Well I mean, for stuff like THAT why don't we just treat it like what it is? Garbage. Isn't it kind of inevitable that a moderator is going to take action anyways? I doubt they'll actually follow thread creation rules and deliberately post in a section where they're going to get less potential views.I don't care if a dev is using some Patreon-esque platform or not. I care if they're coming in here like we're a billboard for them. There's a huge difference between when Sourjelly showed up in the Anthophobia thread, talking with his fans, and this. Granted, not all devs do this. Some really do talk in other threads, mingle with the community, and all that jazz. But there it's a disproportionate ratio, and I think it needs to be addressed.
If you want to make sure, it's always best to report these things.Isn't it kind of inevitable that a moderator is going to take action anyways?.
A knowledge base.. now that's one way of describing it...But even that's information worth cataloging into the knowledge base that is this forum.
Well, that is a bit odd a concept, I mean, is this a place to share games, or a place to develope games? Basically, the main reason why a game developer actively engages in feedback discussion beyond a 'post any questions below' or somesuch is, in my experience, to get technical help or PRECISE bug reports.and even they kind of just do the info dump and let people talk about it on their own. I suppose make stricter merits on what info they need to post and make more tangible requirements for their proof of concept?
A knowledge base.. now that's one way of describing it...
But then you came about, eh?LoL EE wasn't always a ghost-town populated by sporadic flame wars either, ya know?
And as I countered before, how do you differentiate between a free to play, Patreon optional, an early release for patrons and a public beta, patreon full version model?But aye as said before, just moving patreon-type games into their own section would be probably the best for sorting things out, and get it out of sight for anti-patreon people.
If you find someone with enough free time and overview of the H-games..Hell, we could even make it an active community thing. Leave the thread alone for a week or so and then put it up to a vote somewhere whether the thread should be shelved or left open.
Some of us have no life...If you find someone with enough free time and overview of the H-games..
let's face it you'll find someone.
If you find someone that'd be interested in managing these things..
Dark and I mentioned the model used by another forum here, using it, Hentai Games wouldn't have any posts, they would all be in sub-forum. Still the problem with threads being mere advertizing for a game/patreon.I don't think this is a problem that has a readily applied preventative solution, given that it seems like Dark's willing to do the extra work to clean out the clutter why not use a reactive one?
Maybe set up a special sub that these type of threads can be moved to at the discretion of H-games mods? Call it Patreon hawking?
The basic issue appears to be how you'd actually write down the rule that singles out those threads in a way which is easy for mods to enforce - simply because there are threads which actually do have discussion in them. However, now that the thread ignore function is back, it's probably a non-issue. It's not like there is a huge deluge of these threads, so ignoring them is probably the best course of action.Dark and I mentioned the model used by another forum here, using it, Hentai Games wouldn't have any posts, they would all be in sub-forum. Still the problem with threads being mere advertizing for a game/patreon.