feardragon64
Smash Champion
As I'm sure everyone is aware, the brawl forums have been spammed repeatedly with Brawl vs. Melee threads. Some of them describe in depth, why Brawl is an unplayable game competitively. Some of them attempt to redeem it's value as a game with a different play style. Well, I hope I can speak for MOST of the community in saying, enough is enough. As half of the responses in those threads say quite sarcastically, "lookie here, a NEW opinion, just like everyone else's." Can we please stop the complaining? I understand the value in determining whether or not Brawl can be played competitively, but I know I can't be the only one being tired of sorting through these threads where it almost becomes flame wars or spam because there are 50 other threads with the exact same idea. The moderators have been attempting to close down the worser of the threads, but it's not helping that we KEEP MAKING NEW ONES!
So I propose one or more of the following plan of action:
A NEW forum section be made so that everyone who wants to argue their hearts out about Brawl Vs. Melee can spam to their hearts content and rant to everyone on why they're incompetent for taking a side. By doing this, users will have no excuses for posting this in the Brawl tactical thread(how is this a tactical topic in any way, shape, or form?) can people can actually focus their attention and time on the USEFUL threads that actually involve a discovery or intelligent discussion of sort.
Let me repeat something I said earlier for clarification. I have no problem with people intelligently discussing brawl's competitiveness, but for the love of smash, stop bringing in melee. If you keep complaining that Brawl is horrible, then don't go through the brawl forums. If you feel like you're masculinity(or femininity for the females on the forum) has been challenged when someone creates a "Brawl sucks" thread and feel the need to defend yourself for playing it, relax and DON'T CLICK ON IT. Let the moderators handle it if it's truly spam. The purpose for my proposal is to clear up forum space from unwanted spam that only results in hate.
My proposal also has the option of making a thread in the "debate" forum so if people REALLY want to argue about it, they can do it in the debate forum where hopefully it can be intelligent and civilized conversation, as it usually is in there.
Now there is a thread discussing the guidlines for making threads on forums that states that if a forum doesn't leave room for response, it's not a good thread. So instead of posting "you're a *******," or a 3 character response saying "qft" respond on what YOU think SHOULD be done about the problem, or if ANYTHING should be done about the problem. If not, then why not? Clearly there are intelligent beings among smashboards or the smash community wouldn't have been able to succeed has it has. Moderators, I hope you take the time to respond to this as well, describing why or why not this idea would work(or any idea along these lines).
Thanks for reading the entire thing if you got to this point. If you didn't actually read the entire thing and skipped to the end, shame on you. :embarrass
Edit: For those who might not think there is a problem, here is my evidence. For the record, I didn't even go to the second page. And this is on just two of the forum pages:
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=167082
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=167139
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166998
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=167042
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166990
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=149606
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166398
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166862
Note that some of those topics weren't even INTENDED to become a Brawl vs. Melee debate(such as the "where do I start on playing Brawl competitively" thread). I think something really needs to be done.
Edit 2: I just remembered that there was a thread for all of these rants about brawl. Why do people keep making new threads other than actually wanting to have an intellectual discussion rather than a rant?(which is where the whole new forum section comes in).
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=145377
So I propose one or more of the following plan of action:
A NEW forum section be made so that everyone who wants to argue their hearts out about Brawl Vs. Melee can spam to their hearts content and rant to everyone on why they're incompetent for taking a side. By doing this, users will have no excuses for posting this in the Brawl tactical thread(how is this a tactical topic in any way, shape, or form?) can people can actually focus their attention and time on the USEFUL threads that actually involve a discovery or intelligent discussion of sort.
Let me repeat something I said earlier for clarification. I have no problem with people intelligently discussing brawl's competitiveness, but for the love of smash, stop bringing in melee. If you keep complaining that Brawl is horrible, then don't go through the brawl forums. If you feel like you're masculinity(or femininity for the females on the forum) has been challenged when someone creates a "Brawl sucks" thread and feel the need to defend yourself for playing it, relax and DON'T CLICK ON IT. Let the moderators handle it if it's truly spam. The purpose for my proposal is to clear up forum space from unwanted spam that only results in hate.
My proposal also has the option of making a thread in the "debate" forum so if people REALLY want to argue about it, they can do it in the debate forum where hopefully it can be intelligent and civilized conversation, as it usually is in there.
Now there is a thread discussing the guidlines for making threads on forums that states that if a forum doesn't leave room for response, it's not a good thread. So instead of posting "you're a *******," or a 3 character response saying "qft" respond on what YOU think SHOULD be done about the problem, or if ANYTHING should be done about the problem. If not, then why not? Clearly there are intelligent beings among smashboards or the smash community wouldn't have been able to succeed has it has. Moderators, I hope you take the time to respond to this as well, describing why or why not this idea would work(or any idea along these lines).
Thanks for reading the entire thing if you got to this point. If you didn't actually read the entire thing and skipped to the end, shame on you. :embarrass
Edit: For those who might not think there is a problem, here is my evidence. For the record, I didn't even go to the second page. And this is on just two of the forum pages:
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=167082
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=167139
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166998
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=167042
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166990
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=149606
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166398
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=166862
Note that some of those topics weren't even INTENDED to become a Brawl vs. Melee debate(such as the "where do I start on playing Brawl competitively" thread). I think something really needs to be done.
Edit 2: I just remembered that there was a thread for all of these rants about brawl. Why do people keep making new threads other than actually wanting to have an intellectual discussion rather than a rant?(which is where the whole new forum section comes in).
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=145377