pouët.net

Said before, but..

Anyone else feeling that pouet.net is becoming a dumb place? Many ppl are acting like lamers. Bbs is full of shit posts from Shanethewolf, Optimus / fake Optimus(es) etc. Now, even comments are flooded by random 'i like it' messages, which is not more harmful than slowing latest comments page like hell. Away from those.
Imo pouet.net doesn't need to be serious, but not full of trolling either. This is said many times before, but: MORE MODERATORS PLEASE... If pouet.net wont be under control it will become something else than best demoscene community in the web.

Too much non-serious acting makes me think pouet like a joke.

people have said that pouet has been lame as long as i know of, but still people comes here, checks posts, posts and ignores posts they dont care about. alt. see's them as jokes and just dont give a fuck about it , maybe does some laughing.

no need for moderation i'd say.

Of course there's a need for moderation.

Pouet is still just about readable, but the current signal to noise ratio doesn't need much lowering to make that not the case.

Pouët.net's main function is that of a demo database. It lists demos, complete with screenshot, download link(s), and info files. In this regard the site is very successful.

The prod comments, oldskool BBS, and oneliner are nothing more than frivolous extras. Enjoy them or ignore them, the choice is yours.

for a while ago there where no shitmessages, and pouet where prety much dead.. stop yelling fucking morons (jobe & shadez) .. go and start your homofinnish gay scene portal, and be serious, we dont care.

i 100% agree woth thom on that one.

I don't cause a problem for anyone so stop making out like I'm ruining the scene. If anything people like me and Optimus liven this place up when no one is posting.

I think a lot of you have a real issue with free speech! You all don't like what I say so you try to stop me from saying it!

.....and let me warn you, that just makes me fight harder for my rights!!

yeah right, as you'd have any

what fucking rights? in the scene, you earn your rights through hard work and respect, and once you've spoiled it, don't count on rights. and you're constantly spoiling it since 2000, so better don't weep about some "rights" here.

and by "you", i mean shane. optimus is a honest dude trying hard to earn respect through serious scene work (though at the same time spoiling it with insane personal blahblah;) , so better leave him out of this. but shane is a guy who just fucks everything up and is a real threat to pouet.net as well as to the scene in whole. fold up your free speech and go home, dude.

I wonder when people will see that there is NO SCENE today ... the scene was from 1982-1990 ...

".....and let me warn you, that just makes me fight harder for my rights!!"

that's the spirit, shane! keep fighting for your right to post inane ramblings in the pouet bbs! you have so many important, meaningful things to say - you musn't let them stop you from saying them!

(you gotta be fucking kidding me...)

>optimus is a honest dude trying hard to earn respect through serious scene work

Not anymore. Why trying to proove to people that I am a cool scener or something? My engage in the demoscene was a pitiful self-centered game in fact. I wish I had more healthy motivations for demomaking..

I hope to change some things in myself when I will rest in Germany, after that I am not really sure whether I'll continue scening or get a life instead.

uh, dispwitch, errrm...

".. but shane is a guy who just fucks everything up and is a real threat to pouet.net as well as to the scene in whole."

Sorry, but this made me laugh hard. Shane a threat to the scene? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SMOKE? Shane is nothing more than yet another troll producing yet a few more fake prods. The scene had those people since the very beginning, and it was always the case that those jokes started to get old, we all moved on, another troll/faker came up etc etc.

Man, in a certain twisted sense, people like Shane even belong to the scene.

And to all the whiners: It's hard to recognize that Pouet is everyone's playground and not your own, isn't it? Oh, and a few kids are playing something you don't like? You always started to cry and run to your mother, didn't you?

I sort of agree with KB. The only difference is, when I didn't liked some kids on the playground I was able to confont with them, both physically and psychically.
At Pouet you try to hold decent conversations on a forum with people similar to you, perhaps to express your opinion on a civilzed way, yet you're constantly interrupted by dweebs, now that's a bit annoying. But this is not a Pouet.net-only phenomenon, look at other public forums, there are similar assholes everywhere.
There's no help. Take it or leave it.

for once i agree with thom...

And please pretty please people don't make this into yet one of those pointless "discussions" about free speech (tho ofcourse i can always ignore it;D)

Perhaps it's time for a "pouet lite". :) Without the oneliner, BBS, or comments. Would save some bandwidth for the 56k'ers, at least.

Personnaly, I think threads like this waste almost as much bbs space as the shane threads and the 'scene is dead' threads.

Just what do you want pouet to be? A dry technical discussion of demos, with a new thread every few weeks?

If you don't like the many pointless threads, don't read them. If I see a demo with 100's of comments, I look for the avatars of people who I think often have something interesting to say. I find others sometimes say bullshit, or something stupid. I don't think they should be censored for that... perhaps others find what they say interesting or funny.

And if you really want some censored, cut-down version of pouet, it has some export features now, why not do it yourself?

or a "pouet elite" site where only people that get recommended +trusted by a certain amount of already elite people have the right to participate.

i agree with lator, we need a homofinnish gay scene portal.

A Pouet Elite site sounds really unnecessary and sounds like a heavy burden for whoever is designated the administrator to verify each account...

While no system is perfect, the message base quality of the already existing Pouet could be dramatically improved by simply providing some sort of user-moderated system similar to Slashdots.

-r

Jumalauta and allied forces are working on a homofinnish gay scene portal right now. Stay tuned!

i wasn't serious.. just picked on phoenix' "pouet lite" and added a e. You can always get to the same result by ignoring crap coming from some people's mouth.

The only thing that worries me about pouet, is that in its current state it's fucking embarrassing to point outsiders or media to it.

But I guess it's impossible to make childish nerds acceptable.