What's with the new users?

 
After a tad lot of exclamatory questioning regarding the subject, I decided to put this in thread form. Lately, their has been a sudden surge of inept users flooding the forums with incredibly stupid threads and ones that have been completely inaproppriate. It seems like since the new forum design that this randomly started happening, albeit making ties to that is too much of a conspiracy theory for me to bother with. Lastly, I know their is deep irony within me making a thread most likely on par with the stupidity of the new users, but I have to ask: Am I the only one noticing this?

There are always new users. I haven't noticed anything different.

E3 happened, the site got a huge boost in traffic.

That is all.

I don't mind it so much because usually they only hang around for a few weeks then leave or grow a brain. Unfortunately there's a couple of new users that are posting almost non-stop at the moment who are complete idiots. But I have faith that they'll find some common sense soon enough.

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

You're not the only one to notice this, but it seems to have died down again.

Starcraft II is pretty cool

This has always been happening.

Quite a few new users make silly threads. Most don't know (or sometimes understand) the rules, and some just like to see (read) reactions and try to push certain boundaries. It happens. Really isn't worth your time to create a thread and complain about it.

@Axxol said:

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

Nice.

how do i forum?

Damn newbies messing with our master race.

Get real.

It's summertime.

@Axxol said:

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

We're on it like us on white women.

So very sorry. *smirk* ξ

You think you're much better by making a thread to whine about people making threads you don't like?

Good thing we have such a deep pool of old users to draw from when we want intelligent and insightful conversation! I mean a new user is basically an infant, right? They can't possibly know shit. 
 
The first guy who ever registered to this site probably feels that way about every single one of you.

I rarely notice whether it's a new user or an old user making a stupid thread.

@MideonNViscera said:

Good thing we have such a deep pool of old users to draw from when we want intelligent and insightful conversation! I mean a new user is basically an infant, right? They can't possibly know shit. The first guy who ever registered to this site probably feels that way about every single one of you.

I think he's earned that right =)

Didn't we have this conversation a year ago?

@PenguinDust said:

Didn't we have this conversation a year ago?

We actually have this conversation like every 6 months. We seemingly always get a wave of new users semi-annually.

@MideonNViscera said:

Good thing we have such a deep pool of old users to draw from when we want intelligent and insightful conversation! I mean a new user is basically an infant, right? They can't possibly know shit. The first guy who ever registered to this site probably feels that way about every single one of you.

It's true. I do have that feeling with all of you.

And the staff has that feeling with me.

Good thing we have such a deep pool of old users to draw from when we want intelligent and insightful conversation! I mean a new user is basically an infant, right? They can't possibly know shit.  The first guy who ever registered to this site probably feels that way about every single one of you.

@MideonNViscera said:

Good thing we have such a deep pool of old users to draw from when we want intelligent and insightful conversation! I mean a new user is basically an infant, right? They can't possibly know shit.  The first guy who ever registered to this site probably feels that way about every single one of you.

I'm pretty sure you're missing the point. He's not saying new users in general are stupid, he's saying that there are a lot of them that make asinine thread topics, moreso than usual.

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

Haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Not sure if that says something about the usual's or not, but take it as you will.

@Axxol said:

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

We're on it like us on white women.

I KNOW RIGHT? THEM NEW USERS RUINING MY BELOVED GIANTBOMB 
 
I SAY IT'S TIME FOR A GOOD OLD FASHIONED FAG-DRAG.   
FAG-DRAG, ANYONE? FAG-DRAG ? 
 

@PenguinDust said:

Didn't we have this conversation a year ago?

This conversation pops up every six months.

@CitizenKane: Bah that's what I get for not reading page 2 before posting. Oh well, I'm leaving it up.

@Axxol: Thank you Axxol.

Te Toaster Preservation Society is Thrilled

E3 tends to bring traffic.

Member since day one! I still have the email they sent out to remind people the site was about to launch.

"This e-mail is being sent to let you know that we're getting very close to the beta launch of giantbomb.com"

"WHAT TO DO NOW:

1. OPEN UP YOUR WEB BROWSER

2. CHECK OUT http://www.giantbomb.com (REMEMBER, IT'S NOT UP YET! SO KEEP CHECKING...)

3. IF IT IS, CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT... IT'S PAINLESS! IT'S FUN!

4. TELL A FRIEND

5. MAYBE ORDER A PIZZA OR SOMETHING? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE HUNGRY OR WHATEVER"

@GreggD said:

@MideonNViscera said:

Good thing we have such a deep pool of old users to draw from when we want intelligent and insightful conversation! I mean a new user is basically an infant, right? They can't possibly know shit.  The first guy who ever registered to this site probably feels that way about every single one of you.

I'm pretty sure you're missing the point. He's not saying new users in general are stupid, he's saying that there are a lot of them that make asinine thread topics, moreso than usual.

Naw I got the OP's point. I think I got my threads mixed up though because I had a strong sense of elitism, but don't really see any in this thread. Maybe I should take my venom towards elitism to SRK instead haha

@MideonNViscera said:

@GreggD said:

@MideonNViscera said:

Good thing we have such a deep pool of old users to draw from when we want intelligent and insightful conversation! I mean a new user is basically an infant, right? They can't possibly know shit.  The first guy who ever registered to this site probably feels that way about every single one of you.

I'm pretty sure you're missing the point. He's not saying new users in general are stupid, he's saying that there are a lot of them that make asinine thread topics, moreso than usual.

Naw I got the OP's point. I think I got my threads mixed up though because I had a strong sense of elitism, but don't really see any in this thread. Maybe I should take my venom towards elitism to SRK instead haha

 No idea what SRK is, but I'll just assume it's a better place to bitch. Have at it, sir!

 
Yeah, some of the users here sure have zero brain activity, but there are still some very greetful and nice users out there.

@CitizenKane said:

@Axxol said:

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

We're on it like us on white women.

Isn't that the same as saying "we're not doing anything at all" ? :P

I remember a surge of new users making bad threads happening some time back but since then I can't say I've really noticed such a trend, some days you get a bunch of spam topics on the boards, other days you get almost none. Either way I'm glad our forums are much more junk-free than most other video game forums out there.

Maybe we should make some dumb threads of our own to balance it out a little?

E3, kids are off of school.

All the DNF defenders have spawned some asinine threads. Generally, any threads complaining about review scores and ''critics being wrong'' piss me off.

@PenguinDust said:

Didn't we have this conversation a year ago?

We actually have this conversation like every 6 months. We seemingly always get a wave of new users semi-annually.

@Axxol said:

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

Sir. I find that racist and funny.

Maybe you should stop acting like you are better than "new" people and do something constructive with your time... Just a thought...

When sites get more traffic, their forums are bound to see some weird, dumb topics. Unless they're super-duper regulated (like Penny Arcade or Something Awful), creepy and trivial threads are going to pop up occasionally. Most of the new users (and I consider myself one) aren't like that, though. The Giant Bomb forums have it pretty good and I certainly wouldn't call them "flooded with incredibly stupid threads."

@ZeForgotten said:

@CitizenKane said:

@Axxol said:

Don't sweat it. Mods are on that shit like Tiger Woods on white women.

We're on it like us on white women.

Isn't that the same as saying "we're not doing anything at all" ? :P

Oh, it's on now. Somebody hold my rings!