General Notice About "Survivor" Threads

[big bad fab]

Well, the international board, where real discussion apparently occurs, is not under subject of this rule, so why does it matter?

The mods aren't applying a blind policy here.  It's very easy to look at the topics and their authors in this particular board and judge them as disruptive to legitimate discussion.  

It's because the discussion on survivors has occurred here mainly, more than in the Atlas board.

You're right, Lunar: I agree on the US general discussion board (in which I never personally launched a survivor).

I agree a bit less about Religion & Philosophy, where I created just one (Greek Gods) which probably would have remained the only one, BTW... But I understand that Supersoulty has stricken preemptively on this and I can't blame him.

Indeed, other boards aren't affected for the moment, despite the fact that, in History, it's really crowded now and I acknowledge I'm partly responsible for this. But the History board isn't too busy usually and there are MANY topics that should be in Alternative History or in International What-Ifs... nothing is perfect !

[Lunar]

My basic rule of thumb for what's acceptable and what's not, which of course, is irrelevant because I'm more irrelevant than my thumb, is if legitimate discussion is being pushed off the front page of boards in favor of generic useless-pronoun-posting-competition-survivor threads, then it should be deleted.  On the US Discussion Board, it's clear that this is the case.  

I'd hope, and I think it's the case, that posters who post legitimate discussion-generating threads, don't find their threads threatened.  But these things, unlikely for many posters who unfortunately like to create cookie-cutter threads, are a very niche thing.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Kal's going to be pissed.

No, I really want to have separate survivor board.

So, I agree to do no more survivors here, just maitain the old ones.

But seriously we need a place for this.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There are a handful that are actually worthwhile, and I'd suggest that World Leader's Survivor was one of them, because it had been run before but most of the world leaders had changed. It also benefited from being contained in as few threads as possible.

World Leaders Survivor was interesting and well organized. So was fillatre's historical figures survivor for example.

Most of the ones on this forum however are not and were so poorly organized they often made a new thread for each round.

[Torie]

Thanks Chris.

[Хahar 🤔]

Yeah, it appeared that Kalwejt was making a survivor for whatever popped into his head.

[Hash]

This isn't a bad idea at any rate, but Frodo's proposal to delete all current survivors in addition to this one is extremely unfair and borderline insulting to people who have put their time into making survivor lists or people who have put their time into writing (like Edu) about the various names in the list.

A number of survivors are interesting, but some are stupid and spam, but it's still unfair to put all of them together in the same basket. It's insulting to have interesting survivors all named 'spam'.

[ElectionAtlas]

All survivor threads now have a home in the child board of the same name under "Election and History Games".
Dave

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Thank you.

[12th Doctor]

There, Survivorholics, I got you a board.

The other mods are so cruel.  They ask you to stand before them.  But all I ask is that you kneel. 

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

There, Survivorholics, I got you a board.

The other mods are so cruel.  They ask you to stand before them.  But all I ask is that you kneel. 

Thank you, sir, you're not as evil as it appeared before.