Please do not put Youtube and better in conjoined sentences.
Are you serious? I'm not so sure that the rest of your opinions are very reliable anymore. I hope you were just trying to be funny, Freakenstein. :O
Please don't label the moderators as being "nowhere in sight". You're welcome to label administrators, though. There's a reason for that. The administration is the staff members that are developing AG3, with a couple that make games and are...supposed...to do...community..things...
There are usually about 3 mods active at a time. For the whole community? Spam gets taken care of pretty slowly. So we can flag stuff, for the invisible admins, or tell a moderator. It works, but slow moving. The merit system also depends on moderators. Less moderators, less chance of merits.
Ok, to be honest, I'm not sure how moderators go through comments for merits, but I'm sure it's really tedious. Really. It's been a few years, and not much change, unless mods have been given new mod tools, and us regulars aren't getting anything.
Carlie was a community manager. You cannot expect things to improve when she's around, because she's a community manager. If moderators are the police officers with taser guns and hammers to slowly chip away buildings, she is the police officer with a life-stopping pistol and dynamite to demolish buildings in entirety. However, she is still just a police officer and isn't equipped to *create new buildings*.
I understand very well that Carlie was just the CM. I was using Carlie as an example, she was
the best connection in the middle years, between admins and normal users. That's not very good. And then there is cormyn in the AG3 forums. That was pretty promising, but he sorta disappeared.
An expected double-edged sword when any reinforcer is installed, behooving users to "cheat the system" by finding exploits in the program to speed their progression. You cannot fix this so much without being too controlled and detrimental. Flash game websites do not need this.
I agree with you here.
You labeled this as an issue that needs to be fixed. How can you fix something that's not there? This should be added into "features that need to be there", which by the way should be installed into AG3. When...that comes....along...
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The "New ArmorGames is coming soon..." has been on the site header for what? over a year? Being a regular on several websites that rarely update, I wouldn't be surprised if it took another year. It's been 5 years since the open of AG2 beta, and nothing interesting until AG3.
And what is AG3? A huge jump. I'd prefer a gradual ease into AG3 from the start. I'm pretty sure you know that most people don't like change. AG has already lost tons of players to other sites. AG will lose many of it's base players due to this (firetail is qq coz he no getted his AP lul). AG3 will bring new players, but yea, we'd still have our same community right? right? I don't think so.
You weren't around when closed/open Beta was featured, having many of what public beta does not showcase. Naturally, you think there are few featured to tinker with, but far more things were in closed/open beta. The staff just decided to not have this here yet, probably for revamping what was already good. Like they like to do.
Yeah, things. Very interesting. *rolls eyes*
If they had awesome things that I don't see, why not just tell me?
This is a problem when it comes to security and the reputation system put into place by the staff later on. When low comments get buried, they say "too many negative votes", but "too many negative votes" is a few accounts. This label can easily be exploited by Sockpuppeting. And when there are comments that are buried, moderators have to check why the comment was buried. It's more hassle to the police officers when their own peers are hiding the marijuana. It has to be visible (instead of being swept under the carpet so users can easily skim past) so users can report these matters so moderators can warn/punish the individual. It's no wonder why Kongregate is anarchist/lenient in traffic security; the system does the security for them!
You're too busy being an AG moderator to remember that other sites have better moderation tools. Enough -'s is more of a flag, that SHOULD be sent to mods or admins to take care of it. You already have people reporting problem to you, why not make it automatic?
You're calling out Kongregate for having an anarchistic system. And it works. What is ArmorGames? a monarchy? No, It's a mess. Kong's "anarchy" works because it has an enormous player base. Kong tells me what they're doing and why they're doing it. Armorgames tells me nothing.
As always, I forgot half the things I was going to say while I was saying them.
