Beer Trading General Help forum - keep it open or shut it down?

This is one of the best forums on the site. People need called out for their shenanigans.

 

Well, the people have spoken, seems like the vote says you are completely off the mark. Anything else you want to gt off your chest?

 

what good could come out of eliminating this forum? You want this shit in your FT post?

 

It's the Internet. If you close one forum down, people will just find another one to fight in.

Relevant Penny Arcade (NSFW language):
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

 

Quick, somebody call the WAHHmbulance!

 

looks like someone just got pwnd!

 

I vote... All of the above!

 

I vote Dark Lord

 

^ this.

 

All I know is apparently I've been missing out on good reading material. Thanks for the heads up!

 

We all spend too much time on here, obviously. People take this stuff seriously.

 

I like this section. No need for bullshit threads like this mucking up the iso:ft section. There are already enough threads there to sift through.

 

You can just vote maximizing your beer value...that option is a joke anyways.

Are you referring to before 2010? Because ever since I joined, both forums were there and you could reply to the ISO/FT but we also had general help. Then came the banning responses so a good chunk of the traffic moved there. Unless you're talking about some time before I joined when you couldn't have replies on ISO/FT and that forum was created, then your memory is a little fucked up and fuzzy because as far as I know, that forum was already there when the ISO forum switched to post only.

 

Haha I'll keep it in mind.

 

I think it was actually created BEFORE the ISO forum went "read only" as way to do 3 things;
1). Educate the new users by giving them a place to ask questions and get feedback.
2). Move some of the arguing and threadshitting out of the actual ISO posts.
3). Reduce/eliminate posts in the ISO forum that aren't actually IsO requests (great/bad trader alerts, shipping questions, etc).

All 3 of those prevent threads from being repeatedly bumped to the top this forcing new requests to fade into the oblivion of page 2 and beyond.

This forum is quite useful-- at least to some people. It seems callous to suppose that simply because you find something no longer useful that it should be done away with.