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Subject: Is B.net a "community" that people would want to live in?
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Bungie.net is alot like SNL. Some months its great, fun, funny, and amazing. The next(which most of the time it is), its the stupidest thing you've ever seen. But I guess it all depends on your point of view.

  • 09.13.2007 9:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mabian
Ah, how I do love the Flood. A true community. You have those seasoned veterans who all know one another as if they all grew up in the same orphanage. Some of whom accept new-comers and educate them in the proper ways of respect towards others, and those who naturally shun said new-comers away. Like every village, it has its idiots, but it also has its great heroes.

I remember Zanzibar quite well. The flaming and name-calling. The trolling. The glitch discussions. The confusion between New Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Optimatch. The trolls. The Trolls. The good times. The bad times. The call to arms in the Septagon about how it must be improved (which, ironically enough, always led to a lot of people agreeing that there was a problem and about three of four people actually doing something about it).

In all of my time here, I haven't in the slightest lost the feeling of community. I know those I love and those I hate. I regularly converse with those I love (and a few that I'm still trying to formulate a concrete opinion about), and try to get along with those I hate as best I can, since I must try to work with them. I've made friends and enemies, and have seen battle. I've seen memes come and go like trains to our station. I've seen fools banned and good men praised. I've taught and learned. I've felt that I was part of a community the whole time, and I am not worried about losing that feeling until I myself leave.

I enjoy it here. If I could, I'd live in the Bungie.net community.

If only there was a Post of The Year Award....

  • 09.13.2007 10:51 PM PDT
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13/02/2005 (I've been on since then.)
Group RPG's!

DO NOT DO IT! DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING IT! DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT NOT DOING IT!

I don't post much now, been here since 2005. I understand the mods view on the Halo 3 forum. But I've just almost had the game ruined for me by some guy posting in threads spoilers about the game, if this is a taste of what is going to happen, then my time here is thinning.

  • 09.14.2007 12:08 AM PDT
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I like it here. The Halo 3 subdivision is growing rapidly and wild as it nears its realease but I like it. I've been blacklisted before but It wasn't a big deal or anything, I posted a dirty joke in a Thread entitiled "Horrible Jokes" so I broke the rules and got my deserved punishment. If I get huffy about anything I just realize this is completly free and Bungie was kind enough to let us talk about random stuff so we can at least follow the rules and stuff.

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If Bungie.net was a real community, it would be the -blam!- of America instead of Utah.

  • 09.14.2007 9:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Old Papa Rich
Suffice to say that sometime, a moderator is going to end this account permenantly.

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Posted by: Mabian
Ah, how I do love the Flood. A true community. You have those seasoned veterans who all know one another as if they all grew up in the same orphanage. Some of whom accept new-comers and educate them in the proper ways of respect towards others, and those who naturally shun said new-comers away. Like every village, it has its idiots, but it also has its great heroes.

I remember Zanzibar quite well. The flaming and name-calling. The trolling. The glitch discussions. The confusion between New Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Optimatch. The trolls. The Trolls. The good times. The bad times. The call to arms in the Septagon about how it must be improved (which, ironically enough, always led to a lot of people agreeing that there was a problem and about three of four people actually doing something about it).

In all of my time here, I haven't in the slightest lost the feeling of community. I know those I love and those I hate. I regularly converse with those I love (and a few that I'm still trying to formulate a concrete opinion about), and try to get along with those I hate as best I can, since I must try to work with them. I've made friends and enemies, and have seen battle. I've seen memes come and go like trains to our station. I've seen fools banned and good men praised. I've taught and learned. I've felt that I was part of a community the whole time, and I am not worried about losing that feeling until I myself leave.

I enjoy it here. If I could, I'd live in the Bungie.net community.

If only there was a Post of The Year Award....
Heh.

  • 09.14.2007 11:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Darth_Eletius
I don't post much now, been here since 2005. I understand the mods view on the Halo 3 forum. But I've just almost had the game ruined for me by some guy posting in threads spoilers about the game, if this is a taste of what is going to happen, then my time here is thinning.

Yeah...

Um, Those "leaks" were confirmed fake a long time ago, and it was two people.

  • 09.15.2007 1:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: Darth_Eletius
I don't post much now, been here since 2005. I understand the mods view on the Halo 3 forum. But I've just almost had the game ruined for me by some guy posting in threads spoilers about the game, if this is a taste of what is going to happen, then my time here is thinning.

Yeah...

Um, Those "leaks" were confirmed fake a long time ago, and it was two people.
Why do people do that? It gets really annoying.

What, post leaks?

It's Pillage and Logical thinking, what more of an explanation do you need?

lol

  • 09.15.2007 1:18 AM PDT
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I have been a member since a little bit before Halo 2 was released, However, I did not get my own I.D. until Last year.

It was better during the first year or two I was here.

  • 09.15.2007 6:48 AM PDT
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A community with time changes, like most things in this world. Families in the real world are always changing, a community isn't much different.

I love this place, it is an evolving, growing family. Like Mabian said, I will not feel lost or like this place is missing something until I leave (never).

  • 09.15.2007 10:56 AM PDT
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it all depends on your point of view.

Tru7h.

  • 09.15.2007 11:33 AM PDT

If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.

Halo 3 will bring alot of people back. Like me for instance. I've more or less been AFK for the last 6-7 months.

  • 09.16.2007 3:21 AM PDT
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I know i haven't been here long, and in a time my life wasn't going good the community has been awesome and made me feel good bout life, but im a dramatic lol

  • 09.16.2007 8:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
I still get to carry (and use) a katana?


Do you own a t-shirt with a wolf on it?

  • 09.16.2007 9:22 AM PDT
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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

Posted by: Achronos
What we need is something that allows us to leverage the users on this site in a way that helps the mods get pointed to where they are needed. It just so happens that I have something in mind to help with this. But as Halo 3 needs work, it will have to wait.


Can I take a guess?
You need more eyes looking for 'miscreants' [love that word] but it'd be silly to trust those eyes enough to give them the tools they need to actually close threads or ban people. Obvious sollution to me would be to create a new - invisible - class of user capable of flagging posts, threads or users as having violated the rules, and then giving moderators a means by which to act on that.

Someone in the new user class who constantly makes bad judgements doesn't do any damage and can easily have the ability removed, and new users can be gradually added to it without much concern.

Close?



Aaaannnyway, we get these threads come up quite frequently here. In eleven days time I'll have been here for five years, and I can honestly say this place hasn't changed much since Halo 2 was released; but then how can you add a million users in a few weeks and not have a change of atmosphere?

  • 09.16.2007 9:39 AM PDT
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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

Yeah good call Fraggy. I obviously agree with your idea about flagging posts, as some people may remember my similar idea. Nice post, and I agree with your idea.

  • 09.16.2007 1:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: scruss
A community with time changes, like most things in this world. Families in the real world are always changing, a community isn't much different.

I love this place, it is an evolving, growing family. Like Mabian said, I will not feel lost or like this place is missing something until I leave (never).


I agree with Scruss. I've made a great deal of friends on Bungie.net (Scruss is one of them, too). #MOAP is full of amazing people (individually, at least :P). The Flood has it's members that I would call my friends, too. It's pretty weird. I think a lot of people come here to talk about Bungie and their games, but then you end up making a few friends. It's pretty cool.


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Posted by: Recon Number 54
I still get to carry (and use) a katana?


Do you own a t-shirt with a wolf on it?


This made me laugh. Really hard.

  • 09.16.2007 2:26 PM PDT
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So this is where everyone I used to know went? Intresting.

Let me throw in my 7 cents, just because I can.

B.net, I believe, used to be more closely knit, if everyone didn't know everyone in the forum of your choice, then they had atleast heard of you. Times have changed, old members have moved on, new ones join everyday, especially with the advent of Halo 3, but the feel has also kinda moved on. I guess I just never got used to the changes that have gone on here, but I sometimes pine for the days of yore as it were.

Has Bungie.net changed for the better? Most definately. Did I welcome the change? No, the good old days were just fine by me thanks

  • 09.17.2007 12:02 AM PDT

You say tomato; I say potato.

I don't think the site has changed as much as I have.
This site used to be recess for me, but I've steadily grown to appreciate the community in different areas.

  • 09.17.2007 4:40 AM PDT
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I don't think the site has changed as much as I have.
This site used to be recess for me, but I've steadily grown to appreciate the community in different areas.


I was just looking at your avatar and noticing how well it represented "my" Bungie.net.

  • 09.17.2007 6:56 AM PDT