I didn't do anything, other than post logical reason why this is not an issue.

ALL forms of Forum cross-posting has led to various egos being stepped on [allegedly], but in reality no-one gets hurt.

MANY years ago I posted a thread 'People may hit me but...' as something to liven the Forums...back around 2002 or some-when ... a thread about what music you were listening to.  It didn't hurt...the world didn't end.  We survived.

Community interaction  really needs to be more than just "you bastards dump Impulse / you bastards bring back Impulse" et al.

I didn't do anything, other than post logical reason why this is not an issue.[/quote] 

 Duly noted.

over on the WC site we are able to pick and choose those galleries that we wish to experience. it seems like a good idea to incorporate that technology within the forums.

Or threads where Starkers yell " You Bastards! I had an Impulse to take a dump and you took my squares!!! " Now THAT was a fine lesson in survival!

Now, on a more serious note. I think if one bothers to look within the topics instead of complete reliance upon the "most recent" catch-all area things would look far less disastrous. It's all a matter of people selecting the correct category when posting and the mods correcting and sorting accordingly. The same troubles that have plagued forum-kind since the dawn of time....

certainly does... and we have our selection of games threads and nonsense threads here... within our community... adding more that aren't relevant to us overloads things a tad...

I wonder.... do they get all of our WC games threads showing up on their forum? and what would their reaction be if they did...

ok, paul, you're right. it isn't the first time. maybe it's the third. anyway, when one wants to peruse the 'recent posts' area, he/she is rewarded with posts originating from areas other than the wincustomize forum. maybe they aren't 'gaming related' but are instead 'miscellaneous' (wait a sec. i have to go check the spelling on that) but hey sure as heck aren't related to anything here on wc. granted, threads about what one had for lunch yesterday and such aren't related to anything on wc but maybe they were started by someone on wc. is it possible to not have posts originating from forums other than the wc forum being listed in the 'recent posts' area? i'm sure it is although it may not be easily implemented.

How about a simple check box of "Only show posts from WC Forums" in the options area? Simple enough resolve to this issue don't you think?

Kind of makes the 'most recent' pointless then. I noticed the 'gamer' threads bumping everything like WIP threads and other things more interesting to the skinners.

'Skinners are gamers and vice versa' yadda, yadda, isn't that why there are separate forums?

I have to agree with the original poster.

This seemed to start (this time, as it is not the first) or worsen after y'all did your maintenance a few days ago. Anyone want to clue us in on whether this is an intentional or unintentional outcome of the maintenance?

When I go to my forum of choice which happens to be WinCustomize I do two things before I go and read a thread, first is I look at the thread title and next is it's category.  I find that pretty much keeps me from reading what might be called nuisance threads.  Yes I occasionally get taken to a thread that wasn't something I was concerned about. 

I'm not all that concerned about the cross posting issue, if fact I'm sure if a problem is being seen in or on one forum it will show up on all, so being informed isn't all that bad.

Just my take on the whole thing. 

EDIT:  Just thought of one other thing I look at, the nick of the poster.  Most of the folks who hang out in the WinCustomize forums recognize nicks of WinCustomizers.

In the My Replies section there is a dropdown to select WC or all sites. Can that feature be added to Recent Posts? Then we could choose to show or hide any sites other than WC.

Just a thought.

I wouldn't worry about the new topics, WinCustomites have already hijacked them

Yeah, some kind of option to hide \ block unwanted threads from most recent would be welcome, for me anyway.

The main thing I dont like, regardless of how you sort or use the forum is, The MAIN WC front page is always populated with these nonsense game threads.  It irritates me to no end and more recently has turned me off even 'hanging out' here. Wears on me, so to speak.

Imo there is a place for these kind of threads, they don't really hurt anyone, but, showing up on the front page, to me at least, is something that should be remedied.

John...

There is no point objecting.

There is no point in commenting.

This is part of an intricate plan to force you to skin more.

Resistance is futile.

i disagree with you jaf....first time ever.......shock horror!!

we should be able to turn off those posts or have them removed (last time there was a major uproar and we got it removed)

i disagree that every skinner is a gamer and vice verser, so i can come into sins of the solar empire with an wb skinning question and will get an answer in under half an hour?........ very unlikely. People will think im a retard and tell me to go back to wc and post it there.

the main thing that is bothering the majority of us, is that this new secting called "everything else" is basically already swamping the wc forums recent activity and it makes it hard for us to navigate to something we either want to read, respond to, or find someone to help with a skinning question.

surely you can see it from our point of view?

Common sense:

-Threads that arent posted by Wincustomizers or isn´t about stuff relevant to The WC-community should be gone or we should have an easy fix to have them filtered away.

ditto for Vamps and neone6.

How do we discern what's relevant to the WC community? What you consider relevant, maybe I don't. There have been posts about things that I don't feel have anything to do with this site, the recent death of Harry Morgan being one of them (not having a go at you, Doc, just using it as an example .) The thread didn't bother me, but you're talking about things being relevant, and to me, that wasn't. So where do we draw the line in the sand?

it would be nice to be able to filter catagories such as over on the WC site. not all posts would be relevant anyhow but...

Isn't the whole point of   Last person to post wins, unless they are a moderator or admin. a Sins of a Solar Empire Forums thread that's popping up here to be LOCKED by the mods? I mean, that's the entire purpose of the thread is overpost and keep bumping it until a mod gets annoyed enough to lock it thus creating a 'winner'?