This Site Sucks (rant) - Page 4

On November 20 2014 08:32 Qbek wrote:
The thing people want GD back for, in case some of you aren't sure, is to have a go to place to post random dota related shit. A Retard Central if you will. Some place where saying "huehue treant needs buffs" will be met with a "want some graphs with that?". I was considering various alternatives. We could maybe even get an imageboard kinda site going outside of TL, GD sure did feel like a really civil one after all. But in the end what I really miss is being able to f5 subscribed threads and not having to bother with all that "other threads' bs. Nobody went to GD with thread worthy topics anyways. People who think discussing a specific dota issue is worthy it's own topic are probably not someone I wanna discuss with.

Dota isn't serious business. Trust, I would have noticed.

On November 20 2014 08:38 CorsairHero wrote:
merge us back with the main site

On November 20 2014 08:21 crms wrote:
@Sn0_Man


I'm not a stranger to the shortcomings of trying to discuss dota, it's one of the headache inducing challenges of even having a forum related to such a game. I've had hundreds of pointless conversations about why dota is a nightmare for discussion in IRC and what you posted is part of it, but only scratches the surface.

Fortunately, not everything related to content has to be analysis driven. I think TL should have capitalized on the community side and offered more in the ways of community building than game analysis.

On November 20 2014 08:45 Julmust wrote:


I just had a look at both TL and LH (just to make sure since i havent been active on either site for a while) and none of them had a "retard central". why would it then be needed for LD? TL isn't trying to be 4chan or NAdota. TL has always, for me, been about building something that is more serious than that.

On November 20 2014 08:23 LeLoup wrote:


Also more mods need to be posting than just Yango. It's really kind of weird that he's one of the only people that you ever see posts from.

On November 20 2014 05:46 schmitty9800 wrote:
Initially I was annoyed by your post since I like liquiddota.com a lot. But I do see your point. There really haven't been a lot of separate Dota 2 articles/content....every big tournament gets a write-up but there aren't a lot of separate strategy articles.

A lot of it is the nature of the game though. Basic learning articles would be redundant as that stuff is already out there. Plus, the pro experience vs. the pub experience are a lot further apart in Dota 2 vs. Starcraft 2. It's not like you can see a C9 strat and go and reproduce it in your pub games right away.

On November 20 2014 08:45 TheEmulator wrote:

but that isn't the issue and would not make things better. and it just takes away from the sc2 site which is doing well at the moment.

On November 20 2014 09:24 Kuroeeah wrote:
isn't yango a top level pokemon trainer

On November 20 2014 09:31 Comeh wrote:

Actually yeah, he knows tons about pokemon.

There's something to be said, btw, about having LD away from TL to separate their calenders. Not sure its worth the trade.

On November 20 2014 09:45 Saechiis wrote:
They were right. Liquid is a Starcraft site. A new domain with the Dota tag doesn't change the fact that it's Liquid and that people will associate it with Starcraft. I don't see what incentive there is for Dota fans that weren't already visiting the main site to go LiquidDota over existing dedicated Dota sites.

I don't think the site sucks, I just don't think there's enough of a LiquidDota fanbase to support voluntary contributions to the point that the site's interesting to visit every day. There's not enough content to come here from a purist learning the Dotars perspective, nor is there enough community bullshit to make it fun to frequent on its own. Which is why I believe it would've been better off on the main TL where there's already an established community to fall back on.