Brotherman Bill
Arcane
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A year back or more, Dark Underlord finally dropped the hammer on megathreads. Stop making megathreads or someone will get demodded, he said. Stop this shit, it's ruining our fair land, he said.
So, when WL2 was finally released I looked forward to reading a nice thread of impressions about the new, grand, Wasteland 2. I really wanted to.
But it was not to be. Within one day, the thread had generated 24(!) pages already. What a fascinating game you say, was there so much to comment upon? Or did someone start a multi-party flamewar? Or did we break new ground in RPG analysis? Sadly, no. It was all filled to the brim with comments only marginally more intelligent than "first!" "second!" "This is bunny copy him [....] world domination" and so on.
This is typical megathread behaviour. Short, meaningless posts fired off at full auto speed. It appears that slaying the megathreads was not enough; the cancer has metastasized and colonized not only the PE thread, but now appears to be establishing colonies in every new high-profile thread on the dex. The modus operandi is to drown every new thread with comments until it has become a megathread, at which point the thread enters a self destructive evil circle of more inane one liners---->people feel less obligated to effortpost----->more inanities---->all effort gets drowned out, it's meaningless anyways---->repeat. In the end, only Roguey and Infinitron remains as King and Queen of the digital wastelands.
And what's worse: This cycle is now so efficient it happens within one day of release!
The rule against megathreads was formally declared long ago, but has not been upheld to any degree whatsoever. This is not surprising, as the megathreads were pushed by the very people tasked with upholding the law; a certain unholy trinity of moderators whose names and sexual/ethnic/gender identities shall not be named. Thus, the policing of the forums is deeply corrupt and we can only expect it to get worse from here on. Until the law enforcement will be cleaned up, replaced and punished, crpg discussion will probably be the new GD for all the sense you can get out of it.
I call upon all to raise their voices in opposition to this degeneracy.
So, when WL2 was finally released I looked forward to reading a nice thread of impressions about the new, grand, Wasteland 2. I really wanted to.
But it was not to be. Within one day, the thread had generated 24(!) pages already. What a fascinating game you say, was there so much to comment upon? Or did someone start a multi-party flamewar? Or did we break new ground in RPG analysis? Sadly, no. It was all filled to the brim with comments only marginally more intelligent than "first!" "second!" "This is bunny copy him [....] world domination" and so on.
This is typical megathread behaviour. Short, meaningless posts fired off at full auto speed. It appears that slaying the megathreads was not enough; the cancer has metastasized and colonized not only the PE thread, but now appears to be establishing colonies in every new high-profile thread on the dex. The modus operandi is to drown every new thread with comments until it has become a megathread, at which point the thread enters a self destructive evil circle of more inane one liners---->people feel less obligated to effortpost----->more inanities---->all effort gets drowned out, it's meaningless anyways---->repeat. In the end, only Roguey and Infinitron remains as King and Queen of the digital wastelands.
And what's worse: This cycle is now so efficient it happens within one day of release!
The rule against megathreads was formally declared long ago, but has not been upheld to any degree whatsoever. This is not surprising, as the megathreads were pushed by the very people tasked with upholding the law; a certain unholy trinity of moderators whose names and sexual/ethnic/gender identities shall not be named. Thus, the policing of the forums is deeply corrupt and we can only expect it to get worse from here on. Until the law enforcement will be cleaned up, replaced and punished, crpg discussion will probably be the new GD for all the sense you can get out of it.
I call upon all to raise their voices in opposition to this degeneracy.
