300 said: Isn't this the dating board?RandomChampion said: every user under 18, so we can add a "dating" board.ban |
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RedArmyShogun said: @ Ntad yes, you are part of the legion of evil so is Snapshot, it is us who ruin this forum. We sure do! Ntad said: Never again will I lead the technologically challenged down the wrong path. From now on, all recommendations will include the purchase of Pentium III processors off of ebay! I shan't lead any astray ever again! Same here, I mean we do need to move that subforum to be more in line with the rest of the subforums 'round here on the scales of crappiness. It's the only way to increase the traffic to MAL. |
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snaphat said: And from now on, all tech support issues will be handled like this. We need to do our best to make sure everything is handled professionally and efficiently.RedArmyShogun said: @ Ntad yes, you are part of the legion of evil so is Snapshot, it is us who ruin this forum. We sure do! Ntad said: Never again will I lead the technologically challenged down the wrong path. From now on, all recommendations will include the purchase of Pentium III processors off of ebay! I shan't lead any astray ever again! Same here, I mean we do need to move that subforum to be more in line with the rest of the subforums 'round here on the scales of crappiness. It's the only way to increase the traffic to MAL. |
| The forum is toxic as shit and I like it. |
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Udgey said: The forum is toxic as shit and I like it. Just wait til IMG comes back and we start flooding this place with shit gifs. |
flustercuck said: I don't see any hope for this place unless the mods smoke more weed because they need to lighten the FUCK up before they ban everyone. i just had to pass an effing security captcha to even get on the website >_> |
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mclovinballz said: Udgey said: The forum is toxic as shit and I like it. Just wait til IMG comes back and we start flooding this place with shit gifs. I'm fearing the day. Every other post will have an image posted in it. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is actually saving images for the day img comes back. |
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Zetrin said: mclovinballz said: Udgey said: The forum is toxic as shit and I like it. Just wait til IMG comes back and we start flooding this place with shit gifs. I'm fearing the day. Every other post will have an image posted it in. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is actually saving images for the day img comes back. i love posting images so i await this day anxiously |
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Aylaine said: In the same light, the rule against listing discourages traffic in my opinion. Once someone's thread gets closed for listing, they might not wish to make another or contribute at all. This is the only forum I've seen that has a rule like that. Other forums of course have ways to prevent spam or listing replies such as posts needing a certain amount of characters present in order to go through. MAL does not have such a function, so more rudimentary methods are in place. The problem is, even with the current rule in place, people are still listing. That's because most forums don't have problems with people generating massive amounts of listing threads that don't contribute or enable discussion. Character counts are not the issue with that, it's the content of the OPs that is bad, as such, you aren't going to fix it by trying to force minimum posting length limits. |
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snaphat said: MadScientist said: I can tell you have a very weird thought process going on for some things. So for some reason you assume people want to beat random people's kneecaps on here and say fk you for no reason? And people don't because they are scared? He's saying, people are too scared to say anything whenever we have inane threads -- which is quite a lot. He's on point about pretty much all of the types of threads you see on here w.r.t. to general discussion, anime, etc. Wait what? I don't remember people being scared of saying stuff, they either go along with it for the "lulz" or just do it subtly. None of them means they're scared. I for one stopped caring about threads as they won't get fixed if I rant. Zetrin said: I'm fearing the day. Every other post will have an image posted in it. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is actually saving images for the day img comes back. You're so late, I've been storing gifs since I first saw them. |
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Immahnoob said: snaphat said: MadScientist said: I can tell you have a very weird thought process going on for some things. So for some reason you assume people want to beat random people's kneecaps on here and say fk you for no reason? And people don't because they are scared? He's saying, people are too scared to say anything whenever we have inane threads -- which is quite a lot. He's on point about pretty much all of the types of threads you see on here w.r.t. to general discussion, anime, etc. Wait what? I don't remember people being scared of saying stuff, they either go along with it for the "lulz" or just do it subtly. None of them means they're scared. I for one stopped caring about threads as they won't get fixed if I rant. Don't take "scared" so concretely here. It could be anything ranging from scared to simply off-putting. It's not difficult to imagine that people would be off-put from speaking up and instead just avoid saying anything altogether. |
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| I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. |
Jackrabb1t said: I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. What is the captcha issue? |
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Jackrabb1t said: What "captcha thing"?I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. |
snaphat said: Jackrabb1t said: I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. What is the captcha issue? Kimono_Kitsune said: asking to caption a series of number in order to verify if you're human or a bot.Jackrabb1t said: What "captcha thing"?I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. |
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snaphat said: MAL's DDOS protection or whatever, Incapsula. Sometimes you get their captcha (which is longer than most) and then it will usually pop up like 3 times in a row before letting you go onto the site.Jackrabb1t said: I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. What is the captcha issue? |
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300 said: asking to caption a series of number in order to verify if you're human or a bot. The question was more, what issue is there with captcha here as oppose to what is captcha. IntroverTurtle said: MAL's DDOS protection or whatever, Incapsula. Sometimes you get their captcha (which is longer than most) and then it will usually pop up like 3 times in a row before letting you go onto the site. I see, I don't believe I've ever entered a captcha for this website, but the cookie for the website expires every single time I switch wireless networks. |
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IntroverTurtle said: snaphat said: MAL's DDOS protection or whatever, Incapsula. Sometimes you get their captcha (which is longer than most) and then it will usually pop up like 3 times in a row before letting you go onto the site.Jackrabb1t said: I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. What is the captcha issue? You've got some jokes there. It feeds me endless captchas. I guess it's easy for me to bypass it, all i have to do is refresh a few times. Still inconvenient though, especially when trying to post something |
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| Honestly I don't think there's too much of a problem. Yeah the site has a few things wrong with it, but nothing to stop people from coming. I personally have only run into the captcha thing once, and it wasn't that hard to get past. And honestly, I don't mind the number of core users. I like it smaller because then I can actually keep track of who's who. For instance, I know who a few of the immature douches are, I know who some of the aficionados are, and I know who some of the sarcastic ones are. I wouldn't want it to be too big and have it become a site where there are too many people. |
Zetrin said: I also never got captchas either.IntroverTurtle said: snaphat said: MAL's DDOS protection or whatever, Incapsula. Sometimes you get their captcha (which is longer than most) and then it will usually pop up like 3 times in a row before letting you go onto the site.Jackrabb1t said: I think MAL is doomed if they can't get this Captcha thing under control. What is the captcha issue? You've got some jokes there. It feeds me endless captchas. I guess it's easy for me to bypass it, all i have to do is refresh a few times. Still inconvenient though, especially when trying to post something The only time I got captchas was in 2013 ~july/august when MAL was under heavy attack and went down for a week or so. |
| I've been on a lot of forums in the years I've spent on the internet; and it always boils down to this: - There's a bunch of loyal oldfags who've been on the forum since it started and they will be on there forever. - A bunch of randoms who'll post occasionally but disappear after a time, never to be heard from again - trolls Every forum I've ever joined had this and are always talking about the eventual "decline" of it. Despite talking about that for years. I've only now, despite joining in 2008, decided to post in these forums to talk about my favourite chinese cartoons and other subjects with other users and I like it here so far. Thing I mostly feared was that the forum was filled with little kids spamming how Naruto (or any other entry-level shounen series) is the best and only anime you should ever watch, getting butt-devastated if anyone ever dared to declare otherwise and would start flame wars to every other anime. After lurking a bit, I found out this was not the case (at least, haven't seen it so far). Thrust me, there's a lot of anime forums with people like this. Coming from someone who has been loyal to 4chan for years, this forum is a breath of fresh air. Maybe MAL should advertise the forum more? Maybe it should have an age-restriction to the forums (16/18+ or something), that way, we'll have more intelligent topics and conversations besides "Waaah, Why I don't have girlfriend yet?!?!?!? ;_;7" threads. Would cause more people to talk I guess. I haven't seen the forum in the golden days, like a lot of people in this thread have talked about, so you can discard my opinion if you'd like, just throwing in my two cents. |
OrangeStar222 said: I've only now, despite joining in 2008, decided to post in these forums to talk about my favourite chinese cartoons and other subjects with other users and I like it here so far. Thing I mostly feared was that the forum was filled with little kids spamming how Naruto (or any other entry-level shounen series) is the best and only anime you should ever watch, getting butt-devastated if anyone ever dared to declare otherwise and would start flame wars to every other anime. After lurking a bit, I found out this was not the case (at least, haven't seen it so far). Thrust me, there's a lot of anime forums with people like this. Coming from someone who has been loyal to 4chan for years, this forum is a breath of fresh air. Maybe MAL should advertise the forum more? Maybe it should have an age-restriction to the forums (16/18+ or something), that way, we'll have more intelligent topics and conversations besides "Waaah, Why I don't have girlfriend yet?!?!?!? ;_;7" threads. Would cause more people to talk I guess. Only problem I had was this. Couldn't they just lie to get in? Age =/= Maturity level. Naruto ( or even any popular shounen) praising topics are laughed at, or are trolled into the thread being locked, so they're pretty uncommon. Reason I like MAL. It shouldn't really need any advertising. It's pretty easy to find if you're even somewhat new to anime. Those crying over anime or "why don't I have a girlfriend" type threads are locked/deleted most of the time |
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Zetrin said: OrangeStar222 said: I've only now, despite joining in 2008, decided to post in these forums to talk about my favourite chinese cartoons and other subjects with other users and I like it here so far. Thing I mostly feared was that the forum was filled with little kids spamming how Naruto (or any other entry-level shounen series) is the best and only anime you should ever watch, getting butt-devastated if anyone ever dared to declare otherwise and would start flame wars to every other anime. [...] Maybe MAL should advertise the forum more? Maybe it should have an age-restriction to the forums (16/18+ or something), that way, we'll have more intelligent topics and conversations besides "Waaah, Why I don't have girlfriend yet?!?!?!? ;_;7" threads. Would cause more people to talk I guess. Only problem I had was this. Couldn't they just lie to get in? Age =/= Maturity level. Naruto ( or even any popular shounen) praising topics are laughed at, or are trolled into the thread being locked, so they're pretty uncommon. Reason I like MAL. It shouldn't really need any advertising. It's pretty easy to find if you're even somewhat new to anime. Those crying over anime or "why don't I have a girlfriend" type threads are locked/deleted most of the time Ah~! The good old days of lying about your age on Youtube and other internet services. That's true though, when I was under the age of 16, I lied all the time about it on sites that required you to be older. Ofcourse Age=/= Maturity, but we can at least expect someone who can legally drive a car to have SOME level of understanding on how to form their opinion in a well-written way? I believe either a quick Google search or word-to-mouth got me to this site back then, MAL shouldn't need to adveritse, sure, but there's competitor sites. Just saying some form of showing those users this place exists and convince them it's the better place to be wouldn't hurt. |
OrangeStar222 said: Ah~! The good old days of lying about your age on Youtube and other internet services. That's true though, when I was under the age of 16, I lied all the time about it on sites that required you to be older. Ofcourse Age=/= Maturity, but we can at least expect someone who can legally drive a car to have SOME level of understanding on how to form their opinion in a well-written way? The fatal flaw in your logic was assuming that MAL's adult users can drive... :-p |
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OrangeStar222 said: I believe either a quick Google search or word-to-mouth got me to this site back then, MAL shouldn't need to adveritse, sure, but there's competitor sites. Just saying some form of showing those users this place exists and convince them it's the better place to be wouldn't hurt. I honestly think that some of MAL's competitors got an edge lately. I don't visit them, but while they are probably getting upgraded by its staff, MAL feels like features are getting stripped and the staff is beating around the bush. |
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mclovinballz said: They may have an edge in that department but I believe MAL is the one who's growing the largest. It was at 80,000 members in 2008(when the site was sold and supposedly stopped changing), hit 1,000,000 in late 2012 IIRC, and then hit 2,000,000 members earlier this year IIRC.OrangeStar222 said: I believe either a quick Google search or word-to-mouth got me to this site back then, MAL shouldn't need to adveritse, sure, but there's competitor sites. Just saying some form of showing those users this place exists and convince them it's the better place to be wouldn't hurt. I honestly think that some of MAL's competitors got an edge lately. I don't visit them, but while they are getting upgraded by its staff, MAL feels like features are getting stripped and the staff is beating around the bush. Just looking up an anime's name will get you MAL, so it's not unexpected. It has a simple layout and way to track anime, perfect for casual anime watchers. |
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snaphat said: Don't take "scared" so concretely here. It could be anything ranging from scared to simply off-putting. It's not difficult to imagine that people would be off-put from speaking up and instead just avoid saying anything altogether. It still doesn't make sense. I think you're making presumptions. |
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Immahnoob said: snaphat said: Don't take "scared" so concretely here. It could be anything ranging from scared to simply off-putting. It's not difficult to imagine that people would be off-put from speaking up and instead just avoid saying anything altogether. It still doesn't make sense. I think you're making presumptions. I've felt this way myself so I'm willing to accept that other people could also. Even without that, like I said before, it isn't unreasonable to imagine that people would be off-put from things like this. |
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| It's safer to presume that they don't care, why do they have to say something? Plus, it's even safer to not say anything because you'd be breaking the rules yourself by self moderating when you could simply use the Report function as they tell us to do. I still can't fathom somebody anonymous would ever be afraid of saying that something fucking sucks. |
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| ^ You just said a few of the reasons yourself. |
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| Yeah but you can also presume nobody knows the self moderation rule. Because in reality, most people here actually break the rules without knowing, that means they didn't read them. I never implied they knew about the "self moderation rule". I was just saying my own opinion on how to do stuff around here. So yes, I still can't fathom why somebody wouldn't say "I hate these threads.". I think they're simply ignoring the forums and not bothering, why would they? |
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snaphat said: The fatal flaw in your logic was assuming that MAL's adult users can drive... :-p Some of us MAL adults can't afford a car, that shit is hella expensive! I can't afford all that fuel, repair, insurance not to mention the car itself. This country has a shit economy. |
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| From what I can tell, anime is only getting more and more popular amongst westerners, so naturally it would make sense that sites like these (and their forums) will be seeing more traffic as time goes on. |
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Kibura_Iburasa said: snaphat said: The fatal flaw in your logic was assuming that MAL's adult users can drive... :-p Some of us MAL adults can't afford a car, that shit is hella expensive! I can't afford all that fuel, repair, insurance not to mention the car itself. This country has a shit economy. Sadly, it sure does. The driving idea was a joke anyway though. The real fatal flow with his logic was assuming that just because you can drive, you an express your opinion in a thoughtful manner. That's just a really terrible assumption. |
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Kibura_Iburasa said: I'm getting one handed to me as a bribe.snaphat said: The fatal flaw in your logic was assuming that MAL's adult users can drive... :-p Some of us MAL adults can't afford a car, that shit is hella expensive! I can't afford all that fuel, repair, insurance not to mention the car itself. This country has a shit economy. Sup. |
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Heredity said: Korrvo said: i'd have to pay hundreds every year on compulsory third party insurance even if i was given a car as a gift. damn, there's also registration fees too.Kibura_Iburasa said: I'm getting one handed to me as a bribe.snaphat said: The fatal flaw in your logic was assuming that MAL's adult users can drive... :-p Some of us MAL adults can't afford a car, that shit is hella expensive! I can't afford all that fuel, repair, insurance not to mention the car itself. This country has a shit economy. Sup. fuck. http://www.eliomotors.com/ Brand new car $6K 84MPG no excuses for expensive cars and expensive gas! :] |
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Lime_ said: Lmaohttp://www.eliomotors.com/ Brand new car $6K 84MPG no excuses for expensive cars and expensive gas! :] It's like an awkward looking Tron bike. |
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Lime_ said: http://www.eliomotors.com/ Brand new car $6K 84MPG no excuses for expensive cars and expensive gas! :] Looks perfect for getting laid. |
Lime_ said: http://www.eliomotors.com/ Brand new car $6K 84MPG no excuses for expensive cars and expensive gas! :] I will wreck whoever I see driving that. It looks like a motorcycle with a car body. |
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| The logic behind it that if your government thinks your old and responsible enough to drive (or at least learn how to), surely you could make some thoughtful comments on an anime forum. Cars are too expensive for me too though. ;_;7 Well... wathever, regular bikes are cool too... it's... it's not like I ever want to drive a car, baka~! |
mclovinballz said: Lime_ said: http://www.eliomotors.com/ Brand new car $6K 84MPG no excuses for expensive cars and expensive gas! :] Looks perfect for getting laid. |
OrangeStar222 said: The logic behind it that if your government thinks your old and responsible enough to drive (or at least learn how to), surely you could make some thoughtful comments on an anime forum. I think just about every comment section on every website of the internet just about disproves that :-D |
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| I think you guys should consider the other side of things too. As in, why is it necessary that we make "thoughtful comments"? I don't see why people can't have fun bashing and shitposting. I want a balance in it like some others too, but your rants are unnecessary. Also, it's "you're". |
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