Loads O Fire
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Apr 25, 2007, 11:46 AM
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I'm being serious - Autos + Black market forums
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Mods, if you don't like this post delete it, I wont care. I would prefer it stays up, because in my mind it is a very important topic which we haven't discussed in a long time.
I'm 100% serious right now, I am not posthing this as a joke, or as a post I just thought of off the top of my head. I've put a lot of thought into this since the forums were taken down, months ago.
Its our choice whether they will return or not, please voice your opinion.
Everything below is strictly my opinion on how FREE-GAMES Forums has changed since the lose of the forums.
So, I'll begin with what FGF was when we had those two forums. Basically, in my opinion, those were FREE-GAMES Forum's golden days, we had new members joining every second, we had plenty of high quality posts from many different players, and overall, I thought FGF was doing great. For quite a while I had to moderate those two forums, it was OK, I had to ban a lot of people, scan a lot of files, delete a lot of posts, but myself, and the rest of the mods got the job done. Along with a lot of good players that we received from those forums, we obviously met a lot of scrubs who were here to steal accounts, insult our users, spam our board, ect. Those people were easy to deal with. A lot of usefull information was constantly being posted, and the mods felt as if they were truthfully helping out, well, at least I did.
I'm going to jump forward to the week these forums were removed. Damn... Well, we lost close to half of our active members on the Runescape category. At first, all was fine, no one worried, there were still skum-bags spamming, trying to sell accounts, trying to keylog players, but less. When I was modding during this time, I have to admit, I was beginning to feel useless, which was why I decided to give up my powers as moderator soon after. There was really nothing going on. For the whole time I modded the Runescape forums, I wasn't playing Runescape at all, if I was, it was only for a short period of time. I modded simply to help players out, I was an active user, that was able to help quite a bit because I had a lot of knowledge about runescape, and a lot of time to dedicate to modding. Well, as I said earlier, there was nothing to mod, all the members we had at the time were old respected members that had decided to stay.
Again, jumping forward, but to now. The Runescape section basically, died. Yea, we still have our old members, who have been here for years, but we are rarely getting new members. You can see how removing those two forums have effected the other categories, such as general, other GAMES, ect. Modding seems to be easier than ever, the odd spammer or scammer comes by a few times a week, but thankfully we have some great mods which clean it up right away, or soon after it was posted.
Now, there are many other parts of FGF this has affected. With a lack of new members, we are used to only seeing old faces, I myself get caught doing this from time to time. We simply think older members deserve more credit, and more respect. Since my return a few weeks ago, I felt as if people were showing too much respect towards me simply because I am now considered one of the "old school FGF users". To some people there is nothing wrong with liking people because of how long they've been here, truthfully there is nothing wrong with it, if they've sucked it up, and stayed here through good times and bad they obviously show a lot of dedication towards FGF. But I myself am not someone to look at what someone has done in the past, as much as what they are doing now. This all started when we lost those two forums, when the rush of new users died down, when we began to stop seeing new faces. Look at all the old users, if you can remember them, that came here for a month or two, and became huge fast, there are almost too many to count. I see myself as one of those people, simply because my intentions weren't to gain anything from joining this forum, it was to help, I know, I've probably said that close to a hundred times, but its true. We don't see users like that any more, which is sad, and really a shame.
When we had them, that didn't mean there were more autoers in Runescape, actually, the numbers wouldn't change whether we brought them back. See, it makes no difference, because right now, potential users come to FGF, look around, notice we don't have those forums, leave, and join Sythe instead of us. If we brought them back, the amount of rule breakers would remain exactly the same.
Simply because we allow these topics to be discussed in no means we all support cheating, I know I don't, and didn't when we had the old forums, yet I still took part in threads.
I keep going on about a lot of things, and truthfully I could go on for hours about this topic, but I'll cut it short, please, please, leave a response, whether you agree or not.
EDIT: I felt like adding this in. Look back to when you joined this forum, was it because of either of those forums, or not? I know for sure at least 75% of us found this forum from searching something on Google, which brought us to one of those forums.
(This post was edited by Bolt on Apr 25, 2007, 12:18 PM)
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