Scratch

Jonathanpb wrote:

Yep. 

I'm serious. The reasons?
1. People often spend their lives posting in here. Don't!
2. The Scratch Forums are for helping others (All About Scratch and New Scratch Members), suggesting things (Suggestions), reporting bugs (Troubleshooting), and more. What's the use in the Text-Based Games? People don't post for good reasons, they post for their fun. Grrr!
3. There's no need for it if you want to RPG and things. Projects or galleries may be better for this. You actually can see something, whether one project or plenty.

What do you think? If enough people support this (which would be really unexpected), I'll list your names with mine and suggest this. The rest of you should stock up on tissues. If not... then I'll leave it at that.

Did you think I would really suggest this anyway? No...

Actually....there are some days when I agree with you.  This website is for supporting Scratch...the fact of the matter is, the Text-Based Games take a fair amount of monitoring which is time and effort spent away from actually helping people do Scratch.

Scratch is a little bit about getting to know others, but its main focus is using the program. When 80% of the scratch forum's posts have nothing to do with scratch it takes away the focus from the actual program that the site revolves around.

I think that there should be a separate forum website for non scratch topics with separate mods. It should be easy to back up the forum data and just move it.

archmage wrote:

Scratch is a little bit about getting to know others, but its main focus is using the program. When 80% of the scratch forum's posts have nothing to do with scratch it takes away the focus from the actual program that the site revolves around.

I think that there should be a separate forum website for non scratch topics with separate mods. It should be easy to back up the forum data and just move it.

I actually think everything is good as it is now 
If you moved the "text-based games" forum to a separate site it would not get very popular I think.
Besides it's nice to take a break and talk to other Scratchers 

jacool wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

Jonathanpb wrote:

Yep. 

I'm serious. The reasons?
1. People often spend their lives posting in here. Don't!
2. The Scratch Forums are for helping others (All About Scratch and New Scratch Members), suggesting things (Suggestions), reporting bugs (Troubleshooting), and more. What's the use in the Text-Based Games? People don't post for good reasons, they post for their fun. Grrr!
3. There's no need for it if you want to RPG and things. Projects or galleries may be better for this. You actually can see something, whether one project or plenty.

What do you think? If enough people support this (which would be really unexpected), I'll list your names with mine and suggest this. The rest of you should stock up on tissues. If not... then I'll leave it at that.

Did you think I would really suggest this anyway? No...

Actually....there are some days when I agree with you.  This website is for supporting Scratch...the fact of the matter is, the Text-Based Games take a fair amount of monitoring which is time and effort spent away from actually helping people do Scratch.

But it's a great way to get to know other Scratchers a little, and I think Scratch is about getting to know people from other cultures too 

Perhaps... but it seems that many threads in the Text-Based games forum doesn't appear to really support that too well.

I know the Text-Based games are fun (and yes, I myself used to go into those threads and have a little fun there, too) but I'm finding that I agree with Paddle2See on this one. I'm also finding that they're slowly becoming a way for people to get signatures and become involved in the forums while having little or nothing to do with the Scratch community (or sometimes even against it). Same kind of goes for 'Inspiration and More' (Look here, the original purpose of the 'Inspiration and More' forum no longer seems relevant. Maybe I'm being a hypocrite for having posted in threads that do not seem to follow this original goal, but still...)

Last edited by cheddargirl (2009-09-21 20:00:41)

                                                                                Don't delete it!

Last edited by martianshark (2009-09-21 21:24:10)

ihaveamac wrote:

Jonathanpb wrote:

Look everyone! This was a joke! The only truth in it is that if people agree with me, I'll suggest it!

Now please stop saying things like "You are idiotic" or "Jonathanpb is a lunatic" or "Hey, everyone! Let's try and stop Jonathanpb's stupid idea of deleting the Text-Based Games forum! The pathetic idiot!".

Four words: Simply delete this thread.

I couldn't! If I wanted it to stop, I'd ask someone to close it, with them posting that it's at my request. That's more clear.

It's quite nice to discuss, actually.

joeisawesome wrote:

booooooo

Always trying to ruin the fun are you John?

Mentharos wrote:

mmhmm it was seriously a stupid idea joke or not seriously dude it would upset a lot of users like myself who only use textgames

floatingmagictree wrote:

Hey, this was kind of like a forum game. "Try and stop Jonathanpb's stupid idea of deleting the text-based games forum!"

*prepare for some major freaking out*


STOP CRITICIZING JON! Seriously, he was just trying to make a point. I've seen people like "I have more posts than you!" When all they do is hang around in WOTF or something like that. The original point of forums was to help develop Scratch, report problems, and ask for help and we're turning it into a social network. I know this is crazy, being an RPGer myself and everyone's probably going to hate me for this, but I have to agree. Sorry.

joeisawesome wrote:

booooooo

Always trying to ruin the fun are you John?

look, if you want fun, go play on an actual mmo(rpg), for one there is no 60 second rule

Mentharos wrote:

mmhmm it was seriously a stupid idea joke or not seriously dude it would upset a lot of users like myself who only use textgames

ok, might I say Scratch isn't primarily a games site, it's for people to learn programming

and look at this, how many rpg's have actually gotten over 10 pages, about 3 or 4

anyway's give johnathanpb a break, he's just stating his opinion, and we all have right to do that


I'm not saying we should shut down text based games, but just stop attacking jonathanpb, we all make mistakes

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Paddle2See wrote:

the fact of the matter is, the Text-Based Games take a fair amount of monitoring which is time and effort spent away from actually helping people do Scratch.

Yes, I'm one of the corrupted Text-based games mods. D:


I do support Paddle2See on this one. The Text-based games are hard to resist. xP

Mentharos wrote:

You do enjoy it though do-you-not?

Not really, I wish the forums would be as they were before, in other words, no Text-based games/Insp. and More.

I feel sad........ D:

hmmm i would rather close this thread now as said before its getting to heated and actually people link their projects to their RPG's sometimes so: 

just gnore the spammers and have fun with the tbg's now do it ..... OR ELSE!

So far we have eight supporters (not to mention tons of non-supporters):

archmage
cheddargirl
Chrischb
Jonathanpb
Maki-Tak
MyRedNeptune
Paddle2See
TheSaint

Tons more than I expected... I thought no one at all would agree.