Anyone noticed that? People already came up with good guides and ran out of idea so people started to flood more with useless guides such as; "Ultimate Amazing guide to how to cook shark", "Super Amazing guide on how to get RS to work on Firefox, 110% effective!", or "~~*~~Guide to collect cabbage~~*~~".....

 

 

 

I mean these aren't needed at all, it's difficult to browse for good ones now. Sticky thread needs update that states no more useless guide, how about it?

Well there is a certain amount of stupid guides but we can't really put a rule "No idiotic guides which don't actually help anyone" can we? :P

 

 

 

I noticed a stupid guide earlier about what items to wear when training..that should never have been there really. :-w

The sad thing is that this is a lose-lose situation :( There was a thread in here a few weeks ago about someone complaining about how we lock too many guides in PMG for not being good enough :wall: So if we let unhelpful guides slide, someone gets mad. If we start locking more again, someone gets mad.

 

 

 

But I do agree with you about those "joke" guides that are mainly created for entertainment purposes (how to collect cabbage, how to make pies, etc.).

There was a thread in here a few weeks ago about someone complaining...

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=686670

 

I think thats the one.

 

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"No idiotic guides which don't actually help anyone" can we?

 

I think you could actually, just word it properly...:

 

'Guides must sustain a certain level of maturity and guide or help the users in an accurate way...'

 

 

 

Though that can be fixed on greatly, it does allow a good portion of the guides to be locked, since they are 'joke' guides. :?

Why don't we have a system where guide ideas have to be approved of before they posted by a moderator or someone with specific authority to do so?

 

Guides must:

 

1. Not be just copying data from a main website (no guides which have information that is easily found on the Tip.it main site)

 

 

 

2. Try to make guides original so there is less guides of the same topic

 

 

 

3. Guides must be creative and helpful to a certain degree that the Tip.it community will find them sufficiently useful (no joke guides)

I think dat cabage guide was rele helpful it help me collect a lut of cabbages

Ya i used dat cabbage guide and i collected like 50k cabbages and then give dem to da ooc and den wow we got 3m cabbages now!

tripis y u so mean to da cabage

iq fell into the negatives with those last 3 replies :uhh:

Lol at the OoC.

 

 

 

To them, the cabbage guide is very useful, indeed. Show some respect. :wink:

Yeah go Ooc

how can anybody be that ignorant? teh cabbage guide was not a joke... it is very helpful if you want to join teh ooc. a lot of people are flaming tripsis now lol =p

The replies about the Cabbage guide are really depressing. :?

 

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I like mrmyk idea, there's only 1 or 2 guides being posted every day roughly, so it wouldn't be too bad to sort through the guides. It's probably the best solution.

The replies about the Cabbage guide are really depressing. :?

 

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I like mrmyk idea, there's only 1 or 2 guides being posted every day roughly, so it wouldn't be too bad to sort through the guides. It's probably the best solution.

 

Agreed. I recently reported 3 guides, one of them had been in the forum for 3 days. Once I reported it, it was locked within a couple of hours.

poo on you ooc. how DARE you try and have a harmless laugh?

 

 

 

:boohoo:

ooc? :-s

Cabbage guide is nais. On a scale of 1-10, it's over 9000.

Could a mod clean this topic? The OoC replies were okay with one or two, but more then 5 is getting spammy, and its getting way off-topic of the actual reason this thread is here.

Could a mod clean this topic? The OoC replies were okay with one or two, but more then 5 is getting spammy, and its getting way off-topic of the actual reason this thread is here.

 

 

 

Ok, I'll be serious, about 95% of the people posting in the guide say it's AoW worthy(not just the OoC's posts there) so it can't be that bad of a guide.

Ok, I'll be serious, about 95% of the people posting in the guide say it's AoW worthy(not just the OoC's posts there) so it can't be that bad of a guide.

 

I haven't said anything about the guide itself, since I have not read it. I'm merely saying posting about an example that was used to explain someones argument further isn't really getting a solution going, or an outcome. It just causes a circulation of spam, possibly flaming. I mean, those posts are spam since they do not help or give any guided direction in a solution, or outcome. They aren't needed, since 5+ other people have said the exact same thing.

 

 

 

The topic is about a flooded forum with useless topics, not about one individual topic that was or wasn't used as a poor example-that guide might be a fine guide, but its not what this topic is about, indirectly it is yes, but just posting about it because the examples insult cabbage is spam, or should be.

Maybe putting a post requirement would lessen the rubbish posted there.

Maybe putting a post requirement would lessen the rubbish posted there.

 

I can tell you now, that will never happen at Tip.It, or so what I've read from past topics that suggest this.

 

 

 

I think it had something to do with Quality>Quantity. Possibly if the topic still exists about post counts, keeping them, or getting rid of them, you should read that as well for a reason. I don't have a link for it.

 

 

 

Edit: Found it:

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=495898

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=492438

Wow dude. Seriously. That cabbage guide was good. like most of it was a joke, but was part serious. Most people from tip it who comes to pick cabbage pick at random and it gets.. annoying.

 

 

 

I think someone lacks of humor here.

I agree with my fellow OoCers that the cabbage guide is valuable, but seriously, enough is enough. It is worse for the OoC by flooding this topic. Stop it. They get it.

 

 

 

Aside from that I think that the board should have a few of its guides locked, but only the very inappropriate that do not help anyone. If done carefully and slowly, no one should have a problem.

Sheesh, enough is enough. Strav is right, we get the point.

 

 

 

I think the most effective resolution to this "issue" would be to carry on like we should we should have been all along. If you see a guide that you feel isn't informative enough to have its own thread, report it. Then the moderators (and pokemama, who does an excellent job) will use their best judgment to lock the threads that needn't be there. Simple as that. It doesn't matter if you "incorrectly" report a thread, it's not like it will count against you. If you're unsure, just report it and a moderator will handle it.

 

 

 

It's too difficult to draw the line and put a "range" of acceptable guides in the rules. This needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis.