement doesn't mean yelling (well not always anyway). So yes, they disagree.

I'm part of the people who get annoyed when 1 line blogs push well written blogs into oblivion, I admit it (that and 2-3-4 blog combos). I think that if a person spend a good deal of time writing an informative blog and gets off the front page in 5 minutes (I'm not talking about myself here) is entitled to be annoyed/irritated by that. Nothing wrong with that in my book.

Is trying to create an environment which actively discourages or arbitrarily restricts people from posting blogs to allow your own content to remain on the front page longer less abusive?

I also think this is an exaggeration. Surely you will agree there a limitation of 12-/18 hours is hardly discouraging anything. I mean, come on, is it really *that* bad. Again, this is a different perception but I just don't think it's anything remotely closed to a PUNISHMENT FROM HELL. It's a limitation, it's not like we're not used to it (see RL).

when in fact very few people seem to be committing any abuse.

My question earlier was relating to that. If there's only a minority of offenders, than it would restrict a… minority of people (those are irresponsible). How is this detrimental to the community? Wouldn't you say it would actually be beneficial to the rest of the community who use the system responsibly? Don't you think that's fair?

Who are we to decide that people who want to post interesting content frequently shouldn't be able to?

Could we stop the «who are we» rationale? Since when have people stopped making moral judgment about other people's behaviors? I mean you are judging that people should be allowed absolute freedom to blog. That's your judgment. Who are you to judge? Well, you're just like everyone else and are entitled to judge a certain situation just like people other people are allowed to judge the situation differently. It's not like existing without evaluating and judging things is possible anyway.

Who are we to judge that someone shouldn't update their game every four hours to keep their game on the front page?

make it a rule not to spam the frontpage, but punish the specific occurrence of unacceptable behaviour as they come up, rather that implementing an arbitrary cooldown to enforce it.

And what would the rule be? «Guys, don't flood the frontpage.»? What is considered spamming varies greatly from one person to another. It would be the equivalent of saying: «use your common sense» which is the equivalent of how things work right now=no rules at all.

Again, I disagree about the notion of punishment but that's fine, I respect your different perception.

If compulsive blogging by a minority is at times detrimental for the majority, who are we to just give free reign to whoever feels like doing? It's like the freedom of people who flood the front page is more important than the contributions of those who don't. Since when was absolute freedom for everyone ever a good thing for a community.

That being said I stuck with it and followed the unwritten rules and have been much happier for it. If these rules were mechanically enforced that issue would not happen.

Some may say that perhaps I was a special case, but I find that unlikely. At the very least, a warning page could appear on your screen when you attempt to post for the second time in a day, asking if you're really sure, for instance. As for updating games, if it doesn't bother the mods much having to reapprove it, then I say update as much as they want, however, it'd be nice if it didn't reset their position on the front page unless there was at least a week? i between.

Yeah, that's very true (I mentioned that in the private forum). Most people who I contacted about abusive blogging were always really nice and friendly. 90% just didn't know.

Are you Chinese as well Neok?

I'll quote eplipswitch as his Chinese is better than mine:

欢迎来到RMN :)!

Here's my opinion:

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NEW! 3. Henceforth, you are not allowed to abuse the Latest Games system on the frontpage by updating your main download every few hours so that you are bumped up to the top of the list (and thus remain on the front page ribbon). Violators will have their game download date pushed back. Repeated violators risk having their game download removed entirely.

Yay, we finally agree on something, this calls for a celebration ^___^!

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I would impose a cooldown period (and longer than an hour). I'd say at least 24 hours. I can't honestly say there's any reason to blog twice a day about a project. Even posting daily is too much in my opinion but I'd go for a 24 hours compromise.

Seen all of those Radnen :).

Wow, Moon was so awesome. I loved every minute of it. This is exactly the kind of movie I enjoy.

Thanks for the great suggestion. Darken's movie is next.

I just watched Valhalla Rising and I didn't like it... at all. This, for me, fits in the same category of Inland Empire, when Lynch pushed things too far.

It's an experimental movie and I'm sure some people really liked it but it was too far out for me.