Is it uncouth to follow Community Threads that you're not a member of?

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Lurking is A-OK. Some of the threads that have particularly sensitive topics are helpful to just read If you don't want to share. Cross posting from those threads is a dick move though.
 
I don't see the issue of pulling a quote from the same user on the same forum if it is relevant to a thread they are currently posting in.

Don't contradict yourself. Ez pz
 
Ronin Ray said:
I lurk wrestling gaf everyday and I haven't watched wrestling in years . I find that fourm better then the actual product. Lot of funny stuff in there .
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Nah, there's no problem with it at all. I like to consider myself an honorary BCT lurker, used to post occasionally but once you really start lurking it's hard to hop back in. Also lurk android gaf but that's mostly just for news updates on the small stuff.

Nearly every community thread gets lurked, it's a public forum. If people really want to get private most just hop on Skype or something.
 
WickedLaharl said:
I don't see the issue of pulling a quote from the same user on the same forum if it is relevant to a thread they are currently posting in.

Don't contradict yourself. Ez pz
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The idea is that some of them are safe places.

It would be like taking a convo you had with a friend when you were heated or sad and then using it against you later in a public debate.
 
This reminds me that I haven't posted in Girl-Gaf for a while!

And probably shouldn't.
 
When you sign up for GAF, you sign up for GAF, not Anime GAF or NFL GAF or any other community. As long as you're not shitposting, there's no reason why you can't follow and post in those community's threads. Personally, I'm not Muslim, but I followed the Ramadan thread semi frequently because it was interesting to see posts about a religion and tradition I'm not really familiar with.

As for bringing up community posts in unrelated threads, that's something I'm not a fan of. Personally, I'm not a fan of bringing up post history in general. Not really relevant to the topic at hand unless there's a post that directly contradicts a statement made.
 
What I've noticed is that it's the community threads that usually talk shit (quoting posts from other threads, talking about other posters) in their private corners where they won't be called out on it.
 
You don't need anyone's permission to follow a community thread, or to post in it. But the post referred to in the OP was, in context, pretty damn creepy. Even if it hadn't been, I'd generally discourage people from cross-posting into and out of community threads in order to call people out (or post history diving for that matter). Sure sometimes you get high fives and everyone's like "oh damn pwned" or whatever the kids are saying these days. But most of the time, even when that does happen, it's just a useless disruption.
 
I posted a thread asking this a while back and the mods said I can post wherever the fuck I want. So yeah you can post wherever the fuck you want.
 
Generally if a conversations starts "you know the thing about breasts is..." no matter how good the follow up, you're not going to come of as very tactful.
 
A Link to the Snitch said:
Again, it's not about rules, it's about courtesy. There's a similar thing w/ Twitter - Twitter is technically an open space, but that doesn't mean that you can (or more specifically should), for instance, retweet them against their wishes.
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well since nobody but me pays for my internet I'm going to use it as I see fit (within the rules of decency and the law of course) telling me that I can't post this or retweet that is like trying to prevent me from fully utilizing what I pay for.

UltimaPooh said:
I think posting in the threads is fine.

You cross the line when you start to àct Luke you are that community or think that your opinions on how to approach things out weighs there's.

Also cross posting quotes is crossing the line as well. People need a place to vent with their peers.
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our peers are members of NeoGAF who are free to post in any thread. this is why we had the NBA thread locked (rightfully so too) when a group of members gets too insular and doesn't accept newcomers it's bad for the whole forum.

NeoGAF is the community, everything else are threads started by the members to talk about any topic. anyone at any point is free to post in any topic at any point unless they are fragrantly breaking the TOS and at that point let a moderator handle it. I can't believe there are members who think community threads are it's own separate forums.
 
Cyan said:
You don't need anyone's permission to follow a community thread, or to post in it. But the post referred to in the OP was, in context, pretty damn creepy. Even if it hadn't been, I'd generally discourage people from cross-posting into and out of community threads in order to call people out (or post history diving for that matter). Sure sometimes you get high fives and everyone's like "oh damn pwned" or whatever the kids are saying these days. But most of the time, even when that does happen, it's just a useless disruption.
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guess I'll continue to lurk CyanGaf
 
evil solrac v3.0 said:
our peers are members of NeoGAF who are free to post in any thread. this is why we had the NBA thread locked (rightfully so too) when a group of members gets too insular and doesn't accept newcomers it's bad for the whole forum.

NeoGAF is the community, everything else are threads started by the members to talk about any topic. anyone at any point is free to post in any topic at any point unless they are fragrantly breaking the TOS and at that point let a moderator handle it. I can't believe there are members who think community threads are it's own separate forums.
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Where did you get that in any of what I posted?

Is it because I don't think people should have Carte Blanche when it comes to particular communities?

Also NBA GAF and Trans GAF are two different communities. Of course it's an asshole thing to not let newbs into NBA GAF.
 
UltimaPooh said:
The idea is that some of them are safe places.

It would be like taking a convo you had with a friend when you were heated or sad and then using it against you later in a public debate.
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Eh that's not a good comparison. It's more as if you and your friend had previously agreed to all your convos being recorded and publicly shown (posting on GAF; anyone can find all your posts on google as long as they know your username) and *then* they were used against you. Just a normal conversation usually is private. GAF isn't.
 
KHlover said:
Eh that's not a good comparison. It's more as if you and your friend had previously agreed to all your convos being recorded and publicly shown (posting on GAF; anyone can find all your posts on google as long as they know your username) and *then* they were used against you. Just a normal conversation usually is private. GAF isn't.
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I'm not saying that people can't do that. They obviously can but it usually comes at a cost to their moral borometer.
 
Some are very hard to break into since it's just the same posters talking to each other. so they're more chatrooms.

Luckily, I only follow ones that don't suffer from that.
 
It's not very polite, but it's also not very polite to pull quotes from threads in the main two forums and talk shit on them, which happens decently often in community threads. So it's all technically legal, but it makes you a dick.
 
While I agree that the communities are supposed to be a safe haven, they're still on a mostly public message board, and there is still plenty of wriggle room for topics to be brought up or read by anyone anywhere.

TBH, although I typically fit inherent qualities of boards like LGBTGAF, Black GAF, and Pop GAF (I was born LGBT, Pop, and Black American), I generally lurk those more than post. I bet I'm not the only one either. I generally like to read the perspectives of other people and different topics they bring to the table, whether black, latino, pop, girl, LGBT, trans, etc. We all have common threads, and can learn from one another. However, I either have nothing to really contribute, don't have the nerve to contribute (as these communities are pretty solidified and cliqued), or simply know my place and know I am not qualified to input since I cannot speak from those perspectives.
 
Echoenigma said:
It's not very polite, but it's also not very polite to pull quotes from threads in the main two forums and talk shit on them, which happens decently often in community threads. So it's all technically legal, but it makes you a dick.
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basically.

when someone posts something on a public forum you bet others will read it or quote it, but it still doesn't change the fact that sometimes quoting some things makes you seem a lil creepy or an asshole
 
I wonder what kind of shenanigans go on in the gaming side, never lurked any off topic community threads cos the post counts are insanely high and makes me feel lost.


Edit: except for the producer one but I had specific questions and they gave me good answers.
 
Dude's are welcome to post in girl gaf. They do all the time.

Just keep in mind they will get ignored if they:

Ask for relationship advice
Creep on girl gaffers
 
Aeana said:
You should be. They're like the PopGAF of the gaming forum.
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Also, that whole "numbers on jumpsuits" thing a while back was rather overboard, even for them too if I recall.


Fiction said:
Dude's are welcome to post in girl gaf. They do all the time.

Just keep in mind they will get ignored if they:

Ask for relationship advice
Creep on girl gaffers
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LOL I agree so much. Hey, since we think alike, do you wanna go grab a coffee sometime haha ;) :) :)

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Unfortunately I feel that most community OT threads were better before they were moved to community. There is less exposures and while I enjoy the community threads I post in they do feel just smaller than they were in OT, especially the sports threads when they were stickied.
 
A Link to the Snitch said:
People aren't saying "omg ban them". TC didn't ask if it was okay by the TOS, they asked if it was okay by decency standards. AKA, you can choose to do something, but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily a decent thing to do.
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I didn't say they should be banned and I didn't bring up the TOS.

I don't think it can be labelled indecent in any case because it's a public forum. If you don't want a certain part of the forum, or certain posters to read it, don't post it. Don't cry foul when someone brings it up either.
 
I shit-post on these forums almost daily, yet I almost never set foot inside OT Community. I find them difficult to get engaged in without feeling I'm derailing discussion.

Still, lurking is fine, and cross-posting is OK as long as it's relevant to the topic at hand.
 
Resilient said:
I didn't say they should be banned and I didn't bring up the TOS.

I don't think it can be labelled indecent in any case because it's a public forum. If you don't want a certain part of the forum, or certain posters to read it, don't post it. Don't cry foul when someone brings it up either.
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So you do t believe in some level of privacy on a public forum?

We can all agree its legal to do but most of the time it's a gotcha thing that makes you morally weak.
 
I read Anime, Manga and Wrassle GAF but don't post that much. All of you just know, I'm watching you.

Don't really go into community threads about races or genders I'm not part of but I see nothing wrong with someone doing so.
 
UltimaPooh said:
The idea is that some of them are safe places.

It would be like taking a convo you had with a friend when you were heated or sad and then using it against you later in a public debate.
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But the entire forum is public so that analogy doesn't fit. Regardless of how insular some of the communities on the site are, they are still part of this site. If people want complete privacy they should be on a private forum.

PeskyToaster said:
What I've noticed is that it's the community threads that usually talk shit (quoting posts from other threads, talking about other posters) in their private corners where they won't be called out on it.
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So much this. If people want their comments in these communities from crossing over into the general parts of the site they should practice what they preach. The number of times people in these community threads quote from other threads far outweighs the reverse.
 
the vita gaf community OT is kinda weird because you have to interrupt a conversation about sketchy vita games to find out stuff about PSN.
 
Rafterman said:
But the entire forum is public so that analogy doesn't fit. Regardless of how insular some of the communities on the site are, they are still part of this site. If people want complete privacy they should be on a private forum.



So much this. If people want their comments in these communities from crossing over into the general parts of the site they should practice what they preach. The number of times people in these community threads quote from other threads far outweighs the reverse.
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You're completely ignoring the dynamic of community threads. They tend to have a limited number of posters and they often develop a chat room feel that is much different than the OT threads and this is a result of moving them to community and it's easy to tell when people are just talking with each other versus trying to make a larger point.
 
Rafterman said:
But the entire forum is public so that analogy doesn't fit. Regardless of how insular some of the communities on the site are, they are still part of this site. If people want complete privacy they should be on a private forum.
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I'm not arguing that people can't do that, they can and probably will. I'm saying its morally dubious. You can argue that it's not but clearly based on replies in this thread there is a moral grounds on whether to do it or not.
 
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