Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

[Donkey]

Do you really let it bother you that much?

Take it as a grain of salt its only the internet

[WarGimp]

Saureco, man... it's the internet. Get used to it!
All your points are inarguable as far as I'm concerned, but we're talking about people here. There's simply more ijots in this world than there are rational, thinking people. It's worse, of cource, when you are dealing with something that has so much cross market appeal. This forum naturally attracks some very smart people, but also some barely literate knuckle draggers and not just a few kids.

Besides that, sometimes it's fun to just be goofy.

All said and done, this is still one of the better game related forums I've ever seen.
Seriously, you wanna see bad? Check this out: http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1
Yup, they have BF2 forums too.

[Jesse]

pbf has more flames but at least they are entertaining. this forums flames are always the same damn thing.

This is true. Someone should just write a script for the admins to apply that the people follow, and if the post follows said format, then the post button is disable to that person for like, 30 minutes (and of course said post won't get posted.) In the least, it would encourage them to use creativity or maybe an amazing thing called a sentence.

[Saureco]

Wargimp:

I do not dispute your statement. Yes, it's the internet. Yes, these are still people. However, neither one nor both give any excuse for people to abandon responsibility and respect. The only reason people behave like this is because all the bad tendencies and personality quirks that are squashed by normal everyday interactions come out with the help of anonymity. The most we have to go on sometimes is an IP address or a vague (if not fake) location of the poster.

We all know that if a post was accompanied by a photo, name, address, daily schedule, and list of fears that a person would think twice about beeing a d*ckwad. But because this "board" isn't set up like that, we are at the mercy of petty human nature and bad upbringing.

[imported_Psycho]

Wargimp:

I do not dispute your statement. Yes, it's the internet. Yes, these are still people. However, neither one nor both give any excuse for people to abandon responsibility and respect. The only reason people behave like this is because all the bad tendencies and personality quirks that are squashed by normal everyday interactions come out with the help of anonymity. The most we have to go on sometimes is an IP address or a vague (if not fake) location of the poster.

We all know that if a post was accompanied by a photo, name, address, daily schedule, and list of fears that a person would think twice about beeing a d*ckwad. But because this "board" isn't set up like that, we are at the mercy of petty human nature and bad upbringing.

Yeah you have already said that people don't act in a decorous manner on the internet but so far you haven't given a plausible solution to the problem and you seem to have just complained about anyone who has.

[TheEn|gma]

We could blame the mature members of the community. Please note that I make no reference to age, as even young members can exhibit maturity while even adults can digress into childish rants and namecalling.

Your the only person that I have seen write this on the forum, and thank god it wasn't just me thinking "Does everyone think I'm a childish, immature pain in the back-side because I'm 16", Thank You.

And about everything else you just said You’re right, and we defiantly shouldn't stoop to their level and respond.

[SnY_pEr]

Im actually very mature for my age and i act like the forums are like your talking to someone face to face...

Im sure these people that are flaming you [47R]Saureco have never moderated/administrated a forum or a site in there life... i have moded many forums and i cannot take all the idiots that are on the forums and i need to warn about flaming and when they continue it = ban... people need to get there act together and if they talk to people like that face to face then theyve got some real problems...

Originally Posted by [47R]Saureco:
We could blame the mature members of the community. Please note that I make no reference to age, as even young members can exhibit maturity while even adults can digress into childish rants and namecalling.

I agree with this fully... some people are very nice mature people for there age.... i think of myself as one of those people... and thank god you know what its like to be 12-18 everyone went through it here (some exceptions)...

[Saureco]

To the "youngens", no prob. We were all in our teens at one point. We can recall the times we were remarkably "adult" and all the times we digressed into a tantrum.

And I still see no validation in Psycho's post. How does the quote you reference have anything to do with me being a belligerent member of this board? I was stating a fact about the correlation between internet anonymity and bad behavior. Then, I made a joke about if we took that anonymity away. WHERE THE HELL DID I BECOME THE ONE COMPLAINING? And if you read the original post, you'll see I did make a suggested fix. If you want something else, perhaps a magical sprinkle of fairy dust that makes internet a$$holes into nice, upright citizens like Psycho, then I'll get righhhhhhhhht on it.

But while I go get it, quit being an ass.

[imported_bigpappa]

we need a ultra mature forum

[Saureco]

No, because someone will equate "ultra mature" as an opportunity to post pics of their potbelly girlfriend... in jello.