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Has anyone noticed a distinct lack of drama on the forum? Where have all the flamewars gone?

#21 User is offline   Loki 

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 11:53 AM

Because everyone who was worth arguing with either got banned or stopped coming on the forums years ago......

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And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 12:24 PM

You know, I think Apt that people just don't want to argue with themselves. I mean, really this site is run by only a few people with a lot of alts. Posted Image
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 12:28 PM

I agree.



Also, I think it is a matter of everyone having been on the forum for years and thus any new feuds would cause division and/or everyone is too new and it wouldn't help our image with prospective members if we started attacking newbies.

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And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 12:39 PM

This is a forum? Outrageous!

I believe that this is a goverment run research facility with the sole purpose of disproving the saying: Familiarity breeds contempt.


I think it failed. I'm only a random interloper and I can't stand staying here for more than a week at a time!



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Posted 16 August 2011 - 12:42 PM

View PostNyapt Cat, on 16 August 2011 - 06:13 AM, said:

Maybe it's a system of the moderation. Maybe the forum has changed. I'm not sure, but I've noticed that there's not really a lot of drama or angry members holding grudges with each other lately. Not enough members posting offensive or controversial statements. Is it just that everyone that does not conform to our hivemind has been eliminated or what is going on here?

I miss all the anger and grudges. It was so entertaining.



Since I am new hear I will limit my vitriol to the following: I hate everyones shoes. Especially that guy over there.
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 12:46 PM

View Postmajomull, on 16 August 2011 - 12:42 PM, said:

Since I am new hear I will limit my vitriol to the following: I hate everyones shoes. Especially that guy over there.



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Posted 16 August 2011 - 12:48 PM

View Postmajomull, on 16 August 2011 - 12:42 PM, said:

View PostNyapt Cat, on 16 August 2011 - 06:13 AM, said:

Maybe it's a system of the moderation. Maybe the forum has changed. I'm not sure, but I've noticed that there's not really a lot of drama or angry members holding grudges with each other lately. Not enough members posting offensive or controversial statements. Is it just that everyone that does not conform to our hivemind has been eliminated or what is going on here?

I miss all the anger and grudges. It was so entertaining.



Since I am new hear I will limit my vitriol to the following: I hate everyones shoes. Especially that guy over there.


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Posted 16 August 2011 - 01:17 PM

Fucking uppity people.

This means you.

Yeah you.

:p

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 01:58 PM

I asked Cougar why he wasn't yelling at me and picking fights with me anymore a bit back and here was his response, and I think that Nyapt Cat is free and clear to start a couple new topics as listed below:

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fuck off you yank twat.

How's that?

Sorry I'm finding everyone rather well behaved at the moment. Plus I'm witing and PhD so I miss a lot. I guess the answer would be to steel yourself, pull out some big dumb opinions and start a thread that you know will get out of hand. Say:

"The USA is Way Better at Genocide than the British or the Nazi's Ever Were: I for one love killing towel heads"

"Why are the Japanese So Perverted?" (one for Shin)

or

"Anyone Who Didn't Vote for Obama is Racist - discuss"

"I'm Sick of Women Moaning about Rape?: we all know they love it really" (special one for Mezla and Terez)

and

"Do Pictures of Disabled Children Make Anyone Else Horny?" maybe do a poll on that one.

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 03:28 PM

View PostNyapt Cat, on 16 August 2011 - 06:13 AM, said:

Maybe it's a system of the moderation. Maybe the forum has changed. I'm not sure, but I've noticed that there's not really a lot of drama or angry members holding grudges with each other lately. Not enough members posting offensive or controversial statements. Is it just that everyone that does not conform to our hivemind has been eliminated or what is going on here?

I miss all the anger and grudges. It was so entertaining.


Every once in a while one of the retarded old members makes some half witted statement like this. If you don't like it fuck off and cry on your own you dickless bastard. Honestly I'd rather have a quiet sensible set of posters than your scattergun idiocy clogging up the place.
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 03:44 PM

Well, of course you'd say that, it would mean you actually have to get off your lazy ass and do some actual moderation and not just pop in once in a while to insult random people with your general presence, you arrogant prick.

(EDIT: Added some swear words for emphasis)

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 03:49 PM

And it begins!
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 04:01 PM

Isn't that lovely? This reminds me of a thread someone made a year or two wgo about there being not enough hate in the forums anymore, just that it was funny back then. Sure, Apt, everyone should go back to being bastards so that we can represent the official fan forum of SE in an appropriate way.
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 04:09 PM

Yeah because if there's one thing that detracts from a forum its controversy.

As you may have noticed I posted this in he Inn since the thread is made mostly in jest. But are you honestly going to say that you prefer peace and quiet over angry people throwing insults at each other over a keyboard?
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 04:10 PM

Also some of us just got tired of the DB seeing how it never seems to go anywhere. Less activity there means less antagonizing which means less grudges.

Still the DB even now has the standard crap, just less volume. I'm so tired of left vs. right crap as it is and I wanted all of you dead when you guys de-railed the space thread to turn it into a fox news debate. *Finishes filling mag and loads gun*
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 04:27 PM

I for one don't really miss the mudslinging, apart from the mafia group, that is, in particular the dibs-Morghy love we had, and that was merely due to unbearable erotic tension between them.
In fact, I want to be nice and gentle and peaceful and if you don't like it, I'll happily, gently and peacefully cut of your balls to give you really something to moan about.

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 04:28 PM

View PostRobin Goodfellow, on 16 August 2011 - 04:01 PM, said:

Isn't that lovely? This reminds me of a thread someone made a year or two wgo about there being not enough hate in the forums anymore, just that it was funny back then.

Also, this.
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 04:31 PM

I sometimes miss those halcyon days of 'size 7 colour red bold YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT GO CHOKE DOWN A SHOTGUN BARREL AND LIFT YOUR COUNTRY'S AVERAGE IQ TO A POSITIVE NUMBER YOU CHUCKLEFUCK close tags suffer migraine' posts, as they were pretty effective at conveying your point. Also back then we had people who time had shown to be reprehensible shitbags and all their opinions were worthless so you didn't even have to read their disgusting ejaculations tainting your forum experience. Now it's a whole new ball game.

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 05:07 PM

View PostIlluyankas, on 16 August 2011 - 04:31 PM, said:

I sometimes miss those halcyon days of 'size 7 colour red bold YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT GO CHOKE DOWN A SHOTGUN BARREL AND LIFT YOUR COUNTRY'S AVERAGE IQ TO A POSITIVE NUMBER YOU CHUCKLEFUCK close tags suffer migraine' posts, as they were pretty effective at conveying your point. Also back then we had people who time had shown to be reprehensible shitbags and all their opinions were worthless so you didn't even have to read their disgusting ejaculations tainting your forum experience. Now it's a whole new ball game.


I would assume it was being unintentionally circumcised that made you such an angry young fowl, but I remember your preposterously rage-filled rantings were even before we could legally call you 'broke-dick'.

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Also, whatever happened to the wheelchairs of war vs the abyssial smarmy? Perhaps that is why there is less violence, hate, and fortitude upon said forums?

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 05:53 PM

When Drenai left, the forum suffered an irreplaceable loss of incoherently fake-violent lunacy.

There was a slight kerfluffle between King Kazma and me a while back, which was primarily over whether or not Lost's last season crapped the bed. Thankfully that is over and we have made peace, as well as found much common ground in other books and movies.

I will say that I have written several very grumpy/slightly attacking posts over scattered things here and there, and then decided not to actually post them because they weren't worth taking a stand over. The most recent one was probably a Dolorous Menhir post that cheesed me off with its casual dismissal of something that reeked of ignorance to me. I don't remember what it was about, just who it was by...
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