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The forum always evolves. We always monitor things to see how its going, how things move and what drives members crazy.I contemplated changing this into a "all cartoons related to MLP" but considering how little is ever discussed about the other shows it would just roll back into a FiM forum.
This forum is all absorbing, and I've had mods quit and have panic attacks over it. Good people going white haired! Bekuno was a teenager when she started working in here, and now she's a octogenarian.
Wow, I didn't even know there was a thing such as moderated status.
Quote from: Sunset on August 10, 2017, 06:10:36 PMWow, I didn't even know there was a thing such as moderated status.This was news to me as well.
Quote from: mylittELLEpony on August 10, 2017, 05:18:34 PMQuote from: Loa on August 10, 2017, 05:16:33 PMQuote from: mylittELLEpony on August 10, 2017, 05:04:52 PMI've also moderated forums before and can understand where the mods are coming from. They're not saying they're banning all discussion of G4 or the show. It feels like some of the comments here feel like G4 fans are being pushed out, but there is SO MUCH discussion of G4 stuff all over the arena and probably always will be. Only one section is closing.And that's what we think. We're not banning discussion, we limiting the discussion on the nit-picky "ZOMG DID YOU SEE THAT ELBOW OF A PONY IN A FREEZE FRAME IN SEASON 42, EPISODE 12, SECOND 92?!1!!!" . We're not pushing fans out - we want them to branch out themselves!This forum is all absorbing, and I've had mods quit and have panic attacks over it. Good people going white haired! Bekuno was a teenager when she started working in here, and now she's a octogenarian.It is VERY stressful moderating forums. I've never modded anything as big as the arena. You all deserve all expense paid vacations. I think closing one section to ease your load and try to integrate fans so we can become closer as a community is a win/win for everyone here. Thank you for all that you do.It is. I have modded a site which was actually worse than the Arena, both in size and behaviour, and seriously, never again. I think it would be nice if some of the people who post about FIM came and joined in discussion on other shows and other stuff and included themselves in the outside area. I feel like it's more a case of people complaining the site isn't inclusive because their exclusive limited area of the site might go, rather than actually exploring beyond the limits of that space. I am still worried about FIM in the Corral and how that will work. I suspect there will be threads posted that have to be removed or merged and the same issues with transpire in those threads that exist in the FIM forum. The only difference is that it will be all over the Corral, which is frankly the ONLY place on the forum where anything mainstream G1 can be discussed. I am fine with an intergenerational Corral, but I think that it would be great if the mods looked at a potential space for intergenerational media discussions going forward.I think there is a rationale for that to exist and it would open up possibilities of sharing media across generations. FIM discussions could still exist but to a more controlled degree. G1 and G3 media discussions could also exist there. People making multimedia like lostpony was talking about could also go into that kind of a section. Discussion on TV commercials too, perhaps. Who knows?It might not work out, but given that the Corral is already so busy, is there no possibility of this being considered as a "thing" going forward? The Arena stands out as an intergenerational site where all are welcome. To that end surely an intergenerational media discussion area with strict guidelines on threads would be something that would give the FIM people their space as well as inviting more G1 media stuff and crossovers?That would also allow the Corral to be more involved with the toy aspect of all generations without putting anyone's noses out of joint. Can the mods be bribed with cookies to consider this in some capacity going forward?
Quote from: Loa on August 10, 2017, 05:16:33 PMQuote from: mylittELLEpony on August 10, 2017, 05:04:52 PMI've also moderated forums before and can understand where the mods are coming from. They're not saying they're banning all discussion of G4 or the show. It feels like some of the comments here feel like G4 fans are being pushed out, but there is SO MUCH discussion of G4 stuff all over the arena and probably always will be. Only one section is closing.And that's what we think. We're not banning discussion, we limiting the discussion on the nit-picky "ZOMG DID YOU SEE THAT ELBOW OF A PONY IN A FREEZE FRAME IN SEASON 42, EPISODE 12, SECOND 92?!1!!!" . We're not pushing fans out - we want them to branch out themselves!This forum is all absorbing, and I've had mods quit and have panic attacks over it. Good people going white haired! Bekuno was a teenager when she started working in here, and now she's a octogenarian.It is VERY stressful moderating forums. I've never modded anything as big as the arena. You all deserve all expense paid vacations. I think closing one section to ease your load and try to integrate fans so we can become closer as a community is a win/win for everyone here. Thank you for all that you do.
Quote from: mylittELLEpony on August 10, 2017, 05:04:52 PMI've also moderated forums before and can understand where the mods are coming from. They're not saying they're banning all discussion of G4 or the show. It feels like some of the comments here feel like G4 fans are being pushed out, but there is SO MUCH discussion of G4 stuff all over the arena and probably always will be. Only one section is closing.And that's what we think. We're not banning discussion, we limiting the discussion on the nit-picky "ZOMG DID YOU SEE THAT ELBOW OF A PONY IN A FREEZE FRAME IN SEASON 42, EPISODE 12, SECOND 92?!1!!!" . We're not pushing fans out - we want them to branch out themselves!This forum is all absorbing, and I've had mods quit and have panic attacks over it. Good people going white haired! Bekuno was a teenager when she started working in here, and now she's a octogenarian.
I've also moderated forums before and can understand where the mods are coming from. They're not saying they're banning all discussion of G4 or the show. It feels like some of the comments here feel like G4 fans are being pushed out, but there is SO MUCH discussion of G4 stuff all over the arena and probably always will be. Only one section is closing.
I do hope that a couple of the stickied threads mentioned are a general episode discussion thread and a movie discussion thread. I'm a long time collector and a long time member of the arena. I'd like to discuss the current media here (on the Arena) cause I don't feel comfortable in Brony-centric places. And besides this is where I keep up with all of my pony news and discussion.
I can just about guarantee that if g3 were still putting out episodes or whatever we'd have the exact same thing.
Quote from: Dulset Tarn on August 11, 2017, 07:08:05 AMI can just about guarantee that if g3 were still putting out episodes or whatever we'd have the exact same thing.But that's the thing.. the cartoons were never a big thing in the community before FiM came about and exploded in popularity. It's not a fair comparison.