| I'd chip in as well, for the reasons others have stated.
As far as Bog's questioning goes, I think you're on the wrong track. This forum is a good concentration of knowledgable MMOG players that have been at it for the better part of a decade now, in some cases. There's a lot of knowledge and creativity in this community, and to lose it would be a shame. Maybe there's other forums out there that have intelligent discussions of MMOG mechanics that are better than here, but the idiots help add to the flavor.
And I think developers themselves recognize this. Only a very select few actually post here (Aradune being the biggy), but I'm sure dozens of others occasionally try to troll through the garbage for that occasional nugget of goodness.
The important thing, IMO, is the boards running reliably and having a bit more active moderation. Swearing and flaming is one thing, but there's a lot of dumbassed posters around that should have been booted years ago. This shit isn't a right, it's a privilege.
And personally I wouldn't be that upset of the Screenshots forum was nuked, or better yet, attachments were disabled in it. I've always wondered why they even allowed large attachments in the first place, and when the PGT first started I tried to get people to host the pics themselves instead of attaching, but now it's basically several thousand pics being hosted by fohguild.org, and that must suck down a ton of bandwidth. Nuke it, if bandwidth is an issue. There's free porn everywhere on the net, anyway. |