Are a waste of space, nobody reads them but they make up hallf of the screen (on laptops). they would get more viewers and are less annoying when they are un-stickied.
the downtime one will be gone soon. we can unstick the Xenforo Upgrade one as that's old news now. also the "popular threads" hasn't been updated in forever but I'll leave that to bacong.
You can unsticky my racism thread and merge its content into the rules or something if you want Cheez.
You can also unsticky "A reminder of sig rules" since I came up with a CSS fix for sig sizes that noxon implemented.
Popular threads thread is retarded. Also I still love that the "reminder" of sig rules was in fact Bacong making NEW rules and then editing everyone's sigs in the douchiest way possible.
I know this site is run by IRC people but why does a thread of IRC quotes need to be stickied? Don't you guys already see the stroker stuff by being in IRC?
That thread exists to tell people that we have an official chatroom and how to get to it, so it's stickied like any other relevant official information. The fact that quotes are posted in it is incidental. I don't get why you're raging about how "IRC people run 5/8." IRC is part of 5/8. As much as people like to joke around, there's no such thing as "the IRC crew" outside of Thal's paranoid fantasies, because everyone who posts at 5/8 is free to come to IRC if they want to, as long as they don't make a nuisance of themselves. Sure it's slightly different administratively and certain things are legal there that aren't legal at the forums, but that doesn't change the fact that IRC is just an extension of 5/8 which you are all free to join. It's fine if you don't want to, but saying "IRC people run 5/8" is like saying "General Discussion people run 5/8." For that matter, the Facebook page is also part of 5/8, as is any place where we meet--Tinychat, Mumuplayer, moonmang's house, etc. That's because 5/8 is a community, not a forum; it exists independent of any structure or authority. Thal and antipopular were jackasses because they thought they "owned 5/8" when no one can possibly "own" a community. According to kbrooks, antipopular used to brag to his IRL friends that he "owned the Dream Theater community," even long after we stopped being a community about Dream Theater, and the only thing antipopular ever did was be in the right place at the right time. Thal thought the community owed him unwavering obedience because he spent way more money than was reasonably necessary on keeping the forum going and protected us against "threats" that were mostly dreamed up by his paranoid mind (notice how we're doing fine without his protection). While it's great that people are willing to pay out of their pockets for us to have a home, and that people are willing to administer our homes, the people who matter most are the people who contribute quality content, without which there would be nothing to administer or pay for. As Immortal Technique put it, "Without me, and everybody like me, you ain't nothin' but a good idea mothafucka, so stay in yo place." I've gone off on a tangent, but the point is that if we were just a forum, we would've ceased to exist when DT.net got shut down. That was not the case, just like we didn't cease to exist when Thal shut it down, and just like we've continued to exist in Thal's absence.
Also Bacong is awesome because he's an active participant in the community and generally doesn't make his presence as an admin known unless he has to, which is almost never (because really, for the most part, we moderate ourselves).
I'm not raging, just asking about a stickied thread since it seems redundant. You say it is mainly to direct people to IRC, but why isn't there a "external 5/8 pages" thread with links to Facebook, Tinychat, etc. which you claim are just as much a part of 5/8? As someone who has been in IRC maybe 3 times, it definitely seems like there's a clique of people who go around making inside jokes and posting just to get likes from each other. I don't really care, it's just something I've noticed. Maybe it's a chicken or the egg type of thing ... meaning do the so-called "IRC crew" just happen to be friends who all tend to use IRC, or do IRC regulars end up "bonding" because of it and thus end up interacting more on the actual forum? Again, my only original point was that it seems redundant to have an IRC quotes thread. Because of how stickies work, the IRC thread is usually the first thread when I visit General Discussion, so it ends up standing out to me all the time.
It's definitely this, and that should be the obvious answer. It's clearly easier to get to know people in a chat room than through forum posts.
>not getting this >not also getting a double cheese and a chicken and cheese for $2 each and smushing them together
