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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-05 21:15:14
December 05 2012 21:12 GMT
#1
The staff have noticed that the HotS forum has become increasingly cluttered and difficult to read. As of this post we will be enforcing the following rules and locking per-existing threads which violate these rules.


(1.) Suggestion threads and 'these are my thoughts on the game' threads will be closed unless:
  • They are created by a notable member of the community.
  • They are of exceptional quality.

Notable member of the community include progamers, casters, staff and well known forum posters. Exceptional quality is entirely up to the discretion of banlings to decide. Don't try to argue that a thread you spent 5 minutes creating is 'exceptional' - it isn't going to happen. If you wish to post suggestions please do so over on the Battle.net forum. For the time being, we will permit these suggestions in patch threads or in threads where the suggestions are relevant (e.g. David Kim wants to do X announcement threads.)

(2.) Threads about HotS strategy will be held to the same standards as those in the Strategy forum. That means:
  • Help threads need to be tagged with [H] and contain replays and some analysis from you.
  • Discussion threads need to be tagged with [D] and should have a clear discussion point.

Consult the Strategy forum rules for further elaboration on what we expect from strategy threads.

(3.) Normal forum posting standards are expected.

That means follow the Ten Commandments and we'll all get along fine.
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10686 Posts
December 05 2012 21:16 GMT
#2
Thank god, thanks so much for this mod's, I am becoming so tired of reading how everyone thinks THEY would like the game to change. This was much needed and totally understandable, thanks for all of your hard work TL mods and banlings.
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
Lesrah
Profile Joined November 2010
Portugal110 Posts
December 05 2012 21:31 GMT
#3
Ditadura ftw
aka_star
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United Kingdom1546 Posts
December 05 2012 21:36 GMT
#4
I always thought TL requires some elitism to get order flowing back into the forums, or go the way of reddit and allow the community to 'upvote a thread'
FlashDave.999 aka Star
Jehct
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
New Zealand9115 Posts
December 05 2012 21:36 GMT
#5
Thank you; this forum had really gone to hell. Hopefully this forum can have some genuine discussion again ^_^
"You seem to think about this game a lot"
MilesTeg
Profile Joined September 2010
France1271 Posts
December 05 2012 22:01 GMT
#6
Oh thank God for that.

And by God I mean the TL moderators.
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
December 05 2012 22:59 GMT
#7
Praise the lord for this, thank you God!
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Xanbatou
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States805 Posts
December 05 2012 23:19 GMT
#8
thank god. so many random people were coming out of the wood works to post their awful ideas in the hots forum and it was getting ridiculous.
Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
December 05 2012 23:42 GMT
#9
I wanted another purge like back in the days 2 years ago, but this is excellent as well. There were getting to be way too many "this is my thoughts on HOTS" posts.
There is no one like you in the universe.
packrat386
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States5077 Posts
December 06 2012 05:39 GMT
#10
Closed threads was starting to get a bit clogged up . Seriously though this is an awesome change and will definitely make the forum much more usable.
dreaming of a sunny day
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
December 06 2012 18:07 GMT
#11
thank the lord! i mean thank teamliquid! err

kk i guess they're the same thing
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
spbelky
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States623 Posts
December 06 2012 18:10 GMT
#12
On December 06 2012 06:12 Plexa wrote:
(1.) Suggestion threads and 'these are my thoughts on the game' threads will be closed unless:
  • They are created by a notable member of the community.
  • They are of exceptional quality.

Notable member of the community include progamers, casters, staff and well known forum posters. Exceptional quality is entirely up to the discretion of banlings to decide. Don't try to argue that a thread you spent 5 minutes creating is 'exceptional' - it isn't going to happen. If you wish to post suggestions please do so over on the Battle.net forum. For the time being, we will permit these suggestions in patch threads or in threads where the suggestions are relevant (e.g. David Kim wants to do X announcement threads.)



Thank god, write a shitty blog post if you wanna write a shitty post.
J.E.G.
Profile Joined May 2010
United States389 Posts
December 06 2012 18:13 GMT
#13
Thank all that is holy/TL staff for this.
Do or do not; there is no try.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
December 06 2012 18:14 GMT
#14
Majestic. TL, saving the community from the community.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
TL+ Member
Unshapely
Profile Joined November 2012
140 Posts
December 08 2012 16:11 GMT
#15
Thank goodness for this. I was getting weary of reading even my own pathetic ideas. It was about time. This is perhaps the only website where I can commend the regulators.
That is not dead which can eternal lie; and with strange aeons even death may die.
TheLunatic
Profile Joined February 2011
309 Posts
December 08 2012 16:39 GMT
#16
I say we change to an up/down vote system that way the community picks the value of a topic not tl staff or some race blind qqing poor performing '' well respected'' pro
Geneq
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland165 Posts
December 09 2012 13:04 GMT
#17
On December 09 2012 01:39 TheLunatic wrote:
I say we change to an up/down vote system that way the community picks the value of a topic not tl staff or some race blind qqing poor performing '' well respected'' pro

Go to reddit, and dont come back.
scFoX
Profile Joined September 2011
France454 Posts
December 09 2012 14:53 GMT
#18
I support this change; the HotS section is in bad need of cleaning up.
xsnac
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Barbados1365 Posts
December 09 2012 15:03 GMT
#19
all i have to say : FINALY ! damn i got sick seeing so many game designers making posts about how the game should be fix !
1/4 \pi \epsilon_0
Barbiero
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Brazil5259 Posts
December 09 2012 15:07 GMT
#20
On December 09 2012 01:39 TheLunatic wrote:
I say we change to an up/down vote system that way the community picks the value of a topic not tl staff or some race blind qqing poor performing '' well respected'' pro


You'd be surprised. Most of the time, if the post isn't well structured, even a "pro" thread will be closed, and some times a ban is warranted to them as well. The forum rules apply to them as much as you, except they have much more credibility when they say they experienced something.

Also this is TL. Your achievements and your actions are what determine your freedom here. Unlike other websites, being a part of TL is a privilege, NOT a right. Everyone has access to that privilege by default, but only if you prove worthy may you keep it.

In other words, accept this or GTFO. It's rules like these that kept TL as the top-quality in terms of forums.
♥ The world needs more hearts! ♥
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