HEY GUYS
you know what would make boyah better?
If instead of posting in the chat thread you made real threads about things and then people would actually pay attention and participate in conversations.
Wrong. A more appropriate simile would be "Chat threads are like cancer. Absolutely hard to contain."
Both of you are right.
Sometimes nice conversations happen in a chat thread.
Other times bullshit escapes into a good thread (haha we're all going to pretend to be gay lovers!!!) and it ruins everything. akudood;
I just don't even understand the point of the chat thread-- Boyah is all about chatting. If you want to talk about something, make a fucking thread, and guess what, more people are likely to talk about it because they will actually see that topic.
no more chat threads its the reason i dont post a lot
i thought the more active the chat thread was the more active the rest of the forum, like it didn't really Hinder It.
I beg to argue that more people would be receptive to your posts if you were to post more in the chat thread.
Quote from: Felt on January 02, 2012, 09:45:57 AM
I beg to argue that more people would be receptive to your posts if you were to post more in the chat thread.
Posting.
Chat thread.
Please. hocuspocus;
i agree with mushedapples
that's basically what i started doing. all of the threads i've made recently are just things that i would normally post in the chat thread. but things get overlooked in the chat thread because it's so overridden with blatant shit.
but if you just make a thread out of something that you would have otherwise just put in the chat thread it is exposed to much more. more people see it. it doesn't drown away in the hundreds of pages in the chat thread
I've thought about this before but just can't get out of the habit of using the chat thread to dump all of my crap posts in
Quote from: Mayhaps… Revelry? on January 02, 2012, 10:11:17 AM
I've thought about this before but just can't get out of the habit of using the chat thread to dump all of my crap posts in
chat threads are a really good place to Post Links to Things even if no one will respond to it.
Quote from: Complicated Bridge on January 02, 2012, 10:15:09 AM
chat threads are a really good place to Post Links to Things even if no one will respond to it.
The Real purpose of Boyah.
Quote from: Complicated Bridge on January 02, 2012, 10:15:09 AM
chat threads are a really good place to Post Links to Things even if no one will respond to it.
I'm not even talking most of that kind of stuff.
Quote from: applesauce on January 02, 2012, 10:20:03 AM
The Real purpose of Boyah.
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Quote from: Mayhaps… Revelry? on January 02, 2012, 10:26:03 AM
I'm not even talking most of that kind of stuff.
i didn't mean it as an insult cos i post a Lot of links in the chatthread too...
Quote from: Complicated Bridge on January 02, 2012, 10:26:45 AM
i didn't mean it as an insult cos i post a Lot of links in the chatthread too...
I didn't figure it was an insult, but I probably wouldn't ever post anything like that outside of the chat thread, unless it was something completely amazing and I actually had something worthwhile to post about it.
let's make this the chat thread for people who don't typically post in chat threads
Quote from: Mayhaps… Revelry? on January 02, 2012, 10:31:51 AM
I didn't figure it was an insult, but I probably wouldn't ever post anything like that outside of the chat thread, unless it was something completely amazing and I actually had something worthwhile to post about it.
oh ok, yeah, i agree.
Quote from: <sub>Pancake</sub> <sup>Persona</sup> on January 02, 2012, 10:33:24 AM
let's make this the chat thread for people who don't typically post in chat threads
But what really
is the chat thread?
Please. If you actually paid attention to the chat thread, you'd notice that a great deal of the posts in there are things that don't fit anywhere else. Idle conversation between two people that would get locked otherwise and they'd get told to "take it to PMs." Simple greetings and postings of random internet findings with no real expectation for discussion.
The thread's there for a reason.
Would it get locked these days? Because a lot of threads (in the lobby anyway) seem to get pretty chatty and off topic
Quote from: Mayhaps… Revelry? on January 02, 2012, 11:43:45 AM
Would it get locked these days? Because a lot of threads (in the lobby anyway) seem to get pretty chatty and off topic
if it were a no one cares thread, just maybe
Quote from: Mayhaps… Revelry? on January 02, 2012, 11:43:45 AM
Would it get locked these days? Because a lot of threads (in the lobby anyway) seem to get pretty chatty and off topic
getting off-topic isn't really a reason we lock these days, at least not often
but making a thread where you just post a picture you found on tumblr would get locked, yes. hint hint.
Quote from: Kaz on January 02, 2012, 11:46:16 AM
getting off-topic isn't really a reason we lock these days, at least not often
but making a thread where you just post a picture you found on tumblr would get locked, yes. hint hint.
But my point is that they do get pretty "chatty" and basically get turned into little chat threads of their own.
Quote from: Mayhaps… Revelry? on January 02, 2012, 11:49:49 AM
But my point is that they do get pretty "chatty" and basically get turned into little chat threads of their own.
i'm aware. and my point is that there's material posted to the chat thread that doesn't belong elsewhere. that's the way it is.
if you are concerned with the basic notions of a "thread," then i suggest that maybe a forum just isn't for you
Quote from: Kaz on January 02, 2012, 11:52:00 AM
i'm aware. and my point is that there's material posted to the chat thread that doesn't belong elsewhere. that's the way it is.
I know that. If the chat thread was ever killed it would kill a lot of posting. The chat thread archive has almost as much posts as just the lobby board has. The lobby would almost have a million posts if those threads were still here.
But also I was pointing out that those "chatty" threads don't generally get locked like you were initially trying to say.
Every thread on every forum goes off topic after a while.
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