Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

[Saureco]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

I believe you are far to ignorant to the reality of the problem and to moronic to have a discussion about the specific problem, if you believe that is a feasible solution to the problem. You are just as bad as them with your pedantic style of conversation where you achieve nothing by applying your limited brain power to the situation.

My "limited brainpower" netted me a degree in Mechanical Engineering, 4 languages, and a salary to afford a house and 3 cars at the age of 25. Yet you cannot distinguish the difference between to and too. Go away, troll.

[glasseye]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

i don't agree. moved here because of the a$$hats over on pbf. there are a few smacked bottoms here but it is not as bad as it is over in kiddie land (what i call pbf).

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

but, you sir, are exceedingly funny. a pleasure to read your posts...

i know.

[Krazy88]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

Before I begin this lecture, let me preclude it with a small disclaimer:

I have been known to fuel flames, feed trolls, and fail to refrain from lighting up some ignorant mofo. I apologize for that. I am not a saint, I am human, and I make mistakes. That said, I will continue.


We are in a forum. A forum is, by definition, a place where people get together to exchange ideas and converse over topics of interest. This forum has thankfully been organized into rooms where specific topics within certain categories can be discussed. Bugs, gameplay, recruiting, and off-topic babble are some of such categories. And with such organization comes administration. The hosts of this site and forum have willingly taken time out of their lives to provide us with a resource to discuss all things BF2. We owe it to them to follow their rules and obey a certain amount of etiquette.

So why the #$%& are so many smacktards running rampant?

We could blame the admin, but that's not fair as only so many people can watch so many boards and read through X number of threads at any given time. The smacktard-to-admin ratio is just too high.

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. But we all know that the mature members can only restrain themselves for so long, and the desire to participate and respond to a potentially enriching thread is all too intriguing. We inevitably get sucked in.

So who is left?

The smacktards themselves. It is a small group of members. All it takes to join a forum is to click the "register" button, give an email address (even a free, make-it-in-a-second address), and then respond to activate your new account. After today's barrage of idiocy, logic would indicate that some smacktards have created more email accounts to simply annoy us with increased proficiency.

But why? Why bother? Why annoy people? There is nothing to gain from it. The only reponses you are getting are in written form. We all know you want to be yelled at. We know you want to see the looks on our faces and hear the distress in our voices. But you're selling yourselves short by doing it here. And you're only going to a dubbed-down version of antagonization because you're anonymous here. You know if you tried this in public, where people see the real you, the physical you, that they can lock onto the aggressor, see him, and then alter his physical appearance with a few blows from an enraged fist. Here, you're just another made up account to start threads to disperse crap, scalding comments, and just be an ass. All that trouble to still result to not much.

That's sad. What a pathetic existence. You exist to disrupt. There is no vindication. There is no redemption. There is no justification for your being. You simply participate to disrupt progress. You are the kid the teacher tries to correct, but you take the reprimands as badly needed attention and an opportunity to show your peers you're "cool". You are the young adult who should be off to a good start in life, but you're always coming up short since you just can't seem to connect with people in a proper manner. You are the lost adult who should have found his path in life, but you woke up to the reality that you wasted the first half of life being a **** and are now spending the second half trying to fix it and clean it up.

And now you've come here. You have come to a place where people are trying to make their gaming experience better by trying to teach the new players, report bugs and technical problems, and just try to get to know the community better. But instead of participating in a constructive manner, you have pulled it down. Instead of us taking steps forward and out, you are pulling us back into the caves. You shame us. You embarass us. You don't make us realize that humanity has its idiots, but you make us realize that we haven't done much to correct it. We're not really sad with ourselves. We're just sad that you haven't "gotten it" yet. You haven't acclimated to the world. You don't know how to interact in a way that makes us want to interact more with you. You are stuck around the same ignorant people that they talk about in standup comedy and political discussions. Get away from them, fix your problems, and then come join us.

We'll be here for you. Until then, please don't hit the "New Thread" or "Post Reply" buttons.

The most pathetic thing of all is the time and energy it took you to write your post. Guess what? Nobody cares! Get over yourself you self rightous sh*t D**k.

[Fullforce]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

The most pathetic thing of all is the time and energy it took you to write your post. Guess what? Nobody cares! Get over yourself you self rightous sh*t D**k.

Maybe you should consider the following before you flame unnecessarily.
- He is making a valid and true point.
- You only have 3 posts. You really have been here a long time, haven't you?
- You don't know the situation.
- If you had the time and energy to write a post like that, i would fall off my chair in amazement.
- Get over himself? he isn't talking about himself, he isn't bragging about himself. Surely you have a paranoia problem.
- Swearing and abuse really shows you have a IQ of, ooh, maybe less than 20.

Next time, don't waste your energy flaming the man. He is right and you are wrong.

[imported_sabotage]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

The planetbattlefield are the worst, I never visit those. This place is not so bad. I want the admins to keep things this way.

[Saureco]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

Thank you, Fu11force. I'll take any backup I can get. You make a valid counterpoint (if you consider the guy's post even a point at all). That post wasn't about me. It was about the community. I started this thread for the constructive proponents of the community and against the destructive opponents. It's amazing that Krazy88 spent the energy to quote my post blindly, obviously not reading into it at all except that which he wanted to see, then making his own self-righteous statement and resorting to profanity.

Kinda wonder what the theme of this thread insinuates...

[Fullforce]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

my pleasure Saureco. It seems that us mature people need to stick together and support each other :p.

it just p!ssed me off to see him being abusive for no reason. Plus I love confusing idiots with words that are longer than 4 letters...

[Saureco]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

I think you meant "letters", bro. :) But,yes. I love using big words like "smart", "honor", and "the".

[imported_Psycho]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

I think you meant "letters", bro. :) But,yes. I love using big words like "smart", "honor", and "the".

Yes i found his statement rather ironic too, considering the longest word he used was unnecessarily, which i wouldn't really count as a word that would cause any confusion.

[Fullforce]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

I think you meant "letters", bro. :) But,yes. I love using big words like "smart", "honor", and "the".

woopsiedaisy.... I'm tired.

[Donkey]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

Do you really let it bother you that much?

Take it as a grain of salt its only the internet

[WarGimp]

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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]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

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]

Re: Forum maturity, and the lack thereof

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]

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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.