Cowabungaa said:
Elementary - Dear Watson said:
Hmmm... The only thing I have noticed about the Escapist over the years are less new topics posted each day.
But then again, most of them were utter shite... All about morals of drowning people (who will you save?) or billy basic 'what do you look like?', 'what is your favourite geek possession?' or 'who is your favourite game character?'
Don't forget the obligatory versus threads before those mostly died out thanks to the crackdown.
Queen Michael said:
Um... yay?
Seriously, this place needs something to bring people.
Like what? The only area in which it's really lacking, though I don't personally miss it, is anime and manga content.
What it definitely doesn't need is stuff like that weekly deal nonsense. The increasing reliance on lists doesn't sit well with me either. But overall, there's still quality content to be found here.
Cut the rules down to what a lot of sites are doing now, "Don't be a dick". Then only moderate obvious examples of dickery or disruption that the
normal people on the site can't handle themselves with a bit of time. Change your points system to assign grades to infractions, because the idea of a low content "whoopsie" having the same weight as someone calling me a stuttering prick is obviously dumb.
Lose the health bar that everyone can see. You're making a point system and health bear visible to a bunch of fucking GAMERS. They're gonna turn it into a GAME.
and not a nice one...
Beyond that, what everyone else is saying... more content. That's hard though, that takes talent and money. What I'm saying just takes the balls to do it.
