2024 Site Status Update

[PizzaLuigi]

Originally Posted by Space Goat

My intention is to continually prune the off-topic forums again like this every few years.

Wait holy shit this is a terrible idea wtf don’t do this.

[Plopilpy]

I didn't see that, yeah that's bad

[PizzaLuigi]

I'm gonna kill myself.

[Cabineet The Keet]

While I understand why you decided to delete old threads, I feel that there was a better way you could have done this.

(Ignore the shittiness)
you could've added a disclaimer feature that automatically appears after a post reaches a certain age. Which would take longer to implement, but I think it would be better in the long run:

you could've gotten some of the mods to make some of the users appear anonymous. Trooper didn't want you to but slime did for example:

(Idk if mods can do that for posts other than movie releases, so more coding might have to be done)

I don't want either of these to happen, but if you have to do something I'd prefer one of those.
I understand some people regret what they've posted, me included, but idk I feel like at a certain point you should just look back and laugh at how dumb you were back then.
I don't think employers are going to judge you for a 15 year old 3dmm.com post anyway. They check twitter and other popular social medias not forums.

[Old Rivers]

Lhh I'm not sure about the disclaimer idea. That just makes the content sound way more suspicious.

[Cabineet The Keet]

Originally Posted by Old Rivers

Lhh I'm not sure about the disclaimer idea. That just makes the content sound way more suspicious.

true lol, but thats mostly for the threads wih the N-word posted and other slurs.

[Old Rivers]

I mean if people are worried about stuff like that, they can just edit their own posts.

[Doog Lord]

Implement my idea or do a “search and destroy” thing where you can delete every instance of slurs/dumb things you said

[Cabineet The Keet]

Originally Posted by Doog Lord

You should like add this to User CP

and bring back the old threads if you can

Doogs idea is better than mine implement this

[BiotonicoDuck]

Originally Posted by PizzaLuigi

I'm gonna kill myself.

I hate this só fucking much

[PizzaLuigi]

Anyone that's wants to be a coward and remove all their posts can, this is an unnecessary thing to do.

[Bown]

Don’t prune the off-topic forums but I don’t care about stuff being private for guests

[Old Rivers]

Yeah that would be a reasonable middle. The only downside is that the frontpage looks pretty dismal if you're not logged in.

[Cabineet The Keet]

Originally Posted by Bown

Don’t prune the off-topic forums but I don’t care about stuff being private for guests

I just think it looks like dogshit, should've been done the way it is when you click on someones profile. With it still being there, but when you click on it, it encourages you to log in. Don't really care that much if it stays though.

However, having the old off topic stuff private for guests would be a very much better thing to do and would probably make both sides happy.

[Bown]

I didn’t realise when I made my previous post that the off-topic forums had already been pruned

That was an extremely bad decision

[Doog Lord]

3dmm.com has fallen

[Doog Lord]

Billions must bump

[Doog Lord]

Not actually but I do think it should just be an easy user cp option to purge all posts

[Bown]

My suggestions for the future:

1. Don’t prune any more posts
2. Make me a super mod
3. Don’t make Plop a super mod
4. Ban Doog for bumping all those threads
5. IP ban Patryk/HappyTime/whatever

[Old Rivers]

I agree with two of those.

[Doog Lord]

I mean just delete the posts it wasn’t that many bumps

[Doog Lord]

I bumped like 6 threads max

[Gavin Owers]

I'll admit, I may have jumped the gun and been a bit selfish with my approval. In retrospect, I think it's a bit tragic that posts by 3dmmers who passed away, like Pozin and Happyjuice, have disappeared.

Maybe the community should've been consulted before pruning, and having the option to change your username + making forums private would've been a good enough compromise.

[Old Rivers]

Now I feel bad for telling newbies not to bump old threads. I doomed so many threads!

But for real, if it's at all possible to reverse the thread purge, I beg you to, Goat.

[Pvt Sherman]

Originally Posted by Doog Lord

3dmm.com has fallen