- Ciaran
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Posted by: Death v1
Posted by: Ciaran
Define 'varied'. Many of these posters can't even spell half a sentence. We're plagued by 'I can haz recon' with half page locks being a daily sight. I welcome new sensible posters, I really do, but I have yet to see many of them. I'd say there is about the same amount sensible posters as there used to be, despite the overall population growth, as many have been driven away. This relates to my last point.
Do i really need to define varied? I mean different people, as opposed to the same core group of individuals. The reason we have recon threads now and not before, is because bungie screwed that one up. Was there any special giveaways like that for halo 2, for halo 1, for anything else? Something where peoples accounts were hacked for an armor(sorry to hear about that ash). I dont think so. How is even a topic for discussion in here, when it is far beyond any community control? Bungie/microsoft basically put idiot chum in the water.... and guess what? Idiots came. I dont see this as a downfall of the community, simply a bad decision by bungie and this shouldve been a clear consequence when they started giving it away, letting people flaunt it, etc.
Of course idiots are going to ask for it when people like trigger are making youtube videos bragging about it.
This has happened in every individual forum on bungie.net…
Your random text generator is top notch by the way.
I was referring to subforums and I think most people got that. For reference see the optimatch forum, h2 forum, etc. which all had a small core of posters which has drastically changed with the release of halo 3.
1. These two areas have their sad little elitist cliques who lament about how much fun it was back in the day when the whole group was together and they were the "big group" on Bungie. Everyone who asked for their groups to be mentioned in the OPs list are the exact types I'm referring to. ZOMG a list of important groups and WE'RE not on it?
I don't like you simply defining people who miss a better situation as 'elitists', and this is what we are dealing with; a situation. The Septagon made itself from the sprit that it was. The same people are there, the same opinions, but we can't operate in the environment I explained above.
Did I define it as people who miss a better situation? No. Dont put words in my mouth again.
Situations change, you aren't going to stop the influx of over a million people by making a dozen whiny threads about 2004. That isnt how the world works. All these threads do is serve as a way for people to say, dude, youre cool, you were from then, I remember you, pat each other on the back and nothing more. What good does this do? NONE. You talk about recon armor threads being a repetative nuisance, but what do you think these threads are? The exact same thing, except with better grammar, and people kissing each others asses.
I'm glad you read my posts, because that's exactly what I'm suggesting. This is by no means an 'old timer' thread. I am not lamenting with a bottle of brandy how the old days were. What I'm doing is exploring then, now, the reasons why changes have occurred and what we should do in the future to continue enjoying the Seventh Column. And funnily enough, it’s the thing you’ve just come around to in your post, though you seem to present it as if we’re all missing the point.
Edit- Formatting.
Many people are, go look at the lamenters.
The point is this thread isnt needed. You are attempting to address the problem of change. Change wont be stopped, you cant do anything about it, so why dont you go with your own advice and simply hold on, instead of making threads addressing an issue which has been addressed hundreds of times? The fact is that its pointless. The site will change, people will come, people will go, and this thread, wont matter in a week, nor will any of the lamenting ones(beyond the people who are sad about their cliquey buddies being banned).
Again, the best thing to do is acknowledge the fact that there isnt anything you can do, stop making threads like this one, like the lamenting ones, and get back to posting about things you can change, start posting about things which interest yourself and others, and get back to being constructive individuals, instead of a bunch of people talking about something that will never amount to anything.
I was going to respond to each separate reply as I had before, until I came across the second to last paragraph. My jaw dropped- you obviously have not read, or at least understood my OP. Read it again and pay attention to the last paragraph whilst keeping your second to last in mind. You have decided to categorize, just as you did with these ‘elitists’ and ‘varied members’, missing the point of this thread entirely.