Matthew on 23/10/2009 at 13:07
Keep your horrid Thief out of my inbox, please.
Dario on 23/10/2009 at 13:33
Haha, I have to borrow this from ZylonBane... :D:D
Inline Image:
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4650/debunkershg5.jpg(man, digging through his posts is like nothing else. If they ever create Put-down-o-pedia, they could just mirror his account, and be all set)
Enchantermon on 23/10/2009 at 13:54
Quote Posted by Dario
. . . when you never visit the forums . . .
I see.
Dario on 23/10/2009 at 13:56
99.9% of the recipients of the emails would be the TTLG members who no longer visit (but were interested enough in one or more of the TTLG games, at one point, to sign up).
Nameless Voice on 23/10/2009 at 15:16
The problem here is that there are no news updates either way.
Using RSS would obviously be a much better way of announcing important news than mass email spam, but either way, someone would have to write the news announcements.
Most of the main TTLG sites aren't even kept very up-to-date with news anymore, so really, there isn't much news to send out.
You could easily check sites like The Circle or SShock2.com for news - which would be the same as your news would be in any case. They just don't have RSS feeds, because no one has had the time to update the sites to include RSS feeds whenever updates are posted.
Kolya on 23/10/2009 at 15:55
That's certainly interesting. I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion of that article though ("People are dumb. Let's succumb.").
Don't get me wrong: I'm all for dropping unnecessary elite thinking, but on the other hand, if you don't even know what a browser is, maybe you better stay off the web. The net will certainly be better off without you. Okay, that was straight elite thinking. But would you want people driving around when they can't spell "car"?
Here's another idea: Sell them RSS as "Newsletters". Problem solved.
theBlackman on 24/10/2009 at 23:46
Or, you could just read the top of the page and the most current postings.
Set your OPTIONS to show a week of posts instead of just the new ones or daily posts.
Maybe we should have a "Using TTLG forums for Dummies" :ebil:
Kolya on 25/10/2009 at 02:37
Or a "TTLG for old weisenheimers". Cutting down the timeframe doesn't deliver what Dario requested in any way.
In the end it's like Nameless hinted at: The TTLG staff has become a bunch of lazy bums, sitting on their internet throne built in the late 90s. There are no news, either way. The hub is broken and dead, the FAQs are obsolete and the game sites are rotting. The mods are too busy with real life, not willing to hand over responsibility. And that is that.
Nameless Voice on 25/10/2009 at 02:46
I don't think it's so much "not willing to hand over responsibility" as it is "no one wants to volunteer to do it either".
theBlackman on 25/10/2009 at 02:53
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I don't think it's so much "not willing to hand over responsibility" as it is "no one wants to volunteer to do it either".
Kolya seems to have all the time in the world to piss and moan. He/she could volunteer, but then that would probably be a major setback instead of an improvement.
