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Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 01 Jul 2018, 23:32
by fightinfrenchman
Goodspeed wrote:Agree there is little substance lately. Why don't you make a good thread about an interesting subject? Be the change you want to see, or something.
Because if you do it just gets derailed by trolls
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 01 Jul 2018, 23:38
by evilcheadar
iwillspankyou wrote:I tune in to the esoc, every now and then, but log out again. Cos there is just nothing much here that is interesting anymore. What happened to the communety. Its all about memes, and "nothingness". I am very dissapointed in the way the communety have gone from interesting to "prank and half a brain"
Refill thread and try to be (focus people!) thread, simple as that.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 01 Jul 2018, 23:40
by edeholland
I think the (focus people!) is actually key in scaring off the trolls and making a thread succesful.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 01 Jul 2018, 23:43
by fightinfrenchman
edeholland wrote:I think the (focus people!) is actually key in scaring off the trolls and making a thread succesful.
Sometimes when a thread is being overrun with trolls I will blow a whistle at my computer in hopes of "scaring them off"
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 01 Jul 2018, 23:58
by deleted_user
just made a new thread
favorite bridge thread:
viewtopic.php?f=315&t=14889
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 01 Jul 2018, 23:59
by XeeleeFlower
A problem I see when it comes to good enlightening threads in offtopic is that people on both sides of a debate tend to get offended and passionate. Thus, discussions aren't able to take place in a mature and respectful way. Insults get hurled, people try to be edgy, some people are just straight up disrespectful, then reports are made, mods have to step in, then everyone is pissed at the mods, posts get deleted, threads get locked, then people don't feel that it's worth their time to post anymore so they don't.
Another problem is that there are several people who think throwing in a shitpost is funny and clever, when all it does is break up the flow of a thread and causes people to feel irritated. Some people join in with the shitposting and then the entire thread has been derailed also causing one to feel less of a desire to post anything of substance.
A good thread is an entirely subjective experience. I enjoy reading threads on here even if it's simply to learn more about the individuals in our community.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 00:12
by TheFrozenStrelet
XeeleeFlower wrote:A problem I see when it comes to good enlightening threads in offtopic is that people on both sides of a debate tend to get offended and passionate. Thus, discussions aren't able to take place in a mature and respectful way. Insults get hurled, people try to be edgy, some people are just straight up disrespectful, then reports are made, mods have to step in, then everyone is pissed at the mods, posts get deleted, threads get locked, then people don't feel that it's worth their time to post anymore so they don't.
Another problem is that there are several people who think throwing in a shitpost is funny and clever, when all it does is break up the flow of a thread and causes people to feel irritated. Some people join in with the shitposting and then the entire thread has been derailed also causing one to feel less of a desire to post anything of substance.
A good thread is an entirely subjective experience. I enjoy reading threads on here even if it's simply to learn more about the individuals in our community.
Welcome to the internet.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 00:16
by Gendarme
XeeleeFlower wrote:reports are made, mods have to step in
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 00:29
by Mvp618
Wait am i the only one who comes to esoc for the shitposts then?
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 00:54
by TheFrozenStrelet
Mvp618 wrote:Wait am i the only one who comes to esoc for the shitposts then?
The only posts I've actually enjoyed and got a laugh out of were the shitposts. Some people are so serious and some of us see life for how it is.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 02:45
by evilcheadar
XeeleeFlower wrote:A problem I see when it comes to good enlightening threads in offtopic is that people on both sides of a debate tend to get offended and passionate. Thus, discussions aren't able to take place in a mature and respectful way. Insults get hurled, people try to be edgy, some people are just straight up disrespectful, then reports are made, mods have to step in, then everyone is pissed at the mods, posts get deleted, threads get locked, then people don't feel that it's worth their time to post anymore so they don't.
Another problem is that there are several people who think throwing in a shitpost is funny and clever, when all it does is break up the flow of a thread and causes people to feel irritated. Some people join in with the shitposting and then the entire thread has been derailed also causing one to feel less of a desire to post anything of substance.
A good thread is an entirely subjective experience. I enjoy reading threads on here even if it's simply to learn more about the individuals in our community.
What’s your opinion on threads like “how many refills?”
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 04:14
by Ashvin
Mvp618 wrote:Wait am i the only one who comes to esoc for the shitposts then?
Wow you're back after over more than a year
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 06:28
by Googol
You have to look forward to @
tedere12 which is my idol, so in the end he's basically your idol too.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 07:07
by [Armag] diarouga
iwillspankyou wrote:this is one example of the problem. its just non sense statments. Im pretty disapointed, but well, I said I was quitting, and maybe I should not try remember why I made that statment, cos its nothing here anymore.
Well I tried to make it a bit more interesting with the MU of the week threads, but after like 6 weeks people got bored and stopped discussing it.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 08:31
by Ashvin
[Armag] diarouga wrote:iwillspankyou wrote:this is one example of the problem. its just non sense statments. Im pretty disapointed, but well, I said I was quitting, and maybe I should not try remember why I made that statment, cos its nothing here anymore.
Well I tried to make it a bit more interesting with the MU of the week threads, but after like 6 weeks people got bored and stopped discussing it.
I loved those discussion, however I don't think i have enough skills/experience to share my views(which I am 100% are not perfect) on it.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 08:35
by [Armag] diarouga
Ashvin wrote:[Armag] diarouga wrote:iwillspankyou wrote:this is one example of the problem. its just non sense statments. Im pretty disapointed, but well, I said I was quitting, and maybe I should not try remember why I made that statment, cos its nothing here anymore.
Well I tried to make it a bit more interesting with the MU of the week threads, but after like 6 weeks people got bored and stopped discussing it.
I loved those discussion, however I don't think i have enough skills/experience to share my views(which I am 100% are not perfect) on it.
That's the issue with this kind of topics too, it's very elitist. Still I think that everyone can share his point of view and that it's actually very interesting. Quite often some players (and that's true at every level of the game although it happens less often at high level) don't understand why a strat with civ X doesn't work vs civ Y, and thus isn't used at high level.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 08:41
by Hazza54321
Cos theyre 1v1 MUs of the week
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 08:41
by fightinfrenchman
[Armag] diarouga wrote:Still I think that everyone can share his point of view
*Or her
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 09:25
by Sargsyan
Googol wrote:You have to look forward to @
tedere12 which is my idol, so in the end he's basically your idol too.
Lets check if he has an idol himself?
@
tedere12
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 10:57
by tedere12
Sargsyan wrote:Googol wrote:You have to look forward to @
tedere12 which is my idol, so in the end he's basically your idol too.
Lets check if he has an idol himself?
@
tedere12
@
analworsher9 @
thebritish
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 11:00
by Sargsyan
tedere12 wrote:Sargsyan wrote:Googol wrote:You have to look forward to @
tedere12 which is my idol, so in the end he's basically your idol too.
Lets check if he has an idol himself?
@
tedere12
@
analworsher9 @
thebritish
@i think we finally found our true idols
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 12:00
by Googol
Sargsyan wrote:tedere12 wrote:Sargsyan wrote:Googol wrote:You have to look forward to @
tedere12 which is my idol, so in the end he's basically your idol too.
Lets check if he has an idol himself?
@
tedere12
@
analworsher9 @
thebritish
@i think we finally found our true idols
@
tedere12 how about this guy?
https://youtu.be/j7X5H7jdyU0
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 12:13
by Sargsyan
What a speech man i cant hold my tears, the guy is orator af
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 12:14
by momuuu
n0el wrote:iwillspankyou wrote:Snuden wrote:Cringe.
could b I am wrong. But every time I make a post or a thread. this guy is here spawning nothingness, or hate. I would say that it is a big portion of the problem we face: a post of nothingness, or hate
True statement.
If only back in the day when the moderation team tried to make steps towards improvong this situation some admin wouldnt have simply overruled them and reverted what had been done.
Re: esoc in general - is there a good thread here?
Posted: 02 Jul 2018, 12:15
by Sargsyan
momuuu wrote:n0el wrote:iwillspankyou wrote:Snuden wrote:Cringe.
could b I am wrong. But every time I make a post or a thread. this guy is here spawning nothingness, or hate. I would say that it is a big portion of the problem we face: a post of nothingness, or hate
True statement.
If only back in the day when the moderation team tried to make steps towards improvong this situation some admin wouldnt have simply overruled them and reverted what had been done.
ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT H2SO4 ?