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Posted by: TheUseless0ne
Think of it as this. If you go to a friend's house for the first time, and they tell you to wipe your feet, you do it. Some time later, you go back to his house, he tells you to wipe your feet, and being polite again, you do it. A bit later, you go to his house, you know what to do without him haveing to ask, you wipe your feet. Finally, you got to his house, bringing another friend, but the friend who owns the house is in the bathroom, being wise and nice, you ask your friend to wipe his feet as you do... same concept.
I see what you're saying, but usually when I lurk around the forums, I always see a person with posts a little like "This is against the rules, this will be locked." as if they had some authority. I see it a lot mostly in this forum, but it can be found in other forums as well. I realize that some people do that because they believe they are helping, and truly they are, but their attitude and the tone of their post almost seems threatening. They're also bumping that potentially bad thread instead of maybe PMing that user. That's sort of the posting styles that I've seen for a long time now, and I have grown tired of 'em.
We are far from disrepair, and I'm not saying that in the "America's not in a recession" way either. Sure there are some rowdy newcomers, but that'll pass as those who don't connect well with the community filter out or get bored with B.Net, leaving only the gems of the bunch.
As for us not doing anything about it, what can we do other than hit the report button, and discuss the issue... We would be in utter chaos if every member were a moderator.
I'm glad you dealt with my blatant aggravation with people in this community more maturely than what I expected.
Anyway, I agree with you many newcomers will come and go, but problems persist, the issues can never be let go because they're still there. And of course we couldn't allow every member to be a moderator, that'd be absurd and obviously wouldn't work out. The report button does work, I believe that at least, but a lot of times there's some spam that sits around for an hour or two before a mod gets it with their "swift" banhammer, and although it hits hard, much of that forum has been effected by that spammer, bumping and rebumping his thread to the top.
Most of these issues seem completely unfixable. And just like past weekly updates during the Halo 2 cheating days, even if an issue is fixed, people will just get around it.
I really do like this community and the way it sucks. Really.
[Edited on 03.28.2008 4:42 AM PDT]