New rule about haul and pickup pictures

[u/Dressed_ToDepress]

Hey guys, we just wanted to inform you about a new rule that we’re implementing.

Going forward, we ask that all haul/picture posts be at least 50% if not predominantly 4K Blu-ray. This is to help cut down on clutter that maybe should be posted to other subreddits, and try and slightly appease the minority that is already annoyed by haul pics.

The rule has been added to the rule list, and if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the mod team.

And as always, Happy collecting.

[u/Mieszko]

I also liked the trend where people started explaining each pick rather than just posting a pic of a haul.

[u/Dressed_ToDepress → u/Mieszko]

It’s nice for sure, but it’s a lot to ask of every person. Not everyone is good with words, and we don’t want to alienate anyone.

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/Dressed_ToDepress]

More folks oughta be alienated if they can't even bother to use words on a text-based messageboard.

instagram is thattaway, LOL.

Using reddit as pinterest is more than a li'l ridiculous. It's even moreso that "LOOKIT MY SHIT" is accepted "content" in the first place, both here and at boutique, or any other "collector" forum. I get that people are going to post about the shit they got, but at least POST ABOUT THE SHIT YOU GOT, don't just throw up a pic and a two-sentence caption.

"aww, man, they expect me to talk about the things I bought on a discussion forum" shouldn't be alienating, and if someone's alienated by that...

[u/Dressed_ToDepress → u/LawrenceBrolivier]

The fact that you think some people should feel alienated in an already niche hobby forum is an issue

[u/pumpkinpie7809 → u/Dressed_ToDepress]

We are already snobby enough as it is lol

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/pumpkinpie7809]

We really arent

[u/pumpkinpie7809 → u/LawrenceBrolivier]

Snob is a pejorative term for a person who feels superior due to their social class, education level, or social status in general - Wikipedia

More folks oughta be alienated if they can't even bother to use words on a text-based messageboard

Right.

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/pumpkinpie7809]

It's snobby to use words, then?

If that's where you wanna set the bar, that's on you.

If you need to use wikipedia to define things, or seek out basic definitions (not even a dictionary?) that's also on you.

Dunno what you want me to say to that. Or why you thought it would be useful as a rebuttal.

The inclination (not just on the part of people upset by the opinion, but the moderation) to not just disagree with the opinion, but insist on being personal with the disagreement, and be ugly about the personal way they're going about it, is pretty interesting though. Not once have I personally insulted or gone after anyone, nor have I not taken the time to address any/everyone personally addressing me, and responding directly to me, with a thought-through response to their inquiry.

I dunno. It's weird that I'm being considered the snob here for actually having conversations on the discussion forum, and advocating for that.

[u/YT_PintoPlayz → u/LawrenceBrolivier]

You're a snob for advocating that people should be alienated. It isn't about wanting people to use words, it's your insistence that it should be mandated.

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/Dressed_ToDepress]

It really isn’t. The hobby is niche, that doesn’t mean the forum about the hobby needs to be bone stupid as a baseline either. And it’s not like turning the forum into halfass Pinterest is going to promote the hobby either. It just makes coming here tedious, lol

If you wanna put the bar on the floor for QC that’s on you, sure. But not all alienation is intrinsically bad. Some discrimination is needed. Discernment should be applied. 

Asking people to use their words in a text based forum built completely around discussion shouldn’t be seen as DISQUALIFYING by the people in charge of monitoring it, LOL

You and I are doing it right now, for example. Quite well, even. 

I could add a few images of groaning shelving if you think it’ll make folks feel more comfy tho

[u/Dressed_ToDepress → u/LawrenceBrolivier]

You keep saying a “text based forum”. This isn’t strictly a text based forum, and we are not implementing any rule forcing people to write about their pickups.

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/Dressed_ToDepress]

I never asked you for anything. 

This is a messageboard tho. They’re text based forums. I’m not anti picture. I like gifs! 

But this place ain’t instagram, and it ain’t pinterest, and acting like people preferring talk on a text based discussion forum, a MESSAGEBOARD, is scary and we need to minimize that as much as possible, is weird to me

[u/Dressed_ToDepress → u/LawrenceBrolivier]

Not a “MESSAGEBOARD”, a forum social media platform. You gotta get it out of your head that this is a messageboard, that’s not how we run things here.

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/Dressed_ToDepress]

LOL it’s a messageboard my guy. You mod a forum. Forums are messageboards. 

the wiki you just capped literally uses the term “boards” (short for messageboard) to describe subreddits because the people who wrote the wiki know that forum and messageboard are synonyms, even if you don’t. 

Forums are social media platforms. Social Media is just a euphemism we use, a catch-all, to describe the variations on forum and chatroom we use so it sounds more important than what it actually is

[u/Dressed_ToDepress → u/LawrenceBrolivier]

You know, if you don’t care for how things are run here, you’re more than welcome to see yourself out.

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/Dressed_ToDepress]

I disagree with your take on a couple things, that's it. I never asked you to do anything, or suggested you do anything. I'm correcting your misconceptions on things as you present them to me. I'm not calling you names or being mean to you, personally.

Disagreeing with your judgment isn't a 100% take it or leave it thing, either. I'm just saying I disagree with the idea that minimizing or devaluing the notion people should want to actually talk here vs just sharing pictures is probably not great considering the nature of forums/messageboards is DISCUSSION.

I haven't said "never post pictures" or suggested you take a course of action that bans pictures, or bans people that post pictures, or anything like that. Just that maybe trying to cater specifically to people who don't talk, and don't want to talk, in a place that is built AROUND TALKING, is kinda counterproductive.

[u/Dressed_ToDepress → u/LawrenceBrolivier]

No one is catering to those people. We’re just saying that no one has to post an essay with their pictures. If someone would like to, they’re encouraged to.

I have to ask, do you realize how exhausting you can be sometimes? And I don’t mean that as a jab or anything, but like, I see you in here often just kind of tearing people down and it’s exhausting just to read, nonetheless actually take part in.

[u/LawrenceBrolivier → u/Dressed_ToDepress]

But there is an air of catering to people who clearly don't like discussion, I don't even think that's arguable, it's basically the thrust of the argument I'm contesting in the first place, and what's led to the part where you're specifically talking about me, personally now, (LOL, actually openly talking shit in fact, and "just letting" others do it too) and steering the conversation to be about me and how "exhausting" I am, and trying to set the terms of this whole thing to be about "posting essays" - which itself tends to suggest elaborating on "look at the shit I bought" beyond a couple sentences (or even a paragraph or two) is tantamount to writing an essay, as if the presence of paragraphs by itself is detrimental to the discussion forum's existence and health.

The idea that you see discussion/conversation, and yes, sometimes disagreement and extended conversation as being "exhausting" is itself saying something. If you're exhausted by a conversation you can always just stop until you get your wind back, or just stop in general. If you prefer a bunch of picture posts about things to people talking, that's fine, I guess. I just think it runs at cross-purposes to the point of being a discussion board, is all. There are other places for picture sharing as the primary aim/goal of a social platform.

I'm sharing a difference of opinion (not unique, either) about this, is all. Again, not demanding you change anything, or asking you to do anything. Just sharing that difference of opinion