I seriously considered asking this at Yahoo Answers but I have a communication curse that does nothing but make me feel embarresed/blocked on any setup that is a “forum” no matter how nice I appear. :(

I either get fully ignored or yelled at as soon as I make my first mistake or if I have a whole bunch of paragraphs the least important one will get answered.
I just don’t have that “magnet” to attract people.

I will come back to look at replies when my curse is “lifted” however that will be.

God I am so useless.

It seems all intrests in this world unless it’s “naughty” are in deep stagnation right now where the energy just dosen’t flow anymore since a lot of these people do not believe in the law of attraction so they continue to attract stale energy and we run into it. :(

You and I aren’t really having bad luck with forums more rather we are in stagnation and it will take one of us to break the stagnation. How I don’t know and I wish I could give a better answer. :(

Any ideas?

God lord I wish these forums will either get their acts togeether or just die out and shut down.

For the response. You know what else is wrong with smwcentral? They beleive all good ideas are completely impossible. I tried pitching them some new gameplay ideas, and they kept whining that it will cause slowdown, or cause flicker, or some other stupid technical problem without ever trying it in the first place. How would they know it would cause technical problems if they never tried anything?

I gave them detailed explanations of how to do this and how to do that using the Snes hardware, but they kept babbling on how it is “far beyond the capabilities of the Super Nintendo” when I just gave them an explanation of how to do it.

Then they go on and ask me “if your so smart why don’t you do it yourself?” and I explain that I would, if they’d only give me a run down of how the SMW engine works, so I know where to insert it into the SMW source code and make it compatible with it’s engine.

The thing is, I’ve always wanted to make my own orignal game, and I only joined smwcentral to take an already existing working engine as a base and work on my game from there, but that obviously didn’t work. I eventually was capable of getting my ASM stuff working WITHOUT using the SMW source-code/engine (just my codes and the hardware itself), and I’ve been learning how to program my own game engine to run my game on, although I could’ve acheived this earlier on if I never thought about joining smwcentral in the first place.

I have a feeling smwcentral is starting to lose it’s reputation. From other Snes homebrew development sites, I’m seeing a lot of people transfering (or “graduating”) from smw hacking. In fact yesterday, I gave a newcommer to a Snes game development forum a PM, telling her to forget everything smwcentral pushed down her neck, and she can use sprites and BG layers in anyway she likes, without worrying about slowdowns or flickering or any other stupid technical problem.

Someday I would like to run my own smwcentral-like website, except based around my more flexible and powerful game engine, letting all the information about the engine openly available, and being nice and caring to my forum users. Eventually people will discover my website will be so much better and smwcentral will die out.

More like

—a newbie— How do u du spritz???
—a moron— Learn ASM
Moderators friend: Get a life dude.
Robotic forum MOd: I am locking this useless and pointless topic: *locks*

The problem isn’t forums going bad but it’s being stagnated and the users are not aware of it so all your getting is recycled garbage much like modern TV or the Liberal BBC which spits out Global Warming propagenda to scare you but that’s another subject.

Stagnation means somthing being blocked or not flowing properly:

Here is dictionary.com’s explanation and I added the word forums just for fun:

verb (used without object)
1. to cease to run or flow, as water, air or internet chat rooms/ forums, etc.
2. to be or become stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
3. to stop developing, growing, progressing, or advancing: My mind is stagnating from too much TV.
4. to be or become sluggish and dull: When the leading lady left, the show started to stagnate.

I also believe that the reason why you and I both have “bad luck” isn’t really about luck but rather we have low vibration patterns which the laws of attraction simply bring what we are attached too.

I can’t tell you what to do but I’ll do what I hAVE to do to bring higher level vibrations and maybe then forums will change.

It can actually only take a few people with extraordinary high vibrations to do mass sweeping changes across the earth in areas they work in the best.

I’ll try to find an article for you another day as I am feeling pretty stagnated right now to really care to do much searching: :(

It wasn’t your fault. Smwcentral is a horrible excuse for a website. They have very little information you can find, and all the good information is either only availeable to mods or administrators, or lost in their broken search engine. All the moderators repeatedly abuse their power, banning people for being so-called “stupid” or questioning their tyranic authority. All the ignorant forum users think they are so talented in ASM hacking, when the truth is they hog all the good documentation.

I got fed up asking them for the complete documentation on Super Mario World, and in retaliation, I’m programming my own game and it will be far superior to any of their stupid rom hacks.

“I LUV UR kool site!” or “Your site suckz and iz a piece of….” which they don’t even bother to explain why they feel that way in the first place.

I can understand when a blog owner DOES get frustrated shifting thru 100 comments of that kind of stuff without anything contributing AND they have 101% sympathy from me.

We seem to live in a brain-dumb world like a modern “dark ages” of ethic behavior and respect.

I don’t mind if people don’t agree with me, but I won’t tolerate rude, nasty rebuttals. If someone wants their contrary opinion to appear here, they need to present it civilly. If they’re offensive to me or another commenter, their comment will never appear.

I do agree that it really does SUCK that we need to play babysitter with our blog comments. Between spammers and trolls, it takes a lot of the pleasure out of running a blog.

Ifyou try to be middle pathed you can pretty much kiss (insert forums here) goodbye and shouldn’t waste your time posting.

moderating comments can also be taken as a
“I want to be proven right and I will not tolerate any other views on my forum/chatroom/blog/email” sort of attitude but I know you are not that way so I am not bitching at you.

It sucks we even have to be in this dilemma about “how much is too much” in terms of comment moderating or the lack of where forums are like your helicopter forum you got cyber abuse from. :(

That is a growing trend on YouTube where uploaders block comments that are contrary to their political view or have the slightest criticism.
Trolls come in all shapes and sizes and it’s a very retarded thing to stereotype trolls.

I appricate your time for this blog and am glad other people feel the same way about forums as I do so I know you are not the “I am right” attitude person.

I have no idea who this person is, and they don’t know anything about me, so I sat there reading the response thinking “Dude, you know nothing about me, nor I about you, so how can you say these things and make these judgments about what I do or do not own compared to what you own, and what you do for a living?” I have a feeling that there is a lack of social etiquette due to the internet and anonymity it provides people, so they feel they can blast away at anyone and say anything they want to attack others because repercussions are non-existent in forums.

Anyway I feel better now after visiting here and reading what other people have to say, who agree that the majority of forums suck. Thank you.