Site Discussion Thread

[Shadow Yoshi]

A few points related to this site:

- To clear up any confusion about the ads: I use a service called Project Wonderful which allows advertisers to bid on ad space. It's a great service that I would highly recommend. Ads for our ad box are approved on a per-advertiser basis - so the first time an advertiser submits a bid, I look at it and approve it and then that advertiser is able to submit bids that will be approved automatically. Because of this, the Puck ad can potentially appear again unless I revoke access to its advertiser, which I'm probably not going to do since I think they run other ads with no issues. Long story short - there will never be any adult content or content that Project Wonderful rates "NSFW". However, there might be a couple times where an ad shows up that may not be tasteful enough but is still deemed "SFW", so just ping me somewhere (preferably on the chat) and I'll take care of it.

- This is addressed more so at Teemster2: I understand your concerns as both a Christian and a parent; you have every right to want a space as you described for your kids, but this is neither a children's game nor a children's website. I'm not a fan of the fighting and needless drama that has plagued this community for years, so I agree with you there and I wish that the people here would just be nice to eachother. This is a byproduct of maturity, of course, so in a few years if the current bulk of the userbase sticks around we'll probably see less of it. Swearing is a different story - you won't see me taking the Lord's name in vain, but other than that swearing is pretty commonplace here (and on a lot of the Internet) and disallowing it is unnecessary and counterproductive. Also, until the staff decides to do something about signatures, there is a "Print view" button located in the Tanooki suit menu next to the "post reply" button.

Also, y'all, this thread is not for talking about "inactive staff members" (which is not and never has been an issue) or "which threads should be sticky"/anything of that sort which is best left to the staff to deal with and is largely insignificant. I will say that the staff probably don't look at this thread much because some of it is related strictly or partially to me (e.g. the site being down, addition of extensions and themes, etc.), so I've reminded them again to keep an eye on it.

[Julia Pseudo]

For the record, I may not post as much as I did back in 2014 or so but I'm here virtually every day, and do a lot of moderation stuff behind the scenes. I'd say this is true for most of the staff; even if you don't see us posting much we're still on the forums a lot, handling reports and stuff. And most of us are active on Discord a lot too.

[Teemster2]

Another problem I have noticed is swearing and fighting. Nobody likes drama and all it does is put people at odds and allow room for members to get angry or frustrated and leave. Swearing should be a no because this is a children's game and I would not want my children coming here and yes I have teenage kids. As a christian I want them to be able to experience a forum in a family friendly environment and this environment is at times hostile. I have seen people on here fighting and swearing and that does no good for anybody. I have also seen people use inappropriate language that I as a christian find offensive such as calling something holy or using the lords name in vein. A filter for swearing is a must.

I'm sorry, but nothing is going to be done about this.

Yes, this is a community for a Mario fangame. It would make sense for the forum to be family-friendly, but that's just impossible now. Any restrictions put in place by the staff would really annoy the majority of the community who are used to how things are.

Fights happen on the internet, sometimes they become hostile and are dealt with appropriately, but more importantly, swearing is just something that happens on the internet.

Similarly, this is why nothing is going to be done about using religious terminology in a negative way, mainly because using words such as "holy" or "god" to illustrate frustration, surprise or whatever is something people have been doing for years. I'm sorry if they offend you, but this is just how language works.

To put it bluntly, this isn't nor will ever be your safe space. This is the internet.

Yeah I get that it's the internet but if a political forum that averages more than 4,000 posts a day can get by with a language filter than so can this site. It's funny how a political forum designed to have arguments and disagreements can get by just fine with a language filter and not make the majority of it's members angry. Infact most of the members are fine with it. A thread was started asking to remove it and very few people responded and of the handful that did one person said he actually liked the filter. If somebody wants to leave because they can't drop the F bomb then that is their problem. I should not have to read stuff like that just because you are afraid of losing one or two posters or maybe some of the staff actually enjoy swearing and they are the ones that don't want to have a filter but that is your choice to not have the filter and I will respect that and leave the issue alone now.

As for the administrators never being here well I just got that from several frustrated members who made that claim. I don't personally know the administrators here.
I was just posting my opinion. I will leave it at that.

It's 1:21 in the morning where I am at and politicalforums.com (the other forums I visit everyday) has 156 members logged on. These forums could be pretty active at least during the early evening hours if only you could appeal to more people and try to have better communication with the rules. Where I work which has over 1,000 employees they recently did a survey to see what employees thought of the company and the number one problem was lack of communication. Locking threads for breaking the forum rules but failing to post or sticky those rules is a good example of lack of communication. I never brought up that issue. I was just adding to what others were already saying.

I'm not sure whether this has to do with the thought that since you're older that you're superior than people younger than you, or if it's a legitimate opinion that age = maturity. While I don't doubt things, you have included no sources for the studies you have cited. The staff here are fairly matured, at least to the extent that they have stayed as staff members, so I really don't think replacing them with older forum members is going to change anything. They also are active, much more than you would believe.

I'm sure they are active. I was basing my claim off of what other people in this thread was saying about only one of the administrators being somewhat active on here. If that is incorrect than I apologize. Everyone knows women mature faster than men and most people don't fully mature untill their early to mid 20's. I could post some links if you like but I don't feel like doing a google search right now. I never said the staff here had to be adults. I was just saying that it does help. The staff here do seem pretty nice and fair but several people were saying they had issues that were being ignored so I thought I would comment on that.

I mean, not to sound bad, but what is someone in their 30's exactly doing on a Mario forum, especially one that is preaching about immaturity, being a Christian, and having kids. I'm sure there are much better things to do in life.
It's also a Mario forum.

Fair question. I grew up on these games and have a fascination with them. I can't explain it but I have fond memories of playing SMB and Duck Hunt when I was a little kid. I guess I never grew out of my gaming phase. Super Mario Brothers has been around a lot longer than SMBX. I was not referring to SMBX so my bad for the misunderstanding. I love games like Skyrim and battlefield too but that does not mean I can't like the games I grew up on.

I've come up with the assumption that you are trolling, just based on your composure and the things you have brought up, but that's just an assumption. I still want to know why a 30 year old man is hanging around a Mario forum just to criticize it. But what do I know, I'm just a young, immature non-Christian community veteran. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was just giving my opinion on how I thought these forums could be better but if you think I am trolling I will say nothing more and leave it at that.

[Danny]

Yeah I get that it's the internet but if a political forum that averages more than 4,000 posts a day can get by with a language filter than so can this site.

It's 1:21 in the morning where I am at and politicalforums.com (the other forums I visit everyday) has 156 members logged on.

It is unfair and unjust to compare this forum, a small community on a Mario level designer/fangame, to a forum about political discussion. That aside, there is no such website that redirects to politicalforums.com or anything similar, and even doing a simple search for it does not give any related results. Did you just make that up?

These forums could be pretty active at least during the early evening hours if only you could appeal to more people and try to have better communication with the rules.

With the small size of the active community, around 80+ unique users visit the forum every day. They don't necessarily make posts all the time, but it's good to keep in mind that a majority live in Europe, so their active hours are not your active hours. I'm not sure what you mean by "appeal to more people", because I'm pretty sure the forum appeals to everyone that is here currently, and it does bring in new users every once in a while. It's a very narrow and specific subject to try to appeal to, that being a Mario level designer/fangame that has only just recently received an update (2.0).
Also, there isn't any real miscommunication with the rules at all.

Where I work which has over 1,000 employees they recently did a survey to see what employees thought of the company and the number one problem was lack of communication.

Not even certain this is relevant.

Locking threads for breaking the forum rules but failing to post or sticky those rules is a good example of lack of communication.

There are rules, and they were originally posted in a global announcement, which should actually be there. It was a compilation that encompassed most of the forum. The graphics forum has gone through a revamp several times over, so the rules may have been lost in the crossfire, but the people posting the threads being locked are the ones that have been around long before the rules disappeared. It's not really a lack of communication at all.

It's funny how a political forum designed to have arguments and disagreements can get by just fine with a language filter and not make the majority of it's members angry. Infact most of the members are fine with it. A thread was started asking to remove it and very few people responded and of the handful that did one person said he actually liked the filter. If somebody wants to leave because they can't drop the F bomb then that is their problem. I should not have to read stuff like that just because you are afraid of losing one or two posters or maybe some of the staff actually enjoy swearing and they are the ones that don't want to have a filter but that is your choice to not have the filter and I will respect that and leave the issue alone now.

The problem here is that you keep cross-referencing a Mario fangame forum with political forums, which have much different standards, rules, regulations, and expectations than one another. It's like expecting a middle school to have the same environment as a parliament. On top of that, your adamant attitude on requesting a profanity filter is quite ridiculous, and with the claim of "I should not have to read stuff like that", it's inconsiderate of other viewpoints. Nothing is wrong with swearing in the first place, they're just harmless words, and people need to stop acting like they're immature and completely vile. Yeah, you shouldn't go shouting stuff like that out in public for the decency of others, but in a rather closed community such as this one, it really is not that big of an issue as you're treating it. It has been expressed so many times that a filter is unnecessary, and nobody has given one solid, good reason for it.

[Teemster2]

Yeah I get that it's the internet but if a political forum that averages more than 4,000 posts a day can get by with a language filter than so can this site.

It's 1:21 in the morning where I am at and politicalforums.com (the other forums I visit everyday) has 156 members logged on.

It is unfair and unjust to compare this forum, a small community on a Mario level designer/fangame, to a forum about political discussion. That aside, there is no such website that redirects to politicalforums.com or anything similar, and even doing a simple search for it does not give any related results. Did you just make that up?

When you do a google search for political forums it's the first one in the list usually.....http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php

[kr4k1n]

It is unfair and unjust to compare this forum, a small community on a Mario level designer/fangame, to a forum about political discussion. That aside, there is no such website that redirects to politicalforums.com or anything similar, and even doing a simple search for it does not give any related results. Did you just make that up?

When you do a google search for political forums it's the first one in the list usually.....http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php

I never found it in my Google search results, but the link works. Still, I don't know how you're comparing a Mario forum to a political forum when these two things are not relevant to each other at all.

[CD20Superness]

It is unfair and unjust to compare this forum, a small community on a Mario level designer/fangame, to a forum about political discussion. That aside, there is no such website that redirects to politicalforums.com or anything similar, and even doing a simple search for it does not give any related results. Did you just make that up?

When you do a google search for political forums it's the first one in the list usually.....http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php

I never found it in my Google search results, but the link works. Still, I don't know how you're comparing a Mario forum to a political forum when these two things are not relevant to each other at all.

what is it?

[kr4k1n]

When you do a google search for political forums it's the first one in the list usually.....http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php

I never found it in my Google search results, but the link works. Still, I don't know how you're comparing a Mario forum to a political forum when these two things are not relevant to each other at all.

what is it?

It's nothing, just a political forum...

[Zeldamaster12]

Don't be rude.

[CD20Superness]

I never found it in my Google search results, but the link works. Still, I don't know how you're comparing a Mario forum to a political forum when these two things are not relevant to each other at all.

what is it?

My god, can you even read? It's a political forum

Okay.

[HeroLinik]

There's one weird thing that I've noticed about the YouTube channel field. While it's all functional and that, allowing for channel IDs, on quite a substantial amount of profiles where their channels are advertised, the URL is http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/<channel name> rather than actually linking to YouTube itself, resulting in a dead link. Examples of where this is occurring include here, here and even here. There may be some more cases, but this is what I found so far.

Why is this occurring, and is there a way to prevent things like this from happening?

[Shadow Yoshi]

Why is this occurring

viewtopic.php?p=258051#p258051

[Snessy the duck]

I think a good addition to the forums would be the ability to change your name at will instead of having to PM an admin, which can take quite some time if they're not online.

[HeroLinik]

I think a good addition to the forums would be the ability to change your name at will instead of having to PM an admin, which can take quite some time if they're not online.

As far as I know, I think they did that quite early on in the forum's life, but it got removed because it's got so much potential to be abused with people changing their names way too frequently.

[Inspirited]

Hey there, I'd like to apply for forum staff. I'll make sure nobody will spam or shitpost.

[glitch4]

Hey there, I'd like to apply for forum staff. I'll make sure nobody will spam or shitpost.

But there's almost no spam and barely shitposting. What are you gonna do then?

[Zeldamaster12]

Hey there, I'd like to apply for forum staff. I'll make sure nobody will spam or shitpost.

We currently aren't hiring any more staff members and probably won't for a good while.

[Snessy the duck]

I think a good addition to the forums would be the ability to change your name at will instead of having to PM an admin, which can take quite some time if they're not online.

As far as I know, I think they did that quite early on in the forum's life, but it got removed because it's got so much potential to be abused with people changing their names way too frequently.

How about making it so you have to wait for some time (Like a week or so) after changing your name before you can change it again?

[Ace]

Hey there, I'd like to apply for forum staff. I'll make sure nobody will spam or shitpost.

Not gonna happen, I wouldn't want to be banned for my username being too short.

[ElectriKong]

Hey there, I'd like to apply for forum staff. I'll make sure nobody will spam or shitpost.

Not gonna happen, I wouldn't want to be banned for my username being too short.

Since when did anyone suggest that there should be a minimum length for a username?