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This is a short rant that I was going to have in a thread, but then I decided not to and made a blog instead.
I am so incredibly frustrated with a large amount of people in this community. Every single thread I go in to is filled with comments such as "Wow is this thread worthy?", or "Move to this section", and all of these other filler comments... I don't want to see ten plus people back seat moderating every fourth post...
People also seem to have caught on to the "elitism" of Teamliquid and try and play that, why is the person with four hundred posts telling the guy with two hundred posts that he "clearly hasn't been here for very long"? Why are there people who signed up in November 2010 in Brood War threads, telling people who signed up in January 2011 that they aren't allowed to make statements about Brood War?
Leave a post in the thread if you have something to say about it, otherwise, stop it.
That is all. End rant.
 
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Look, you haven't been here very long. This is just how things work on TL.
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You have no idea how hard it was for me to not reply "not thread worthy". 
Have to completely agree though, to be honest although I don't spend time in the Brood War section so I haven't experienced that side of things.
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I don't think this blog belongs here.
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Croatia9530 Posts
I think this belongs in Website Feedback.
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On November 08 2011 07:46 2Pacalypse- wrote:
I think this belongs in Website Feedback.
Y u no answer on irc, lets play,T_T.
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This isn't threadworthy... Outside Blogs, of course.
However, I feel the same. Most posts nowadays aren't as good as they were a while ago...
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Well this may be true, can you give us some concrete examples?
People should really just PM a mod, or report the thread. If you are feeling generous you can explain why you think the thread is crap (example in strat not following guidelines and linking them). Back seat mdoeration can be annoying if it adds absolutely nothing to the thread.
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On November 08 2011 07:51 Probulous wrote:
Well this may be true, can you give us some concrete examples?
People should really just PM a mod, or report the thread. If you are feeling generous you can explain why you think the thread is crap (example in strat not following guidelines and linking them). Back seat mdoeration can be annoying if it adds absolutely nothing to the thread.
examples? try the first few responses to his post. lol.
it is annoying to see this in threads, but the vast majority of the time (maybe 80% up), the thread is later closed because the nay-sayers were correct. its annoying when a good discussion is brought up, but the first few posts all say to close the thread....
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I thought about blogging about this same thing. I think it's cool when someone says, "Hey, this OP needs to be a bit more informative try adding such-and-such." Or something to that effect. I absolutely hate this:
"...totally not thread-worthy. Use the search function... duh..."
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I agree with the sentiment. Report and move on; don't make a post about it.
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On November 08 2011 07:54 dAPhREAk wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2011 07:51 Probulous wrote:
Well this may be true, can you give us some concrete examples?
People should really just PM a mod, or report the thread. If you are feeling generous you can explain why you think the thread is crap (example in strat not following guidelines and linking them). Back seat mdoeration can be annoying if it adds absolutely nothing to the thread. examples? try the first few responses to his post. lol. it is annoying to see this in threads, but the vast majority of the time (maybe 80% up), the thread is later closed because the nay-sayers were correct. its annoying when a good discussion is brought up, but the first few posts all say to close the thread....
Thanks for adding absolutely nothing 
What I meant was saying it happens doesn't prove anything. Link some examples, show us what you mean. Often people get this idea that something that annoys them is overwhelming the site when in reality it is a rare occurence. I just wanted some examples to prove to me this is not the case.
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A lot of the things you say seem pretty standard. A lot of people "back seat moderate" because they want to help you before moderation comes into effect and damages your squeaky clean record or something. Also, they are typically right. The 400 post guy criticizing the 200 post guy is something I have yet to see in my (admittedly limited) experience but it is certainly uncalled for unless the 200 post guy did something pretty stupid. Same goes for the elitist brood war poster. I have yet to see much of this elitism, but as I have said, I am new around here, and I can see why you would be so pissed about it. Fortunately, people who do the old pot, kettle, black routine are quickly rooted out as flamers/trolls.
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People want to seem cool on the internet.
There really are no reasons for making a post indicating why a topic violates some rule or another because that's a mod/admin's job anyway.
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your Country52797 Posts
These accusations against me are false! I swear! *looks around nervously*
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The one which irks me the most is the 'Is this thread worthy?' not just a random comment in a thread but when the entire thing gets derailed and people on both sides argue thread worthiness.
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ignore it. Haven't been on TL long, but it happens everywhere. The best bet is to skim threads, ignore the obvious short troll posts... forums are not serious business.
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On November 08 2011 08:06 Probulous wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2011 07:54 dAPhREAk wrote:On November 08 2011 07:51 Probulous wrote:
Well this may be true, can you give us some concrete examples?
People should really just PM a mod, or report the thread. If you are feeling generous you can explain why you think the thread is crap (example in strat not following guidelines and linking them). Back seat mdoeration can be annoying if it adds absolutely nothing to the thread. examples? try the first few responses to his post. lol. it is annoying to see this in threads, but the vast majority of the time (maybe 80% up), the thread is later closed because the nay-sayers were correct. its annoying when a good discussion is brought up, but the first few posts all say to close the thread.... Thanks for adding absolutely nothing What I meant was saying it happens doesn't prove anything. Link some examples, show us what you mean. Often people get this idea that something that annoys them is overwhelming the site when in reality it is a rare occurence. I just wanted some examples to prove to me this is not the case.
i find it hard to believe that you have never seen this behavior in the forums. do you seriously want the op to browse through the forums to find concrete examples of something apparently everyone but you has seen before?
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You know, the reason you don't like back-seat moderation is because it's people making content-less contribution-less posts on TL telling other people how to post.
Read your blog again and think about that for a second
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