Ban custom board posts from the resources forum

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roobley58 messagesstarted Jul 29, 2026, 5:52 PM

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roobleyOP2 months ago

Not a duplicate! This is a seperate suggestion from https://discord.com/channels/1493030345048719483/1528410869501923481/1528410869501923481
Custom boards are a cool novelty that I understand people want to share, but they clutter the resources forum with low value/effort posts and bury actual useful resources. They should be removed, or at least confined to a single thread.
Here is my more detailed reasoning:

1 - Custom boards go against the purpose of the channel: providing helpful resources. The challenge boards that are being posted are not being posted as improvement tools and most of them have little or no value as practice for the real gamemodes. In my opinion, Feinberg's original board post should have been removed as it arguably went against the purpose and guidelines of the forum.

2 - Custom board posts are often more active than actual resource posts. Normally resource posts don't get much activity after they are posted, mostly just "this is cool" or "can you clarify/fix something". Custom boards have a lot more activity since people post/discuss their own runs of the boards, and discuss strategies on how to best complete them. This means that custom boards are often at the top of the resources forum, quickly burying new resource posts under them.

3 - Custom boards often require less effort to create than actual resources. Coming up with some restrictions and a board is easier than creating a tutorial video or practice map. This means that allowing board posts essentially allows posting low effort spam.

All of this creates an environment that discourages posting actual resources because they can be buried and given no attention, and where checking the forum is irritating since you have to scroll past the useless board posts that are always at the top.

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LISP BEAMER2 months ago

Im for this but I still don't understand how this is separate from the other suggestions about this topic when one of your solutions is "at least confined to a single thread"

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

Feel like this is just using slightly different wording to make the same point

SOOT2 months ago

if it gets banned from there where are people supposed to put their custom boards

roobleyOP2 months ago

idk, not in resources

roobleyOP2 months ago

they aren't resources

roobleyOP2 months ago

its like if a bunch of people posted pictures of beautiful paintings in resources and they got banned and then asking "where will people post their paintings" like they're not supposed to be there in the first place

LISP BEAMER2 months ago(edited)

In a different channel / thread but she can't say that cause it would be a duplicate

roobleyOP2 months ago

the mods already denied the suggestion of a seperate forum or channel, which are not things that i'm suggesting. i'm suggesting banning them entirely, and floating the idea of a single thread for them as a compromise

roobleyOP2 months ago

while it's a similar suggestion, it's not a duplicate

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

If the mods denied it and didn't ban it from resources I feel like it's case closed no

noura 🜛2 months ago

we haven't discussed banning them from resources

noura 🜛2 months ago

case not closed

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

Oh then my bad so this post is not a duplicate?

noura 🜛2 months ago

yeah this is a separate suggestion from making a new channel for them

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

So where do yall think it should go if it's banned just no where completely I feel like custom boards are definitely interesting and belong somewhere

pinkpuff2 months ago

I still want a custom board forum aga

but theyre definitely just cluttering resources rn so idrc

SOOT2 months ago

a pinned thread works fine for me

SOOT2 months ago

and discussion on how to do it could be put in #strat-dev ig

isawabelle2 months ago

imo this is exactly what tags are for

isawabelle2 months ago

and saying fein's shouldve been removed like, there isn't really anywhere else to put a board in the server so i think putting it there was fair

isawabelle2 months ago

i do agree that most arent being used for improvement tho and i would be fine with a custom-boards forum channel as well

roobleyOP2 months ago

unfortunately that suggestion was already denied

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

Should we keep this suggestion to the topic of banning custom boards entirely then?

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

I'm just a bit confused cause I don't wanna loop on the same topic especially after previous thing was denied

roobleyOP2 months ago

that's why i said it was denied, so that people aren't like "hey what if we did this" over and over without knowing that it was denied

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

Thats fair but then I'd would be opposed to banning custom boards then. I think they are fun and sharing and discussing them are fun

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

And aside from the clutter there isn't really a downside to having them and discussing them

noura 🜛2 months ago

roobley listed the downsides tho

isawabelle2 months ago

i think having a tag for them should be fine
so if you dont wanna see them u can just hide them

isawabelle2 months ago

actually discord doesnt let you just hide a tag

isawabelle2 months ago

so that doesnt even work

SOOT2 months ago

you can pick all tags except for it

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

The downsides being more active, and low effort which I don't really see as big downsides discussion is discussion if it's fun I don't see a major problem aside from clutter

LISP BEAMER2 months ago

It's related to draft out so it's not like off topic

isawabelle2 months ago

there arent any other tags in resources

SOOT2 months ago

they would add them if they added a custom board tag probably

roobleyOP2 months ago(edited)

the downside is mostly clutter, i just think that the effects of the clutter are overall negative for the resources channel

noura 🜛2 months ago

i'm gonna upvote but while i do think they still deserve somewhere to be shared, having a single thread would be insufficient, people are gonna flood it with messages and it won't be as neat as having each board in a separate thread

noura 🜛2 months ago

hey i made a suggestion for that aga https://discord.com/channels/1493030345048719483/1531782413108248677

roobleyOP2 months ago

yeah, i agree they should be shared somewhere, and that a single thread wouldn't really be a good solution, but i prefer that or an outright ban over the current situation.

Allie2 months ago

I agree

Allie2 months ago

theres a million custom boards clogging up resources

Artnauta2 months ago

Imma just copy my last message from that thread just before it got closed to see what ppl think about it?

Artnauta2 months ago

1.Having an extra channel would make the overall discord feel cluttered, therefore a merge is probably ideal
2.Custom boards match with resources in that the original post is like a resource to have fun.
3.Custom boards match with strat-dev in that the comments below and activity on them will be mostly strategising.
4.Merging with the resources channel would go against the spirit of the channel (see msg I'm replying to). As people have rightfully pointed out, blindly sticking to the rules as they were shaped at the servers conception is not necessary, but I don't see any reason to change it either, when the channel is fulfilling it's purpose and:
5.Strat-dev currently has the least threads. The tags currently used aren't all that useful either and imo point 3 of this msg is more convincing to me than point 2.

Ramzs2 months ago

rename strat dev to miscellaneous, then give tagging, namely strat-dev and board-share

pinkpuff2 months ago

Interesting idea, kinda makes sense to me because generally threads in strat dev reach a conclusion and get a final post sent to resources, so they end up 'dead' in a sense, similar to how a custom board will likely die down after a few weeks of attempts

noura 🜛2 months ago

"misc" is kind of a bad name idk, very nondescriptive

spicedspaghetti2 months ago(edited)

maybe something like "creation" but that also needs some other word with it

Ramzs2 months ago

well, it's supposed to be a catch-all channel for every thing that doesn't have a dedicated channel, so a non-descriptive name is a non-issue imo

noura 🜛2 months ago

catch all channels aren't a good solution for this, i'd vastly prefer it if each channel was immediately clear about what it was for

Ramzs2 months ago(edited)

i'd say a vague catch-all channel is a fair tradeoff for clogged resource channel being cleared

Ramzs2 months ago

and even if the channel name is vague, the tagging will help

spicedspaghetti2 months ago

did the custom board channel suggestion actually get denied or was it just to stop people discussing

spicedspaghetti2 months ago

if it did get denied, did you guys discuss it in some staff channel

noura 🜛2 months ago

https://discord.com/channels/1493030345048719483/1528410869501923481/1531710229153059016 + the tag on the suggestion thread

pinkpuff2 months ago

Something with Creation/Workshopping maybe? I mean most boards are a wip/ could argue the tech to completion is being developed... idk exactly but i see the line to this

layb 🍉last month

as of right now, we will not be changing the way the discord is organized. if you'd like to make a community discord server unaffiliated with draftout (as has been suggested elsewhere) go for it! you can post the community server in #resources