04-09-2025, 12:11 AM
Honestly, the old forums were great because it had what it did. The drama board served as a proper containment for retardation and when used properly, could actually be used to address certain things that would never surface had there not been a proper board for it.
We all know what incident I'm referring to when I say this.
The problem with Blockland discords is that there's so many of them so it's impossible to centralize community discussion in real-time. There's like 28 of them and they're never really that active, it's not like the Glass Live where you could talk to everyone online in the IRC, invite people to servers, PM people, etc. The most prominent discords also have powertripping discord mods which causes extreme community division.
This forum should be kept to the technical Blockland stuff (modding, servers, archival, etc.) but there also shouldf be a more streamlined addon system (addon managers like RTB/Glass containing the ability to download directly in-game) if at all possible. Drama needs its own containment area, same for community events, and there should be an on-the-fly way to talk to people online and in-game without being in the same server. People fail to realize how useful BLG used to be lmao.
Talking about other games (except AOT) is always going to stir drama, especially talking about direct competitors. They have their own platforms, don't bring that trash here. While I disagree with blogposting, let ppl do it idgaf, having a true off-topic board is great for threads where you post real-life pictures of yourself and having threads like "(example) IS A forgetting BADMIN AND WE SHOULD CRUCIFY HIM D=<" you don't have to respond to that OP's replybait, simple as.
We all know what incident I'm referring to when I say this.
The problem with Blockland discords is that there's so many of them so it's impossible to centralize community discussion in real-time. There's like 28 of them and they're never really that active, it's not like the Glass Live where you could talk to everyone online in the IRC, invite people to servers, PM people, etc. The most prominent discords also have powertripping discord mods which causes extreme community division.
This forum should be kept to the technical Blockland stuff (modding, servers, archival, etc.) but there also shouldf be a more streamlined addon system (addon managers like RTB/Glass containing the ability to download directly in-game) if at all possible. Drama needs its own containment area, same for community events, and there should be an on-the-fly way to talk to people online and in-game without being in the same server. People fail to realize how useful BLG used to be lmao.
(03-29-2025, 03:55 AM)Queuenard Wrote: We could talk about Roblox and Brickadia or whatever but we would need to figure out how to limit drama. It's super difficult because drama can actually be really important information (Roblox has no shortage of predators, would we forbid anyone from talking about specific people?) but interpretations can vary. There are other places for drama about Roblox and Minecraft so I think we'd be OK with a no-drama rule.
A true off-topic board sounds like a bad idea. I don't think we need people to hang around here all day to discuss every problem in their lives. BLF basically became the Off-Topic Forum somewhere after 2015 and now nobody's posting Blockland content there anymore.
Talking about other games (except AOT) is always going to stir drama, especially talking about direct competitors. They have their own platforms, don't bring that trash here. While I disagree with blogposting, let ppl do it idgaf, having a true off-topic board is great for threads where you post real-life pictures of yourself and having threads like "(example) IS A forgetting BADMIN AND WE SHOULD CRUCIFY HIM D=<" you don't have to respond to that OP's replybait, simple as.