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Posted by: Death v1
Rightly so? Are they owed a debt of forum naming? No.
Yes, because they do add to the community. I think changing the word "Forum" to "The" shouldn't be that hard.
*snip*halo 3 forum *snip*
Okay, so because the 12 year old got his mom to spend 60 dollars he now has the priviledge of spamming, and flaming incesently and then yelling to everyone about how terrible the game he constantly plays is. Not only that but any gripe they make is listened to.
Make new maps - done
Give us Recon - if your awesome enough, done.
"Fix" the melee - maybe
Change the weapon layout because I suck with a gun - done
The Flood/The Maw: Can we get our old forum name back? - Hell no
Oh, how dare you be in the same forum with people you consider "dense." Look you pompous -blam!-, just because you don't enjoy making cheap laughs, doesn't mean your the equivilent to Albert Einstein. Seriously, for a forum that preaches against elitism so much, this forum preaches through it's own actions more for it than any other forum.
You do know that you used the term dense first right, and I was simply referring to your post?
Did I. Could have sworn I read it somewhere. I make errors like this by accident when i start to rant.
Wait... it wasn't a mistake.
Posted by: Death v1
If bungie were to simply link to another forum for everyone to go to with their off topic nonsense I have a feeling it would do this site a LOT of good. They would have to worry far less about these dense people, they could focus on what this site is actually for, and there would be far less problem individuals, less moderation to be done, less h3 forum/flood attacking nonsense, etc.
It seems like from any objective standpoint, bungie getting rid of the flood and replacing it with a link to another forum would probably benefit this site in many ways.
What I said is that they may perhaps be a bit dense. It was impossible for me to tell that you were referencing my post as there were no quotations around the word dense, thus showing you wre quoting me. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
And don't tell me it's objective. I know it's not. It's completely obvious how, when a Floodian makes a Flood related activity here, he is called elitist, and bigoted for not letting other members play. However, when the Setagon member makes one, only containing moderators, and Septagon regulars, he is praised for letting members from every forum participate. Never mind that when the Floodian made the thread, it was related to prior events, never mind that if someone was actually part of the community, they would also be in The Flood and would have been given a chance to join.
Which is the COMMUNITY forum, for COMMUNITY activities? So which one should be the place for said activities? Mhmm. Every sign up I've seen has been first come first serve, except in the flood, where the OP threw in his buddies, who later said, wait I cant play whyd you put me in here. Which seems more fair? Me making a community activity and automatically throwing in my friends, or me making a community activity and going first come first serve?
Actually, since you obviously don't know how that activity came about, or how your own games are run I'll tell you.
1. It was started by Gamerz Property and later turned into the official Friday Fragfest. It was designed to get some members of The Flood together for some games of Halo 3.
2. during the course of eleven games, The Flood representatives played the intrawebz for good sport, and went undefeated. This got the players thinking.
3. It was pretty well decided that The Flood should organize a game against the mods as it seems that The Flood and the modz are butting heads anyway, however no one acted on it.
4. Sword and Scales finally acted and made the game. Though, he didn't warn anyone about the game before hand, so that caused the general confusion. However, there was an overwhelming level of support from forum members for the project.
5. However, as soon as the game was created, it was instantly created for not letting members of the forum, who in no way were related to the event, join. When members who participated in the original even tried to explain they were instantly called elitist because they wouldn't let the members join.
6. Then, while The Flood game was still up and trying to gain some momentum after practically spontaneously combusting from all the flames that were thrown at it, a new, "community game" was made. While The Flood members were still trying to explain, Community forum regulars praised the new activity as open to the entire forum. Even though many slots had already been filled before the thread was posted.
7. These activities still run strong. Though there are in fact some games where only certain members can join. One thread I personally saw required that the member be the rank of Colonel in Halo 3 matchmaking to join in the "community" game.
The Flood didn't set restrictions other than you had to know about it. It wasn't created for the entire community, and everyone who was trying to plan it tried to explain it. However, it was constantly berated for elitism.
It seems like from any objective standpoint, bungie getting rid of the flood and replacing it with a link to another forum would probably benefit this site in many ways.
Kinda messed up this part, unless you are agreeing, I havent seen you contest this statement anywhere.
I find it utterly amazing that people can complain so much about something they are gifted. The flood is an extra, youve done nothing to earn it, it serves no real purpose that couldnt be done more easily somewhere else, etc.
However, the members of The Flood have chosen this forum, just like the members of the Halo 3 forum have chosen this website. Also, many members of The Flood also have Halo 3, I'll say a good 80%+ of them. Since they helped Bungie earn money, according to your logic they should also be cated to.
Also, there really are few sites that have been dedicated to off topic diologue. The most prevalent is 4chan. However, as well all know, that place sucks. No one really wants to go, or be forced to go. Also, by completely moving the forum to another site, all you would do is shrink and weaken a sub community that has created it's own groups, declared war(unfortunately), created artwork, and written a great number of stories.