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Something Grix said made me think about these forums and I'm realising more and more that I'm getting bored with it all.
Some threads are interesting and I like to get involved in them, but mostly I find them dull and lifeless.
Now I'm not saying they are, I'm saying that I find them that way.
Now this is going to sound a tad rude and some may take offence, but that's also part of the reason I'm posting less and less:
I post crap here mainly because it passes the time whilst I'm at work, but in another forum here I tend to be more serious and engage in chat/debate.
Because an awful lot of threads are full of dyslexic, hostile screaming babies that can't decide what they want for tea anymore than they can reasonably discuss which console they prefer.
It's always "This console is best and the others suck".
They're just bloody games machines.
If you spent half as much time thinking and learning as you do scrapping over games consoles, it wouldn't feel like I was Diane Fossey quite so much.
And the sad thing is, about 10% of people will get what I mean.
And I don't use phrases like that to be big and clever, I use them because that's how I talk.
But it ends up with "I fink dis console is da best m8" and it makes me despair.
There are posters here that I value and chat to, email, send them CDs etc, but for the most part I can't be bothered to log on and join in.
Partly because I just don't care.
What's the average age of people here?
13-17? That's cool, but I'm 28.
When I want to try and discuss things that interest me like politics and religion, life and love etc, there's no point because idiots clog it up with mindless comments garnered from playground mates and it descends into furious arguing, yet totally groundless and based on nothing more than "Well I've heard" or "You're wrong" without a willingness to discuss on a level approaching adult.
"Xbox sucks" "No PS2 does" "No, Gaycube does"
Jesus christ, they all suck ok? They're all just hobbies to pass the time.
A discussion is where somebody says "I disagree, however I can remain neutral and try to explain my viewpoint reasonably" without it descending into hair pulling and spitting.
I know I'm opinionated, I know I mouth off.
But it's never serious and I always, always accept when I'm in the wrong and, more importantly, I am willing to listen to other people just in case I learn something.
This is a very cool set of forums, customer service is second to none and you can actually converse with staff members and sometimes, the owner of the company.
You don't get that anywhere else on the web.
But the weight of absolute trivia and mindless tail-chasing is really starting to get to me.
This isn't me saying "These forums must change", this is me saying "I'm getting fed up with it to be honest".
I have better things to do than read yet another topic about "Why the xbox is da worst and u all know it".
I'm going to sleep now for 4hrs before I get up and do it all again.
I'm not saying "Right, I'm off".
I'm just saying that it's getting harder and harder to make the effort anymore.
Some threads are interesting and I like to get involved in them, but mostly I find them dull and lifeless.
Now I'm not saying they are, I'm saying that I find them that way.
Now this is going to sound a tad rude and some may take offence, but that's also part of the reason I'm posting less and less:
I post crap here mainly because it passes the time whilst I'm at work, but in another forum here I tend to be more serious and engage in chat/debate.
Because an awful lot of threads are full of dyslexic, hostile screaming babies that can't decide what they want for tea anymore than they can reasonably discuss which console they prefer.
It's always "This console is best and the others suck".
They're just bloody games machines.
If you spent half as much time thinking and learning as you do scrapping over games consoles, it wouldn't feel like I was Diane Fossey quite so much.
And the sad thing is, about 10% of people will get what I mean.
And I don't use phrases like that to be big and clever, I use them because that's how I talk.
But it ends up with "I fink dis console is da best m8" and it makes me despair.
There are posters here that I value and chat to, email, send them CDs etc, but for the most part I can't be bothered to log on and join in.
Partly because I just don't care.
What's the average age of people here?
13-17? That's cool, but I'm 28.
When I want to try and discuss things that interest me like politics and religion, life and love etc, there's no point because idiots clog it up with mindless comments garnered from playground mates and it descends into furious arguing, yet totally groundless and based on nothing more than "Well I've heard" or "You're wrong" without a willingness to discuss on a level approaching adult.
"Xbox sucks" "No PS2 does" "No, Gaycube does"
Jesus christ, they all suck ok? They're all just hobbies to pass the time.
A discussion is where somebody says "I disagree, however I can remain neutral and try to explain my viewpoint reasonably" without it descending into hair pulling and spitting.
I know I'm opinionated, I know I mouth off.
But it's never serious and I always, always accept when I'm in the wrong and, more importantly, I am willing to listen to other people just in case I learn something.
This is a very cool set of forums, customer service is second to none and you can actually converse with staff members and sometimes, the owner of the company.
You don't get that anywhere else on the web.
But the weight of absolute trivia and mindless tail-chasing is really starting to get to me.
This isn't me saying "These forums must change", this is me saying "I'm getting fed up with it to be honest".
I have better things to do than read yet another topic about "Why the xbox is da worst and u all know it".
I'm going to sleep now for 4hrs before I get up and do it all again.
I'm not saying "Right, I'm off".
I'm just saying that it's getting harder and harder to make the effort anymore.
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Your Honour wrote:
> Pass.
Or MWA, he was around a while ago, but seems to have disappeared again.
> As has The Game.
Shanks is back, which is good.
FM has gone
> again.
Sniper's disappeared.
And where the hell is Pseudo Savant? Haven't
> seen him for MONTHS.
True. Those are all people who really add to the forums. :(
> Pass.
Or MWA, he was around a while ago, but seems to have disappeared again.
> As has The Game.
Shanks is back, which is good.
FM has gone
> again.
Sniper's disappeared.
And where the hell is Pseudo Savant? Haven't
> seen him for MONTHS.
True. Those are all people who really add to the forums. :(
Pass.
Or MWA, he was around a while ago, but seems to have disappeared again. As has The Game.
Shanks is back, which is good.
FM has gone again.
Sniper's disappeared.
And where the hell is Pseudo Savant? Haven't seen him for MONTHS.
Or MWA, he was around a while ago, but seems to have disappeared again. As has The Game.
Shanks is back, which is good.
FM has gone again.
Sniper's disappeared.
And where the hell is Pseudo Savant? Haven't seen him for MONTHS.
I see him online every now and again, but not on here.
Yeah. The best forums have great writers, and crap writers. Problem here is, the crap writers write more. So let's delete what the crap writers write.
Your Honour wrote:
> There is that notable only forum over on View and Play...
But then we would
> miss out on all the top regulars that are out there, like Venom, Tarrant, SSX,
> Monkey_man Stryke, etc etc the list goes on.
*Hopes this doesn't sound as
> as patronising as he thinks it does*
Completely off the subject. Where the hell is M16?
> There is that notable only forum over on View and Play...
But then we would
> miss out on all the top regulars that are out there, like Venom, Tarrant, SSX,
> Monkey_man Stryke, etc etc the list goes on.
*Hopes this doesn't sound as
> as patronising as he thinks it does*
Completely off the subject. Where the hell is M16?
There is that notable only forum over on View and Play...
But then we would miss out on all the top regulars that are out there, like Venom, Tarrant, SSX, Monkey_man Stryke, etc etc the list goes on.
*Hopes this doesn't sound as as patronising as he thinks it does*
But then we would miss out on all the top regulars that are out there, like Venom, Tarrant, SSX, Monkey_man Stryke, etc etc the list goes on.
*Hopes this doesn't sound as as patronising as he thinks it does*
I still think there should be a forum where it only lets in certain people, for example, you have to be a certain height :D
Ah, thought about that.
You can't delete something a newbie or JAT writes.
"You're a regular now, we expect better of you."
You can't delete something a newbie or JAT writes.
"You're a regular now, we expect better of you."
Because if you delete newbies posts, they'll start posting loads of:
WHERE'S MY TOPIC GONE?!?!
Threads, and we'll have to put up with that instead.
Also, where do you draw the line? This is the CHAT forum, afterall.
Prime still has good, unspammed, stuff if, as do most of the other forums.
WHERE'S MY TOPIC GONE?!?!
Threads, and we'll have to put up with that instead.
Also, where do you draw the line? This is the CHAT forum, afterall.
Prime still has good, unspammed, stuff if, as do most of the other forums.
Grix has a point there. A trial would help, look at some of the dedicated members of the forum, these people know what needs to be here and what doesnt....
Where is Tony?
Where is Tony?
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