I don’t know what to say about this week (HowStuffBreaks), even though it’s only the first few hours since release. I’m seeing a lot of lackluster entries at the top, and some really great entries at the bottom.

I actually like the forum idea, but I don’t think this one is going to work out well.

Lots of folks seem to operate under the bumumption that all forums use the same set of words or language that Anonymous does- and that all forums have white supremacists. It’s sad, really…

The forum is HOW stuff breaks. Putting the word break into every title…I’m disappointed.

I don’t know what I’m more disappointed about…the fact that I have some pretty good submissions with 0-1 votes this week, or the fact that they’re still doing WELL. Log in to see images!

You know, I always wondered why more sites didn’t have user-created content.

Kind of obvious after these last couple forums. The majority of people don’t know funny, and aren’t creative.

I agree, and I just started submittting things.

It’s not so much that some of my submissions are doing poorly(although one is doing very well), I can accept that my stuff may suck. But some of the stuff that’s doing well objectively blows.

exactly why i say:

Velveteen Posted:

i vote that it gets published as a level 1 or 0 high thread count forum. (something for re-res to grind from 4 to 6: which is the longest grinding period for re-res since they can only do jojos)

ravenblooDDarkdreams Posted:

I was actually wondering if anybody felt the same way- I really don’t ‘get’ this week’s idea, I guess. I’m just not sure there’s enough material there for a forum, though I guess we’ll see as **** unfolds.

Then again, I actually thought Wiccapedia turned out pretty well, for the most part.

It’s a parody of howstuffworks.com – I’m not sure how much there is to get beyond that.

I think the problem is this: Most of the rest of the forums are actually parodies of people, not forums. A subset of the population with a set of traits is picked, and those traits are magnified and distorted. A forum is then picked that may be a parody of a real life forum frequented by said people and named accordingly.

This is simply a parody of a forum. There isn’t a real clear definition of who would hang out at howstuffworks.com, and even if there was, those people definately would not hang out at howstuffbreaks.com – so we’re left wondering who would actually frequent howstuffbreaks.com and how to pigeonhole and distort them.

Possibly the willItBlend.com people?

DonSlice Posted:

To be quite honest, I didn’t think the idea was pure gold when I thought of it. I am quite surprised it did as well as it did.

I have absolutely no problem with this forum being set at a difficulty for Re-Res to grind at.

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I still like the idea, it’s just a…difficult one. Albeit, some of my submissions have actually turned around and are getting out of the negatives, so there might be hope yet. Log in to see images!

ravenblooDDarkdreams Posted:

I was actually wondering if anybody felt the same way- I really don’t ‘get’ this week’s idea, I guess. I’m just not sure there’s enough material there for a forum, though I guess we’ll see as **** unfolds.

Then again, I actually thought Wiccapedia turned out pretty well, for the most part.

My feelings exactly. I was ****ing about it in my Klan forum earlier today. This week’s Forumbuildr topic has made me re-examine my voting on forum ideas, to say the least.