TWG: A discussion

[FictionJunction]

Originally Posted by DarkManticoreX2

Open Memo to the players: Quit multi-shitposting.

You're allowed to be double posting when they're seperate thoughts addressing TWG issues. Dance that was 9 posts in a row for no reason. Knock it off.

Isn't this a little too controlling

[FictionJunction]

like seriously, TWG is a game of communication - I should be able to post how I want, when I want. I do so knowing full well that it may annoy people. I know it might result in people not reading my posts.

So what

[FictionJunction]

soon we'll have a TWG panel and Manti will get a shitty Aries fire tattoo

[Krauthammer]

To be honest, I'll have to agree with Manti on this one.

Senseless posts in a row are...just filler. They just makes the thread longer, and are generally a bother.

Sure, the opinion can change from person to person, but yeah...I agree with Manti.

[FictionJunction]

more like the TCG (THE CENSORSHIP GAME)

[FictionJunction]

you can't force people to play the way you want them to. If they want to post fluff and filler text then they should be allowed to post fluff and filler text.

[FictionJunction]

otherwise you're going to have a very stale game where everyone does the same things and it's boring and dull and not entertaining. Part of the problem here is that nobody tries to say "hey look you should probably take this seriously because it's a serious situation" when confronted with that in the game. Everyone assumes this should run like a debate club and that's NOT TRUE.

[FictionJunction]

a social game cannot and should not be controlled

[dAnceguy117]

I agree with fiction in principle, but I agree with manti in that there should be a limit. other twg/mafia sites probably have rules for this.

[DarkManticoreX2]

I didn't have a problem with 3 posts or 4 posts or 5 posts.

9 is excessive and unnecessary. The whole reason TWG allows multi-posting in the first place (unlike the rest of the forums) is because the edit button is disabled. Just because the edit button is disabled for TWG games doesn't mean it should be taken advantage of.

TWG isn't 1 mil get. Don't treat it like that.

[FictionJunction]

There's a difference between 'let me do what I want' and 'please don't control the game.' This is especially true as a host where interference invariably affects reads.

[DarkManticoreX2]

In the end you're advocating for the ability to post 30-40 times in a row, without me saying "No don't do that." because it would be host interference.

No.

I'm okay with poor posting, and I'm okay with multi-posting. I have problems when they're combined. There is a hardline between what is constructive/destructive to the game and what is just postcount++

[thesunfan]

gotta go with Manti here, I love you Pete, but I have no idea why you felt compelled to post 9 times in a row, without any real relation to the game in most of them.

[DefconZero]

The fact that you're triple/quadruple posting here to try and get your point across isn't actually helping your argument. Sure, this isn't English class, but god damn two posts could've contained those thoughts. Not 7.

[FictionJunction]

Originally Posted by DefconZero

The fact that you're triple/quadruple posting here to try and get your point across isn't actually helping your argument. Sure, this isn't English class, but god damn two posts could've contained those thoughts. Not 7.

oh sorry did you miss the point

[FictionJunction]

looks to me like you did

[FictionJunction]

sorry is this bothering you because whether or not it bothers you isn't the point

[FictionJunction]

in fact it doesn't really matter

[FictionJunction]

Originally Posted by DarkManticoreX2

In the end you're advocating for the ability to post 30-40 times in a row, without me saying "No don't do that." because it would be host interference.

No.

I'm okay with poor posting, and I'm okay with multi-posting. I have problems when they're combined. There is a hardline between what is constructive/destructive to the game and what is just postcount++

You don't need rules when the players themselves can demand things like that to stop. Two things could happen: you interfere and you basically suggest that whatever a player is doing isn't part of some meta strategy OR you let the players incorporate what they may find to be annoying and unhelpful and unproductive and let them take control of the situation. I think the former is better. The former lets every single decision each player makes in the game, whether it annoys you or not, Manti, to have value of its own. 40 posts could result in annoying a group that might kill that player for it. Maybe even ignore his posts. That's all PART OF THE GAME.

[FictionJunction]

the decision to NOT do that shouldn't come from the host - it should organically become a thing people care about. That's what TWG is.