- prometheus25
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"
I hate to say this, but when a member has virtually nothing to lose by spamming, griefing, etc, they more often than not will.
Why a few of you seem surprised at this, I'm not sure. Being a former Forum Jackass myself, I know what it's like. The account was free, there was nothing I saw to be gained then, and I relished the opportunity to harp on anyone, thinking it was personally entertaining.
Finding value in the community now, I'm different, of course.
The problem here is that members see their accounts as a disposable source of negative enjoyment. You need to give members something to work for (the RvB forums give out little "awards" from the staff. Worthless, but effective!), or else they aren't going to see any value in their time spent here.
I don't mean to stress "elitism" with this, but I feel if current and new members could strive to aquire (and later on work to not lose) a little emblem in their signiture from, say...Frankie, we'd see a noticable inprovement in forum behavior.