Adult forum

Doesn't sound like a bad idea, again if you don't like it, you wouldn't have to visit it.

So what ever came of this idea?

It went to the idea graveyard with everything else.

I say we implement it.

God, what a terrible idea. This is the reason why:

Most any adult male has had the scenario occur where one of the guys in the group has just turned 18, and the rest of the crew wants him to score them some porn. So, he does, and all five or six of you sit there, weirdly quiet and uncomfortable as you watch some sleazy video, trying to conceal your gross teenage boners. You thought it would be funny or entertaining, but no. Now you're just aroused in a hot room full of dudes.

I'm not down with Zelaron, a gaming forum, turning into a sweaty room filled with nerd boners.

I can understand everybody's appreciation for porn. I personally believe it to be the backbone of the American economic landscape. However, I don't think you guys really thought this one out. Who wants to sit around and discuss porn? How would that conversation go? "I'm really intrigued by the way that mexican chick's labia hang down a half inch." "Dude, the duck butter running down that guy's asscrack looks the slime from Ghostbusters II!"

Porn is a solo experience for me. Not community entertainment. I'm so glad this never got implemented.

Just so you know, it was going to/is going to be limited to adults. And nobody will be taking pictures of boners. I don't see the problem.

It's like "hey guys check out this really hot chick I found."

Can I host movies?

I don't really see any need for it, nor do I think it would attract any of the activity we're looking for. Zelaron has always been a place for discussing games, finding other people to play games with, and a place for intelligent debate in my eyes.

I just don't really see the difference between someone posting a name/link with a NSFW warning and posting the picture itself. /shrug

I don't really see any need for it, nor do I think it would attract any of the activity we're looking for. Zelaron has always been a place for discussing games, finding other people to play games with, and a place for intelligent debate in my eyes. I just don't really see the difference between someone posting a name/link with a NSFW warning and posting the picture itself. /shrug

This man is knowledgeable.

Well i'm glad you've thrown out so many ideas. Instead of bashing everything try suggesting something. We've already got sweaty nerds with boners that try and flirt with anything female on here, so how is this any different?

Well i'm glad you've thrown out so many ideas. Instead of bashing everything try suggesting something. We've already got sweaty nerds with boners that try and flirt with anything female on here, so how is this any different?

It's different because it'll do exactly as Vollstrecker said months ago: divide the forum. You'll have the original group of people who are longstanding Zel members, who are videogame nerds expressing an interest in porn, then you'll have the porn nerds looking for more porn. And talking about porn. And roleplaying porn.

You'll have an influx of porn-members, about 5% of which will actually contribute to the rest of the forum, much like the activity during the major D2 days. Lots and lots and lots of morons, only this time they're not even videogame nerds, with which the rest of us have a major connecting factor. This time they're PORN freaks, and furries and scat fetishists. Is PORN really the common ground you want to establish between yourself and hundreds of complete strangers? That's not a community I want.

Instead of listening to people like Raziel, we should try going in a different direction. When I get more time i'll post more NWS type of shit in the Off-Topic forums. I don't see anything wrong with it, any activity is good activity.

I agree that the forum needs drastic changes, but not that sort of change. Have you ever actually browsed the forums on sites like Consumption Junction? The activity on their message boards is just repugnant. The quality of activity is completely faceless, individual relationships and any sort of "community" element are non-existant, and the posts themselves are 99% stupidity and vulgarity. Good activity becomes totally lost in the sea of retardation.

If Zelaron plans on making huge changes, the thing that's going to do it is not forum layout, or new styles or types of discussion. In fact, the forum itself won't save the forum at all. Content brings activity, and "content" does not include forum posts. People post about content. By content, I mean articles. Reviews, opinion pieces, news, etc. And not just shitty AP cut-and-paste like Zel used to do on the old portal; real writing. That's what brings decent, intelligent activity to sites like Something Awful. The fact that the site content is the star of the show, while the forum itself is more of a backstage element.

You want huge activity? You want good, huge activity? It's gonna take more work than new sections to bring it. People don't just want a message board anymore, they want content, and they want a message board so they can discuss that content. Those are the kinds of changes that need to be made.

My suggestion = The truly "adult", respectable approach to evolving the forum.

Porn Forum = The easy way out. It'll only dig us a deeper, messier hole.

I'm pretty much with Raziel on this one.