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Where did the Doctor Who thread go? That should of been in the General Film Discussion anyways, especially as the show is starting again, I would like to see it back.
http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/to … ler-alert/
It's been in General Film, on the second page.
Not to flog a dead horse here but I'm just wondering how many people has the new community grown to nowadays?
According to the member-dot list, 101 (including me).
You can find the list by going to User List and selecting Members with the little dot next to it (bottom of drop-down menu).
Sorry for bringing this topic back, but I was wondering if we could have the Photography thread back out of the Community. I believe the Skull Brick started it, if that helps.
*bump* - A major one at that
It's been quite some time since the recent changes, but i'll be honest; this killed the whole spirit of things. ALOT. See, the amount of active members slowly goes down, and still we have avatar phases, but we need somewhere as a community to still discuss why Pinkie Pie is the best etc.
All i'm saying is how much this killed off community spirit. I feel this was your goal, and you have succeed, I bid you all farewell, and goodnight...
I think it has contributed to what you are describing but it has also caused more discussion in the other forums.
I still think it killed off a lot of good discussion.
The general film discussion forum has some threads like "what was the last film you watched" which is nothing more than a mutation of a twitter thread, and the community forum had some genuinely useful topics. I feel like your intentions were good but the execution failed
and the community forum had some genuinely useful topics.
Really? The only active topics in there are My Little Pony, art, photography, Café Corner and Minecraft.
LegoDudez, BiM is not a site for community discussion. If you're not going to talk about brickfilming, why are you here?
I feel that everypony here has a very strong and defined opinion on the matter and discussing the same things over again the last 14 pages is not going to get us anywhere.
And Hazzat, the Art thread and the Photography thread are what I was referring to as 'useful.' Drawing and painting has helped me with cinematography a lot more than any book or online tutorial guide made.
Okay, how about this, you at least unlock the community forums so we can read, but not write.
It's been quite some time since the recent changes, but i'll be honest; this killed the whole spirit of things. ALOT. See, the amount of active members slowly goes down, and still we have avatar phases, but we need somewhere as a community to still discuss why Pinkie Pie is the best etc.
Many of the Brickfilmers from the site talk on Skype just about every day. If you have a skype, then just join one of the Skype chats to discuss those kind of things.
It's been quite some time since the recent changes, but i'll be honest; this killed the whole spirit of things. ALOT. See, the amount of active members slowly goes down, and still we have avatar phases, but we need somewhere as a community to still discuss why Pinkie Pie is the best etc.
This guy talks sense. Everypony needs to know that Pinkie Pie IS best pony.
In all seriousness, I really don't feel like there's much point in having the Community forum closed to everyone, from the standpoint of improving brickfilm output. Lazy animators are going to be lazy, and motivated animators are going to still churn out films, whether there's an open Community forum or not.
However, there has been significantly less spam in the Community forum since the restriction was put in place, so from a moderation standpoint, that's great. There's also been a significant lack of activity, which isn't really good or bad.
I disagree, why should we be able to discuss such things on a brickfiming site?
There are plenty of other places to talk about MLP, and non-brickfilming stuff, but must we clutter up this site with it?
The community forum is locked for a reason, but no one seems to get that.
People would join, just to comment in the off-topic stuff, that couldn't care less about brickfilming.
If you really want to talk about those things, pick another website, use the same name, and just put "I'm so-and-so from BiM.com," then you can talk all you want. But can we keep BiM to brickfilming...please?
I understand why it's restricted, and if we must have it, that's the way to go, but why have it at all?
Allow me to offer a different opinion. I'm new to this site (I joined about a month and a half ago) and the reason I joined was because I wanted to share my Brickfilms with others and be a part of a community like this one where I could offer advice and receive advice so that I could get better. This should be the point of BiM in my opinion. If after being on BiM for awhile and having proven yourself to be a responsible member who is focused on the main point of BiM, then being admitted to the community forum sounds like a great idea instead of it being open for anyone. Yes, I may be slightly biased in the sense that I can use the community forum now, but thats not why I joined this site at all. In fact, I didn't even realize such a forum existed for awhile. I got accepted to the forum and didn't even realize it and I never bothered to even look into that forum until just recently. (and I've only made 1 post in it thanking them for accepting me) Just my 2 cents that I thought might offer a fresh perspective. Let's get back to filming, shall we? 
I think closing the community forum to the public has been beneficial to both the community forum and the community as a whole. If people don't like this site and leave because they can't talk about things that aren't related to brickfilming here (except in chat, which they're welcome to do 24 hours a day), they're probably not people we want to have here anyway.
I got accepted to the forum and didn't even realize it and I never bothered to even look into that forum until just recently. (and I've only made 1 post in it thanking them for accepting me) J
You've been on this site for a month and your already in the community forum?? I've been here more than a year and nopony's bothered to let me in!! FOREVER ALONEEEEE 
Again, I think your intentions were good but you didn't carry them out in an effective way. For example the Photography thread was immensely more useful than the Guess the Film thread in the general film discussion forum. It's not easy to isolate the problem.
The community forum is a ghost town but if it hasn't reopened yet its not going to magically happen now. Repelling Spider has proved to be very mature in a small space of time and therefore is allowed in. Just because you've been here a year and half or two years doesn't make you worthy, so to speak. If a spambot was here two year would he get in (actually that'd be awesome)? Anyway, lets just forget the community forum and focus on the next best thing: the general film-making forum (which is way more fun).
My comment was referring to the fact that the moderators seem to be ignoring the fact that I am trying really hard to make more mature posts after than ban of mine.
It's great that you're making an effort. The fact that you haven't met the bar yet doesn't mean you won't with further maturation and development.
Thank you for (sort of) understanding.
What do you mods consider "the bar?" What is the deciding factor? What can I work on? or is it just that I have a bunch of negative respect points from that silly ban of mine? olol
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