Montana's Message To The Community

[Alby_da_Wolf]

MontanaHatchet said:

Baalzamon said:
I agree completely that too many threads are being either trolled, or filled with worthless posts that wind up making what may have been an interesting thread into something I can't get myself to read.

On another, completely unrelated note (I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself), your writing skills are quite amazing (as can be seen by your OP alone). It flows quite amazingly, and really gets the point across. Have you ever asked to be a writer for Vgchartz? (you can tell me via wall post/PM if you don't want to clog this thread with unrelated discussion)

Thank you, I'm glad to hear that my writing style is appreciated as well. I actually did write a couple reviews and articles for the site years ago but I lowered my input as my interest in the community waned. For now I'd like to just devote my time on the site to being a moderator but I appreciate the compliment.

Addressing a couple of points in this thread:

Carl: The feature you mentioned (only quoting the last post instead of every post in the quote tree) is one I've seen on several other sites and it's something I hope will be implemented in the redesign.

RolStoppable: This is sadly true to an extent but I'd like to work towards the point where threads which foster good discussion can reach 100+ posts with ease.

Morenoingrato: It's tough to find the right balance of moderation. However, I'd glad to see that discussion has improved somewhat in the last couple of months.

Great OP Montana, and I like this answer too.

About Rol's and Moreno's opposite positions, I'd side with Rol, but only when the trolling is a borderline one, intelligent and/or humourous and/or lighthearted, well, when it actually is a somehow trollish, even very provocative, but enjoyable contribution to discussion. And obviously full time trolls constantly for positive threads about some platforms and games and posting in them just to shit on other's cereals don't fall into the category of acceptable trolling. And when they constantly do it with bitter one-liners that taken singularly wouldn't be considered trolling, they're just hypocrites, but they remain trolls. And yes the border is sometimes difficult to spot, but there's a simple rule, was it made also for humour and to stimulate the discussion or just to piss others off? Then to make this simple rule more difficult there's the fact that some people have no sense of humour at all and they'll get always pissed off... Sometime the borderline troll is like Rol so much more intelligent than average that in his best posts it's difficult to get all the subtleties... Sometimes the target is intelligent and has sense of humour, but he's oversensitive on some arguments, like Moreno, that tends to get utterly depressed and pessimistic when Ninty doesn't go well, and in those cases trolling him is just evil... Mod's a difficult job... Athough I'd have SO liked to be the one that permabanned Tuscanyman!!!