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Why I no longer frequent mmorpg.com
somersaultsam
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I understand that websites such as mmorpg.com take a very meagre living off advertising, and that advertising requires traffic and regular updates attracting regular return visits.
Therefore, I understand why "rewarding" people for regular content through new titles or colours corresponding to "levels" is sensible. Unfortunately it creates an unpleasant environment for discussion, here is why: -
Now please feel free to ignore this and like the first banal moron who states that it is good because it excludes antagonist individuals and makes it a friendlier place to be.... that sort of "head in sand" liberal PC excessive behaviour that results in a backlash that leads to President Trump.
Therefore, I understand why "rewarding" people for regular content through new titles or colours corresponding to "levels" is sensible. Unfortunately it creates an unpleasant environment for discussion, here is why: -
- The ingratiates click "like" (or funny or whatever) on ever high level name they see, because they lack opinion or intellectual foritude.
- It stifles any debate because people are scared of downvotes in the form of LOLs or plain ignores.... in fact it shapes every debate because if you receive 3 "likes" (or whatever) out of the hundreds of people who read a post, it somehow verifies your opinion as correct... when in reality it does no such thing.
- It stifles any controversial opinions because people chase "likes".... yes you do, don't deny it.
- It allows the banal and uninteresting; the people with no real opinion; to rise to the top, because they offend no-one but please someone.
- It is a symptom of this hideous corporate led world we live in where everyone must be measured and assessed as a worthy customer, and discarded or accepted.
Now please feel free to ignore this and like the first banal moron who states that it is good because it excludes antagonist individuals and makes it a friendlier place to be.... that sort of "head in sand" liberal PC excessive behaviour that results in a backlash that leads to President Trump.
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RAWR
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
This is a personal problem of your own, since you don't actually like it, and others may its just your own personal preference.
I fail to see how the rest of us needed to know that you were no longer visiting the site, just because you dont like a certain feature.
Personally myself i couldn't give 2 craps what people say they like or comment on, i'm a long time lurker, i rarely comment, and peoples own personal opinions mean even less to me.
I come here for the content, whats new, whats coming up.
Anything else on top of that means nothing to me.
What you get out of the page, is up to you, use the bits that interest you, take no notice of what doesn't.
Its not that bigger deal.
Honestly, who cares what color a poster have? A good post is a good post no matter who writes it. Sure, there are certain peoples post I usually read but that is generally people who have been here for long and who have interesting ideas.
People who troll or are plain rude to other people I generally ignore, I like MMOs and I like talking about them with more then a few people here.
The problem in general with MMORPG.com was their strict policy and their overzealous Moderation, but since we had a similar discussion a month ago, moderation seems a lot more relaxed.
As a result the site seems much more alive now, posts happen every minutes as opposed as 15-20 like it was before.
Since I re-joined I got only a friendly warning, which I thought was unjustified, but as long as it is friendly, I am fine with it.
If you follow my post history, you can see I am very opinionated and take on everyone regardless of their status.
I personally don't give a fuck about the colors of the Members, nor do I care how many Likes they receive (or I receive), the only thing I care is what they say.
If I think their are talking BS I am gonna chase them.
I recently had some run ins with a couple of Orange Members (Legendary), nothing personal, just I didn't agree with what they were saying, and though my style is very direct and rough, I didn't have problems with Moderators.
So I don't understand where you get the impression that people are scared of facing the high ranked members.
Maybe you should join in in some discussions and contribute making this forum more alive instead of whining.
With 174 posts you are hardly a contributor, maybe you should step up your game.
As I tell my friends when we play board games or war games, I don't play to win, I play to annoy!
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
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LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
The great thing about this site is that there are some very witty people posting here and there is a ton of information and reasonably interesting discussions about rpgs/mmos and related topics, with relatively loose moderation in most cases.
It's really a silly reason to leave. I suspect that there is a deeper underlying cause.
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I self identify as a monkey.
Sometimes is not easy to purge what threads are worth to read and participate.
Usually i come here daylie when some game im interested is about to be released and some time after release, then i move to the game official foruns.
Atm, im playing released games and not waiting for any so my time is spend on official foruns. The only game i love to try out is Civilization Online from XLGames, but sadly no news to come to Europe so no point follow it.
Camelot Unchain and Crowfall is far from be released so i dont even care atm.
In short, i mostly come here looking for news, im not expecting news about anything atm so i stick with official game foruns.
What's written is important; not the person behind it.
Let's see, Kopo was perma banned sometime in mid July.
Coincidence? Almost uncanny I think.
BTW, the Pub is for discussions about MMORPGs, and not the behavior of other posters on the site. (or politics for that matter)
So what the hell, just for the LOLs, reported.
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We are just giving our personal opinion on your complaint.
I never thought people did give a crap about other member Avatar Color, who does that?
If you complaint about some other reasons, I might give you some support, but this?
C'mon......