One thing you guys don't seem to be thinking here is that just about anyone knows that if the Rom is on GBAtemp's front page, that means you can get on the Channel to get said rom, keeping the site legal, and the channel going, so unless #gbatemp is going to turn into a place where you can get every rom for any system putting anything but GBA roms listings on the front page is useless.
maybe so. so i beg you to consider either wiping everything but GBA ROM releases from the front page or at least adding more to do with the GBA ROM releases, eg. trainers, homebrews, gamesaves.
don't see the big deal with PC demo's being in Jumpman's news, after all you are all using a computer to access and post here, it's one of those things we all have in common, other then being gamers and or GBA owners...
yet in your comment directly above you state that the main page should just be for GBA ROMS! ok so if we have the fact that we're all GBA and PC owners in common then what is wrong with the request of putting PC scene releases in the news??? IT'S NOT A BIG REQUEST, but its a lot more useful than pathetic pc demos.
The thing here is if you think this is so bad, you need to really get off your asses and do the work required to list what ever you want to see on the front page. Jumpman's been doing his news gathering for a long time now, it's only on the front page as far as I can tell because there are fewer releases. No offence to Jumpman intended but his news should stay in off topic and not be on the front page.
in my last post in this very thread, I OFFERED TO DO THE WORK, but it seems most of you have your heads so ffar up your asses that you just completely ignored my post. very dissappointing from a forum which constantly refers to itself as a "Community" and from members which have (in this thread) asked for suggestions. why ask for suggestions if you have no interest whatsoever of using them.
Something that doesn't need to be done however is catering to what speechless calls the core audience, as the core audience never posts, they find out what's out and get there roms with out a word, they are going nowhere, they are not here to begin with.
again why not? just because YOU dont use trainers/gamesaves/homebrew/etc doesnt mean that the large majority of gba pirates dont. i'd like to see you backup this so-called fact because i think you'd be quite surprised at the interest in these things. and have you maybe thought that half the reason that this core audience *may not* post here is because there is nothing interesting to post about. there is absolutely no focus on gba and more focus on how good you are at photoshop or what you had for lunch or who's mum is the hottest, etc. look, theres some valid suggestions being thrown around here that could benefit to the site, but you would rather spit on them. try to be a bit more openminded.
If you want to clutter the site with useless trainers and saves etc then do it, but really that's catering to people who can't play games in the first place, and shouldn't be on the front page...
its not about how well you play the games Luse, its about keeping track of whats going on in the GBA community. and trainers/gamesaves/homebrew are almost as large and numerous as the GBA roms which are so precious. it disgusts me to think that, as you have stated above, the apparant core audience of this site is here for nothing but to rip off nintendo by downloading games they have spent billions of dollars a ear to create. but on the other side of the fence, if you dont mind doing it to nintendo, then why not add other warez releases in the news. whys hould you mind doing it to microsoft, sony or the pc industry?
Instead why don't you just create an additional forum to the site dedicated to trainers and saves? It's alot easier and the members who care can take part in it, just like anything else it's a bonus not the meat and potatoes of what this site has been...
thats like saying why dont you take everything out of THIS CURRENT FORUM thats not gba related and make its own seperate private forum. so why dont you take your photoshop sigs and put them in another forum thats still linked to this one. so then you can make the stupid things over at the other forum and then bring them over here. i dont see the point quite frankly. on another point, at one time gbatemp.net actually did list trainers, but unfortunately things have gone downlhill since then.
The front page should only be used for GBA releases and important board related issues, and every once in a while for a contest or the GBAtemp awards that is still board related...
maybe so, so lets see this happen.
The only three words all you staff members and ops should worry about are…
Organization
Teamwork
GBA
organization?? = that left with kivan, sorry
teamwork?? = lol, no comment
GBA?? = so remove anything non-gba related? haha....i didnt think you'd be willing to make those sort of sacrifices
I’d also say unban speechless, as well as any other op that’s been banned, have a staff meeting and fix these petty issues once and for all, this stupid IRC versus Forum drama should have come to a close when I resigned damn it.
Then again nothing I just said matters since I wasn't here from Day one, so ignore it all and keep fighting amongst each other instead of trying to work together...
ahhh finally some sense...yes unban teh speechles, cmon he didnt do anything overly wrong, not compared to some of the crap i've read on these forums thats been totally overlooked. seems that "we" are singled out for the fact that "we" are irc ops. when in actual fact many of us have been posting here since day one. i dont know if this is intentional or purely coincidental but its kinda annoying to see this forum using us as a romleech point and then spitting in our faces in return. please unban teh speechles, he's not so unreasonable, just like myself.
as far as the fighting comment, there needs to be a conflict before theres a resolution. at the moment we're just in our conflict stage. it wont last forever, no conflict does.
Haha, all this arguing...
I think Jumpmans news is a very handy thing. Gives lazy people like me a heads up on whats new.
As for the whole "No lame PC demos, get with the 1337 SC3N3" You DO realize that alot of people here have NO idea about warez, how to get them, what to do with cd images, etc. It wouldnt matter if Jumpman reported on warez releases, because the target audience that could actually utilize this news is a very small percent of the whole. Not to mention reporting on warez is a rather daunting task, just get on to some of the more popular newsgroups and see for yourself, over 75,000 NEW posts in one day. And quite honestly, if your really so "1337", why on earth do you need another person to report on when and where new warez releases come out, go find them and get them yourself, lazy bastage
you do realise that a lot of people here DO have an idea about warez, how to get them, what to do with cd images,etc. i'm not asking gbatemp.net to host them. i'm just asking for a weekly listing to keep people in the know. sure, newsgroups may have over 75,000 new posts in a day, but did you ever take the time to sift through them and find how many were actually NEW?!??!? no, didnt think so. and maybe i am "1337" because i know where to find warez, but i also know where to find gaming news and dont need to see jumpman17 regurgitate crap he saw in ign and gamespot.
so why dont you go find your gaming news yourself, lazy bastage
whats the difference here. NONE.
one final note. dont mean to pick the shit out of luse's post but he basically just said what was in every other post so its easier to just quote the one.
ShADyX's final thought : be open for suggestions, dont just spit on them and push them under the couch. you asked for the suggestions now impliment them please. or dont ask for them in the first place.
Or others