- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Bronzemage
Time was, forums were "fun" you chatted to people, held contests, sent PMs and generally had a good time. Not now. Now even good forums like these are bombarded daily by leigions of dare I say it... New people, who make pages upon pages of posts, repeating each other and scrambling to get the first or longest reply. New Mombasa, as an example, is the reciever of topics such as "I'm SO disappointed at Halo 2" and "Poll: Who thinks Bungie should tweak the Battle Rifle". The Underground has lost it's days of intelligent people, and as I;ve scrolled back through the pages, I've seen half or even full pages of locked topics with titles such as "Who thinks the Banshee rules?" which are in both a bad forum, and secondly a waste of space.
So what have these forums come to? I've seen people quote The Flood as the last refuge for die-hard fans. and yet even our ranks have been infiltrated. I see topics in forums that have absolutely no meaning, Spammers who occasionally flll up a forum page with endless links and topics, and most of all... A Lack of common decency and etiquiete (sp?). People flame about the smallest of things (i.e. You're such a ****ing idiot because you think the Battle Rifle should shoot 1 shot when zoomed), I see 400 posts for a poll asking whether Halo 3 should be made, and yet a very important, dedicated, positive post by someone who spent 20 minutes on it goes unnoticed. And most of all... I see the people who simply will not accept they're wrong, who go back and doggedly refuse to give up and post their wasteful ideas.
So. Will anyone read this? Or will I be cast into one of the catagories I was talking about...
Do not fret, my friend. Intelligent people still lurk in the corners and shadows of these forums (mainly the Flood and the Septagon. Although we're trying to fight back at the Underground.) When an intelligent topic pops up, we reply and include our input. Yet intelligent topics are hard to come by these days so we usually find a decent chapter to attach to and chat there.
Ask, and we will come.
[Edited on 12/15/2004 9:55:26 AM]