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Son, we need to have a talk.
Dazed:
James is a dick because he stole my name. Your popularity vest doesn't scare me you malodorous bastard.
est:
Yeah but the problem is that we noticed that people are being harsh to new people and that we need to remember how to have fun about three complaint posts ago. Since then a few cool posts have popped up and while it's not an instant fix I feel like hopefully we're heading in the right direction.
tania:
also, if you really, REALLY feel this is a problem worth starting a thread for, you should probably consider lowering the accusing tone. original post again -
--- Quote from: Patrick on 02 Feb 2009, 07:00 ---I know I am going to get shit for this. Which is why I'm glad I'll be out of the country and, due to those circumstances, pretty much incommunicado for the next month.
Nobody here can take a joke. I have seen countless instances of people making what look to me to be good, friendly ribbing. Instead of the butt-end of the joke taking it like a reasonable person, they blow up in the other person's face and start getting way too goddamn serious.
And what's worse than anything is that it is people who have been here long enough to know better. We should be ashamed of ourselves, talking like we want to make the forums more welcoming, and then going around and being shitcunts to anybody who says anything about our mothers or whatever the fuck. Maybe the one thread where this isn't true is the insult thread.
Basically, if you are going to be a prick to people, get the fuck out, go home, see the world, vent your frustration, just fucking stop what you're doing. You are the fuckers who complain about the forums going sour. If you don't throw your trash in the river, you won't have to deal with the flood.
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i'm doing a bit of assuming here, but the bolded bits kind of sound like really harsh complaints towards individual people which you've half-heartedly tried to disguise as general complaints. if you think the forum's going downhill, what's wrong with saying "hey guys, i think the thread's going downhill - what do you think?" people won't listen and be civil towards you unless you're civil to them. we're all sort of nerds who hang out on a message board all day so there is little doubt in my mind that if you ask everyone to participate in a discussion about the quality of this forum, most of them will - they hang out here all day anyway. but you get all high and mighty and yell at them, well, unfortunately they'll probably just tell you to fuck off and walk away. i probably would, i don't like being yelled at. them's the breaks.
Josefbugman:
Dude, your trying to do a good thing, but if I am honest I haven't suffered anything (I know I am not the newest guy here but still), sure it will take some time for me to become one of the regulars, but good grief thats the fun of it. The fun of getting to know people, see what they are like, how they tick thats the fun thing about places like this, its not made of fine crystal.
Also, est? I thought you said your mug had a polar bear in it, now that I would pay to see.
Eris:
Also, I haven't seen anyone "throwing food at everyone who comes in the door" recently, even if that is the past week, probably longer. If this had been said a month ago, we all would have (probably gotten mad at you) seen this as a legitimate problem, but we're already getting better, or at least some of us are trying.
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