- HaloHero II
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- Exalted Member
I remember the good ol' days. When people drifted lazily around the Bungie.net forums and insulted eachother in fun and overall had a jolly good time. Or something like resembling jolly and good. The point is that things were actually worth looking at. People were for the most part friendly, nobody was sucking anyone off for attention, nobody was jockeying for position in line to be a mod down the line, and groups were a fantastic feature of the forums. Groups like Bungie Fans Online (formerly ODST_Spartans), the Mob of Angry Peasants, Mr. Smiley's XBox Lounge, and many others were legitimately fun to visit and read.
About 2 years ago I became a WoW addict and left the then exciting and interesting forums behind. A year of WoW and a bunch of time off after that, and I came back to an extremely "stripped down" version of the Bungie.net community. I joined a few groups, which I typically posted in for a while then abandoned, tried posting in the Halo 3 forum but eventually gave in to the majorities of idiots, even wrote a massive, complete, and over 95% accurate analysis of the E3 2007 Halo 3 trailer. I moved on from that forum when the IRIS ARG started, and after a short stint being active on the CompoundIntelligence forums, I hopped on the IRC for said group and didn't look back until it was over. I grew to something of importance there, but alas, the ARG is over.
I tried again to get back into Bungie.net, posting semi-regularly in the Septagon, but within a short time I was once again annoyed with the community.
The point is this forum has gone to crap. Far past it even. Back in the day, I would spend hours on Bungie.net. Today, I spend maybe 5 or 10 minutes a month on it. Hell, I'm only posting this right now because I heard on IRC about a big throwdown or somesuch. Apparently I'm likely to be banned for this, but if I actually do get banned for voicing an opinion, then I'm not especially sure I need to be on the forums.
The community is absolutely horrendous these days, and I really can't find much on the forums that can draw me away from essentially ANYTHING else that I'm up to at the moment. So if you've managed to read all the way to here, I ask you to clean up your -blam!- act and become part of the solution. Keep your nose as brown as it is without sticking it up anuses, post as yourself, not just some drone doing as he is told, and maybe just hang out in the forums instead of taking them so damned seriously. Don't just suck at the teet that is Bungie, let your balls drop and put down that boob. I've run out of analogies.
For those of you who might realize that I Admin Halo3Planet, this is a personal opinion and should not reflect on the site if I get banned for it. While I don't consider this unfriendly, I assure you that the rest of our community isn't so inflammatory.