Hey all.
I've been reading through all those locked threads and there's some things I think needed to be said. Before anyone starts ranting, I'm not siding with, or against, anybody.
This forum has a peculiar, and quite confusing, sense of humour. For those who've been here for a while, this isn't a problem, and most either adapt to the particular way of lulzing here, or they've always had it in them to find this kind of thing funny.
Sometimes, however, we get some new people that think they've stumbled across "yet another band forum". They think it'll be like the CoB-board where everyone praises the band incessantly and wanks to pictures of Alexi Laiho, or they simply think it'll be just like any old forum they've visited. So they act like normal members would, trying to post interesting things and all. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. That doesn't matter, it's their intentions that count: most of those people just want to be constructive, contributing members.
Enter the regulars of this forum. When such a newbie tries to post interesting things we, as is our wont, reply with completely irrelevant or pseudo-insulting stuff. Not our fault - we do it for the lulz. The newbie, however, doesn't understand what's happening and starts lashing out, insulting our personalities, wedding tackles, and ancestry. This, of course, provokes more lulz from us, and only inspires us to bombard the poor kid with more funnies. Naught wrong with that, except for one thing.
Some of you seem to forget that those poor newbies get thrown into a pit of snakes without having any idea what they're getting into, and at some point, some of us should tell the poor kid that we are, in fact, only doing it for the lulz. But instead, some of you go right on blasting the outnumbered and ambushed kid like bullies in a schoolyard. It's at that point that some of you are showing that you still have the mentality of an elementary school kid. I agree that it's a bit silly of those new guys to take it seriously, and sure, the rapid-fire of typical NM-board-posts is a kind of initiation rite, and a good one, because we don't need prissy, whiny members, but at some point it has to stop, or at least lessen. Poor old Metropolis made a fool of himself, I agree 100%, but he only did so because he was consistently houded and backed into a corner by three or four members (amongst them a moderator, who should know better!), and his attempts at constructive threads were systematically and categorically bombarded and then locked.
That's no good, guys. Making fun of new kids is all well and good, but when you start systematically persecuting and harassing them, you need to ask yourselves some questions. I'm not putting blame anywhere, but I'm just saying, maybe you people need to wonder what caused this guy to start acting this way.
Rail at me all you want, I'm sure many of you will be able to think of no better way to respond to this.
I've been reading through all those locked threads and there's some things I think needed to be said. Before anyone starts ranting, I'm not siding with, or against, anybody.
This forum has a peculiar, and quite confusing, sense of humour. For those who've been here for a while, this isn't a problem, and most either adapt to the particular way of lulzing here, or they've always had it in them to find this kind of thing funny.
Sometimes, however, we get some new people that think they've stumbled across "yet another band forum". They think it'll be like the CoB-board where everyone praises the band incessantly and wanks to pictures of Alexi Laiho, or they simply think it'll be just like any old forum they've visited. So they act like normal members would, trying to post interesting things and all. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. That doesn't matter, it's their intentions that count: most of those people just want to be constructive, contributing members.
Enter the regulars of this forum. When such a newbie tries to post interesting things we, as is our wont, reply with completely irrelevant or pseudo-insulting stuff. Not our fault - we do it for the lulz. The newbie, however, doesn't understand what's happening and starts lashing out, insulting our personalities, wedding tackles, and ancestry. This, of course, provokes more lulz from us, and only inspires us to bombard the poor kid with more funnies. Naught wrong with that, except for one thing.
Some of you seem to forget that those poor newbies get thrown into a pit of snakes without having any idea what they're getting into, and at some point, some of us should tell the poor kid that we are, in fact, only doing it for the lulz. But instead, some of you go right on blasting the outnumbered and ambushed kid like bullies in a schoolyard. It's at that point that some of you are showing that you still have the mentality of an elementary school kid. I agree that it's a bit silly of those new guys to take it seriously, and sure, the rapid-fire of typical NM-board-posts is a kind of initiation rite, and a good one, because we don't need prissy, whiny members, but at some point it has to stop, or at least lessen. Poor old Metropolis made a fool of himself, I agree 100%, but he only did so because he was consistently houded and backed into a corner by three or four members (amongst them a moderator, who should know better!), and his attempts at constructive threads were systematically and categorically bombarded and then locked.
That's no good, guys. Making fun of new kids is all well and good, but when you start systematically persecuting and harassing them, you need to ask yourselves some questions. I'm not putting blame anywhere, but I'm just saying, maybe you people need to wonder what caused this guy to start acting this way.
Rail at me all you want, I'm sure many of you will be able to think of no better way to respond to this.
