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« on: June 07, 2007, 10:22:02 PM »
Yeah, so a while ago they created a special D20 subforum, which had quite a few critics, and a few proponents as well. This kind of rubbed me the wrong way, but wasn't the end of the world.

The mods, those poor overworked volunteers, somehow manage to weed out every new post that talks about D20 and move it into the subspecialty forum. Now a thread that is intended for a general audience has been funneled into a subforum, where only a fraction of the total forum audience will see it. You know, just maybe a HERO fan is interested in WotC's marketing schemes.

It just seems to get worse every day. There's always a new rule that must get followed to the letter of RPG.net law, regardless of how much sense it makes. Don't the mods have enough work to do banning personal attacks or something? Do they really need to alienate more people by moving their posts inappropriately? Has it ever occurred to a mod that a post that mentions d20 may actually be about the industry as whole?

Argh. It's just frustrating. Someone needs to go over there and swat the mods with the stick of common sense and reason. Am I the only one who gets fed up with their crap?
 

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« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2007, 10:23:29 PM »
No, but keep in mind that they've banned me three times. Not without reason, either.
 

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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2007, 10:26:47 PM »
meh, i've given up on that place.  the attitude bugs me and they don't talk about stuff i find all that interesting.  sometimes i'll poke into trouble tickets for a hoot, but i rarely find anything gaming-wise i want to follow.  there are other fora & boards that fit my needs much better.  :rolleyes:

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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2007, 10:28:43 PM »
FINALLY, A THREAD WHERE WE CAN BITCH ABOUT RPG.NET!
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« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2007, 10:37:37 PM »
I find a lot of interesting stuff on rpg.net. The fact that I cannot post there just makes me check it less often - threads don't need to be checked as often if I'm not wondering what people are going to say in response to me.

I was about to go and have a look so I could post links to show what interesting threads they had today, but the site appears to be down. The forums come up blank, and the front page has at the top,
   Warning: mysql_select_db(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (11) in /var/www/rpgnet/slib/searchlib.php on line 9

Warning: mysql_select_db(): A link to the server could not be established in /var/www/rpgnet/slib/searchlib.php on line 9

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (11) in /var/www/rpgnet/slib/forumlib.php on line 15

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (11) in /var/www/rpgnet/slib/reviewlib.php on line 6

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (11) in /var/www/rpgnet/slib/rsslib-read.php on line 7

What that means I have no idea, but it doesn't seem very interesting to me!

So there, that's my criticism of rpg.net - given all the donations they get, their maintenance standards are pretty poor, and their server seems to be pretty fucking unreliable.

But the posters often have interesting things to say. When, um, we can read them.
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« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2007, 10:42:45 PM »
Quote from: Andy K
FINALLY, A THREAD WHERE WE CAN BITCH ABOUT RPG.NET!


I thought you had to start an anti-RPG.net thread before you were allowed into the inner circle of theRPGsite.
 

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« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2007, 10:52:24 PM »
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What that means I have no idea, but it doesn't seem very interesting to me!


It means that the database that stores all the posts is down.
 
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« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2007, 10:53:38 PM »
Yes, but the Inner Circle is a circle jerk.

Last one gets to eat the soggy biscuit.
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« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2007, 10:53:54 PM »
i guess you're in, then :keke:

shouldn't this go in off topic?

edit:  too slow!

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« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2007, 10:57:12 PM »
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FINALLY, A THREAD WHERE WE CAN BITCH ABOUT RPG.NET!


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« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2007, 11:05:34 PM »
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Yes, but the Inner Circle is a circle jerk.

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« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2007, 11:07:15 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2007, 11:07:33 PM »
The site owner wanted a separate forum for D&D and d20 in order to stimulate discussion.  So far it has worked very well, there are a lot more threads on those topics and less d20 thread crapping.  The mods just enforce the policy set by the site owner.

I like d20 games, along with just about everything else.  I just hit both forums.  Do I wish there was just the one forum?  Sure, I think it does a lot of good things.  But this topic has been beaten to death.
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« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2007, 12:17:35 AM »
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 But this topic has been beaten to death.


Ain't that the fuckin' truth.
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« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2007, 01:59:25 AM »
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Yeah, so a while ago they created a special D20 subforum, which had quite a few critics, and a few proponents as well. This kind of rubbed me the wrong way, but wasn't the end of the world.

The mods, those poor overworked volunteers, somehow manage to weed out every new post that talks about D20 and move it into the subspecialty forum. Now a thread that is intended for a general audience has been funneled into a subforum, where only a fraction of the total forum audience will see it. You know, just maybe a HERO fan is interested in WotC's marketing schemes.

It just seems to get worse every day. There's always a new rule that must get followed to the letter of RPG.net law, regardless of how much sense it makes. Don't the mods have enough work to do banning personal attacks or something? Do they really need to alienate more people by moving their posts inappropriately? Has it ever occurred to a mod that a post that mentions d20 may actually be about the industry as whole?

Argh. It's just frustrating. Someone needs to go over there and swat the mods with the stick of common sense and reason. Am I the only one who gets fed up with their crap?


What should really get to you is the fact that when Darren, a mod, decided he wanted his thread that he started in the D20 forum (about, in the sense of "trashing", D&D) to get more attention, he went ahead and moved it to the Open forum.

So apparently if you're a Mod and you want to badmouth D&D in the Open forum you can go ahead and do so without consequence, but may the magic deer help you if you try to open a thread praising or even neutrally discussing D20 in the Open forum.

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