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Posted by: xdwightschrutex
the chosen one has chosen to address me???!!! i feel important
i really do respect your intelligence foman, you can tell just from your consistent grammar that you have a good head on your shoulders.....but golden rule shmolden rule, o great chosen one! excuse my heresy but i think these forums could use quite a bit of "house cleaning."
for example, i just went to the h3 forum and found this post
wow....really?.....servers 1 and 2 are open and you click crap on them to get files??? wow.....
are you saying this is a highly valued b.net member that we would miss if he got upset and left?
also, people are making fun of me and my feelings aren't hurt.
Well thanks for the compliments.
As far as making people upset goes, I think that there are two reasons not to make people upset and cause them to leave, both of them equally valid.
First Reason
First is the practical reason. Who are we to judge who we are allowed to make upset and leave? Just because somebody was not up-to-date on the most recent ARG news does not mean that this person will never contribute positively to the Bungie community. It's important to keep in mind that people have lives outside Bungie and sometimes do not realize that events have transpired and been discussed thoroughly.
Besides that, even if we were to sticky-and-publicly-crucify somebody who was WAY behind on the news (let's say somebody posts "I heard that Halo 3 is coming out sometime in 2007!"), where do you decide where to draw the line? How stupid does a post have to be before it gets stickied? How worthless does a member have to be before we care if he/she leaves or not? How do we determine whether a user will eventually be a positive contributing member of the Community and should thus be encouraged to stay?
This is a pressure that nobody should be forced to bear. That is why threads are locked more often than users are instantly banned. That is why so many of the moderators are polite about enforcing the rules. It is better to have people here and encourage them to follow the rules rather than to banish those who make the slightest misstep.
Second Reason
The second reason is the financial reason. Bungie is a corporation that must answer to its shareholders. Bungie's shareholders are concerned with the company making money. This depends on the company having as many fans as possible -- preferably ravingly happy fans.
Now before I go too far, let me reiterate something here: what's good for Bungie is good for us. If Bungie makes a ton of money, they have more resources to make awesome games and do other things to please their fans.
For this reason, those of us who truly are Bungie fans and want to see great games and products from Bungie in the future all have an interest in keeping these forums friendly and encouraging. We completely burn a guy here in these forums, and he goes and tell all of his friends that the "Bungie people are a bunch of a-holes," then he and any of his friends who might be on the fence about buying Bungie games will be inclined not to. I'm not talking about the people who love Halo so much that you could basically send Jason Jones to stab them in the chest and they would still buy Halo 3. I mean the people who might be casual recreational video game players who are swayed by word-of-mouth to buy games.
These same people -- who, by the way, far outnumber the rabid Bungie fans on this forum -- will be much more encouraged to buy Halo 3 if we here on the b.net forums set a good example and are mature and patient with our newer, younger colleagues, who will then go and tell all their friends, "You know what, those Bungie guys are pretty cool!"
In the long run, such actions encourage people to buy Bungie products, funneling more money into the company and allowing it to make bigger and sweeter products -- a win for all of us.
In conclusion, if you don't think that we fans should be thinking about this kind of thing, you at least can bet your ass that the Bungie.net web team is thinking about it. There is a balance to be struck here, and that balance does not include public ridicule of new forum users.
[Edited on 07.19.2007 1:15 PM PDT]