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Posted on 05-20-16 01:15:05 AM

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There was an exodus a few years back due to some differences of opinion.

It's basically an archive forum now.

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Posted on 05-20-16 01:19:32 AM

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…huh…well, you can’t blame the Internet for doing that to itself.

But still…it was a great community…

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Posted on 05-20-16 03:48:44 AM

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Posted on 05-20-16 06:57:54 AM

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I think it just died at some point, In fact i only just realized its still there when you mentioned it...

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Posted on 05-21-16 03:54:19 PM

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Originally posted by Xenesis
There was an exodus a few years back due to some differences of opinion.

It's basically an archive forum now.

Isn't that the NSMB forum?

Not that the SM64 one is very active either, though.

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Posted on 05-21-16 04:10:23 PM

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SM64 forum died because nobody was allowed to say shit there without a swift strike of the fist of moderation.
Welp.

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Posted on 05-22-16 01:15:13 PM

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Originally posted by Nyanners
SM64 forum died because nobody was allowed to say shit there without a swift strike of the fist of moderation.
Welp.

Great description.

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Posted on 05-23-16 06:39:52 PM

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Originally posted by Nyanners
SM64 forum died because nobody was allowed to say shit there without a swift strike of the fist of moderation.
Welp.

Nice of you to come out of two-year retirement for this.

The SM64 forum was heavily moderated to keep a high signal-to-noise ratio instead of devolving into garbage. It worked well but people like being able to post garbage, so the majority of them left to post garbage.

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Posted on 05-23-16 07:02:20 PM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper
Originally posted by Nyanners
SM64 forum died because nobody was allowed to say shit there without a swift strike of the fist of moderation.
Welp.

Nice of you to come out of two-year retirement for this.

The SM64 forum was heavily moderated to keep a high signal-to-noise ratio instead of devolving into garbage. It worked well but people like being able to post garbage, so the majority of them left to post garbage.

By "Garbage" I assume its the sort of hacks that are just a bunch of stuff thrown together to be 'challenging' or really poorly done graphical edits. Hacks that are good and/or improve on the original are practically 1 in 1,000,000 these days.

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Posted on 05-23-16 07:07:39 PM

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As much as some people were idiots, the moderation going on in the SM64 forum was so tight it could have scared users away regardless of their intelligence. You don't really feel welcome in a place that has shit like "READ THIS OR DIE" or "DON'T MAKE NEW TOPICS" plastered all over. It's like if cops were out in the streets going "DON'T COMMIT CRIMES OR DIE" at random people while pointing guns at them, under the name of "preventing crime".

Besides, idiots don't read

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Posted on 05-23-16 11:16:24 PM

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Originally posted by StapleButter
As much as some people were idiots, the moderation going on in the SM64 forum was so tight it could have scared users away regardless of their intelligence. You don't really feel welcome in a place that has shit like "READ THIS OR DIE" or "DON'T MAKE NEW TOPICS" plastered all over. It's like if cops were out in the streets going "DON'T COMMIT CRIMES OR DIE" at random people while pointing guns at them, under the name of "preventing crime".

Besides, idiots don't read

More along the lines of what I meant, And yeah it does come across a bit of a slap in the face how that's the first message I make here in 2 years, didn't occur at the time.

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Posted on 05-27-16 08:16:24 PM

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Originally posted by StapleButter
As much as some people were idiots, the moderation going on in the SM64 forum was so tight it could have scared users away regardless of their intelligence. You don't really feel welcome in a place that has shit like "READ THIS OR DIE" or "DON'T MAKE NEW TOPICS" plastered all over. It's like if cops were out in the streets going "DON'T COMMIT CRIMES OR DIE" at random people while pointing guns at them, under the name of "preventing crime".

Besides, idiots don't read

This kind of thing is what happens when you think too hard about what the Internet could do to a forum…or anyplace on the Internet.

What people really should do is let the fanbase adjust itself around the theme, poking it into shape here and there, not really requiring any huge projects…then after it has had time to settle, THEN crack down…but only a little bit, and around what was generated during the settlement, not around the original idea.

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