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Edited by AAAAAA:
3/15/2013 10:27:34 PM
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I can't be the only one thinking that discussion is "dead".
Dead may be an over statement. However, I believe we can all see that there is far less actual discussion going on, on these forums. In the pre-b.next days, it would not be uncommon to have a consistent number of 3-5 100+ post threads in the off-topic (formerly flood) with a ranging level of discussion, however they did have a discussion with people constantly quoting eachother and making arguments for and against different points. We saw nonstop debate about anything from Games to Pets to Consoles to Politics (when a blind-eye was turned), often culminating in massive threads and heated debate about a particular point. Sure, much discussion was of low quality; however it was at least there, it provided us with somewhere to easily post what we wanted and get responses/discussion/feedback/awareness on/about it.
It's clear there has been a conscious decision to change away from the traditionalist forum-style discussion method towards a more social, less content heavy type of discussion forum. One good example of this is the removal of the post Timers/Limits, these often would force you to type a proper sentence/paragraph rather than typing a 3 word meme answer that contributed little, another example would be the introduction of 'likes' that essentially upvote a post to the main 'popular' page. I believe this has been done in order to increase the usage of Bungie.net from the 'new' generation of gamers, one focussed on quick social status updates, fast responses and one liner memes. However, doing this has simply killed the vast majority of decent quality discussion as people simply don't want to reply to one-another as their comment will be hidden from view to most of the public and has led to reponses being almost entirely directed at the OP; essentially killing any opportunity for development inside of a thread from the original point; a key feature of any decent non-sticky thread.
The lack of any form of discussion is driving older community members away from posting on this website. I cannot be the only one who thinks this.
Maybe I'm just a jaded fool ranting instead of working, however to me the effects of .next are clear.
How about you? Spending less time here? Contributing less to threads? What can be done?
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Edited by duck: 3/16/2013 6:24:53 AMBungie.net has always had its highs and lows in population. Some who know of this are optimistic and assume this is a very low period that will pass. They ignore the fact that bungie has made official trailers and announcements of their new game, Destiny, and the fact that the Destiny forum gets posts not in 'x posts per minute', but 'x minutes per post'. The other forums get posts every few hours, and frankly anyone familiar with the private group feature on this site knows that this update was anything but an improvement. I myself think this is a wonderful experience in terms of experimentation. In many threads I debated how terrible things would be if Bungie.net had features such as likes, followers, ignore, and popularity sorting; yet my arguments were all hypothetical. To see here it put to the test in raw reality, and to see my points validated, is very insightful.
