DarkSideStrike wrote:
You do not have to have the PPP be a selling point for prospective users considering to join MFGG at all since that isn't a core feature MFGG prides itself on as it does with Mario fangames (and the occasional indie posted). Just simply do not advertise the PPP in the same sentence as MFGG if your aim is to get new users to come in here who do have an interest in Mario fangames among other gamedev things if you truely are concerned with post quality (and I think that is setted by those who have the biggest voices so far setting the norms on what to expect from the community).
MFGG never used PPP, General Chat, or the community in general as a selling point. Fangames have always been the core focus of MFGG. Then look what happened in 2010 despite all of this. You don't have to advertise something to make it popular. A similar thing happened with the forum games before. We've had several users who would only post in the forum games forum and nowhere else. It wasn't a big problem or anything, but it happened, which proves that simply not advertising PPP wouldn't prevent it from overshadowing fangaming aspect of the forums.
DarkSideStrike wrote:
While I do agree that I question their purpose if they arent using MFGG to make fangames or improve themselves as artists nor being social with other MFGGers, I don't think you can control how you would like those users to spend their time here. That's on them if they would bother to make serious replies and stuff instead of s-t and spamposting whatever humor they like to have.
Do you realize that letting this happen would hurt the community a lot, right? We have to keep the site fangame focused to prevent it from losing its identity, as well as to increase the overall post quality. We should encourage people to make fangames or at least contribute the community.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this would be a problem at all in the current state of MFGG, but that still doesn't mean we should just let users do whatever they want.
[quote="DarkSideStrike"]You do not have to have the PPP be a selling point for prospective users considering to join MFGG at all since that isn't a core feature MFGG prides itself on as it does with Mario fangames (and the occasional indie posted). Just simply do not advertise the PPP in the same sentence as MFGG if your aim is to get new users to come in here who do have an interest in Mario fangames among other gamedev things if you truely are concerned with post quality (and I think that is setted by those who have the biggest voices so far setting the norms on what to expect from the community).[/quote]MFGG never used PPP, General Chat, or the community in general as a selling point. Fangames have always been the core focus of MFGG. Then look what happened in 2010 despite all of this. You don't have to advertise something to make it popular. A similar thing happened with the forum games before. We've had several users who would only post in the forum games forum and nowhere else. It wasn't a big problem or anything, but it happened, which proves that simply not advertising PPP wouldn't prevent it from overshadowing fangaming aspect of the forums.
[quote="DarkSideStrike"]While I do agree that I question their purpose if they arent using MFGG to make fangames or improve themselves as artists nor being social with other MFGGers, I don't think you can control how you would like those users to spend their time here. That's on them if they would bother to make serious replies and stuff instead of s-t and spamposting whatever humor they like to have.[/quote]Do you realize that letting this happen would hurt the community a lot, right? We have to keep the site fangame focused to prevent it from losing its identity, as well as to increase the overall post quality. We should encourage people to make fangames or at least contribute the community.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think this would be a problem at all in the current state of MFGG, but that still doesn't mean we should just let users do whatever they want.