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bbbeb wrote:

JJROCKER wrote:

I don't see any topics about Twitter. Maybe 30 pages ago but I don't see any now.

I mean like the people posting about their personal life on this forum.

Prime example: That poster who posted about the kid stabbing them. What does that have to do with Scratch? Tell a parent instead of telling people who can't do anything but talk to you!

777w wrote:

i have but one word for you my good man
no
my not-so-good man
goodbye
thats right
good
bye
im outa here

I don't care.

ok im just kidding im not leaving
why?
BECAUSE NOBODY RESPONDS TO MY LEAVING BY NOT CARING
good grief 777w quiet down
you dont want this to turn into some mess of people shouting in all caps, do you?

Or... we could have a good time on the TBGs 

777w wrote:

JJROCKER wrote:

If you really want something Scratch related, try the All About Scratch section.

you know i used to think you were just another front page freak
but now
sir
you
are
GOLDEN
epic win, bro

@veggie well said my good man

Thanks 

I'm going to try to end this conversation now 

Since you are really big about the topics here being related to Scratch, why don't you just post some topics you would like to see here?

veggieman001 wrote:

People can post about whatever they want. If they're having an issue in their life, they can talk about it. Sometimes talking about things with people you don't know in real life makes it feel better, but I'm not one to judge. You can not like the content of  Miscellaneous, but that doesn't give you any right to complain about it. It is what it is and it's not going to change, especially because of the opinion of one user who doesn't care about what other people think and isn't willing to just ignore the threads about things he doesn't care about. I mean, seriously?

You aren't listening.

The people who post here are posting about strange and unusual and out-of-the-blue things. Personal life posts? Can't you just link us to your Twitter account please?
YouTube? Really? Make an official YT thread, jeez
MineCraft Servers? Meh... well, IDK. They're now too embedded in the forum to be changed.

And people who post about the things in their life going wrong need to really change that instead of posting a step-by-step onto the forums....
And I can't ignore 95% of the forum when it's all about random sporadic things that everyone feels the urge to post without thinking if it's semi-related to Scratch?

The worst is personal life. People post here like it's a mass of blogging. Why?

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

Why remove misc?

Did you bother to read the green text?

Last edited by bbbeb (2011-12-10 15:25:01)

SpriteMaster wrote:

Forums wrote:

Miscellaneous
Use this forum if your topic doesn't fit in any of the other forums.

Why make it related when IT SAYS UNRELATED.

It never says unrelated.
If it doesn't fit is it's description.

And the heading says "Inspiration and More"

This forum doesn't inspire anyone as far about Scratch as far as I can see...

I HAVE AN IDEA THAT WILL CAUSE THE MISC COMMUNITY TO STAY LIKE THIS AND KEEP MY SANITY INTACT!

Move all the stuff about coding and such to Advanced Topics and then move all the Scratch Stuff to AAS/Collabs and change the description of this forum to "For chatting about things unrelated to Scratch"

Last edited by bbbeb (2011-12-10 15:29:09)

bbbeb wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

People can post about whatever they want. If they're having an issue in their life, they can talk about it. Sometimes talking about things with people you don't know in real life makes it feel better, but I'm not one to judge. You can not like the content of  Miscellaneous, but that doesn't give you any right to complain about it. It is what it is and it's not going to change, especially because of the opinion of one user who doesn't care about what other people think and isn't willing to just ignore the threads about things he doesn't care about. I mean, seriously?

You aren't listening.

The people who post here are posting about strange and unusual and out-of-the-blue things. Personal life posts? Can't you just link us to your Twitter account please?
YouTube? Really? Make an official YT thread, jeez
MineCraft Servers? Meh... well, IDK. They're now too embedded in the forum to be changed.

And people who post about the things in their life going wrong need to really change that instead of posting a step-by-step onto the forums....
And I can't ignore 95% of the forum when it's all about random sporadic things that everyone feels the urge to post without thinking if it's semi-related to Scratch?

As I said before, if you don't like it, leave. It's not going to change. People post about what they care about, and other people show that they care too by responding. If a topic doesn't get replies, it disappears fast. If you don't care about something that lots of other users care about, too bad. There will be threads on the topic and you won't be able to just make them go away because people care. I feel like that's utterly disrespectful to say that I'm not listening. I know exactly what you think is the problem. I don't like a lot of the content of Miscellaneous either, but I'm sticking up for it because it's an integral part of the community. If someone wants to share a YouTube link and then people look at it, think it's interesting, and discuss it, I think that they should jolly well have the right to do that. I also happen to think that learning about people's personal lives (in moderation of course) can be interesting and help me understand the community better.

And I only see people post about their personal life if they have some sort of question that they'd like the community to answer. An example I can think of right now is a thread by Alternatives where he explained a situation and then asked whether people thought he should attend a detention even though several of his friends wouldn't.

Last edited by veggieman001 (2011-12-10 15:30:07)

bbbeb wrote:

SpriteMaster wrote:

Forums wrote:

Miscellaneous
Use this forum if your topic doesn't fit in any of the other forums.

Why make it related when IT SAYS UNRELATED.

It never says unrelated.
If it doesn't fit is it's description.

And the heading says "Inspiration and More"

This forum doesn't inspire anyone as far about Scratch as far as I can see...

duh it doesnt isnpire because it fits in the "and more" part of the title herp-de-derp

CheeseMunchy wrote:

I sense a flame coming on!

Saying this was not necessary, really.

Thanks for being very derpy 777w. REAAAAL productive.

Last edited by SpriteMaster (2011-12-10 15:30:01)

SpriteMaster wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

I sense a flame coming on!

Saying this was not necessary, really.

Thanks for being very derpy 777w. REAAAAL productive.

im not derpy, that is simply my way of saying "duh" withougt saying "duh" because "duh" sounds stupid
as for the flames
im trying to keep myself under control at least a bit
oh look an edit
umm
you want productive
dont look at me
777w is probably the LEAST productive scratcher EVER

Last edited by 777w (2011-12-10 15:32:01)

If Misc was deleted, I would quit.

bbbeb, LEAVE THIS SACRED FORUM.
___________________________________________________________________________________
End of discussion.

Daroach1 wrote:

bbbeb, LEAVE THIS SACRED FORUM.
___________________________________________________________________________________
End of discussion.

Tis forum is not sacred.

JJROCKER wrote:

Lets say that we didn't have the Miscellaneous forums. This may not be the best example but you know what I am trying to say here. Lets say someone wants to do a project on Minecraft but does not have enough information to do so. So they post in the All About Scratch section asking for someone to help them come up with ideas or make a list. Well, it does not have to do with Scratch but where would the thread go? It would go here.

That may not be the best example but you can see where I was going with this.

I'm fine with MC stuff. It represents a large-scale interest in the community, and that should work.
All I wish for is to seperate the small, sporadic, strange things from the large-scale interests in the forum. By organizing the place.

Last edited by bbbeb (2011-12-10 15:36:15)

bbbeb wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

bbbeb wrote:

You aren't listening.

The people who post here are posting about strange and unusual and out-of-the-blue things. Personal life posts? Can't you just link us to your Twitter account please?
YouTube? Really? Make an official YT thread, jeez
MineCraft Servers? Meh... well, IDK. They're now too embedded in the forum to be changed.

And people who post about the things in their life going wrong need to really change that instead of posting a step-by-step onto the forums....
And I can't ignore 95% of the forum when it's all about random sporadic things that everyone feels the urge to post without thinking if it's semi-related to Scratch?

As I said before, if you don't like it, leave. It's not going to change. People post about what they care about, and other people show that they care too by responding. If a topic doesn't get replies, it disappears fast. If you don't care about something that lots of other users care about, too bad. There will be threads on the topic and you won't be able to just make them go away because people care. I feel like that's utterly disrespectful to say that I'm not listening. I know exactly what you think is the problem. I don't like a lot of the content of Miscellaneous either, but I'm sticking up for it because it's an integral part of the community. If someone wants to share a YouTube link and then people look at it, think it's interesting, and discuss it, I think that they should jolly well have the right to do that. I also happen to think that learning about people's personal lives (in moderation of course) can be interesting and help me understand the community better.

But here's the part that trips me up now...
Why are no chatrooms in the forum allowed? This entire forum is a mass of topics unrelated, like a chatroom... and we need like a Journals section in this subsection, like the Swell Forums, ironically, where people can keep a journal and separate it from things like MineCraft and the Mod elections...

...all I'm asking is that we can organize this forum and keep it somewhat useful and maybe actually make it inspire more than it currently does...

It's like a chatroom, but each thread has its own topic and it's usually pretty organised. If we had a journals section, then people would use Scratch for a blog. There are some users who post random threads ("Good night!", "I have a headache", "I'm going to brush my teeth!", etc.) and I don't agree with having these topics but they usually get closed or ignored quickly.