It wouldn't surprise me if AG3 was just a clever joke, so the admins would have an excuse to take a two year vacation. Or would that make me a cynic?
That's rather unrealistic and harsh. I hope you're joking.
I beg to differ. The WEPR is filled with such a pleothra of hypocrites and pseudo-intellectuals, who draw content merely from using their so called "experience" to shout down and violently suppress differing opionions. Its okay to argue, so long as you don't go against the self-proclaimed infallible bastion that is their ideology.
Or perhaps the joke is on me for thinking that such things as 'respect' and 'tolerance' could exist on the internet.
Frankly, compared to other websites and the rest of the internet and whatnot, I've found that AG's WEPR is fairly respectable. Well, in the past anyways. There really are a few credible users who frequently post their sources and logically explain their opinion, instead of blatantly shoving it down your throat. Now, along with the generation transition in the OP, we have received lots of childish, immature users. Some of them have flowed into the WEPR and have caused quite a ruckus, but that has only been around for the past year or so. Perhaps you could visit one of AG's competitors and see how well our WEPR has held up.
I don't think anyone has an idea of the release date of AG3.
Indeed. Besides, how hard is it to quit developing for 5 minutes to write a short paragraph on recent updates?
We don't, because either they are doing their job and getting lots done and just not informing us (some of the features talked about I would imagine would be hard to implement into the beta without having to reset it later on), or they're being lazy and just not informing us. Either way, it's not very encouraging to the users, and it has led to a bit of a decay, particularly in trust. While I do hope and trust that the former is the case, assurance is a blessing and we may never know the truth for a while. I do hope that this comes to the attention of the staff and it is sought out that some action is made
As for the reassurance of the staff, I don't think we will ever see any unless something actually happens with the majority of the staff becoming somewhat active again.
AG has gotten well... boring. I see it as just the problem of too much going on in too many people's lives to be on a website for hours on a day. I don't think there's much we can do about it, I've taken some hiatuses myself from this site. It feels good for a while. I'll be interested to see what happens. I'm usually here, just watching the forums, and if something peaks my intrests, I comment on it. I also post poetry in the arts section. I am a veteran of the site, and it's cool being in the forums. I like these forums because it's so nicely organized, and you don't have to go the equivalent of 4 miles to get to the bottom of them. it's one page. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.
No offense, but previously stated comments don't really help. A solution is the last thing on the objectives list right now.
Hello Salvidian, you haven't been into the AMW it seems, because tonnes of it really is small talk sloppily disguised as art related stuff.
Aye, my weakness has once again been shown! In the past, the AMW has actually been a center of creativity. After reading your post and have traveled the harsh plains of the AMW and have left a cold, mindless, moron. The recent ravages of stupidity are heartbreaking.
Seriously though, the AMW will pick up if AG ever receives a large flow of activity again.
Yeah. Even the contests have the exact same problem that the rest of the forums have - a lack of willing participants. A lot of the personal threads are sloppy, disorganized, procrastinated [on], or simply, no effort is put into them.
Once again, I can blame this on the noobs. Not to be hypocritical and all, but I haven't put my best effort into the AMW because I've been busy. I tried with Apophysis stuff, but everything else I've left for abandonment.
Or when you are in the AMW thread you tell someone what they can do to make there work better and they ignore you or get mad at you for degrading their work. That is why I like Cen's threads. He let's me comment and actually say what I think.
Ignorance is a good tool for destruction.
I have observed in recent months, that the forums are kind of being ignored by the newer users. Most newcomers to the forums post 50 to 100 times, then become inactive. Out of these many, of course, there is always those few who stay, and remain active users in the community. This process is what keeps the community alive. When an veteran user retires so to speak, he/she is replaced by new users who stay and become active in the community. The process is perpetual. New users come, old users go, and the community grows.
Yes, but the problem is that those new users who arrive tend to leave out of the lack of devotion for the community.
You know I hope this thread does better than the last. Basically it was us all just complaining and doing nothing. This one should motivate people to go and get up off their lazy bums and make a decent well thought out forum. I don't care what your favorite fruit is. I don't care what soda you like. I DON'T CARE! Is it too hard to have a decent convirsation with someone? Back last year when I first joined I was over whelmed. It was amazing honestly, I had stumbled apon a hidden community that I had no idea was here. I enjoyed it too. The people were nice and I made friends. Lots of people were on then too. You could talk with people really. I really enjoyed it. I mean I had hour long conversations with people sometimes. Now I'm lucky to get a message on my profile. So sad. Another thing about the new people is that their are some semi new people who are scaring them away. You have seen it I'm sure. The new guy who is so happy here and makes a thread. It turns out he made it in the wrong section. Then they are attack by back seat mods. "wrong forum noob" or "this will get locked" helps no one. Be nice. Your not even posting more than 7 words. Way to set an example. Instead say, "hey, you might have put this is the wrong area." not "link" or "look here first". Sorry, that was bugging me. But c'mon just stop. Maybe that's why new comers don't stay. So instead of saying " no new peoples :(" I urge you to go and take a look at the new comers forums and be nice to some new people. Who knows, maybe they will be te next vets of this site.
You're post can ultimately be summed up in one easy way: lack of motivation. Lack of support. Lack of quaility.
On the Cormyn topic, i felt like he cared, since I mostly flooded his messanger with uber noob questions about AG3, and he always responded politley and calmly. I think he temp banned me, but, hey, who's fault is that?
Finally, a mature outlooking of someone who was banned by Cormyn. It's disheartening seeing how many people are easily crushed for breaking the rules.
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*complains that community is boring*
*doesn't do a thing about it*
That is all.
Ironically, this was brought up in another way. Unmotivation, and yadayadayada. Fortunately daleks contacted joeybetz on the thread and joeybetz is doing his best to tell Dan. I've also seen MrDayCee spread these ideas around, and a few others who helped in smaller ways. Honestly, this is the most action I've seen in a year.
