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[naughty99]

bmwcrazy wrote...

 I prefer car forums. Less restricted, less annoying kids and and usually have more mature people with a better sense of humor.

I have frequented those, but only when something was wrong with my car, or I needed advice about installing accessories.

[Skypezee]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Keep it coming.

As a reminder, there is more to "community" than forums. If there is a website you enjoy hanging out at because they keep you informed well or entertained beyond simple marketing, poitn that out as well. Thanks.

Well in that case, I also visit these websites on a regular basis as well:

TGWTG.com
Blistered Thumbs
Atop the 4th Wall
The Escapist
The Spoony Experiment
Cinemassacre Productions
ashens.com
RedLetterMedia
Awkward Zombie
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Penny Arcade
Cyanide & Happiness
The Onion
Dragon Age Wiki
Mass Effect Wiki
Bulbapedia
Assassin's Creed Wiki
The Vault
The Forgotten Realms Wiki
On-Mirror's-Edge
Mortal Kombat Wiki

.... Yeah, I don't have much of a life :V

[Loain]

This one. Even then I've mostly stunk to reading and not posting (That's changed drastically over the last week though)
I try to avoid Facebook but it's almost a necessity in this day and age.
Tumblur, Deviant Art and Y!gallery. I'll pop in from time to time because I like the creative atmosphere. I can barely draw but I like seeing what others have accomplished.
I was fairly active on Perfect world International's forum. Not anymore though because I'm no longer passionate about the game and wonder why I ever was.
I'll read the articles at the Escapist and Cracked almost daily. They're fun and informative.
The 'Nerdfighters' community (you tube, vlogbrothers). It can be at times a very broadening experience to see all the different things that those two are into and how those things might connect to the different things I like.
Dose 4chan count as a community? I think it dose. I post there in moderation and even then it's mostly just the *coughs* /y/ *coughs* board. I guess I'm a perv but that's ok. I like the boards because I get a bizarre sense of satisfaction from fulfilling someone's request wishes.

[GameBoyish]

I'm a relatively active member at The Character Room when it comes to gaming stuff.

Most of these days I hang around the Corsetry Livejournal because I am growing addicted to corseting ;P No joke.

There's also the Mookychick forums as I write for their main website on the occasion.

Modifié par TriviaAeducan, 29 octobre 2011 - 12:44 .

[Shepard the Leper]

My favorite (gaming) site is www.twcenter.net 

I regularly reinstall old (Total War) games just to try one of the awesome mods developed by the community - brilliant!

Oh, and the smileys are great

[RamirezWolfen]

Let me add that I visit Cracked.com regularly. my account name is ChumpChange.

[DRUNK_CANADIAN]

Why don't you just ask Origin to send you the registry information from my browser?

Heh, but sure I'll help you with a little bit of research.

I frequent whatever community I happen to be playing the game at the time Killzone 3/Uncharted (sony)/Infinity Ward/Blizzard/Source Op/Square Enix Members etc.

My main community that I contribute too on a long standing basis is probably Steam though, mostly because I've used the platform from some time, and generally speaking the technical aspects of their forums (like the community tech support sections/discussions) have some extremely gifted and well educated people...a nice change from the drivel on most forums.

[Andarthiel_Demigod]

I used to visit Through the Looking Glass Studios Forums(mainly because I love Thief) and recently I've been frequenting the American Mcgee Forums  but they're kinda dying down.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

I spend most of my foruming time here, although I lurk the Bethesda forums once in a while, the NMA (No Mutants Allowed) forums, the Overclock.net (coz I'm a nerd like that) as well as the TWC (Total War Center) forums, which is where I originally migrated from.

For some reason, this forum has it's own brand of insane inanity - whether it's the craziness of the community, or the disturbing levels of LI devotion, or that damned MLP meme, or the relatively lax moderation which allows me to post the stupidiest pictures and photoshops with no real consequences (yes, despite paranoia over Woo & Priestly, this forum is moderated leniently) - which is not only endearing, but makes this place fun.

Though, I guess that you have to accept that you're beyond redemption before you see it.

If anything though, while I enjoy coming here, from a technical standpoint, these forums are god awful for functionality. If that's something I'd like from other forums (such as TWC, which is great for this), it's fixing the forum's technical faults and adding more functionality.

As posted above by Fiddles, skipping to the final comments of profiles should really be in. As well as spoiler tags. As well as video tags for youtube. While we're at it, why not add more smilies, or make the current ones available through shortcuts - gets you the smiley face smiley.

Then we have the massive formatting problems when someone wants to copy and paste paragraphs of text. What about the problem between using BBCode for posts and blog entries, but HTML for the rest? We should not have both <img src=imgurl> and [-img-]imgurl[-/img-] that only work when you're doing different things. Finally, when making posts in the long form, why not a preview button? We already have it for blog entries, but not posts. It'd make the forum a lot more user friendly, more intuitive and be a better place for it, imo.

Modifié par mrcrusty, 30 octobre 2011 - 11:18 .

[JeffZero]

The MLP meme is definitely not limited to here, MrCrusty. Truuust me on that one. >_>

Anyway, I'll start from scratch again and include sites I visit where forums aren't really an issue too. And if anyone happens to know from one of those places, feel free to chime in, I s'pose. (I recently realized flemm is on TrekBBS with me and DiebytheSword is on Kotaku with me!)

GameFAQs (user name: Jeff Zero)
TrekBBS (user name: Jeff O'Connor)
Kotaku/io9: (user name: lioneloconnor)
Joystiq
andriasang
Airlock Alpha (Michael Hinman, the founder, is a cool guy; we worked together a bit on Save Farscape back in the day)
tvbythenumbers (user name: Jeff O'Connor)
TrekMovie (user name: Jeff O'Connor
Archetype Gaming (user name: Jeff Zero. Fun little gaming site that just launched. I'm a blogger there so you'll see some rants from me pretty soon.)
Terra Firma (Farscape forums; user name: Jeff O'Connor)
GateWorld (user name: Jeff O'Connor)

I typically seem to use JeffZero as a gamer nick and Jeff O'Connor for sci-fi/fantasy websites. Not really sure why, but yes, Jeff O'Connor is indeed my real name, and no, I don't really have an issue using it online, heh. The Jeff 'Zero' stems from rage at many forum registrations (including this one, IIRC) not allowing apostrophes, deeming them 'illegal characters', which irks me because it's my damn name! It's not illegal, dangit!

So 'Zero' comes from the 'O' in O'Connor, thus the joke, I guess. Jeff 'Zero', his real name forbidden. D:

[Travie]

Bioware's two favorite places of course,

/v/ and RPGcodex.

Seriously though, I frequent gamefaqs and have written a couple for games I enjoy. I also go to metacritic and the steam forums when I have time kill.

...and of course the official forums for any game I'm interested in.

[DRUNK_CANADIAN]

Travie wrote...

Bioware's two favorite places of course,

/v/ and RPGcodex.

Seriously though, I frequent gamefaqs and have written a couple for games I enjoy. I also go to metacritic and the steam forums when I have time kill.

...and of course the official forums for any game I'm interested in.

What games have you written for/id tied to them on Gamefaqs.

[GreedIgnored]

I'm a social media wh*re. BSN, FB, G+, Tumblr, Youtube, I have a twitter I barely use, MSN, Oovoo (that I never use), Steam, and a bunch of others I have forgotten/never EVER check.

Modifié par GreedIgnored, 30 octobre 2011 - 07:52 .

[Lee]

Does PSN count?... Ok, just kidding.   I just lurk here these days.

I don't do social networking anything (yeah, I'm tragically uncool), and I haven't logged into AIM or MSN in so long, I doubt my logins even work; haven't touched IM's since I gave up MUDding a couple of years ago (if you don't know what that is, don't worry about it).  When I used to play MUDs, I frequently posted on dozens of forums (in addition to getting IM-bombed regularly on MSN/AIM), each one devoted to a different MUD I played on at some point or another.

I used to lurk the forum over at the UESP wiki, but haven't logged in there in ages.  My occasional posts full of sarcasm and snark didn't go over well, apparently. :innocent:

I wonder if it's terrible that my mother and sister both have FB accounts and I don't?... 

[Edit]: Well, if you're soliciting suggestions...

The forum page is REALLY long.  Perhaps we could break each forum off onto its own page.  Could have the forum button do like the Games button and give a drop down of the forums when you put your mouse on it.  Click a link and you get a page with each of the sub-forums.  Perhaps even have the "Your Posts" filter just apply to the forum/sub-forum you're viewing, so one doesn't have to sift through their posts in one forum when they want a different one.   And perhaps the search could default to the forum one is currently viewing (but of course, you could just switch it to search all forums).

Something I didn't see is an "Archive" forum, and I think we could use one; perhaps even one for each forum.  Somewhere the mods could send locked posts off to, or even old posts.  If possible, could set some sort of timer for it.  After a thread reaches, say, a year without any new posts, it'd automatically get moved to the Archive.  The Archive would be a read-only forum; somewhere we could search if we had a question we think might have been answered (for example).  Just to clean up the forums a bit, without outright deleting posts.

Modifié par invictus1984, 30 octobre 2011 - 10:23 .

[naughty99]

Question for the mods

Have you fixed the reporting system?

Previously I was told that using the report button sends some kind of report to EA that the Bioware mods are not able to read. I hope you have fixed this, because it is not convenient to have to compose a private message to a mod when a spam thread pops up.

Modifié par naughty99, 31 octobre 2011 - 12:26 .

[bussinrounds]

Edit: POst removed as per Site Rule #2

Modifié par Chris Priestly, 31 octobre 2011 - 07:12 .

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Edit: Quote removed.


I actually lurk RPGCodex pretty frequently. People like to stereotype the forums and it is full of unreasonable nerdraging neckbeards, but Godammit I can't help but agree with them about the Decline and despite the signal-to-skyway ratio, there are some really interesting discussions there. Also, probably not the place for people who cannot filter out crude, explicit and offensive language with no real ill intent.

Modifié par Chris Priestly, 31 octobre 2011 - 07:13 .

[fightright2]

For a long time I used to be a part of bleepingcomputer.com and the anti-spyware community such as geekstogo.com, tomcoyote(now called whatthetech), spywareinfo.com, atribune.org, 247fixes.com, wilderssecurity, etc. Most were part of A.S.A.P. and U.N.I.T.E The community was centered around helping each other and I think that's what I loved about it.

Most of the staff would volunteer at multiple sites and so we would know when someone posted the same question at two or more sites.
This was important since people volunteer their time to clean/help someone, it wouldn't waste a volunteer's time and have conflicting instructions.

Also, if someone was majorly disruptive we would ban them and most likely it would go on a list to pretty much 30 sister/community websites so we could be aware of troublemakers and if necessary, ban them from them all.

But mostly, what I liked about that community was that no matter what, everyone would try to conduct themselves to a mature level and always tried to put their best foot forward and encouraged asking questions for learning. Ridiculing was a big no-no.

Also, the staff and members between all those sites gained a reputation of trust for years with each other that many of the trusted helpers/members were given authority and rank that carried over to other sites and online chat as well. So that's a lot of sites/forums and sitechats to be a part of and that meant a lot of good people to call friends.

I am no longer a part of that community since it took up a lot of my time. With a house full of kids, I believe my family need my help and my time more than anyone else.

[Laamaa]

BSN & Twitter most of all. I've got a few minor ones like raptr & facebook, but I rarely check them..

[Deathwurm]

This is really the only place I like to hang out...

I really haven't found any other Community that is as lively as this one or as funny. And as much Trolling and nastiness that I see here sometimes, it's way bnicer than most of the other places I've checked out.

I I've been to other Gaming sites, but only to find out about a bug or Walkthrough in a particular Game.

[foogoo]

Battle.net forums for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3

[marshalleck]

Last thing my other online communities need is viral marketers or data-mining bots. I think I'll keep them to myself.

Modifié par marshalleck, 01 novembre 2011 - 01:35 .