- Frogwart
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[color=white]Gilbey13, don't feel bad about the time wasted. I'm 35 and I spend far too much time in these forums reading crap (and trying, God, how I try! not to respond to idiocy when I meet it. Note, I said trying).
I could be in school getting an extended education.
I could be teaching myself more about my computer (Bungie has helped me learn text markup tags, as everyone who's read my posts can see).
I could not bother to try and help educate some of the less informed kids (a lot of them are kids, as this thread proves).
I can't make them believe what I write is true, and if you want to get technical about it, it's only true from my experience. What they encounter in their lives may be (hell, most likely will be) completely different. That's fine.
If posting my knowledge, however limited it is, makes me feel like I'm helping some poor unfortunate souls, it's my right (given, and as easily taken away, by Bungie) to do so if I abide by the rules Bungie lays down. Equally, it is the right of anyone, no matter their age, to post utterly ignorant, time-wasting, fever-inducing, mod-maddening -blam!- here.
A wise man once said, "Opinions are like -blam!-s: Everyone has one, and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks."
If you want to hang out in the forums (and I'm not trying to tell you what to do), I'd just suggest ignoring and not responding to the stupidity. It hurts the brain to read it, but it hurts more people a lot more if you respond with nothing more than an complaint about it.
By and large, people don't have to be told something's stupid.
The people who post stupid topics and replies and spam just cannot be helped. Controlled by mods, perhaps. Helped, unlikely.[/color]