presence of powder toy

  • candyman
    6th May 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    for the past few months, there has been less and less people on the forum. i have a few reasons why:
    -unreasonable banning
    -mods just acting too cool
    -the elements section
    -less entertainment
    -and just general stupid reasons

    People now are getting banned for making threads with the name not up to the mods standard. also, they treaten with bans. that drives people away
    the mods are being too cocky. just because you can do cooler stuff doesnt mean you're any cooler. ther has been soooo many temp bans and some people never come back
    people really enjoy thinking up elements. they also hope for theirs to be but in the game which is one of the reasons why they stay.
    the forums have goten boring and uncompetitive, nothing new is coming out.
    there are many other stupid reasons that are just not clever. we are the only reason you have powder toy. the least you can do is make it exiting

    ~ yellowjelly
  • MasterMind555
    6th May 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @candyman (View Post)
    No

    -Banning is alright
    -Mods acting too cool is just the opposite of the first one
    -No more elements wanted, that's clear
    -Maybe, but with all the new peoples ( All the newbs and noobs ) all the good general topic would go crazy and not be fun anymore anyways
    -Yes, Noobs

    In general what I ( It's just me ) think is that the always increasing number of noobs on the forums ( Which is normal due to the increasing amount of members ) caused all that, they mods would be less strict if there was like only 2-3 noobs active on the 10-20 good active members, but now it's 10-30 noobs active ( Or either quitting while new noobs joins ) on maybe 30-60 active members ( And this time too, some quitting and other joinning ). In simple terms, The Powder Toy's forum is victim of his success.
  • lolzy
    6th May 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    Trust me. I've been here for nearly a year and this is easily the busiest I've ever seen it. You have had a short span here and so you joined in the peak where shortly afterwards things always drop. It happens everywhere.
  • FrankBro
    6th May 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink

    candyman:


    -mods just acting too cool


    F YEA!
  • Catelite
    6th May 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    The elements section was closed off because we are physically unable to simply add more and more new elements into the game. Sorry for not being magic.

    Mods can't do cool stuff any more than everyone else can. It's nothing but work to do. It doesn't mean we enjoy it.

    The dev team spends every day coding more stuff that you'd guess. Did you even notice the GUI bar that appears when you hover the mouse over photons? Or that you could even delete photons?

    We banned all the spammers. Which means that the people who post on the forums aren't just making pointless posts to increase their post count. Do you have a problem with that?
  • edza101
    6th May 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Mods are fine they just need to enforce rules just like teachers at school.
  • Catelite
    6th May 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    Yes. With Timeouts and suspension. IE, temp bans. :P
  • Xenocide
    6th May 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    -unreasonable banning <-- provide case please.
    -mods just acting too cool <-- expand
    -the elements section <-- The game is laggy enough at this point, more elements will decrease its performance
    -less entertainment <--- eh?
    -and just general stupid reasons <-- Provide the reasons.
  • Sylvi
    6th May 2011 Moderator 0 Permalink
    You're just whining over rules that are always on other places. Also give examples of how and why. We aren't doing this to make users leave or angry. We do this to protect the others. Sacrifice 1 for another 100. Which end of the balance would you take?
  • MasterMind555
    6th May 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @candyman (View Post)
    I think you should retreat, it's 5 mods VS you