Do you think people take the forums to seriously?

Worth it.

young people take their own opinions too seriously

Not always. A funny video that makes you laugh or a well thought out argument that makes you grimace is fine. A stupid waste-of-time video that makes you grimace or a poorly thought out argument that makes you roll your eyes is not.

Holy shit a dude with a motorcycle helmet!!

Should there be a separate section for it?

HOLY FUCBALLS ITS MORGAN.

Nah, at the end of the day it's all for shits and giggles brah!

I liked this thread. ~ 'Don't give a fuck!!

I need to start taking it more seriously than I ever had before.

I don't know what the word serious means.

It really depends, some people come to forums to ask serious questions. and get serious answers and are only greeted with memes and trolls. Such as relationship threads, regardless of what you think of them, it is an asshole thing to do to go into a thread where a guy ( or girl ) is giving personal information, and make them feel like shit for doing so. Im not saying giantbomb is the place for those threads, and I try to give help, and at the same time, directing them to another place to ask.

Then, at the opposite side of the fence are threads about changing the front page DmC picture that go on for 6 pages, and devolve into a silly arguments.

Also, I think the thread creator should be able to lock or delete his or her own creation.

It depends on the person and the topic. Check out any sexism based anything for the wide breadth of seriousness and playful (or asshole-ism based on your personal perspective).

Yeah, I think complaining about threads is dumb most of the time. Unless it is spam or advertisements. If you are not interested in the topic or don't feel like it will be entertaining you don't have to click on it, right? Or just leave without posting.

Sometimes it's fun to post dumb shit.

Some people do and they're usually the ones that sticks out the most.

Laugh and grow fat

Some people do care way too much and they scare me. But there are others who don't care and those are often the entertaining people.

Exactly!

Yes...its the internet, of course we do

Where is seriously and why would someone take the forums there?

people take everything too seriously.

like giantbomb (spearheaded by patrick) crazy crusade against "sexism" in video games. omg a lady in a sexy outfit ITS SEXIST. its laughable.

i want more video game nudity in AAA games. just tons of video game nudity. everywhere. all the damn time. cus why not? right? its video games. its supposed to be fun, sexy can be fun. of course it can. sexy and fun are great, why cant they go together without people crying on twitter?

video games should be sexier!

I just skim over posts, so I don't know how the rest of you act exactly.

I'll just guess and say "yes" because it sounds like the right sort of answer for this question.

I think it really depends on the thread.

Everyone posting is another person, with feelings and thoughts just like you. If you take that into consideration, you realize that you should take forums as seriously as talking to another person face-to-face. Even more so, actually, since the internet gives you a huge audience.

I wouldn't say you need to "take it seriously" exactly, but speaking respectfully, and not shit-posting is important in my opinion. Basically, act towards others how you would want them to act towards you, even when in an online environment The internet is just another form of communication, not a place to break all the rules of common sense and courtesy.

Anyone who gets offended over the internet needs to take a real hard look at themselves.

I think the mods wind up promoting seriousness over fun. CL60 got banned for posting in a thread that was getting deleted and all he did was say he was rubbing dicks all over himself. Sure it's stupid, but it's the kind of stupid you can laugh at. Then there's hizang who lightened many a mood with his dumb polls.

I think the forums do take themselves too seriously and I think it's pretty sad when you compare threads made today to the hilarious (and retarded) stuff posted during the whiskey days.

But whatever. It's not like voicing your concern is ever going to make a difference.

@oldirtybearon: CL60 will probably come back with an alt, if he hasn't already.

Yes, and it's 'too' by the way.

INTERNET IS SERIOUS BIZNEZZ

hell no

You know what I take seriously? Grammar. Not too seriously though.

I feel like we do better here then most of the internet, but i agree with letting more of the dumb fun in, whats the harm as long as its not racist or anything.

It's "TOO" seriously! Think before you speak. COME ON MAN!

...so yes.

Whaaaaat. That's just comedy! Or was there more to it than that? Hard to believe there wouldn't be.

I like to add a good degree of levity to these forums. So do a lot of people, but recently the environment on the GB forums has changed. Levity and jokes seem to be discouraged now, and the entertaining crazy threads that people used to enjoy taking part in has become a thing of yesteryear. I miss the days when the only forum rule was "don't be a mean jerk."

I'm going to read your name with the Crysis Suit voice henchforth.

<MAXIMUM. CHERRY.>

There wasn't. Some mod (MB, I think) was going to delete a thread and a bunch of users were doing stupid "in b4 lock" stuff. CL60 got banned for saying he was rubbing dicks all over himself.

Sadly you can't find the evidence of this thread, or any other, because the mods delete shit like that rather quickly. The only thing you have to go on is them saying "That's what happened guys, honest."

You better fuckin watch it, Patrick is gonna get the grumpy dumpies.

You know, I might've said yes.

But then I pretty much stopped using the forums with the redesign, and my post count is pretty crazy high, so I dunno.

The results are in. And the winner is, "people take life too seriously." So when you're feeling down just remember that it is better to be happy. I leave you with this, a song from a great man of my parents' generation:

This is after all a message board for a video game site. One should never ask serious questions or take anything posted here that seriously.

Oddly enough, I've been posting less, too. Seems like there are less topics that are interesting overall after the redesign. I wonder if a bunch of people jumped ship?

I could have sworn that he said something rather rude about Patrick and proceeded to jokingly said "rubs penis on face".

Anyway, it depends on the topic at hand and my mood at the time.

I fucking hope not.

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN ASK THIS QUESTION

I don't know why but as I read your guy's posts, I kept laughing every time dick rubbing was mentioned. There's something hilarious about that and I don't know why it cracks me up.

On a more sad note; seems like everyone who's name I recognize is getting banned these days.

It's not even that; it's that the forum threads don't appear at the bottom of the home page, and now I navigate to video content rather than the forums. They've largely been pushed to the wayside in the current design. While that's not reducing my time spent on GB, it is actually reducing my time spent here in the forums where I click from page to page much faster than I do when I'm watching a Quick Look.

It's not even that. The site in general is harder to use. Blogs/user reviews are harder to find, and image galleries are fucked.