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i forgot to ask this earlier but
what's my niche or am i unviable :/
what's my niche or am i unviable :/
they also get locked at random, thanks in part to kala, who has less tolerance for them than some of the staff, lol.
I come to this thread in a time of need.
As a general reminder to everyone, please, please, please think before you post. As stated in the guidelines not every post has to be “funny” and you don’t need to try to be funny. But it’s good to just take a minute and ask yourself if you’re reeeaalllly contributing something to a thread before you post in it. There’s been a need for lots of thread locking and post deleting recently so I’m making this post to just encourage the userbase here to take a step back and think before you post.
I’m not trying to discourage anyone and I’m not calling anyone out in particular but yeah. As always if you have any questions or concerns you can reach out to me and/or the other Smogoff mods.
okay funny police signing off
EDIT: re-sticking this thread for now
As a general reminder to everyone, please, please, please think before you post. As stated in the guidelines not every post has to be “funny” and you don’t need to try to be funny. But it’s good to just take a minute and ask yourself if you’re reeeaalllly contributing something to a thread before you post in it. There’s been a need for lots of thread locking and post deleting recently so I’m making this post to just encourage the userbase here to take a step back and think before you post.
I’m not trying to discourage anyone and I’m not calling anyone out in particular but yeah. As always if you have any questions or concerns you can reach out to me and/or the other Smogoff mods.
okay funny police signing off
EDIT: re-sticking this thread for now
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Something that occurred to me after a while is remembering that you don't have to post in every thread. And you don't have to keep making posts when people respond. Sometimes you can let other people post and just sit back and enjoy the threads without having to do any work
bringing these to the forefront again
i don’t mind funny shit or in-jokes between buddies or cute stuff or genuine questionposting or really anything with a modicum of substance
but please for the love of god and ryan murphy stop making threads for the sake of your post counts, and doubleposting for no reason other than to fill a void
ok that’s all, get out there and try again
don’t listen to people who tell you to make good posts. post quality reflects who you are but it isn’t as simple as “good posts mean ur cool bad posts mean u aren’t”. similar to competitive games and art, posting is a skill or endeavor that can be approached many different ways— one does not have to set out to become a “good poster”, in fact paradoxically their posts might become better if they choose not to.
important thing is to enjoy the experiences of posting, reading other posts, and having your post received by others.
important thing is to enjoy the experiences of posting, reading other posts, and having your post received by others.
probably the greatest display of posting skill is posting in a bad thread and making it good
try posting in threads without reading the op
maybe add a tip telling people not to necropost.