On September 09 2010 14:32 micronesia wrote: There is at least one or two admins (I believe) on this site who have to delete half their posts directly before clicking 'post' because it drives them crazy sometimes lol
Happens to me pretty often as well. Or I just delete my own post right after posting it :x
I was getting frustrated with this too so a few months ago I just slowed down my posting a shitload. I rarely post anymore and I especially never get into arguments with people on TL. It's not a big deal not posting more than once or twice a week for me. I've never really cared about my post count. It took me nearly a year to actually register on TL anyways.
I just don't pay attention to those posts. When i read good post i enjoy it, when i read bad post i say fuck that dumbass and go my way to other posts. Only problem is when i am pissed off in RL, i might post in an insulting way. Also i don't follow SC2 too much, so it makes life a lot easier ^^
This is actually the way it is on all text based forums. TL is even amazingly good when compared to less moderated forums. Take a look at the blizzard forums?
The problem is that you can't change peoples' minds against their will. Period. We're all human and as such we're stubborn idiots that can't face that we might be wrong, and most of all that someone else figured it out and is publicly calling you out on your mistake. This is as true on all forums as it is in the outside world. What makes it even worse is that the nature of forums, being mostly more or less public makes it extremely easy for someone to voice his ill-informed opinion in a way that you might not see in life.
The final straw, then, is that where in the outside world there's always violence as a last refuge, on the internet there is only unanswered frustration
An interesting point that someone else made early in the thread is that while your mild-mannered and considered responses will almost inevitably be astronomically greater in worth than the average forum post, but as a result you will be left out of the conversation as when it boils down to it a typical thread consists of two radically opposing groups or individuals arguing for polar opposites of opinion - often resorting to namecalling and nearly always overemphasizing their own case, while devaluing that of their opponents.
Ugh, I sometimes wonder why I even bother reading forums - human nature really does make you sick
Trust me- i got that urge, then i acted on it. Then i got banned. Stay civil, and go bash noobs on us east or something- because if you don't, you get banned- and that sucks. Trust me!
On September 09 2010 18:15 ondik wrote: whenever I see "inb4" or any other 4chan shit I feel like punching something..someone
Amen.
TL is a pretty high-quality forum given its subject matter, I think. I hung around WCR for a few years and towards the tail end of it I'd literally be face palming myself and muttering aloud how fucking stupid everybody was. It could just be mostly the grade A moderation and asshole purging, but all in all TL carries itself pretty well
I think this site has actually improved in terms of manners. Ya there seems to be an influx of stupidity and immaturity as this site has grown to some super mega site, but all-in-all, ppl seem more "mannered" than a few years ago? Or maybe I've just become desensitized to teenagers?
I've gotten upset at TL posts that's for sure. It sometimes lingers for awhile until I see a group of teenagers walk down my street and everything gets immediately put into perspective for me. Those "kids" could be the same age as the posters on TL.net. haha.. no wonder we bash heads, they're fuckin 3x my age.
Haha I tend to want to lose it everytime i hover over the Starcraft 2 Section. I'm so glad TL has the minimize sidebar thing our else i'll have a heart attack!
i rage induce myself all the time. it might be because i make it a habit to read the whole thread before posting so by the time in through 6 pages of oaw;iejfa;owefija;weof i'm about to kill someone when i reply.
Basically every time I read posts from the people who, rather than try to get good at the game, complain that the game is imbalanced. Admittedly, I have complained (not on TL, but to my stream) about balance, but only when I am angry from losing a long game. When reviewing the replays, I always concur that it is in fact not balance, but rather my own mistakes that lead me to the loss. I try to stay away from balance threads, because I feel that some of these people are just a little too unbelievably ignorant.
On September 10 2010 01:26 Empyrean wrote: Have you even compared this board with the battle.net forums? I swear they're as bad as youtube comments :/
Comments on the blizzard updates make me cry inside. "OmG!! Only one zerg in tope ten meenz imbalens!"
On September 10 2010 01:23 mahnini wrote: i rage induce myself all the time. it might be because i make it a habit to read the whole thread before posting so by the time in through 6 pages of oaw;iejfa;owefija;weof i'm about to kill someone when i reply.
Agreed. When you first read a thread that has been going for a little while, say 6+ pages, the length can add to the rage.
I don't reply to the stupid posts in the first couple pages because I still need to the read the rest. Then, when you run into more absurd posts before replying to any of the other ones, the rage builds. Makes me think how all the dumb people went uncorrected before I got there. Maybe that's where the rage comes from: a disappointment in TL.
Instead of posting angry replies, my practice is to type out my rage post and then erase it rather than posting it. It's really a fantastic solution.