To be more accurate i do join forums i just do not participate in them (i mean they often contain a picture or an image before everywhere else that you can only access by login)

Why?

10 Quick Reasons:

1. Mod/Admin Power Trips.

2. People afraid of the odd curse word.

3. Oversensitivity of veteran members (just becuase your post count is your most attractive personal quality doesnt mean you can act like a bitch!)

4. Flamewars Nintendo Vs Microsoft Vs Sony, this will never be “won”. The outcome only varies depending on which forum you are in because of their “insert company name” fanboyism.

5. Stupid posts by people requesting information on or breaking the forums “Rules” or “Read Me Before Posting” thread. E.g not searching before posting a question or a request. Ten threads in a week asking “How do i beat such & such”
6. Stupid posts again, this time by people request crap that you can find in 2 seconds in goolge using their own thread title.

7. Stupid people. How do you even figure out where internet forums are? I guess thats why they dont leave when they reveal there stupidity, they cant figure out how to find another forum to harass.

8. Time-wasing, why the fuck would i bother wasting my time reading your opionion you should be spending your time watching our podcast/vidcast and promoting The Gaming Show.

9. Bad usability, emails about PM’s , PM’s about emails, PM’s and emails about thread changes, arcade games, money?(Fuck finally i can make my name gold and flash WOOT!!!)

10. The fact that i dont even participate in forums any more yet it still pisses me off and all these forum trolls. ( i swear to god some people bought WoW just to talk in the game forums.)

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Well thats the gist of this post but lets look at an example. (Now its about to get real lengthy)

Now a couple of weeks ago, i was browsing a gaming website much like this one. I was reading an article about the Marc Ecko ban and i decided to look at the comments. The intresting thing about this website it the comments for its articles are actually in its forum which is how i related it back to joining forums.

Check it out here WARNING!!! Long Read.

For your reference

this guy who i refer to below as the guy i “fight with” is called Jibbs on the forum.

I am posting under the name modiika.

and the moderator who appears later is called David.

Anyway back on point this one guy comes out and said (im paraphrasing) that it is logical to ban Marc Ecko and not GTA in Australia because spraycans kids can buy and guns they cant. So i decided to respond to his ludicrious arguments (all focused around that issue). Now being the person i am i dont take many things seriously and certainly not forum debates. So as a half joke the first line of my post read “^ Fack You”. From then on i talked about everything he said and why i thought its was wrong, using sprinkling of sarcasm to not only highlight my point but also to just be a little humourous.

I guess i failed because the next reply was from the guy trying to rip me a new asshole. Now i dont like guys trying to touch my ass let alone rip it open but i am man enough to admit it when they succeed. He didnt. He posted about 300 words about me mostly personal attacks things like ‘your lack of secondary education’, ‘handbag full of cusswords’. Now i will point out when he did land a hit on me “like you i took into account your number of posts, whereby i completely disregard anything you say cause, by your reasoning, your not a gamer and you don’t know anything.” SNAP! OWWW THAT HAS GOT TO HURT! I mean damn he was packing 880+ posts and lowly me with just 5. True i did mention his post count first only so that i could deduce openly that he must be a gamer to have that many posts on a gaming forum seeing as i knew/know nothing else about this person.

So now you might be thinking about my reply. However that is still several hours away as i am not checking the post every 20 seconds for a reply. Later that day…
I read his post. Shocked. I read it again. “ Maybe if you first realised i wasn’t for nor against the banning of the game, raised some counterpoints to what i said, and generally composed yourself like a normal man(no, peking man doesn’t count) we could have had an assertive debate and maybe, JUST MAYBE, even learnt something.”

Hmm apparently i didnt raise any counterpoints. Strange seeing as i did remember doing just that. SoI replied to his insults against me, with a blow by blow break down of exactly what he said and when and where i countered him and all insults against my post and those against me personally(such as his claim that my post was censoring him. How the hell could i do that seeing as i cant edit his post or remove it nor requested it to be done, let alone with another post). Then asking him to look at all the points i raised and debate me like he truely wanted.
I then get an email alerting me to a PM (Why the fuck cant the email contain the PM, I mean its the exact same amount of email traffic)

“If you do one more personal attack on someone like that, you’ll be banned for a while.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you are attacking with personal remarks, and not very well at that.

This is a just a warning, but don’t do it again.” from some MOD.

Did this mod ever think i wasnt trying to attack him personally but attack his point of view. Maybe he did, i guess he would have been fine with my odd personal remarks if they had been harder hitting. Good Work Moderating. I mean damn was that PM desitined to keep me in order. I mean there was no way i could show my face again in there with lame comebacks. (i replied once more but not agaisnt the guy who i had been having this argument with but this mod, see below)
Now truth be told, i did have a few more odd remarks aimed at the guy in my post such as “shame on you for calling yourself a gamer” because of the point he was advicating. However i did not post soley attacking him my post was about 1000 words as you can probably tell i can take a long time to explain things. Yet he responded not discussing a single question i asked of him and with pure personal attacks. Yet i was being threated with being banned? So i asked the mod did you warn the other guy (his name is Jibbs) and i got this reply.

“No, he did not get a warning, he didn’t insult anyone for no reason.’ - mod

Oh he had a reason! Sorry my bad. Obivously being wrong and being called on it, is a licence to attack someone Gratis.

I just ignored this.

The mod then posted a brag in the thread how he had stepped in and “PM’d me”.

I replied

“What is the point of you PMing me and then coming on here to gloat about it. I may have this wrong, so feel free to correct me but isn’t a PM a ‘Personal Message’.

Not that i particularly care if you tell everyone how great you are for PMing me.

It’s like the first time anyone has figured out how to use a PM”

And thus i wrap it up here. I no longer bothered responding with these crazy lunatics they just cemented my view that forums are crap.

If you missed it earlier the link to the thread is here.

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