The Moderators of the board have decided that general discussion threads, such as this one, are no longer permitted. While they can provide a forum for discussion, more often than not they have become a place for endless gif posting, mark wars and irrelevant drivel.
If you have a topic you would like to discuss about a particular wrestler or event, make a separate thread. Do not clutter said thread with irrelevant gifs and meaningless/off topic/marking/hating posts. We have made this decision in an attempt to open the discussion for all members who feel lost in big threads such as this.
As an aside, in the immediate aftermath of a big event, general discussion threads will be permitted to curtail rampant posting on a single issue right after it happens. This is the only exception.
We hope this measure will encourage a more open discussion across the board.
Mods are probably sick of having to moderate long discussions. If mods want to bring them back then they need to establish new rules and stuff and probably get new mods. Plus I mostly didn't like how everything was lumped together into one thread.
I support this as well. The Discussion threads were created to prevent random threads related to certain Superstars/Divas from clogging up the forums but now the complaint is that the Discussion threads themselves are clogging things up. Without them, though, we're just going to go back to the random thread system. A sub-forum seems like the best option.
Plus I personally think that Discussion threads kept the mark wars to a minimum, since there were fewer trolls coming in to post "Who cares?" etc.
I didn't hate them or care about them as much, but I agree with the boring thing lol. It would be hard to discuss about something when everything was lumped together into one thread.
Wait for me to discuss what we're gonna do with the other mods re: a general thread in the section. If you want somewhere to use a chatbox/tumblr esque thread then use G&T yes.
I'll second this. Should be easy enough to set up. I rarely ventured outside of the Reigns thread and even though sometimes it drove me nuts, I still enjoyed reading the posts of other folks on the board.
OP was one of the Shield Thread inhabitants so this isn't surprising. If you want to shoot the shit with your friends, use the games & trivia section. Make a fan club thread of something, it's unlikely to be locked or closed there.
If people felt lost in a big thread, put a limit on how many posts or pages can be in a particular thread and then start a second thread and lock the first one.
In my opinion the OP suggestion is a good one. It would allow for those threads, long or otherwise, without 'cluttering up the board' which seems to be the main problem from what I gather in the post from the mod in the threads. Seems to me a new thread on every topic for every wrestler will be even more cluttering won't it?
Maybe make threads of specific rivalries going on such as Paige and AJ, rollins Ambrose, Lesnar cena etc. That way it prevents one big thread about one wrestler and combines it into two.
tbf I've been telling you all to make threads to have general chat in games and trivia since the original shield thread but nobody has tried to yet.
Those discussion threads had some good posts but they were also very spammy and often veered off topic. Having separate threads means peoples posts are less likely to be buried under other posts about other topics relating to the same wrestler. Plus before we'd literally only do them for something like the biggest angle in the company beforehand and those would die off naturally once that ends.
generally once a match is announced for these rivalries we make a thread in the ppv section for you to discuss there. There's already a one for the Lesnar Cena match.
I think this is a great suggestion. personally I don't even bother with any of the other threads. just went straight to the discussion threads of my favourite wrestlers.
now they are gone, I have been browsing the site and it is ridiculas. very boring and I ain't even going to go into the threads about reigns (who I mainly like to discuss) because of all the trolls and negative people who don't care to even 'discuss' your point of view.
I plan on giving it a couple of days but if no resolution is found by then, I'm gone. am currently looking for another forum site that I will enjoy. I will be surprised if I am the only one jumping ship.
I don't think the problem was to do with them clogging up the RAW section but more so how much moderating was required to keep things in order and generally speaking just how poor quality most of them were in the first place. There was some good discussion but there was also a hell of a lot more pointless GIF posting, spam, mark wars etc. (particularly in the Shield guys threads).
The best solution is probably to just open up a sub-section in games/trivia (or even rants) where people have pretty much free reign to post what they want in regards to their favourite wrestlers.
:lmao if anybody actually cares about this that much to the point where they're going to leave the forum because of it, then they really aren't the sort of member that will even be remotely missed.
Expanded version. Basically if you want to banter then use Games/Trivia and don't do it in the WWE sections at the expense of potentially good discussions.
For the record, Games and Trivia still has rules, so people can't come in and troll just for fun and get away with it, so there's genuinely no reason not to.
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