Author Topic: actually, why is there no main blockland community discord (Read 4555 times)

Refticus · February 03, 2018, 03:39:56 PM

firstly, who would run and create it? additionally who would the admins be?
if you have someone who has a trash tier reputation or personality make it or administrate it, then nobody will want to join because they'll know it'll be drama city in there.
this is the reason why we have so many servers, we have no loving idea who should be the ~~glorious god emperor~~ server admin and everyone believes that they should be it.

if you have a stuffty admin who only makes their friends moderators, then you're gonna have a circlejerk starting between those friends which isn't good for the normal people in that server; if you have someone who acts nice at the start but turns out to be a huge prick who deletes posts and bans people for no reason, drama is gonna start like wildfire; you need someone who is absolutely neutral and sticks by the rules, and the only person who matches that criteria from what i've seen is badspot (gl asking him to make the discord server btw).

secondly, how would you get the ball rolling and encourage people to join, stay, and consider it the official server?
once again, a lot of competition here because everybody wants to be the person who runs the official fan server for blockland; and with a lot of servers claiming to the be the official one, people are gonna get confused and have to stick in multiple or none.
if you cannot get people to join then it's gonna be empty, it'll be seen as a dead server to people outside of the server and they'll likely just skip it.

finally;

Quote from: torin� on February 03, 2018, 03:35:39 PM

huge server discords are already insufferable enough why would you want to join a main blockland one when half of this community is handicapped

Quote from: hootaloo on February 03, 2018, 03:32:05 PM

because we suck

both of these sum up my opinion; huge servers loving suck on discord because you have hundreds of people trying to be heard and the people moderating that lose the will to live after 3 days of doing their job. also our community cannot stop fighting over petty things such as who gets the last piece of candy, so essentially double the amount of work for moderators.
just stick with the forums; everything is nicely organised and everyone basically gets a say on things without being drowned out by spam.

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Masterlegodude · February 03, 2018, 03:41:55 PM

Quote from: Verification on February 03, 2018, 03:31:57 PM

im not a public figure and that's against the point of the discussion

Well i guess you're just out of luck then

No one in this community wants to make yet another Discord just because "this community" or "that community" has one, or just because you said we should

Anyone who would be in a position of making a big Discord already has, but they have their own purposes, none of them are like what you'd want in a Blockland Discord

Aside from that, there's not many other people in this community that are held in such high regards who can or will make such a thing

IkeTheGeneric · February 03, 2018, 03:42:13 PM

It seems there's a big personality difference between people who can manage communities responsibly and people who really want to own a discord server.

Nix the Glaceon · February 03, 2018, 03:44:51 PM

badspot doesnt even want to moderate the forum; what makes you think he'd want to moderate a discord?

Verification · February 03, 2018, 03:45:46 PM

Quote from: TheArmyGuy on February 03, 2018, 03:37:46 PM

Because we wouldn't be able to decide on who should be in charge if we don't have a true neutral like badspot

Badspot isn't true neutral. If he was this thread would be very different and there WOULD be a blockland official discord instead of a nebula of small community ones.

Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on February 03, 2018, 03:42:13 PM

It seems there's a big personality difference between people who can manage communities responsibly and people who really want to own a discord server.

Like, ive given up on owning a discord server at this point. There are some people who i'd probably count on as neutral, such as you, conan and probably nobot on some occasion.

Quote from: Masterlegodude on February 03, 2018, 03:41:55 PM

Well i guess you're just out of luck then

No one in this community wants to make yet another Discord just because "this community" or "that community" has one, or just because you said we should

Anyone who would be in a position of making a big Discord already has, but they have their own purposes, none of them are like what you'd want in a Blockland Discord

Aside from that, there's not many other people in this community that are held in such high regards who can or will make such a thing

This is a discussion. We're discussing it. I'm asking why it's not and not where it is.

Quote from: Nix the Glaceon on February 03, 2018, 03:44:51 PM

badspot doesnt even want to moderate the forum; what makes you think he'd want to moderate a discord?

Do none of you understand the concept of community?

Masterlegodude · February 03, 2018, 03:49:43 PM

Quote from: Verification on February 03, 2018, 03:45:46 PM

This is a discussion. We're discussing it. I'm asking why it's not and not where it is.

And you got your answer, multiple times in fact, yet you keep asking anyway and passing it off as "discussion", when there's nothing more to discuss once your question has been answered multiple times and in various ways that should explain why this is not a thing that exists

Drydess · February 03, 2018, 04:14:18 PM

anyone who would want to own such a server wouldn't be fit to own it

crazy54311 · February 03, 2018, 04:30:20 PM

if we had one there'd be a chance it'd turn into a forgetin disaster of a discord

IkeTheGeneric · February 03, 2018, 04:34:59 PM

Quote from: crazy54311 on February 03, 2018, 04:30:20 PM

if we had one there'd be a chance it'd turn into a forgetin disaster of a discord

This is exactly it. If there's a public discord, you can count on the stuffstains of the community taking their shot at trying to ruin it.

The Titanium · February 03, 2018, 04:35:10 PM

You know why.

Drydess · February 03, 2018, 04:59:12 PM

Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on February 03, 2018, 04:34:59 PM

This is exactly it. If there's a public discord, you can count on the stuffstains of the community taking their shot at trying to ruin it.

along with this if the discord server got different people than the blf did they'd develop into a separate community

ahoy · February 03, 2018, 05:22:37 PM

cliques

Tudoreleu · February 04, 2018, 01:28:11 AM

this forum isn't even one community, it's several communities mushed together and forced to coexist on a single forum

the reason a main blockland community discord doesn't exist is because when the people here are given to option to stop coexisting they loving take it

Shift Kitty · February 04, 2018, 01:35:40 AM

Because Blockland is a much smaller community. Most of us are content with the smaller groups we're in.

We've all got our preferred areas to stay. And the forums serve the purpose of having a general area for us to all participate much better than a discord server would.

Those servers you're talking about. The Facepunch server, the 4chan server. I bet a majority of the users don't use those ones. There's probably a lot of people who prefer a smaller group, to keep things less chaotic. The ratio of 4chan users to the amount of users on that server is probably the same ratio of BL(F) users to any of the few BL Discord servers kicking about.

Dreams_Of_Cheese · February 04, 2018, 01:41:04 AM

There's basically no reason to have one.