Category: Zone BBS Q&A
Okay. Maybe I've totally missed something, but what happened to it? Again, I appologize if I've been missing something, but I can't find it.
Hmm, you're right. It's disappeared from the categories and none of it's topics are showing up in the Topics with New Posts. Maybe, they're finally gonna change the wayit's accessed so that there aren't 100 Game Parlor topics before the regular ones. It's way too popular to really disappear, so don't worry. It's probably just a clean-up. *smile*
I haven't looked, but having Game Parlor posts not show up in the topics with new posts would be beautiful.
I was wondering the same thing...hmmm.
Yeah. I agree that I don't think Game Parler's topics should show up in topics with new posts. there's always new posts there. Still, the board should be there...
We have decided to eliminate the Game Parlor board based on user feedback.
April fools? I realize this question was asked yesterday, March 31, but still, I can't believe it was just eliminated. People have complained about it showing up on topics with new posts, but I don't recall anyone actually asking for it to disappear altogether.
I hope it's April fools. I understand why people didn't like seeing all the game topics on top of the new topics, but I didn't expect it to disappear all together.
same here.
What's wrong with the board itself? it's like any other board....if you don't like it, don't read it. Yes, I do understand about its new topics not showing up in topics with new posts. I bet that does get annoying.
hahaha. You know what? I bet this is April Fools. I haven't heard one complaint so far about the actual board.
lol I'm with you guys on this one. surely, if it were serious, they wouldn't put it in the news. As everyone's said, even those of us who don't like seeing it at the top of everything don't have a problem with the board. It'll probably either be put back where it was or in a new place to accomidate everyone.
i wonder why more people arent complaining? makes you think.
A lot of complaints were received regarding the inconveniencing of this board as it pertains to browsing topics with new posts. As it also consumes lot of board space, we have decided that it's best to suspend this board indefinatley until we find a pway for it not to interfere with the rest of the boards.
Why can't there be a special link for it, or put it with the other games like stones, Hang Man etc? As much as I'm glad that it's not hogging up all the space,I know how much some people really enjoy it.
I agree with Tiffanitsa.
as do I.
Well I think that sucks. There many boards that I don't like but I wouldn't want them to disappear. We all have the right not to read the topics. Bring it back please?
Amen to the last post.
just because people don't like seeing all the posts, is no reason to take down a perfectly good board. that is just plain stupid, and april fulls, well that was yesterday, and it's today, and it's not back yet. so, where are to post all our games? we'll just put them all in let's talk, or where ever we dam well like, cuz there is no specified place for them then. alright with me! but i expect something to change before all hell breaks loose. oh wait, it already has.
ok, i'm done now.
here here Ashley!!
there are boards that are just as or more popular, and do they get removed, no. so y take that down.
unless they are doing something with it, so it's not annoying all the little babies, but i doubt that.
Well, put me on the side that is glad its not showing up in topics with new posts anymore. Do I think it should've been taken down altogether? no. I'm sure it'll be back soon, just hopefully in a new place.
well let's hope it's back very sooon.
I guess we have no say in what happens.. I guess we can't enjoy something we like anymore. Isn't that the point of the zone? May be a solution would be to take the 10 or 20 most posted to games and give us at least them to enjoy?
I too was annoyed by seeing the game parlor posts taking up all that space, and I never really posted to them anyway, but this isn't the right way to solve the problem at all.
Good riddance.
mehhh. and from what another user has told me, she posted something game wise in lets talk, and it was deleted. so what, they aren't letting us play our games anymore, well. that's just retarded.
Oh, so hmmmmm... What has Rask done? Has he butt fucked an admin so they'll delete the board for him?
You know we'll never get it back, the leadership of this site is, for the most part, a collection of useless fuckwits who have an inability to do anything right. It's just a sad situation, some people are like that. The poor little subhuman things should be removed from their posts, leaving the few good ones, and replaced by people with that thing called intelligence, and that other thing called the ability to have an unbiased opinion, a.k.a. the ability to not let their friends or people who have given them favors interfere with the decision making process. I don't hate the site, just the majority of its staff, and this just further proves all the points I've been making for what, over nine months, since I left the site for a little over a month to make a point that all the degenerate blindies on here didn't get.
as i said, stupid. and now i know y i'm not renewing my premium.
yeah, I doubt I'll renew either...not after this. why the topics were deleted from let's talk is beyond me; all we were doing was trying to get our fun back. there's no excuse for that; I didn't wanna be the one to say it, but people can say favoritism isn't played, but I beg to differ!!
Yeah, betcha a couple spoiled brats paid them five years' premium so they'd kill it...
I agree I might not renewal either, the decent thing would have been to give us at least a warning or solve the problem before taking it away but I guess a few have the power! I hate many boards as I said earlier, but I just tab through them. Just to yank our fun is just not the right thing to do. Try it with another board and see what happens. Oh well guess its useless to fight the tsars.!! guess us game players don't matter!! smiles all happy easter hahahaha!
guess we're peons, as they say...
It's not really the board disappearing itself that really pisses me off here. The board itself was just a cool little thing to do when I was really bored, as I'm sure was the case with most people who posted to it. No, it's the thought of it all. As Soaring Eagle said, there are plenty of boards with plenty of new posts that we don't like, but we just skip them. Any other time someone complains about a particular board, it is usually met with, "If you don't like it, don't read it.", but apparently, someone felt really sorry for the poor little complainers about the Game Parler that they had to make an exception here.
Pizza Hut shows a lot of comercials on TV. Does this mean we should get rid of it and think of the poor selfish people who can't find something else to do, or some other channel to watch while the commercial is playing? No, most of us would just laugh at them.
Sorry, but if we no longer have a game parler, we'll post our respective games to another category. Sorry staff, but by using your logic, all of the frequently-posted-topics should be eliminated, because they're always showing up in "Topics with new posts". This would include, let's see, almost everything that has been posted to some time within the past twenty-four hours.
I echo Jess completely; couldn't have said it better myself!!
This quote made me laugh:
Quote by Darkwing:
unless they are doing something with it, so it's not annoying all the little babies, but i doubt that.
All the whining and bitching you're doing is making you sound like the supposed "little babies" you mentioned in your post.
Exactly brook.
Funny you should say that, because whining and complaining is what was obviously very effective in getting rid of the game parler in the first place.
i agree, so if we wine and complain we get it back, by that logic. muhahaha. you brook just like to laugh at someone else. it seems. a lot of people here like laughing at outher people. mehh oh well. such is existance.
Now it looks like we're complaining about others who are complaining about others.
If a board has been deleted then should our post count go down? Unless, it's just hidden.
You people who so constantly complain make me unbelievably happy that I'm no longer a member of zoneBBS staff. that being said, props to ma former bros. You all are still awesome, regardless of the comments made by the bitchers and whiners in this thread. and if this isn't an April Fool's joke (I really hope it isn't personally) good riddance to the game parlor.
Oh! So your former CL butt fucked one of you to get it taken down! I see how it is.
Agreeing with maddog on this one. I do think that if they had deleted the game parlor board that your board count would have gone down as well. Oh well.
go feathery!! i agree.
Feathery, darkwing, I have to say in no uncertain terms, that you are both utter morons. I will explain why below:
First, if you go to check out how frequently I've logged in as of late, you'd notice that the zone has maintained little to no interest for me for the last few years. I have a lot of offline things going on, as well as a few other things that are unrelated to the zone. So, why would I care about your precious game parlor board going down?
Second, you are assuming, and others are assuming with you that the taking down of this board (if it really has been forever removed) was because of only one person's request. Let me tell you, if I were to request anything, it would not be the removal of the game parlor board. there are many other things I would rather have removed. For example, the ability to post annonymously on grafiti. I maintain the belief if you have something to say, you should have the courage to say it no matter what. I would also push to have ignerent idiots who likely don't know what's behind the scenes banned for sharing views without any real concrete evidence to back them up. You have users that want the board back (if it's been removed)? Start a petition. Submit it to the admins and the CL's. Don't bitch with the expectation that anything is going to get done if you aren't willing to take action yourself. the board having only 46 (well, now 47 posts on it) shows just how few a number of people share your views, though admittedly, with my limited time on the site, I haven't seen public quicknotes as of late either.
Maddog, that's why you're not a cl now! Or, that's why people are glad you're not. You'd sooner ban someone on the way you perceive they act than on any real bannable offense! Christ, some people. And this, my friends, is a perfect example of why I maintain so little faith in the human race--so many of them act like this. There's a thing called sarcasm, you load of irrelevant nonsense. Look it up.
Wow, I thought maddog's post was rather respectful and well thought out. Judging by what was written in his post, it would appear as though he would have the common sense to know the definition of sarcasm without the need to look it up in the dictionary. I can only imagine what the zone would be like if more members actually took the time to think about what they are saying before posting. I know that we are all guilty of doing it from time to time, but sometimes a little respect goes a long way.
guys it doesn't matter our games are not coming back, so let's not bash others do that in another place. This was a board to try and get our games back, but its being ignored so we are just stuck. anyways.
It's not about the Game Parler, really. I created this topic to ask a question, not to bitch. It's the thought of it all. Like Maddog said, if losing the game parler is the end of the world for you, then...maybe, you should find something more productive to do with your life, but if Game Parler is down, there are so many other boards that should be down too, by that logic.
I agree with Jess; it's not the fact that game parlor has been done away with that bothers me...it's the fact that there are far worse things that are often overlooked. just had to explain myself; very well said, maddog.
ooo, let's take down the let's talk board next then shall we, or some other random board.
but then, maybe they aren't ignoring us, just trying to do something else with it? but if that's the case, then y not let us know that that is what's going on?
Hmm. Maybe, if they're spending so much time deciding what to do with it, they could...maybe fix the Stones Bug while they're at it? Oh yeah, and maybe they could also address the error a few people get sometimes when refreshing the page, unless they already fixed that and didn't say anything about it.
He wants to ban people on how he perceives they act?
Sorry. That's not too respectful, how I was raised. I was raised in a world where what you do means a hell of a lot more than what you say or pretend to do.
Anyway, the problem that I'm having is that while they're ignoring other actual bugs, they took way too drastic a measure by getting rid of something a lot of Zoners used as a boredom killer now and then, instead of hiding the posts, they decided to be lazy and completely eliminate the problem. If they're fixing it, maybe they should say it--and then do it--and they'd cut down a lot on the criticism they get. The admins say things and don't follow up on them. Perhaps if they can't follow up on something they should say, "We're going to try," not "shut up and go away." It's quite simple really. Maybe actually fixing the problem isn't, but affecting how people perceive what you're doing--by making a visible effort rather than the "shut up and go away" approach--is that simple. And if you really have so much of a life that you can't take care of admin/cl duties, perhaps offer posts to people who can balance all the things they do? I'm not in your life, I wouldn't know what you do with your time, just seriously! The favoritism runs rampant! Roll up your pant legs guys, and wear your high boots...
Here's an idea from MadDog, which apparently by the sound of things you guys haven't done. If you have, then, don't bite my head off. Email. the. admins. or. CL's.
I thought enough people had emailed the admins, therefore though I might ba`2h them, I wouldn't harass them, especially not on their own email...but as they're not showing signs, note "showing signs" of doing anything, an extra email can't kill them...
i agree. and we can't even post games in let's talk, cuz they get deleted. so, yeah, extra e-mails won't hurt.
Hey, it's worth a try.
To be honest I'm not complaining. I don't actually mind not having the game parlor topic stuff before all the others. I'd rather get to the interesting/useful stuff that people post. yes games can be fun, but they just take up a tonne of space sometimes.
I do see your point here, but for me, that's not what I'm trying to get at.
well other things take up space to. I can remember seeing 10 jokes before anything else so just tab past it. It doesn't matter we lost our games and no one from the zone cares so!
and it's been over a week, and they have given us no reason, no explanation, no idea of what's going on, they just took it down, with out anything. just boom, one day and it's gone! that's what pisses me off, because we don't know what their plan is, if it's gone for good, or if they're doing something else with it.
Just curious. Has anyone sent an Email yet? Because if they're reading this board, they're certainly not making efforts to post to it since the day they confirmed it was gone.
Thot I would stop in and share briefly.
Like others I too miss te Game Parlour Topics
I would usually stop by during the Holiday Season
and it was a way of catching up with friends here.
I can understand how those who didn't take part
in this particular Board found it a bother
to tab through in order to get to the other Topics.
Seems to me there would have been a way that as one would
click on, "Topics with new posts,"
that somewhere there could be a box checked
if a person did not desire that the Game Parlour topics be placed
within their advancement, to show up on their page,
as it were.
When I go to my profile and click on number of Board Topics
I note that the Game Parlour Topics do not show up...
So I take it that all the answers given
in those Boards are forever gone
and not just like being held somewhere to be brought back later?
Seems kinda sad that those Topics are no longer
in that those Topics were not "just games"
but also a way that some of us would share
back and forth with each other within the context of a game.
For now, it is gone, completely. Will it come back later? Well, they're leaving us out of the loop as to how that progress is going, unless there is none, so I don't know, and neither do most of us at this point.
Like maddog, I am a former cl, and can state for a fact that the game parlor wasn't taken down as a favor to anyone. The cls really do earn their money <grin> providing anagrams, approving (or not approving) new users, putting board topics in the right place, and sorting out the petty hassles between users.
Having said that, I think the approach to all of this was terribly mishandled. How about some discussion and explanation before taking such a drastic action? How about some real problem solving before taking actions? (Your response to the problem is like doing eye surgery with a chain saw.)
Okay, I'm done.
BTW: hi Connie Grace, haven't seen you around for a while.
Bob
I agree here. I think they've done the wrong thing for the right reason.
What a bunch of gripers, I like to acknowledge and respect the current leaders then work with them to improve things if there are any problems. wow, what a novel idea! :-) Smile, my first message, but after reading the board full of pissed off people griping about the leadership I had to put my two cents in. TTYL
we'd work with the CL's if they'd take the time to let us know our help is valued. so, sorry, but that doesn't hold much water.
I'd be more than willing to work with them on this if they would do their part too, which, I'm sorry, I'm going to sound like an ungreatful bitch here, but they said they would try to do something about it, and we have yet to hear about it since. I haven't even seen the staff post to any of the recent Zone BBS Suggestions. Granted, the Game Parler hasn't been on my mind much lately, but since someone felt the need to bring this up again after months of silence, I'm going to respond.
If the cl's had more power, we would do something about it. SO please, before you accuse us of not listening, point your aim in the right direction. Thanks.
The reason why none of us are responding to the suggestions category, is the same as the one mentioned above. We would like some of the changes to happen as well, but we have no control over any of them. These types of things fall entirely into the hands of J and Chris.
My appologies if I pointed fingers at the CL's directly, and thank you for posting, even if you can't do anything about it. At least that tells us you're listening.
CL's, I blame you for all the wars in the world, all of the diseases, and all of the other...er, whatever bad thingies that are going on out there! I mean seriously, you guys are CL's! You should be able to change all of that and make it go away and make it all better so that we can all live in a perfect, beautiful, lush and green world where instead of fighting with guns, missiles, bombs and knives, we fight one another with little foam bats when we're all upset and the most we have to worry about are bad hair days.
the point of that little rant? another experiences from the time when I was a CL. Let me state right off first that the admins have enough work on their plates. I know chris does work for eight hours a day (if things haven't changed) and J always has a lot of things going on for him. changes are things that we all wanted to see, including the admins themselves. Sometimes though, changes are harder to add in than it might seem, or the changes that some are hoping for are not exactly at the top of the priority list. bob there already said what a CL's job usually consists of. With those things, is also measured the extent of our power (or for me former power). None of us has any access to code in how things should or shouldn't be.
so CL's, while I still maintain that all of the global problems are your faults, I forgive you for them!
I, too, am sorry for directing my comments towards the CL's; I should've said I was refering to the staff as a whole. I realize everyone has lives outside of the zone; I just wish something could be done.
Okay. For one second, let's just stop thinking about CL's verses Admins, and think about most of us, who have no access or information about how things are progressing on the site, besides the board posts from the staff. When the staff tells us, like with the Game Parler, that they're trying to think of something, and then we go months and months without hearing anything about it, which is also the case with some other suggestions. I can't count all the times we've heard "I'll pass that on to the Admins". Now, while I'm sure you're not lying about that, when we go months after that without hearing another thing about it, or in some cases, where our suggestions don't get responded to whatsoever, I'm sure some of us feel like we're being completely ignored, or blown off. I understand you all have lives outside the zone, and that's awesome, because that's more than can be said for a lot of us, but for some us, especially those of us who are premium, we feel like our input isn't getting enough feedback. Even if your response is just to tell us that we're dilusional with our suggestions, at least we know that you've read what we have to say. As long as suggestions are encouraged, they will be given. It's none of our business what goes on during staff meetings, but some updates would be nice every so often. This isn't just about the Game Parler, either.
ditto to the last poster. that's totally the way I feel.
while I very rarely posted to Game Parlor, I do hope that whoever is responsible for such things comes up with a viable sollution. I don't see why, for example, it can't just be put under games or, as was already suggested, why there can't simply be a check box to hide it from users who don't wish to see it. It would be ashame to lose so many premium members because they feel as if they're being ignored or as if you've taken something fun away from them. I think that we should work together on this, if possible, so that we could come up with something that will please more people.
I only mentioned premium members because we're investing a very small portion of our funds into this. I didn't at all mean that as a slam against standard members, and their say is just as valuable as that of premium members.
I'm sorry, but I am a new user, and what exactly is the game parlor? Does it have anything to do with the accessible games category?
No. It's a board where users created their own games, like "ask the next poster a question", or "last letter connect", for a couple of examples. It got to where its topics were showing up in "topics with new posts" above almost every other topic, because so many users played so many of the games there in one go, so it was getting really annoying for some people. Apparently, they're working on bringing it back in such a way that it can be hidden in "topics with new posts", but apparently that hasn't happened yet.
I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said here, but quite honestly I don't agree with the way the admins handled this. The game parler seemed like it was another section of the site, not just a board. At least, that's what I get from it, considering I never got to see the board in action. From other things I"ve read on the site, it seems like this isn't the first time the admins have done something without properly informing users. Would it be so hard just to add an option to hide the board from latest topics, perhaps right below the favourites option? Just a thought.
Oh, and to the people that yell at the cl's for taking down posts, you all need to get off your asses and do something about it rathe than blaming the wrong people.