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Dressel, I couldn't agree with you more. After a year of being here, I finally got wise... I stopped wasting my time. I ignore them. Whether good, bad, or ugly, I prefer to read the work of active members.
For me, this site is about "scripts". Simply scripts. Not who's the most popular or who's active or who's gonna give me a read for a read. Sure all that stuff is nice, but at the end of the day all I wanna do is read a good quality script and hopefully learn something from it.
Much like most people, I don't have time to read every script, here. Choosing only scripts from board contributors is a great way to narrow down what I will read.
Much like most people, I don't have time to read every script, here. Choosing only scripts from board contributors is a great way to narrow down what I will read.
Meh. We all hate these guys but I think it's about time everyone stopped bitching.
If you want to jump in and slam non-member scripts knowing that you're not going to get a response, you can't complain. You're part of the problem.
As for everyone else, how much effort does it take to see that a given script wasn't posted by an active member? Not much. How much effort does it take to ignore a given script? Ditto.
Move on.
Lock threads for scripts with inactive writers? Why take the extra work upon yourselves? It's not like people will stop submitting them.
I think a lot of people want this site to be exclusive without having to become forum-Nazis. You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you don't want to flat out ban scripts from non-members, there's really very little you can do without creating extra work for the mods. That or people could just leave them alone and let them die.
I don't know everyone by name (I'm pretty bad at names). It use to be that the user names were posted with the author's name. This doesn't appear to be the case anymore.
I was gonna post about this the other day but didnt want any hassles.
If any new scripts by contributing members could be asterixed on the script list - espesh in shorts - then people can see what the go is. They can still read other ones - most likely by authors who aren't around - if they choose.
I don't read many shorts unless i know the author. Sometimes I don't realise a new one is by a reg because I don't go down the list opening every short.
I don't really know what wisdom I can add here because a lot of people on here give a lot of time and are not acknowledged and I know we all need a little appreciation sometimes. It's human nature.
Perhaps it's good enough that the people who work as regulars on the site know who they are. And too, the people who are a little bit in the background, they too are working as regulars, but you might not always see it on the boards.
For those who just "turn up" and want some exposure and their script is clearly semi professional or professional, I don't think that there's anything wrong with that because someone somewhere is going to learn from that. (Remember the Warner Bros. thread? People complaining because scripts are taken down?) Well, to shut the doors on scripts just because people aren't truly active on the boards isn't necessarily a good thing. I've read and critiqued some very good scripts from some members that for whatever reason, they're not around anymore. But what does that mean? That I wasted my time? I don't think so.
You guys are all intelligent people and you can discern for yourselves what you want to bother with and what you want to skip, irregardless of the activity of a member.
It all comes down to sincerity in your efforts. Just because a person might be down the ladder in reads, it doesn't mean they're not doing the best they can. There's all kinds of situations going on in the background of people's lives and we need to be patient with people and respectful of their problems and understand that just because they're not always there around the corner for us, it doesn't mean they don't want to be and it doesn't mean they won't be in the future.
Why don't you guys just put that in your title. This way Don doesn't need to make the decision. How's that?
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We should have a poll!
Again. Why should members have to do anything? That includes mods and Don. We're not the ones posting scripts never to show ourselves again and the ones who are will never know it's a problem unless Don makes the site super-exclusive and says people have to be members to post scripts. If you guys want to make a poll for that, fine. I already know what my vote would be. But it's silly to bend over backwards trying to find some middle-ground solution that just means more work for the people who actually contribute and no work for the people who take away.
You're the ones posting scripts that seem to care that other scripts are being read over yours. Why should Don have to do extra work? Or the moderators? If you want some kind of indicator then put it in your title.
I actually don't care. This has never been a problem for me. Don shouldn't have to do extra work nor should the mods. But why any members would feel they had to do extra work is beyond me. I'm basically just saying chill out and let it go. It's not going to change.
In any case, I think this has been blown way out of proportion.
Agreed. I didn't start this thread hoping that Don or the mods would think they need to do anything more. It was simply to vent a frustration and see if I could sway the members of the board who were bumping these scripts up. (Like the one mentioned earlier.)
Honestly, I think this thread has run its course and we're just going to be heading in circles now.