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Aquacorde October 4th, 2016 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Sun (Post 9436207)
Clubs were great in their era, during their prime time. Nowadays, most clubs just exist to mope around (: Clubs should just stay in their golden days; personally, I would like the trace of clubs to disappear completely.

nah, nah. not clubs. member fanclubs. that was a whole different ball game

Melody October 5th, 2016 1:32 PM

Sure drama sprouted up occasionally in the old days from some of these and I don't miss the drama from any of these suggestions but they were nice usually when people were behaving and acting nicely so I'd like to see their return in some shape or form.
  • #thepokecommunity - IRC [Currently Served as PC Discord] - When it was lively, active and full of nice and fun people. Not before it started declining and became hostile and eventually empty and devoid of users. Fortunately PC's Discord Server is a nice place that fills this need fairly well.
  • Member Fanclubs - [Supplanted by VMs] - OMG, these were great and amazing hubs back in the days before VMs were a thing. If you were known well enough you had a thread and didn't have much problem keeping one up and going and it was a great way to really get to know people. Even if you're a lurker. Man those were good days. Fortunately the current implementation of VMs does pretty well and users are even able to moderate them and reply to them and use them how they see fit.
  • Reputation - [Currently supplanted by Post Likes] - I actually miss being able to negatively rep people who post poorly and impact the community poorly. Say what you will but I feel like the drama caused by this was grossly overreacted to and overblown.
    That being said; I also think that a reputation system, should it ever be re-implemented;
    • Be strictly points based, and your score should be visible to only you and staff if they're on your profile.
    • Reputation points should not be touted about
    • +/-1 only: Person(s) with lots of reputation should still only have the ability to add or subtract 1 point for any post. Conversely it doesn't matter if your reputation is down in the negatives, you still can affect your 1 point on any post. No scaling; this is strictly an up/down vote style thing.
    • The post comments should be separate from all points positive or negative; if it must be integrated then the comments should always be worth 0 points (neutral) reputation as they are simply feedback.
    • Reputation given to a single post should be visible to staff, and you should see reputation points the post awards on your own posts only.
    If used and implemented correctly, I believe that Reputation would not be a negative thing to have for the community.
  • Other Voting Polls - [Supplanted by Treehouse/Mall/Round Table trio] - God I miss OVP with a passion. It's unfortunate that now you're forced to use the trio mentioned to do poll-type threads.
    While it's nice that The Mall is somewhat serious about it's own topics, and Round Table is great for discussion, Treehouse isn't as serious. So if you want to poll about something that doesn't fit anywhere but Treehouse, you're stuck dealing with the 'shitposters' (no offense to you guys; I'm ok with shitposts when they're done appropriately within context) in there responding to your thread/poll in an un-serious manner. There's a 'Serious' Tag but...really I haven't seen the mods do any hard enforcing of that. I can understand why, but it can really be tough when you don't want sarcastic/satirical responses; but none of the other sections will accept the thread.
  • ThunderDome - [Fortunately Supplanted by Round Table] - For the most part I do enjoy the current implementation we know as the Round Table but it does have a few pain points. Some members, who I will not name, can be rather...Disruptive... to a good discussion topic. Sometimes even normal, regular members will become tilted and quite disruptive. Fortunately this particular aspect of PC's darker past has been well recreated in a more constructive manner that serves the community well. So this is less of a "I miss it!" mention and more of a pat on the back for staff and community for making it possible and doing it better than we did before. Aside from perhaps needing a few extra dedicated mods here I think the Round Table is a good faithful reimagining without the pain points of the past, failed experiment the ThunderDome was.
  • Member Encyclopedia - This was a really neat idea that briefly filled the vacuum left by Member Fanclubs. It made for a nice place where individual members could post and maintain a more detailed sort of biography thread where other members can post questions to them and get to know them a bit better. I would love to see this come back via the Forum Frontier at some point. I feel it didn't really get a fair spin the first time it was tried and that staff expected activity that quite honestly shouldn't have been expected of it. In fact it could easily integrate into Main Street and be a sub-forum of this where established members could run and maintain their own encyclopedia thread and such, and there it would be in a place where new eyeballs could be constantly viewing it and generating traffic that makes it more appealing to have around.

dad October 5th, 2016 2:59 PM

alright, new question.
how do you think these things (IRC, reputation, ect.) would do in PC's current environment if they were to come back?

Sefuree October 5th, 2016 3:00 PM

We need to build a wall

dad October 5th, 2016 3:03 PM

no.

Sefuree October 5th, 2016 3:04 PM

How else are we going to keep the shit posters out?

Aquacorde October 5th, 2016 8:45 PM

i don't see discord as a replacement for irc? just... irc on a dedicated platform? does it not have all the features and more of irc?

Aquacorde October 5th, 2016 9:13 PM

Oh, I suppose. I tend to see it as less... replacing and more like migrating. What the Discord server really is, is what everyone always wanted the IRC to be.

I guess I see a lot of old --> new stuff as less of a "killing off" and more of "shedding skin", you know? We found out what was working and wasn't and modified it to fit the current user preferences etc. Or, server preferences lol in the case of showgroups and that lmao. And what wend, went for a reason. Usually some pretty good ones.

Melody October 5th, 2016 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by colours (Post 9437616)
IRC technically hasn't left, but it's just been dead forever so you don't really see it in any of PC's skins or anything like that since Discord/the battle server took over.

Reputation would be an absolute mess, let's be real. No one likes having red pip bars display in their postbit and there would always be a thread pretty often about "why do I have negative rep???". Keep in mind the culture of PC was very different back then so it'd probably be worse now.

Member Encyclopedia was basically Member Fanclubs 2.0. The popular and well-known/well-liked members got the biggest threads. If you aren't either: popular, well-known/liked, good luck with thread survival. If it came back, it'd be the same thing, really.

on the rep I have to disagree; but only if we brought it back the way it was back in the day. If we brought it back now and the worst you could have is 0 points and that point counter was buried in your usercp and no where else I doubt anyone would notice or care what their score was often enough to stir drama.

Nah October 6th, 2016 4:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Melody (Post 9437989)
on the rep I have to disagree; but only if we brought it back the way it was back in the day. If we brought it back now and the worst you could have is 0 points and that point counter was buried in your usercp and no where else I doubt anyone would notice or care what their score was often enough to stir drama.

I agree that a rep system with the changes you described would be better than the old one....but nobody would want it that way. I'd think that people who want a rep system back want it to be publicly visible and not only visible to themselves and staff. It'd be kinda pointless to have it like that really, nevermind that you can kinda tell who're the quality users and who are the crappy ones if you just stick around long enough and observe.

Logan October 6th, 2016 10:30 AM

can't wait for rep to return so i can take my rightful place as pc's king

Melody October 6th, 2016 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Nah (Post 9438153)
I agree that a rep system with the changes you described would be better than the old one....but nobody would want it that way. I'd think that people who want a rep system back want it to be publicly visible and not only visible to themselves and staff. It'd be kinda pointless to have it like that really, nevermind that you can kinda tell who're the quality users and who are the crappy ones if you just stick around long enough and observe.

Well honestly the idea is that you get to see the feedback on your own posts. Right there in the postbit. Think of it as an enhancement. Rep doesn't need to be a public ego stroking thing. Doesn't matter if people want it to be it shouldn't have been and it should never be. It can and should be used as a polite feedback mechanism.

Cay October 6th, 2016 1:19 PM

cnc/feedback on posting seems so extra lol. "nice shitpost, really utilized the art of the obscure inside joke right there, and the cat emote was a very nice garnish. 7.6/10 id add a bit more memes but pretty good overall"

Aquacorde October 6th, 2016 7:24 PM

i don't see the point of feedback besides possibly anonymity and honestly if you feel you have to be anonymous about a comment you probably don't really need to make that comment. we have vms/pms for personal in-depth convos about something, we have the ability to reply in the thread (amazing! it's like we're a forum!), we have likes. we have enough ways to give feedback.

Altairis October 6th, 2016 9:39 PM

the trade section used to be a lot bigger, with way more active threads. this was like when i was 10 and maybe... didn't use this account 8) also was because this was dppt era before when rarity was "a shiny Pokemon" and not "a shiny Pokemon with good IVs and nature and egg moves" sooo it was more common to have things to trade

soo maybe I don't miss PC trading but the ease of trading before?

Her October 7th, 2016 1:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Melody;9437533[*
Other Voting Polls - [Supplanted by Treehouse/Mall/Round Table trio] - God I miss OVP with a passion. It's unfortunate that now you're forced to use the trio mentioned to do poll-type threads.
While it's nice that The Mall is somewhat serious about it's own topics, and Round Table is great for discussion, Treehouse isn't as serious. So if you want to poll about something that doesn't fit anywhere but Treehouse, you're stuck dealing with the 'shitposters' (no offense to you guys; I'm ok with shitposts when they're done appropriately within context) in there responding to your thread/poll in an un-serious manner. There's a 'Serious' Tag but...really I haven't seen the mods do any hard enforcing of that. I can understand why, but it can really be tough when you don't want sarcastic/satirical responses; but none of the other sections will accept the thread.

We are discussing ways to make Treehouse pleasurable to all while providing better avenues for all kinds of relevant discussion! marz (McCree? I don't know about that, Alex) and I are looking forward to how we can improve Treehouse in the future, so do not fret. Your concerns are definitely noted. But I find your tone a bit of an insensitive cop-out in regards to the memberbase who post here, regardless of intentions. It just contributes to a perception of the place that I do not find remotely pleasing.

In regards to the threads with the Serious tag, as of writing this there are only three on the front page and two of them are by me. So there's not much to police in the first place, let alone incidents in said topics to police. But if you want to post something of a serious nature, by all means, use the tag provided or come to me and I'll do my best to alleviate concerns - or help in a more direct manner.

Logan October 7th, 2016 1:40 AM

fire user god

Her October 7th, 2016 2:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Harry (Post 9439236)
fire user god

bite me harold

Logan October 7th, 2016 2:04 AM

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Originally Posted by God (Post 9439246)
bite me harold

that would make pc infinitely better tbh

Her October 7th, 2016 2:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Harry (Post 9439248)
that would make pc infinitely better tbh


Lucario October 9th, 2016 3:27 AM

Creative media.

rainbow October 9th, 2016 12:33 PM

It's a shot in the dark, and I doubt anyone remembers it, but I SOOO miss the Nightclub RP thread. That thing was my life and I made so many good friends in it. Was sad to see it die.

Aquacorde October 9th, 2016 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by RainbowNebula (Post 9442583)
It's a shot in the dark, and I doubt anyone remembers it, but I SOOO miss the Nightclub RP thread. That thing was my life and I made so many good friends in it. Was sad to see it die.

AHHHH SOMEONE MISSES MY NIGHTCLUB?! ;w; i'm about to be making something relevant in multiverse soon. :D i gave over nightclub thread creation to desi though so go bother them ;)

rainbow October 9th, 2016 2:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Aquacorde (Post 9442602)
AHHHH SOMEONE MISSES MY NIGHTCLUB?!

Yeah! After the nightclub died I pretty much left PC lmao

moon October 10th, 2016 6:18 AM

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Originally Posted by RainbowNebula (Post 9442583)
It's a shot in the dark, and I doubt anyone remembers it, but I SOOO miss the Nightclub RP thread. That thing was my life and I made so many good friends in it. Was sad to see it die.

what was Nightclub? o:


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